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The military junta in Burkina Faso dismissed Prime Minister Apollinaire Joachim Kyelem de Tambela on Friday and dissolved the government. “The prime minister’s official functions are terminated,” read a decree issued by the junta’s leader, interim President Ibrahim Traore. He said government ministers will remain in office until a new government is formed. No reasons were given for the dismissal. Tambela was named as premier in October 2022 after the coup that brought Traore to power. The prime minister had served at the head of three successive governments, surviving each reshuffle. Military rule in Burkina Faso Burkina Faso is one of several countries in…

What would the Sanremo Festival be… without Sanremo? Liguria could lose almost 6 million in direct revenue during the five days of the event if the Kermesse migrated elsewhere. In the last two years the Festival has generated a turnover of almost 400 million, 186 in 2023 and 205 in 2024 of which over 70 million in added value (comparable to the GDP), according to the company Ey (formerly Ernst & Young) which it is part of the so-called “Big Four”, the four largest auditing companies that share the world market. And these are the general data on the related…

The country allocates about half the amount — calculated as a percentage of national wealth or GDP — as neutral Malta and less than a quarter of the budget of fellow neutral state Austria.

  In an exclusive interview with Euronews, Jakov Milatović calls EU enlargement an insurance policy for “the security of the European continent”. Montenegro’s youngest-ever president at the age of 36, Jakov Milatović, was elected in May last year, winning a landslide majority on an unabashedly pro-EU platform. An economist by trade and former minister of economic development, Milatović has balanced his ambitions for Europe with a desire for closer relations with Serbia. This is despite the fact that he disagrees with his former federal state partner on crucial issues, most of all the recognition of Kosovo. Whereas Serbia has not…

EU Commission Intensifies Monitoring of TikTok During Romanian Elections Amidst Concerns of Foreign Interference As the Romanian elections unfold, the European Commission has ramped up its scrutiny of TikTok, invoking the Digital Services Act (DSA) to address potential threats to electoral integrity. This initiative is part of a broader strategy to ensure that social media platforms uphold their responsibilities in safeguarding democratic processes. The Commission has issued a retention order to TikTok, mandating the platform to freeze and preserve data related to systemic risks that its services may pose to electoral processes and civic discourse within the European Union. This order is…

Three million people have been urged to stay indoors as the UK braces for winds of up to 90mph brought on by Storm Darragh. The Cabinet Office issued an emergency alert on Friday to people covered by the Met Office’s rare red warning for wind in parts of Wales and south-west England. It was the largest use of the warning system yet, with the alert urging residents to avoid driving and to “stay indoors if you can”. A red warning is in place for parts of the country due to Storm Darragh. The UK Emergency Alert System has issued advice…

The only remaining sibling of Ireland’s longest-missing child has claimed that a garda in Waterford “ran my brother out of Ireland” as he made a final appeal for information after more than 60 years of campaigning. James ‘Jimmy’ Malachy O’Neill was just 16 years old when he vanished from his home at 17 Leamy St, Waterford, on December 15, 1947. He will be missing 77 years next week. The 16-year-old had worked in a local shipping company and it is believed he stowed away on one of their ships. His disappearance tore through his family, leaving his father Jim dying…

‘The story of Notre-Dame’ (5/5). Republican, ecclesiastical and televisual − these are the three elements of the ceremonies that will return Paris’s cathedral to worship, on December 7 and 8, in the presence of a host of heads of state and prelates. Reopening of Notre-Dame: A behind-the-scenes look at the ceremony

This photograph shows Notre-Dame de Paris Cathedral illuminated on the eve of its official reopening, after more than five-years of reconstruction work following the April 2019 fire, in Paris on December 6, 2024. LUDOVIC MARIN / AFP The ceremony for the grand reopening of France’s Notre-Dame Cathedral will be held entirely indoors due to an inclement weather forecast, the Elysée Palace and Paris diocese said on Friday, December 6. Saturday’s reopening, which comes five years after the fire that devastated the famed Paris landmark, was moved inside after weather service Météo France forecast wind gusts of up to 80 kilometers…

That December 5 was another frenetic afternoon in the Congress of Deputies, one of those that happen every 15 or 20 days in the last legislatures, where nothing is predictable or stable anymore. There were about ten minutes left before five in the afternoon, the plenary session was holding at that moment an appearance by Albares on Palestine and the news of Podemos’s break with Sumar revolutionized the chamber, which until that moment was more pending on the celebrations of the Constitution to date. following. A little more than four months had passed since the general elections that gave Ione…