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Quarter-finals confirmed for Euros sweepstake – and a new prize for beating England

WE’RE now down to just eight names in The National’s Euro 2024 charity sweepstake as the quarter-finals were confirmed on Tuesday night...

The National (Scotland)

UN rights chief alarmed by rising hate speech amid elections flurry

The UN rights chief voiced alarm Wednesday at a hardening of rhetoric, including hate speech and dehumanising language against migrants and other minorities, linked to elections in Europe and elsewhere.This, as more than 200 centrist and left-wing candidates pulled out of France's legislative election runoff by a Tuesday deadline, in…

Radio France Internationale

Hundreds of France election candidates withdraw amid pressure over tactical approach to stopping far right – as it happened

According to Le Monde’s latest count this morning, 221 candidates have withdrawn from races since Sunday’s first round of elections

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A tale of two elections: how angry voters in France and UK turned on their leaders

The countries are heading in different directions, but voters on both sides of the Channel have similar concerns

The Guardian - UK

Labour government would work with France's Far-Right on 'small boats' crisis if both win power - Starmer ally

Pat McFadden, Labour’s National Campaign Co-ordinator, said if his party wins on July 4 it will deal with whoever is in charge in France to address joint challenges

Evening Standard

French PM urges united front to block far right from winning absolute majority

French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal on Wednesday urged voters to form a united front to block the far right in the second round of the legislative elections, warning that Marine Le Pen’s far right National Rally was within reach of winning an absolute majority. Read our liveblog to see how…

France 24

France's top court to examine arrest warrant for Syria's Assad

Prosecutors have asked France's highest court to review the legality of a French arrest warrant for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad over deadly chemical attacks on Syrian soil in 2013.

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France’s ‘hard left’ has been demonised – but its agenda is realistic, not radical

The Guardian - UK

What GOP’s European abortion example looks like in France - Roll Call

The GOP has held up European abortion laws as a standard for the Western world. But France's law in practice differs from what they describe.

Roll Call

France's Renowned Arles Photo Fest Goes 'Beneath The Surface'

One of the world's most renowned photo festivals, in the French town of Arles, returned this week with a timely ode to diversity at a moment when France is turning towards the far right.

International Business Times

Jin of BTS to carry torch for South Korea at 2024 Paris Olympics

Singer, who returned from mandatory military service in June, will travel to France to spread message of ‘harmony and peace’

The Independent UK

Asia Markets Track Wall St Records As Powell Revives Rate Hopes

Asian stocks rose Wednesday following fresh records on Wall Street after Federal Reserve chief Jerome Powell fanned hopes of an interest rate cut by saying the battle against inflation had made "progress" and the job market was cooling.

International Business Times

Euro 2024 power rankings: The quarter-finalists rated

It's still a clear top two followed by various shades of 'not quite sure' as eight teams prepare to contest the Euro 2024 quarter-finals

FourFourTwo

Euro 2024: Didier Deschamps and Ronald Koeman are aiming to make history in Germany

Didier Deschamps and Ronald Koeman could both achieve something special at Euro 2024

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Radio France Internationale

More than 210 candidates exit French election runoff to block far right progress

More than 210 left-wing or Macronist candidates who qualified for the runoff round of the legislative elections have withdrawn in an effort to block the far right from taking power, a move supported by the French president.

Al Jazeera

Hundreds of candidates pull out of French run-off in bid to foil far right

Mass exit aims to deny parliamentary wins in final vote that could give far right first government since World War II.

France 24

Democrats in panic mode? Biden rejects calls to quit US re-election race

A sitting president who goes for it without reading the room. We could be talking about French President Emmanuel Macron's shock dissolution of parliament that this coming Sunday could usher in France's first far-right government since Nazi occupation. Or we could be talking about a floundering US President Joe Biden,…

France 24

Le Pen’s far right is on the cusp of power in France – what happens next?

The “clarification” President Emmanuel Macron invoked as he called France’s snap elections has clarified this much: that French voters no longer want him to govern alone – or indeed at all. Exactly who he should share power with remains an open question after an inconclusive first round that has handed…

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Evening Standard

Best French white wines to try in 2024

Say ‘salut’ to summer with these superb white wines from the seat of European winemaking

FourFourTwo

Has anyone else spotted what we've just seen on BBC's brilliant Euro 2024 intro?

The BBC are at it again recently in their coverage of Euro 2024 - but this time for all the right reasons

Cycling News

‘The closer we get to the podium, the more we have to go for it’ - Remco Evenepoel shows Tour de France ambition

High-speed descending appears to be Belgian’s only weakness after stage 4 over Galibier

The Guardian - UK

Over 200 candidates withdraw before second round of voting – France election as it happened

Around 130 are members of left-wing New Popular Front with more than 80 from Macron camp

The Conversation

A 4,500-year-old collective tomb in France reveals its secret – the final stage in the formation of the ‘European genome’

High-resolution analysis of the genomes of individuals buried in a 4,500-year-old collective tomb at Bréviandes-les-Pointes, near the French town of Troyes, has revealed a surprising story with far-reaching implications. As detailed in an article in the journal Science Advances, the final stage in the formation of the European genome is…

The Guardian - UK

Tour de France 2024: Pogacar powers back into yellow with stage four victory – as it happened

Tadej Pogacar surged up the Col du Galibier to claim the yellow jersey and put 50 seconds between himself and Jonas Vingegaard

France 24

Pogacar flexes his muscles to reclaim yellow jersey in first mountain stage

Tadej Pogacar made an early statement in the Tour de France as he dropped defending champion Jonas Vingegaard to claim victory in the first mountain stage and take the overall leader's yellow jersey on Tuesday.

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