The new election in France
French unions threaten strike - demand left-wing government
The leaders of several major French trade unions are calling for a general strike in order for the left to form a government, French media reports.
The situation is locked after Sunday's election, when no political bloc got its own majority. On Wednesday, President Emmanuel Macron wrote in an open letter that he wants to see a broad center coalition. The left wants him to appoint a prime minister from the largest bloc, the leftist alliance NFP.
- Striking is sometimes the only way to unlock a situation, says Marylise Léon, who leads the country's largest trade union CFDT, to AP.
The CGT union has called for demonstrations around the country and outside parliament when it opens on July 18 to get Macron to "respect the election results," according to Le Figaro.
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Olympics in Paris 2024
The Paris Olympics break a record – 8.6 million tickets sold
With just over two weeks left until the Olympics in Paris, 8.6 million tickets have been sold, which means that the games' first record has already been broken, writes AFP.
- The record has been held by the games in Atlanta in 1996, which sold 8.3 million tickets, says organizer Tony Estanguet.
He adds that the forecasts indicate that the final ticket figure will land at around ten million.
- We are proud to have broken the record, but we know we can sell more.
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The situation in the West Bank
G7 condemns Israel's support for illegal occupiers
The G7 countries condemn the expansion of Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian West Bank, AFP reports.
"We foreign ministers in the G7 condemn, just like the UN and the EU, the plans announced by Israel's Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich to legalize five outposts in the West Bank," reads a statement from the cooperation organization between the world's seven largest economies.
Last week, Israel's government approved plans to build nearly 5,300 new homes in the illegal settlements, according to the AP.
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