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India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to be sworn in for a third consecutive term on Sunday after the country’s election results unexpectedly left him reliant on coalition partners to form a government. Who will be attending? The ceremony takes place at 6 p.m. local time Sunday evening (13:45 GMT/UTC), with 30 other individuals to be sworn in as Modi’s Cabinet. All eyes are on the prime minister’s choice of ministers, which he has not yet revealed. The capital is under tight security measures as regional leaders from across the nation flew in to attend the ceremony. Several opposition leaders, however, have…

Decision time for Europe. By the end of this weekend, there will be a new shape to the European Parliament and a new velocity to the continent’s politics.Voting in the European elections actually started on Thursday, when polling stations opened in the Netherlands, but it comes to an end on Sunday and we will start to see how parliament has been reformed. For Europe, this could be a crucial election. Firstly, it will paint a picture of the new parliament, deciding how much power and influence remains with the familiar parties from the centre-right and centre-left, and how much moves…

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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 a “horror movie”, according to residents.While Israel acknowledged “under 100” Palestinian casualties, Hamas said at least 210 have been killed and more wounded – though it isn’t clear how many…

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak apologized on Friday for leaving D-Day anniversary commemorations in northern France early. He left the Thursday event, held to commemorate the landing of Allied troops in German-occupied France 80 years ago, to conduct a television interview for his reelection campaign in the UK. Sunak misses main D-Day ceremony Sunak returned home before he could attend a ceremony at Ohama Beach on the coast of the northwestern French region of Normandy. French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and US President Joe Biden attended the event. King Charles III also traveled to France to participate…

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 of Conservative rule. Americans will decide whether Donald Trump returns to the White House in November.In India, a victorious Prime Minister Narendra Modi is licking his wounds after his Hindu…

Monika Magashazi is a fighter. The 52-year old trans woman lives in Hungary — a country that has been ruled by Viktor Orban’s nationalist Fidesz party since 2010.  For transgender communities, the situation “has been becoming worse and worse and, unfortunately, we are desperate today in Hungary,” she told DW. She said the government was trying to portray trans people as pedophiles and criminals, using seemingly every opportunity to discriminate against them. Struggling with her own coming out, Magashazi even attempted to take her own life. “I reached a point when I had to decide on how to live on,” she said. Thinking…

If media campaigns in more than a dozen European countries were to be believed, the European Union (EU) intends to force citizens to eat insects instead of meat.  The claim has touched nerves, especially in Italy, where variations of it have been revived and splashed across billboards during European elections to pit Brussels against mama’s special sauce. But consumers of this claim are being fed pure nonsense, an example of countless fabrications launched or adopted by candidates seeking political gain at the cost of the truth. The fake insect-food narrative, which first surfaced last year in a number of EU countries, has proven so popular with malign actors both within…

Christophe Deloire, director-general of the press freedom group Reporters Without Borders (RSF), died of cancer aged 53, the organization said Saturday. The former newspaper and TV reporter had led the media watchdog since 2012, helping it expand its defense of journalism around the world. “The team at Reporters Without Borders’ international secretariat … are deeply saddened to announce the death of Christophe Deloire, secretary-general of Reporters Without Borders International and director-general of Reporters Without Borders, following a battle with cancer,” a statement from the group said. RSF said Deloire had “transformed the association, ” and was a “tireless defender on every continent, of…

Holocaust denier Ursula Haverbeck went on trial again on Friday in the German city of Hamburg for incitement to hatred. Haverbeck has repeatedly and publicly denied the genocide of European Jews by the Nazis during World War II. This has made her a popular figure in the far-right scene. On November 12, 2015, she was sentenced to 10 months in prison without parole by the Hamburg District Court. She then filed an appeal. Almost nine years later, the case is once again before the courts. What is the case about? The current case concerns statements made by Haverbeck in April 2015 on…