Day: June 15, 2024

The post @GolosAmeriki: RT @GolosAmeriki: Глава Пентагона: Путин не в том положении, чтобы диктовать Украине свои условия мира https://t.co/0GdEdm2cyn first appeared on The News And Times.

The post @mikenov: Putin demands more Ukrainian land to end war; Kyiv rejects ‘ultimatum’ first appeared on The News And Times.

ICYMI: the week’s 7 biggest stories from Apple Intelligence at WWDC 2024, to a Galaxy Watch FE reveal  TechRadar

65 countries affected by Houthi attacks in Red Sea, including Iran: US intelligence  Breaking Defense

In this article for @Diplomat_APAC, Kim Sun and I assessed recent trips to Phnom Penh by US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin and CIA Director William Burns. https://t.co/jD5l2CaMcJ

— Chhengpor Aun (@aunchhengpor) June 15, 2024

‘Shoot and Scoot’ – War in Ukraine Overturns Another Conventional Tenet of War  Kyiv Post

Today, on 15 June, rescuers extinguished a fire at an industrial plant in the Kyiv region caused by an enemy attack on the night of 12 June. The firefighting operation lasted over 3 days.

Letters to the Editor: I’m a moderate Republican who wants the party saved from Trumpism  MSN

Major apology millions of Aussies deserve  news.com.au

The Le Pen family drama, Éric Ciotti apparently locking himself in his office … it would almost be funny if it weren’t so bleak

Éric Ciotti, exit stage right. On 11 June, the leader of France’s legacy centre-right party Les Républicains (LR) went on TV to finally set the record straight. With France’s leftwing parties negotiating a “popular front” in the lead-up to the snap elections on 30 June and 7 July, Ciotti announced that he would seek an unprecedented alliance with Marine Le Pen’s National Rally (RN) after its commanding victory in last Sunday’s elections to the European parliament.

This was the latest turning point provoked by Emmanuel Macron’s surprise dissolution of parliament on Sunday, which has provoked a major political crisis likely to result in a shake-up of political forces and loyalties. Of course, the old centre-right had long since embraced the hallmarks of Le Pen-style politics – from the obsessive fear of national decline and culture wars against French Muslims to to embracing the so-called “great replacement” theory. But the custodian party of what the French still like to call “Gaullism” has clung to an at least rhetorical rejection of the Le Pen family’s political project. The National Rally is the rebranded form of the Front National, the party founded by Jean-Marie Le Pen and other neo-fascists in 1972 as they nursed the wounds of Charles de Gaulle’s recognition of defeat in France’s colonial war over Algeria.

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