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Political heavyweight Lord Peter Mandelson to be named next ambassador to US. The Labour grandee is expected to be the next UK ambassador to the US. Lord Mandelson, who served in the cabinets of Sir Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, is poised to be the UK’s next top diplomat in Washington, in a political appointment as President-elect Donald Trump returns to office. The tenure of Dame Karen Pierce, the current office holder, is expected to come to an end in early 2025 and Lord Mandelson had been widely tipped as the person next in line for the job. A source said that…

The first US diplomats to visit Syria since President Bashar Assad’s ousting earlier this month are in Damascus to hold talks with the country’s new leaders and seek information on the whereabouts of missing American journalist Austin Tice. Assistant secretary of state for near eastern affairs Barbara Leaf, former special envoy for Syria Daniel Rubinstein and the Biden administration’s chief envoy for hostage negotiations, Roger Carstens, made the trip for talks with Syria’s interim leaders, the State Department said on Friday. The team is the first group of American diplomats to formally visit Syria in more than a decade since…

France’s President Emmanuel Macron speaks with medical staff members of the intensive care unit of the Mayotte hospital center in Mamoudzou, on the French Indian Ocean department of Mayotte, on December 19, 2024. LUDOVIC MARIN / AFP France will observe a day of national mourning, on Monday, December 23, for the French overseas department of Mayotte, President Emmanuel Macron said, after the department’s Indian Ocean archipelago was devastated by a cyclone, with lacking water and food, and fear of looting gripping residents. In a post on X, on Thursday, Macron said flags would fly at half-mast on Monday, and “all…

Mathias Pogba, brother of Paul Pogba, arrives to attend the verdict in his trial with 5 others in extortion case targeting French soccer player Paul Pogba at Paris criminal court, France, December 19, 2024. ABDUL SABOOR / REUTERS A Paris court on Thursday, December 19, sentenced a brother of France midfielder Paul Pogba to a three-year prison term, with two years suspended, after convicting him in a high-profile extortion case. Mathias Pogba will be able to serve his one-year sentence with an electronic bracelet rather than behind bars. The court also fined Paul Pogba’s brother €20,000 for participating in the…

If the use of rubber balls by security forces to deal with street altercations was one of the discrepancies that caused the second attempt to reform the citizen security law, known as gag lawin the current legislature it is once again one of its great obstacles. Junts, Podemos and BNG – three of the parties that support the parliamentary majority of the Government and whose support is essential to carry out the modification of a law approved by the PP in 2015 – have presented amendments so that this anti-riot material is definitively prohibited. Two others, EH Bildu and ERC,…

Minister Ana Redondo boasted that there are instruments that allow civil registries to detect deception. Read The legal paradox of the Trans Law: Bolaños admits that there are no guidelines to detect possible fraud in sex changes

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The battery manufacturer Varta wants to overcome its crisis at the expense of small shareholders. Investor advocates want to prevent this: They are attacking the law that makes this possible. Varta: Investor advocates want to stop restructuring in the Constitutional Court

French President Emmanuel Macron extended his stay in Mayotte on Friday after distraught and angry locals jeered and shouted out their grievances as he toured the storm-ravaged Indian Ocean archipelago. Emergency efforts continue as the death toll from Cyclone Chido reaches 31, with thousands more potentially affected. Macron extends visit to cyclone-ravaged Mayotte amid local anger

  Cyclone Chido has brought widespread devastation to northern Mozambique. It swept from the east coast of Africa to Mozambique and Malawi after hitting the French Indian Ocean island of Mayotte in the Comoros archipelago on December 15. Thousands of people in the Cabo Delgado and Nampula provinces of Mozambique have been displaced. In recent years, major storms  — Cyclone Freddy in 2023, Gombe in 2022 and Idai in 2019 — have battered Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Madagascar during southern hemisphere summer. Chido’s devastation highlights a broader trend of worsening weather patterns fueled by climate change. Southern Africa is experiencing more and more extreme weather patterns as global temperatures…