Who is Raphael Glucksmann, winner of the French left presidential primary?
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Who is Raphael Glucksmann, winner of the French left presidential primary?

With just six months to go to presidential polls in France, a coalition of centre left parties have chosen their candidate… It's EU lawmaker, Raphael Glucksmann. The 46 year old tells voters he stands for a break with Macronism, a break with the far left of candidate Jean Luc Melenchon and that he's the candidate who can defeat the far right… though opinion polls suggest that in a second round run...

EU to limit Chinese hybrid vehicle imports to 350,0000 a year

EU to limit Chinese hybrid vehicle imports to 350,0000 a year

The Guardian •

Brussels uses WTO rules to quickly impose quota, which will halve Chinese market share to 3%Business live – latest updatesVW boss backs EU plan to bolster domestic industryThe EU is to limit the number of hybrid electrical vehicles imported from China to 350,000 cars a year, the European Commission has confirmed.Imports have been soaring in the last two years with about 800,000 battery and plug-in...

EU deal with China limits imports of hybrid electric vehicles

EU deal with China limits imports of hybrid electric vehicles

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Brussels uses WTO rules to quickly impose 350,000 vehicle-a-year quota, which will halve Chinese market share to 3%Business live – latest updatesVW boss backs EU plan to bolster domestic industryThe EU is to limit the number of hybrid electrical vehicles imported from China to 350,000 cars a year, the European Commission has confirmed.Imports have been soaring in the last two years with about 800,...

Pope Leo XIV to undergo lung surgery: What we know about his health and upcoming plans

Pope Leo XIV to undergo lung surgery: What we know about his health and upcoming plans

Times of India •

Pope Leo XIV is scheduled for surgery to extract a lung nodule and is anticipated to recover within a week at Gemelli Hospital in Rome, a facility renowned for treating previous popes. Although the pope's health remains stable, this operation could potentially hinder his upcoming international engagements. Vatican officials announced he may not be able to participate in a public mass this week.

France scrambles to deploy supply teachers, but will it be enough to quell student anger?

France scrambles to deploy supply teachers, but will it be enough to quell student anger?

France 24 •

Student unions in France are hailing what they see as a major concession from the French government after more than two weeks of often violent nationwide student protests: the urgent deployment of some 3,000 supply teachers to schools with the greatest staffing needs. But where exactly are these teachers coming from? And will the move be enough to quell fresh protests, especially amid a renewed de...

⁠US economists Robert ⁠Hall, Michael Woodford win 2026 Nobel economics prize

⁠US economists Robert ⁠Hall, Michael Woodford win 2026 Nobel economics prize

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American-born economists ⁠Robert ⁠Hall ⁠and Michael Woodford have won the 2026 Nobel economics prize “for microeconomic foundations ‌of macroeconomic stabilisation”, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said on Monday. Hall is affiliated with Stanford University in California, and Woodford with Columbia University in New York. The announcement was made in Sweden’s capital Stockholm. We are better...

⁠Robert ⁠Hall, Michael Woodford win 2026 Nobel Prize in economics

⁠Robert ⁠Hall, Michael Woodford win 2026 Nobel Prize in economics

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⁠Robert ⁠Hall ⁠and Michael Woodford have won the 2026 Nobel economics prize “for microeconomic foundations ‌of macroeconomic stabilisation”, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said on Monday. Hall is affiliated with Stanford University in California, and Woodford with Columbia University in New York. The prestigious award, ⁠formally known as the Sveriges Riksbank ‌Prize in Economic Sciences in ...

Chagall or Lenepveu or both? Row over Paris opera house dome enters legal arena

Chagall or Lenepveu or both? Row over Paris opera house dome enters legal arena

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Descendant of 19-century artist demands removal of Marc Chagall’s 1960s canvasses that cover original frescoIn 1962, the then French culture minister, André Malraux, reportedly bored by the ballet he was watching at Paris’s opera house, raised his eyes to the classical ceiling and decided it needed a makeover.In his ennui, Malraux thought his friend and artist Marc Chagall, sitting next to him at ...

Row over Paris opera house ceiling reignites with lawsuit threat

Row over Paris opera house ceiling reignites with lawsuit threat

The Guardian •

Descendant of 19-century artist demands removal of Marc Chagall’s 1960s canvases that cover original frescoIn 1962, the then French culture minister, André Malraux, reportedly bored by the ballet he was watching at Paris’s opera house, raised his eyes to the classical ceiling and determined it needed a makeover.In his ennui, Malraux decided his friend and artist Marc Chagall, sitting next to him a...

Few Hong Kong investors take interest in listing by Africa’s top phone maker Transsion

Few Hong Kong investors take interest in listing by Africa’s top phone maker Transsion

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Shenzhen Transsion Holdings drew a lukewarm response for its HK$3.36 billion (US$428 million) Hong Kong share offering, heightening worries over market sentiment for new listings in the fourth quarter. The maker of Africa’s bestselling phones closed its bookbuilding on Monday, with preliminary figures showing the offering attracted about 14,000 applications and was oversubscribed roughly 3.5 times...

Republican US senator facing re-election settles six-year bakery debt

Republican US senator facing re-election settles six-year bakery debt

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Roger Marshall says he has ‘no idea how this happened’ and repaid bill double for 2020 election watch party treatsThe Republican US senator Roger Marshall says he has finally paid off a bakery debt – after six years and repeated collection attempts reported by a Kansas business that had supplied a large order of treats for a 2020 election watch party.“We have absolutely no idea how this happened”,...

Chinese man arrested after fabricating rooftop child grave hoax above residential flat

Chinese man arrested after fabricating rooftop child grave hoax above residential flat

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Police in southwestern China have debunked a terrifying rumour after an alarmed homeowner was told by a neighbour that bones found on her rooftop belonged to a buried young boy. On October 5, a woman surnamed Li from Chengdu, Sichuan province, told local media outlet Sichuan Observation that she had found what appeared to be a grave on the rooftop above her flat. Li bought the second-hand flat on ...

Mapping US chip supply chain: China accounts for far more than it appears, report says

Mapping US chip supply chain: China accounts for far more than it appears, report says

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China accounts for about 5 per cent of the equipment and materials directly supplied to the US chip industry when measured by country of manufacture, but its grip on certain rare earths needed for chipmaking is over 90 per cent, according to the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA). While 95 per cent of the nearly US$27 billion annual spending by American chipmakers on manufacturing equipment ...

98-year-old woman sells Brisbane house built by her father in 1921 for A$2.03 million

98-year-old woman sells Brisbane house built by her father in 1921 for A$2.03 million

Times of India •

A 98-year-old woman in Brisbane, Australia, has sold a house built by her father in 1921 for A$2.03 million, ending 105 years of ownership by the same family. The three-bedroom property in Gordon Park attracted ten registered bidders, with five actively competing at auction. Several generations of the family were born in the house.