Author: Euronews

The four-day wedding celebrations began on Friday with the traditional Hindu wedding ceremony and will be followed by a grand reception that’s expected to run throughout the weekend. ADVERTISEMENTThe youngest son of Mukesh Ambani, Asia’s richest man, married his long-time girlfriend on Saturday in what many had dubbed the wedding of the year, attended by global celebrities, business tycoons and politicians. The wedding rituals, including exchanging garlands by the couple and walking around a sacred fire, began on Friday and were completed past midnight.The wedding of Anant Ambani and Radhika Merchant took place at the Ambani-owned Jio World Convention Centre in Mumbai and the…

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In this edition of Brussels, my love?, we discuss the impact of elections in France and the UK, and Europe’s summer travel plans. ADVERTISEMENTOur guests this week are Klaus Welle, former Secretary General of the European Parliament who’s now with the Wilfried Martens Centre, Éric Maurice, Policy Analyst from the European Policy Centre, and Maria Tadeo, EU correspondent in Brussels.In French parliamentary elections, voters didn’t make their expected rightward shift, delivering a surprisingly strong performance for the left and for President Macron’s centrists. Forming a government now looks complicated. Is France facing chaos, or even crisis?We discuss how Brussels views…

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58-year-old Mohamed Deif has survived seven Israeli assassination attempts, the most recent in 2021. He’s been at the top of Israel’s most wanted list for decades and is believed to be one of the chief architects of the October 7 Hamas incursion into Israel. ADVERTISEMENTIsrael’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said that there is “no absolute certainty” that the second-in-command of Hamas, Mohamed Deif, was killed in an air strike in southern Gaza on Saturday.Israel said it had targeted Hamas’ shadowy military commander in the massive strike on Al-Mawasi, an area the Israeli military had declared a safe zone.Local health…

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