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Chinese President Xi Jinping has arrived in Hong Kong to mark 25 years since the former British colony returned to Beijing's rule.

To avoid ‘youth-washing’ politicians and corporations, young people now are more likely to coalesce around radical policies or campaigns

Le Nigeria dispose d'énormes réserves en gaz, les premières en Afrique. Le ministre nigérian du Pétrole a donné ces dernières semaines son feu vert au financement de deux gazoducs, l'un passant par le Maroc, l'autre par l'Algérie.

The sun is rising on a new day for Colombians, especially for those who Vice President-elect Francia Marquez calls the “nobodies”: women, Indigenous communities, Afro-Colombians, LGBTQ+, working class, disabled people and all the others who have been disproportionately impacted by poverty, state violence, discrimination and environmental destruction in the country.

French President Emmanuel Macron addressed the nation for the first time on Wednesday since his centrist coalition lost control of parliament in Sunday elections. "We must learn to govern and legislate differently," Macron acknowledged in his first public comments following the election setback.

Vols annulés, transports publics immobilisés et bureaux de poste fermés : en Tunisie, l'appel à la grève générale de vingt-quatre heures lancé par la puissante centrale syndicale Union générale tunisienne du travail (UGTT) a, semble-t-il, été largement suivi jeudi 16 juin par le secteur public, accentuant la pression sur le président Kaïs Saïed, déjà confronté à de graves crises politique et financière.

Faced with the threat of a hung parliament, French President Emmanuel Macron’s ruling coalition has shifted its fire from the far right to a new left-wing bloc after a first round of parliamentary elections that exposed the inadequacy of its campaign and the narrowness of its support base.

In 2017, Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s La France Insoumise (Unsubmissive France) sat alongside Spain’s Podemos, Greece’s Syriza, the Bernie Sanders campaign in the US and Labour under Jeremy Corbyn as part of a worldwide “left populist wave” that combined charismatic leadership with radical policies.

Trois jours après une décision du juge des référés donnant raison à quatre adhérents socialistes opposés à la Nouvelle Union populaire écologique et sociale, la cour d’appel l’a infirmée, rendant ainsi l’accord électoral valide.

Prices in the US rose faster than expected last month, as rising energy and food costs pushed inflation to the highest rate since 1981.