The Hill

Although 80 world democracies rejected that approach, the largest democracies of Latin America looked atomized, small, and faint-hearted in the face of a great and extraordinary threat to humanity and world peace.

Opinion: Brazil, Mexico and Colombia say no to peace and yes to Putin

PBS NewsHour

Voters in Mongolia are electing a new parliament on Friday in their landlocked democracy that is squeezed between China and Russia, two much larger authoritarian states.

Mongolians cast votes to elect expanded 126-seat parliament

NINGBO, China — China's top leaders will gather from July 15 to 18 for a highly anticipated meeting known as the Third Plenum, state media said Thursday. "The execution of pledged policies, rather than mapping out a laundry list of policy initiatives alone, would be key to shore up confidence and growth momentum," said Pang Ming of JLL.

China sets mid-July for highly anticipated ‘Third Plenum’ meeting to discuss 'deepening reform'

French President Emmanuel Macron dissolved parliament on June 9 and called snap legislative elections for June 30 and July 7 after the far-right National Rally trounced his centrist alliance in the European elections. Elections for the 577 seats in the lower house National Assembly are a two-round process. The shape...

🔴 Live: Turnout reaches 25.9% at 12pm in France’s snap parliamentary elections

The candidates ended their frantic three-week campaigns at midnight Friday, with political activity banned until the first round of voting on Sunday. Residents of the tiny French archipelago of Saint Pierre and Miquelon, located off the coast of Canada, began casting their ballots in the first round of elections from 1000 GMT.

France’s overseas territories cast first votes in high-stakes legislative elections

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The FBI has seen a rise in scams targeting timeshare owners. In this kind of scam, criminals con these part-time property owners into shelling out hefty sums of cash, all under false pretenses related to their timeshare properties.

FBI warns that Mexican cartels are targeting Americans with timeshare scams

NBC News

SOURCE-SEINE — The mighty river that runs through Paris starts as a trickle in the quiet woods of this tiny village of stone houses, three roads, a single steepled church, and just 72 voters. Source-Seine, in the vine-striped hills of Burgundy, is mostly farming country. French farmers traditionally vote...

French face election where center has ‘imploded,’ energizing the far right

Reuters

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. dollar remains the world's primary reserve currency, and neither the euro nor the so-called BRICS countries have been able to reduce global reliance on the dollar, a new study by the Atlantic Council's GeoEconomics Center shows.

US dollar's dominance secure, BRICS see no progress on de-dollarization -report

Tensions between Benin and Niger have caused significant disruptions for travellers, with the closure of the once-thriving Niger River crossing. The closure followed the military coup in Niamey, which sparked a diplomatic rift between the two countries. The major road has been shut down since the regime change, preventing up to 4,000 daily travellers from crossing.

‘A great hardship’: Niger-Benin tensions halt travel across border

Lifts stop, errands are cancelled and meetings delayed for as long as the power stays out -- hopefully an hour or two, but recently even longer. It is now a year since energy and foreign currency crises led Egypt's government to institute planned blackouts known as "load shedding". But the...

Short fuses in Egypt as blackouts stretch into sweltering summer

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New York – As Trump anticipates his sentencing on July 11th in the New York hush money case, Florida Judge Aileen Cannon made a ruling this Monday. Despite rejecting Trump’s legal team's request to dismiss several charges in the classified documents case, she conceded on a minor point. She removed a portion of the charges that referenced an uncharged allegation, but upheld the other charges.

Legal expert says Trump should not be jailed after New York guilty verdict because he is ‘too old’

European Union leaders signed off on a trio of top appointments for their shared political institutions on Thursday, reinstalling German conservative Ursula von der Leyen as president of the European Commission for another five years.

EU leaders appoint top officials to serve as the face of world's largest trading bloc

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The Finance and Governance Committee of the Denver City Council voted Tuesday to ask voters whether the U.S. citizenship requirement for police and firefighters should be dropped.

Committee OKs removing citizenship requirement for police, firefighters in Denver

Haiti's gangs say they are gearing up for war as hundreds of police officers from Kenya prepare to deploy in upcoming days. Anticipation is mingling with fear across Haiti as it welcomes the fourth major foreign intervention in its history to fight gang violence choking the Caribbean country.

Gang leaders in Haiti say ready for war as Kenyan police prepare to deploy

Markets Insider

The latest batch of US sanctions against Russia will promote further use of the yuan, a think tank said. It argued that as ruble volatility increases, the Chinese currency will offer stability. While sanctions also threaten Chinese entities, they won't be enough to disrupt yuan trading, it said. Fresh sanctions...

China's yuan will take over as Russia's main trade currency 'once and for all' as US sanctions get tighter, think tank says

TIME

The "Budapest Playbook" offers the populist right around the world a roadmap for keeping power.

Why MAGA Republicans Are Obsessed With Viktor Orbán

Police in three countries searched the offices of French defence company Thales this week over suspected corruption involving arms sales abroad, notably to Brazil, a judicial source said Saturday. Officers in France, the Netherlands and Spain carried out the searches between Wednesday and Friday, the source told AFP, confirming a...

Thales offices in three countries searched in corruption investigation

Biden’s halting delivery and meandering comments, particularly early in the debate, fuelled concerns from even members of his own party that at age 81, he's not up for the task of leading the country for another four years. It created a crisis moment for Biden’s campaign and his presidency, as members of his party flirted with potential replacements and donors and supporters couldn’t contain their concern about his showing against Trump.

‘I don’t speak as smoothly’: Biden acknowledges halting debate but vows to stay in race

The Independent

 China’s President Xi Jinping has called for the building of "bridges" in the global economy as his nation struggles to reignite growth following the end of strict Covid-19 measures. Beijing continues to grapple with trade and territorial disputes with neighbours and trading partners, and is beset by a debt crisis in the property sector, persistently low consumption and high youth unemployment.The world's second largest economy will continue on the road of peaceful development, Xi told a conference to mark  China's guiding principles for foreign affairs, first created in the 1950s. “Facing the history of peace or war, prosperity...

China plans major reforms amid sluggish economic growth, Xi says

France has complex election rules that limit each party's airtime during campaign season and require a media blackout over election weekend. The theory is that they guarantee "fairness", while limiting the risk of overexposure. However, it creates an odd situation where journalists have to avoid reporting on the biggest news story in the country at the moment it is unfolding. Ahead of the first round of legislative elections on Sunday, our international affairs editor Philip Turle explains the rules that impact French TV and radio, while newspapers and social media remain exempt.

Why France's complex election rules limit media coverage

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Argentina's parliament approves President Milei's austerity-heavy reform package

Argentina's parliament handed populist President Javier Milei his first legislative triumph on Friday, approving his economic reform package after months of debate. \"We are going to...

Argentina's parliament handed populist President Javier Milei his first legislative triumph on Friday, approving his economic reform package after months of debate. "We are going to...

Argentina's parliament approves President Milei's austerity-heavy reform package

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