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Several hundred people briefly took part in a banned LGBTQ+ Pride Parade in Istanbul on Sunday, with Turkish police detaining some of the participants. Waving rainbow flags and chanting various slogans, the demonstrators managed to march for about 10 minutes along Bagdad Avenue, a major artery on the Asian side of Turkey’s most populous city, before dispersing after police intervention.  Meanwhile, on the European side of Istanbul, police cordoned off Taksim Square, a traditional gathering place for protests. A representative of the rally organizers read a statement saying: “We never get tired of deceiving the police and forcing them to deal with…

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German police deployed special forces and a helicopter after a masked man with a large rucksack was spotted climbing on the rafters near the stadium’s roof during the football game between Germany and Denmark on Saturday evening. Police initially said its officers were “currently nearing this person to initiate a conversation and provide a secure transport from the roof.” Drones were also deployed to ensure “uninterrupted” monitoring of the man. However, tensions deescalated quickly as the man followed police instructions and returned to a footbridge below. German public broadcaster WDR published footage of two men, believed to be police officers, approaching…

06/30/2024June 30, 2024Spending promises likely to overtax France’s public financesFrance’s public finances are likely to suffer whatever bloc wins the snap election, according to France’s AFP news agency. The agency has summarized each contending bloc’s spending promises, which it says are short on detail and often ignore mathematical realities. FAR-RIGHT NATIONAL RALLY If the National Rally (RN) wins, it wants to cut value-added (VAT) sales tax on energy, partly financing the move, which it plans to initiate as early as July, by contributing €2 billion less to the EU budget, even though the bloc’s 2021-2027 budget has already been voted through.…

The first hurricane of the 2024 Atlantic season, Beryl, has become a Category 4 storm, the US National Hurricane Center (NHC) said on Sunday. “Reconaissance aircraft find Beryl now an extremely dangerous Category 4 hurricane,” it said, warning that life-threatening winds and storm surge expected in the Windward Islands, a group of islands that includes Martinique, Saint Lucia and Grenada, early on Monday. According to the NHC, the hurricane is located about 565 kilometers east-southeast of Barbados, with maximum sustained winds of 215 kilometers per hour. Earlier on Sunday, Beryl was already upgraded to Category 3. A Category 3 or higher on the Saffir-Simpson scale is considered a…

At least 18 people were killed and 30 more injured in co-ordinated attacks by suspected female suicide bombers in Nigeria, local authorities said.The first suspect detonated an explosive device during a marriage celebration in the north-eastern Nigerian town of Gwoza on Saturday. Minutes later, another explosion went off near a hospital and then a third attack took place at a funeral service.The suspect at the funeral service was dressed as a mourner, according to the state emergency agency.Children and pregnant women were among those killed and 19 of those injured are seriously hurt. “I have mobilised emergency drugs to complement…

French opinion polls suggest the far-right National Rally will likely win a majority in the National Assembly, the lower house of parliament, as voters go to the ballot box in two rounds on June 30 and July 7. The party came out on top in the European Parliament elections in early June, with almost twice as many votes as the centrist Renaissance party headed by President Emmanuel Macron — a crushing loss that prompted Macron to call the snap legislative elections. If the latest polls prove true, what would this shift in power mean for Macron’s ability to govern in Paris? DW answers the most pressing questions…

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban announced plans for a new alliance of European populist parties, during a news conference in Austria on Sunday. Dubbed Patriots for Europe, the group brings together Orban’s right-wing populist Fidesz party, Austria’s far-right Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) and the Czech Republic’s centrist group of ex-premier Andrej Babis. Currently, there are seven political alliances at the European Union level that represent the political parties of the 27 member states elected to the European Parliament. The groups are organized by political affiliation rather than nationality. Some parties don’t belong to any group. What did Orban say? Speaking a day before Hungary assumes…

An Israeli woman who was taken hostage and rescued from Gaza says she wishes people could “learn to love and not hate”.Speaking publicly for the first time since her rescue, Noa Argamani said 120 hostages remain in “Hamas captivity” – including her boyfriend Avinatan Or. Video of her being kidnapped was widely shared after she was taken from the Nova music festival on 7 October by two men on a motorbike.She and Mr Or were “separated at the moment of abduction”, she said in a video recorded for the Hostages and Missing Families Forum. Please use Chrome browser for a…

Arms exports from Germany rose 30% in the first six months of 2024 compared to the same period a year earlier, Economy Ministry data published Sunday showed. Between January 1 and June 18, the government approved total weapons exports worth at least €7.48 billion ($8.01 billion). By June 18, exports had already reached 60% of 2023’s total, the ministry data showed. If the trend continues for the remainder of the year, the total value of arms sales is set to reach a new record. Germany’s weapons exports for the whole of last year hit an all time high of €12.2 billion, mostly…