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Far-right parties have made major gains in parliamentary seats for the European Union.Some ballots in the vote for the European Parliament are still being counted, but the outcome shows the 27-nation bloc's parliamentary membership has clearly shifted to the right. EU elections latest - Macron's message for French votersIn a bitesize breakdown of the elections, here are some of the main takeaways:Winners The surge in the far-right had been predicted […]

Emmanuel Macron's announcement that he intended to dissolve parliament and call for a snap election came as a shock on Sunday night.The French president, who was been in power since 2017, said it was time for the country to have its say after his centrist Renaissance party suffered a calamitous result in the EU election. What's happened? Mr Macron has called for a snap election to take place from later […]

It is the strangest of scenes at the tiny resort on Agia beach.Holidaygoers spread out on sunbeds, people swim in the Mediterranean turquoise sea and the only noise is from waves lapping up against the rocks.A wired fence surrounds the resort, the only access at a small gate by the sea on the northern tip.Just outside the perimeter, two men stand over a body, which Greek officials say is that […]

Israel's war cabinet minister has resigned from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's emergency government.Benny Gantz said leaving his post was a "complex and painful decision" to make but Mr Netanyahu was "preventing real victory" over Hamas, the militant group Israel has been fighting in Gaza for the past eight months.Mr Gantz, one of Israel's three war cabinet ministers, said during a televised news conference on Sunday that he was leaving "with […]

South Korea has vowed to blast "unbearable" noise at North Korea for the first time since 2018 after Pyongyang sent more sewage-filled balloons over the border.Seoul's national security council said on Sunday it will restart loudspeaker broadcasts of anti-North Korean propaganda after 330 balloons dropped 15 tonnes of rubbish in South Korea throughout the weekend. Three waves of sewage-filled balloons, filled with manure, cigarette butts, scraps of cloth, batteries and […]

More than 200 Palestinians were killed as Israel raided Gaza to free four hostages, Hamas claims, in one of the bloodiest days of the war.During the mission, hailed as "heroic" in Israel, the military said it freed the hostages under heavy fire and responded with strikes "from the air and from the street".But the ensuing attack on central Gaza's al Nuseirat, a historic Palestinian refugee camp, led to scenes like […]

2024 is known as the year of elections because in these 12 months more voters in more countries than ever before will exercise their right to cast a vote to choose who governs them. That is the march of democracy - even if nobody was convinced when President Putin was elected, again, in Russia. The UK is in the throes of a general election campaign which could end 14 years […]

Denmark's prime minister is suffering from whiplash after a man assaulted her in Copenhagen on Friday.Mette Frederiksen's office said in a statement on Saturday the prime minister had been rushed to a hospital for a check-up soon after the attack. She is otherwise fine apart from whiplash but had been left "shaken" by the assault, her office added.Police said a 39-year-old has been arrested. Image: Denmark's Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen […]

The wife of missing TV doctor Michael Mosley has vowed her family "will not lose hope" as she described the days since his disappearance as "the longest and most unbearable".The statement by Dr Clare Bailey Mosley came as the couple's four children arrived on the Greek island of Symi and the focus of the extensive search for the broadcaster shifted to a snake-infested mountainous area after CCTV footage emerged of […]