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Emmanuel Macron is under growing pressure to ditch a newly appointed minister and key adviser after French prosecutors announced they were launching a preliminary investigation into allegations of favouritism.
Richard Ferrand, minister of territorial cohesion, and secretary general of the French president’s La Republique en Marche party, has dismissed calls to resign, insisting he has done nothing wrong.
The affair is an embarrassment to Macron, who is engaged in a morality campaign... Read more HERE
In the end it came down to a sight that, by now, everyone in football should be familiar with. Cristiano Ronaldo – gelled hair, polished teeth, magic in his boots – will never forget the night he scored the 600th goal of an almost implausible brilliant career. It was the moment everyone knew the Champions League trophy was on its way back to the Bernabéu and, once again, that the four-time Balon d’Or winner had left his imprint all over another final. Read more HERE
At least seven people have been killed and more than 119 wounded in three separate explosions at a high-profile funeral in Kabul, the third attack in four days in the Afghan capital.
The funeral was for one of several protesters killed on Friday at a large demonstration calling for the resignation of the government after a large truck bomb killed nearly 100 people on Wednesday. The ministry of public health said seven people had been killed on Saturday, while Reuters reported up to 12 dead. Read more HERE
Emmanuel Macron is under growing pressure to ditch a newly appointed minister and key adviser after French prosecutors announced they were launching a preliminary investigation into allegations of favouritism.
Richard Ferrand, minister of territorial cohesion, and secretary general of the French president’s La Republique en Marche party, has dismissed calls to resign, insisting he has done nothing wrong.
The affair is an embarrassment to Macron, who is engaged in a morality campaign... Read more HERE
George Soros has accused the Hungarian president Viktor Orbán of building a “mafia state”, as he warned the fate of the Central European University he founded still hangs in the balance.
The Hungarian-born financier and philanthropist said he was confident the university’s defence of its freedom would ultimately “bring the slow-moving wheels of justice into motion”, but said it and other organisations he had backed were still at risk under the Orbán-led government. Read more HERE