Emmanuel Macron victory speech following election victory
Emmanuel Macron victory speech following election victory [24/4/2022]
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Macron-Le Pen debate 2022
The French runoff presidential election debate between incubent President Emmanuel Macron and National Rally candidate Marine Le Pen. [20/4/2022]
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Intense diplomatic efforts to avert war in Ukraine
Intense diplomatic efforts are underway between Paris, Moscow and Washington to avert war in Ukraine [20/2/2022]
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Olaf Scholz' full speech and Q&A at Munich Security Conference 2022
Germany Chancellor Olaf Scholz' full speech and Q&A at Munich Security Conference 2022 [19/2/2022]
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Zelensky full speech and Q&A at Munich Security Conference 2022
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky's full speech and Q&A at Munich Security Conference [19/2/2022]
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Boris Johnson speech at the Munich Security Conference 2022
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson's speech at the Munich Security Conference 2022 [19/2/2022]
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Erdoğan defiant on purchasing S-400 missiles
Turkey's President Erdoğan defiant on purchasing Russian S-400 air defense missiles.
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Inside the Taliban's advance in Afghanistan
Inside the Taliban's advance: New weapons, new laws... and growing confidence the momentum of war is with them.
But with Afghanistan's biggest cities still for now under government control, major tests ahead for the Taliban - and unfortunately, more heavy fighting.
~via BBC
Families flee devastating wildfires in Greece
In the last week, the fires have spread across most of the north of the second-largest Greek island while village after village has been evacuated. The air is claustrophobic and thick with smoke that sticks to the back of your throat. Your eyes sting, there is ash raining down on you and visibility is terrible. Emergency services and volunteers have scrambled to extinguish the flames.
Some residents chopped down trees in their front gardens in a bid to stop the fires from spreading. A futile action perhaps, but it is the only thing they have control over at the moment. Even where the fires have been extinguished, the ground smoulders and threatens to reignite at any minute. The fires have destroyed people’s homes, livelihoods and hundreds of acres of woodland, devastating the wildlife. Evacuation boats have been continuous, but the queues of cars and people have grown nonetheless.
People living in the areas around Edipsos were told it’s no longer safe to stay in their homes yesterday. One resident queuing in his car to get on an evacuation boat told us: “The fire is enormous. The dust and the wind is so big that we are afraid to just stay. “Without power, we will be unable to breathe and having no air conditioning, with this big heat, we will die here.” He added: “I am trying to bring my parents somewhere safe. Today, all the fires became one big monster.” Another fleeing villager said: “The children were very scared. We can’t stay. It’s very toxic, the atmosphere, unfortunately. But we are lucky because our house is okay. Many people don’t have a house to live in anymore.”
Many on the island are frustrated that help did not come sooner to the area. After days of criticism that government resources were being focused on the fires in and around Athens, 10 aircraft came to drop water on the island yesterday. British firefighters have also been sent to help with the effort. But, with Greece experiencing its most intense heatwave in 30 years,
Angela Merkel's summer press conference [22/7/2021]
Angela Merkel's summer press conference [22/7/2021]
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Joe Biden and Angela Merkel joint press conference [15/7/2021]
U.S. President Joe Biden meets German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the White House. [15/7/2021]
Welcoming Angela Merkel to the White House for a final time, President Joe Biden renewed his concerns to the German chancellor Thursday about a major, nearly complete Russia-to-Germany gas pipeline but said they agreed Russia must not be allowed to use energy as a weapon.
The two discussed — though made no apparent headway — on differences over the Nord Stream 2 pipeline during a largely friendly farewell visit for Merkel as she nears the end of a political career that has spanned four American presidencies.
“On a personal note, I must tell you I will miss seeing you at our summits,” Biden said as he stood by Merkel, the second-longest serving chancellor in Germany’s history, at a late afternoon White House press conference. “I truly will.”
Merkel, who had a famously difficult relationship with former President Donald Trump, showed her ease and familiarity with Biden, who has long been a fixture in international politics, repeatedly referring to him as “Dear Joe.”
Asked to compare her relationship with Biden to hers with Trump, Merkel remained diplomatic, saying only that it was in any German chancellor’s interest to “work with every American president.” She added with a smile, “Today was a very friendly exchange.”
But their personal warmth notwithstanding, the U.S.-German relationship is entering new territory as Merkel, who is not seeking another term in September elections, nears her departure from office. There are concerns on both sides about how the two nations will negotiate growing disagreements.
The United States has long argued that the Nord Stream 2 project will threaten European energy security by increasing the continent’s reliance on Russian gas and allowing Russia to exert political pressure on vulnerable Eastern and Central European nations, particularly Ukraine. But Biden recently waived sanctions against German entitie
Turkish President Erdoğan says will discuss Turkey-US tensions with Biden
Full-length interview of Turkish President Recep Tayyip #Erdoğan. Comments on #Turkey-US relations, the Constitutional reform, Turkey-#Egypt relations, #Syria, #Libya, #Covid19 etc.
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US President Joe Biden's address to a joint session of Congress
US President Joe Biden's address to a joint session of Congress [28/4/2021]
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Erdogan reaction on the retired admirals statement
Erdogan reaction on the retired admirals statement [5/4/2021]
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Biden presents sweeping $2 trillion infrastructure plan
U.S. President Joe Biden on Wednesday called for a sweeping use of government power to reshape the world’s largest economy and counter China’s rise in a $2 trillion-plus proposal that was met with swift Republican resistance.
The U.S. President’s “American Jobs Plan” would put corporate America on the hook for the tab as the government creates millions of jobs building infrastructure, such as roads, tackles climate change and boosts human services like care for the elderly.
“It’s a once-in-a-generation investment in America, unlike anything we’ve seen or done since we built the interstate highway system and the space race decades ago,” Biden said in unveiling the program in Pittsburgh.
He said he had no problem asking companies to foot the bill and is “gonna put an end” to Amazon.com Inc and other major companies paying little to nothing in federal taxes.
Biden’s second multitrillion-dollar legislative proposal in two months in office sets the stage for a partisan clash in the U.S. Congress, where members largely agree that investments are needed but are divided on the total size and inclusion of programs traditionally seen as social services.
Another economic proposal Biden will release in April could add a further $2 trillion to the total price tag.
Coupled with his recently enacted $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package, Biden’s infrastructure initiative would give the federal government a bigger role in the U.S. economy than it has had in generations, accounting for 20% or more of annual output.
Biden’s team believes a government-directed effort to strengthen the economy is the best way to provide support to an economy walloped by the coronavirus pandemic and contend with increased competition and a national security threat posed by China.
The proposal was greeted icily by conservatives and major business groups.
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Macron announces a new 3-week lockdown in France
President Emmanuel Macron on March 31 ordered France into its third national lockdown and said schools would close for three weeks as he sought to push back a third wave of COVID-19 infections that threatens to overwhelm hospitals. With the death toll nearing 100,000, intensive care units in the hardest-hit regions at breaking point and a slower-than-planned vaccine rollout, Macron was forced to abandon his goal of keeping the country open to protect the economy. “We will lose control if we do not move now,” the president said in a televised address to the nation. His announcement means that movement restrictions already in place for more than a week in Paris, and some northern and southern regions, will now apply to the whole country for at least a month, from Saturday. Departing from his pledge to safeguard education from the pandemic, Macron said schools will close for three weeks after this weekend.
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U.S. President Joe Biden's first official press conference
U.S. President Joe Biden's first official press conference [25/3/2021]
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Macron says France guarantees Greece's sovereignty
In interview to Greek public broadcaster, French president Emmanuel Macron says that France guarantees Greece against threats to its sovereignty [24/3/2021]
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Biden says Putin is a killer and doesn't have a soul
In ABC interview with George Stephanopoulos, U.S. President Joe Biden says Russia President Vladimir Putin is a killer and doesn't have a soul.
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