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Jerome Bonduelle, an executive at France’s family-run agri-food producer Bonduelle, was killed on Friday night, after a car hit him as he was cycling in the northern city of Lille. The 51-year-old was riding a bike along with his wife and daughter in the Euralille district of the French city when the hit-and-run incident ended…

Ankara has issued a new Navtex maritime advisory, stating it will hold military exercises in the Eastern Mediterranean in the next two weeks. The announcement comes amid a tense territorial dispute with Turkey’s neighbor Greece. The live-fire drills will be held between August 29 and September 11, according to the advisory issued by the country’s…

Tehran has poked fun at Mike Pompeo after the top US diplomat set a deadline to ‘snap back’ sanctions on Iran under JCPOA, which he branded a “foolish” deal, and despite the UN Security Council refusal to back the US initiative. “The clock is ticking just in Pompeo’s parallel alternate universe!” exclaimed Saeed Khatibzadeh, spokesman for…

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has warned that the coronavirus pandemic will likely accelerate in severity in the coming months, and promised that her government would focus on social welfare and safeguarding the economy. Speaking at her annual summer news conference in Berlin, the German leader said that her top priority was to ensure that the…

French President Emmanuel Macron is committed to pushing through the reforms he’s proposed for Lebanon, an Elysee official has said, as Beirut scrambles to create a new government amid economic and political chaos.  “The president has said he will not give up. He made a commitment to do what needs to be done and to…

Turkey says it will hold naval drills near northern Cyprus, amid a simmering territorial dispute with Greece. The announcement came as President Recep Tayyip Erdogan defended Ankara’s position in a call with his US counterpart. The live-fire exercises will take place on September 1-2, according to an advisory released by the Turkish navy on Thursday.…

The zoo in Poland’s capital, Warsaw, is planning a first-of-its-kind experiment to treat grieving and stressed-out elephants with CBD oil, following the loss of their alpha female. The three remaining African elephants at the zoo will receive small liquid doses of a dozen drops of CBD oil, two or three times a day, through their…

Lebanon must immediately create a new government and implement reforms, or the country could face disintegration, French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian has said. Political and financial reforms proposed by French President Emmanuel Macron as prerequisites to receiving foreign aid must be implemented by Beirut without delay, Le Drian urged on Thursday.  “The international community…

Perhaps pouring more petrol into the flaming spat with Greece, the Turkish president ruled out making any concessions to Athens on the oil and gas discoveries in the contentious Mediterranean waters. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan picked a rather symbolic occasion to make the claims. He was speaking at a ceremony to commemorate a military victory…

A top Chinese diplomat has delivered an unvarnished critique of Canberra, accusing the Australian government of damaging bilateral relations with Beijing amid escalating political and economic tensions between the two nations. Wang Xining, China’s deputy head of mission in Canberra, expressed disdain at the notion that Beijing was exercising unwanted influence over Australian politics. “I…

Sweden has stepped up military activity in the Baltic Sea to send a signal to Russia and other nations which it claims have dramatically increased their presence in the region, the country’s top defense officials have said. The so-called “high readiness action” will bolster Swedish land, naval and air forces in the southeastern and southern…