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Paris: nearly 100,000 signatures against new National Assembly pavilion

Plans for a new reception pavilion at the National Assembly face strong opposition, with a petition nearing 100,000 signatures after Paris Council backed relaxed planning rules around the Palais-Bourbon.

Euronews

Revamp of French parliament building faces criticism over cost and heritage

Plans to modernise visitor facilities at the French National Assembly have become a battleground, with opponents questioning both the €53 million price tag and the proposed design.

Radio France Internationale

Benin’s new Senate raises questions over power and legitimacy

Benin’s new senate was inaugurated in Porto-Novo last week, creating a second chamber of parliament with powers to review legislation, protect constitutional rules and discipline political figures.

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South Korea Stock Chaos: Investors Lay Funeral Wreaths After ETF Rout as KOSPI Wipes $2T, Minister Apologises

South Korea is reviewing single-stock leveraged ETFs after a sharp KOSPI sell-off prompted investor protests and a ministerial apology.

International Business Times UK

Senegal's Faye breaks ties with Sonko to launch new political party

Senegal's President Bassirou Diomaye Faye on Saturday launched a new political party called Kiiraay, following his high-profile falling-out with his former mentor and ex-prime minister, Ousmane Sonko, and his party Pastef.

Radio France Internationale

How slavery money built the Élysée, France’s presidential residence

What would become the Élysée Palace, the official residence of the French president, was built three centuries ago with a fortune amassed in the slave trade. As France grapples with its legacy of slavery, calls are mounting for the country to acknowledge this and other traces of the past.

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Nigeria’s federal police force has failed, but what does history say about local forces?

The Nigerian Senate passed a bill on 24 June 2026 establishing state police in the 36 states of the country. The passage of the executive bill, sent to the National Assembly by President Bola Tinubu, officially opens the way to dismantle the decades-old structure of the Nigeria Police Force and…

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Why are France's top earners leaving and where are they going?

France lost a net total of 800 millionaires in 2025. While this outflow represents a tiny fraction of its total wealthy population, a range of factors are prompting them to leave.

Euronews

France reintroduces 'bee-harming pesticides', environment minister to quit

PARIS (FRANCE) - France on Tuesday backed a controversial bill reintroducing two pesticides critics say harm bees, as the environment minister said she would resign.

Bangkok Post

Countdown to the ballot: Zambia gears up for August elections

This week on Spotlight on Africa, we're heading to Zambia, where general elections are set to take place on the 13th August. Voters will go to the polls to elect a president, members of the National Assembly, councillors and council chairs. Incumbent President Hakainde Hichilema has already picked up endorsements…

Radio France Internationale

French MPs aim to reach agreement on social media ban in time for new school year

French lawmakers are mobilising to reach a compromise on legislation that would ban children under 15 from using social media, aiming to have the restrictions in place for the start of the new school year in September.

Radio France Internationale

French lawmakers race to introduce an under-15 social media ban before the new school year

French lawmakers are working to finalize a bill banning social media for children under 15

The Independent UK

France’s controversial Ripost public disorder law faces final test

France’s controversial “Ripost” law, aimed at strengthening the state’s response to urban unrest and public disorder, is set to face a decisive test on Monday when a joint parliamentary committee will study versions adopted by the National Assembly and the Senate.

Radio France Internationale

Hungarian president Tamás Sulyok signs constitutional amendment ending his own mandate

President Tamás Sulyok signed the seventeenth amendment to the Fundamental Law on Saturday, he announced on Facebook. The sitting president’s mandate will end the day after it takes effect.

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Venezuela’s interim government and opposition to begin formal talks

Nobel laureate María Corina Machado will not lead negotiations over new elections, contrary to expectations

France 24

🔴 France’s lower house adopts final text of landmark right-to-die law

France's National Assembly on Wednesday adopted a bill that will create a legal right to assisted dying for adults with incurable illnesses, capping ‌years of intense ethical ⁠and political debate. French President Emmanuel Macron, who promised such a law during his re-election campaign, hailed lawmakers' "respectful debate" on the issue…

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EU warns France under-15 social media bill could breach European law

The European Commission has warned that a French bill that would ban children under the age of 15 from social media would infringe the European Union’s online content law by giving French regulators powers that go beyond the bloc’s legal framework.

Euronews

Serbs are not 'little Russians', says former PM Ana Brnabić

Serbia's former prime minister tells Euronews how Belgrade has backed Ukraine since the war began and rejects claims of being pro-Russian, while voicing Serbs' frustration at EU accession double standards.

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French government to face no-confidence vote over handling of deadly heatwave

France's Green Party has said it will launch a no-confidence motion against Sébastien Lecornu's government over its handling of a late-June heatwave that caused at least 1,000 excess deaths according to the public health agency.

Euronews

France's National Assembly approves assisted dying bill after Senate rejection

The French National Assembly has passed the assisted dying bill — a law that has sparked controversy across the country — following the Senate's rejection.

France 24

Senegal president Faye to call referendum on constitutional reform limiting his powers

Senegal's President Bassirou Diomaye Faye will call a referendum on a proposed constitutional amendment that would strengthen the power of parliament and the prime minister, the country's justice minister said Monday. The country's National Assembly overwhelmingly backed the reform in a vote earlier in the day that saw roughly 50…

Radio France Internationale

Remains of people exhibited in ‘human zoos’ to be returned to French Guiana

In 1892, around 30 men, women and children from the Kali’na and Arawak peoples of French Guiana were brought to Paris to be put on display at "human zoos". Six of them did not survive the winter. A bill allowing the repatriation of their remains to their homeland has now…

The Economic Times

Cuba unveils historic package of free-market reforms

In a landmark speech to National Assembly, Prime Minister Manuel Marrero detailed 176 measures aimed at rolling back the state's role in the economy and attracting investment in everything from banking to tourism and agriculture. These huge changes come as the United States exerts strong pressure on Cuba aside from…

The Times of India

Pakistan PM Shehbaz Sharif to send delegation for Ayatollah Khamenei's funeral

According to Sharif, the Iranian president repeatedly thanked Pakistan for its support during difficult times and invited him to attend Khamenei's funeral, scheduled for July 3 and 4. “I said, Pakistan’s delegation will be present there, so we can tell the world how much respect we have for him in…

Radio France Internationale

‘No blank cheque' for president or government says Senegal’s Sonko

In his first major international interview since becoming Speaker of Senegal's National Assembly, former prime minister Ousmane Sonko talks to RFI and sister channel France 24 about his split with his long-time ally President Bassirou Diomaye Faye. In the wide-reaching discussion, he also touches on the debt crisis, homosexuality legislation,…

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