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☆ DNA analysis sheds light on how Neanderthals disappeared
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-31 | by ( Katie Hunt | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

The analysis, published July 12 in the journal Science, showed that the two groups exchanged DNA at multiple points over the past 250,000 years, shedding light on how Neanderthals disappeared and potentially rewriting the story of how and when our Homo sapiens ancestors left Africa. Genetic detective workDuring the two earlier waves of interbreeding, the Neanderthal population absorbed human genes and the offspring stayed within Neanderthal groups, according to the new study. Russian archeologists digging inside Denisova cave located in the the Altai mountains that's been home to Neanderthals, early modern humans and the Denisovans. A skull found in Qafzeh Israel is believed to have belonged to an early modern human. The researchers’ analysis suggests that the Neanderthal population size at the time was 20% smaller than previously thought.

Persons: ”, Joshua Akey, Sigler, ” Akey, Nobel, Svante Pääbo, Laurits Skov, wasn’t, Akey, “, Homo sapiens, Eddie Gerald, Alamy, Chris Stringer, “ I’ve, ” Stringer, De Agostini, Stringer Organizations: CNN, Lewis, Sigler Institute, Princeton University, University of California Locations: Africa, University of California Berkeley, Vindija, Croatia, Altai, East, Europe, London, Cave, Greece, Israel

☆ French telecoms network hit by vandalism within days of arson attacks against national railways
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-29 | by ( Jenni Reid | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Normal train service had resumed on the French rail network by Monday — when authorities reported damage to telecoms infrastructure, which caused local power outages and raised the specter of further national disruption. Secretary of State for Digital Affairs Marina Ferrari that France's telecoms network was experiencing isolated outages due to damage carried out overnight in several regions. It was not immediately clear whether vandalism to the telecoms network was connected to the damage and arson carried out on the rail network last week. Disclosure: CNBC parent NBCUniversal owns NBC Sports and NBC Olympics. NBC Olympics is the U.S. broadcast rights holder to all Summer and Winter Games through 2032.

Persons: —, State for Digital Affairs Marina, Ferrari, Dmitry Peskov, Gerald Darmanin, Darmanin Organizations: Paris, Olympics, State for Digital Affairs, CNBC, NBCUniversal, NBC Sports, NBC Olympics, NBC, Games Locations: Vandieres, France, Paris, Russia, U.S

☆ I've studied past assassination attempts in US politics. The most similar one to Trump's resulted in a loss in the election.
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-27 | by ( Lauren Crosmedlicott | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

For the 1912 election, Taft had the official Republican Party nomination, but Roosevelt decided to run as a third-party independent candidate. JFK and Robert Kennedy's assassinations had different electoral outcomesAfter John F. Kennedy's assassination on November 22, 1963, Lyndon B. Johnson became president. Johnson enjoyed significant popularity — over a 75% approval rating — on the coattails of Kennedy's assassination. AdvertisementRobert Kennedy's assassination meant Johnson's vice president, Hubert Humphrey, had an easier time securing the Democratic nomination. Ford pardoned Nixon and tried to move past Watergate, but the Republican Party couldn't overcome Nixon's stink and Ford's dismissal of his wrongdoings.

Persons: —, David Head, Donald Trump, I'm, John F, Kennedy, Theodore Roosevelt, Roosevelt, Republican William Howard Taft, Taft, Woodrow Wilson, Trump, Wilson, Robert Kennedy's, Lyndon B, Johnson, Robert F, Nixon, Hubert Humphrey, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Ford, Republican Party couldn't, Kamala Harris, Biden, it's Organizations: Service, University of Central, Business, Trump, Republican, Republican Party, Democratic, Republicans, JFK Locations: University of Central Florida, Orlando , FL, Milwaukee, Taft, Vietnam, Los Angeles

☆ More Trains, but Few Answers, After Railway Sabotage in France
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-27 | by ( Aurelien Breeden | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Railway workers in France rushed to wrap up delicate repair work on Saturday, a day after arsonists sabotaged three high-speed train lines and caused disruptions that have eased up but are expected to last through the weekend. The sabotage upended travel plans for over a million end-of-week passengers and caused chaos just hours before the opening ceremony of the Paris Summer Olympics on Friday. The ceremony itself unfurled across the Seine River without any major issue other than pouring rain, allowing French security officials to breath a sigh of relief. “WE DID IT!” Gérald Darmanin, France’s interior minister, exulted on X, adding that “after four years of intense work to prepare for the world’s biggest sport event, we have never been prouder of our security forces.”

Persons: arsonists, ” Organizations: Paris Locations: France

CNN —France is still facing travel disruption a day after saboteurs targeted high-speed railway lines in an attack coinciding with the start of the Olympics. They recovered an “amount of evidence” following the operation, Darmanin told CNN affiliate France 2. Authorities should not rule out industrial espionage, Persson told CNN on Friday, saying that a railway staffer, or someone who built the tracks including construction workers, could also be to blame. Railway staff and police work to repair one of several sites where vandals targeted France's high-speed train network, in the northern villege of Croisilles, on Friday. CNN has previously reported on a host of suspected Russian attacks across Europe.

Persons: Gabriel Attal, Gerald Darmanin, Darmanin, Axel Persson, Persson, ”, Jean, Pierre Farandou, “ don’t, Brian Snyder, Emmanuel Macron, Dmitry Peskov, Dale Buckner Organizations: CNN —, French, CNN, France, Olympic, CGT, Employees, SNCF, Environmental, Railway, Police, Kremlin, Games, Global Guardian, CNN France Locations: CNN — France, French, France, Kyiv, Ukraine, Russia, Russian, Paris, Europe

☆ CrowdStrike losses may be biggest test yet of cybersecurity insurance risk warning from Warren Buffett
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-24 | by ( Kevin Williams | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Jain's hypothetical seemed prescient when a quality control issue from cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike caused a worldwide IT outage that halted flights and freight, shuttered retail outlets, and caused hospitals to resort to charting on paper. "Insurers have been worried about something like what happened with CrowdStrike since cloud adoption happened," said Dale Gonzales, chief innovation officer at Axio, a cyber security risk analysis company. Fitch estimates that the number of insured losses will not exceed $10 billion, ending somewhere in the mid- to high-single billions and that the industry largely priced those in. The cybersecurity insurance market did get lucky, in some respects, with the CrowdStrike meltdown. "Cyber events that have more of a physical consequence would be much bigger in size or scope in terms of losses," Glombicki said.

Persons: Warren Buffett, Ajit Jain, Jain, CrowdStrike, Dale Gonzales, Gerald Glombicki, Fitch, Glombicki Organizations: Microsoft Corp, Fitch Locations: New Delhi, India, Berkshire, Fitch Rating's, Australia, Pacific Asia, U.S

☆ Live Election Updates: Harris, Biden and Trump All in Spotlight as 2024 Sprint Begins
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-24 | by ( Chris Cameron | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +4 min

President Biden’s announcement on Sunday that he would leave the presidential race effectively pushed Donald J. Trump and the Republican National Convention from the spotlight. A Trump campaign spokesman did not immediately respond to request for comment. But Mr. Biden’s announcement on Sunday that he would exit the presidential race effectively pushed Mr. Trump and his convention from the spotlight. The Trump campaign also filed a complaint on Tuesday with the Federal Election Commission accusing Mr. Biden and Ms. Harris of violating campaign finance laws by rolling Mr. Biden’s campaign funds over to Ms. Harris. The complaint, filed by Mr. Warrington, came after Mr. Biden’s team had amended the name of its campaign committee on Sunday to Harris for President.

Persons: Biden’s, Donald J, Trump, Biden, David Warrington, Kamala Harris, Warrington, Gerald Ford, —, Nixon, Nielsen, Trump’s, NBC —, Harris Organizations: Republican National Convention, ABC, NBC, CBS, The New York Times, Trump, Federal Communications Commission’s, — ABC, Federal, Mr Locations: Pennsylvania, Milwaukee, Warrington, Charlotte, N.C

☆ Olympic Opening Ceremony threatened by striking dancers
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-24 | by ( Joseph Ataman | Emmanuel Miculita | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

CNN —The Olympic Games’ Opening Ceremony is “in danger” after a protest and possible strike action by more than 200 dancers due to take part in Friday’s ceremony, a union representative for the dancers told CNN Tuesday. On Monday, some 220 dancers stopped a rehearsal along the banks of Paris’ River Seine – along which the Opening Ceremony is due to take place – to protest inequalities in pay and housing conditions between the dancers. This year’s Opening Ceremony will be the first ever held on a river. Some 104,000 people in stands lining the River Seine will watch the event, with 220,000 more on raised roadways along a six-kilometer (nearly four miles) stretch of the river, according to French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin. For years, French officials had boasted that some 600,000 people would attend the Opening Ceremony, but that number has been slashed due to safety concerns.

Persons: “, ”, Lucie Sorin, –, ” Sorin, Gérald Darmanin Organizations: CNN, CGT, Paris Locations: Paris

☆ Olympic security checks block 5,000 people, including 1,000 suspected of meddling and espionage
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-24 | by ( Saskya Vandoorne | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

CNN —France’s Interior Ministry rejected around 5,000 security accreditation requests for Olympics volunteers and workers, with roughly 1,000 of those cases blocked due to suspicions of meddling or espionage. The Ministry outlined in a statement on Tuesday that it conducted “about a million” administrative investigations into various staff for the 2024 Paris Games. Of those checks, varying threats were identified, including meddling and espionage, convicted criminal records, illegal alien statuses, radical Islam, and ultra-right and ultra-left ideologies. The statement re-iterated that this will be the first Opening Ceremony taking place outside of a stadium for the Summer Games, creating significant security challenges. However, the ministry expressed its confidence, stating that it’s “now ready” after final rehearsals took place on Tuesday evening.

Persons: ”, it’s, Gerald Darmanin, “, ” Darmanin Organizations: CNN, France’s, Olympics, Olympic Games, Summer, French Locations: Islam, Russia, France, Paris, Seine, “ France

☆ Opinion | Who Might Run With Kamala Harris?
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-23 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

2 Spot” (news article, July 23):Vice President Kamala Harris, assuming she is the Democratic presidential nominee, has several good options for completing her ticket. But I urge Ms. Harris and her advisers to cast a wider net initially. Nothing in the Constitution would prevent Barack Obama from serving as vice president; indeed, the Republicans considered a similar move with former President Gerald Ford in 1980. Mark Milley, a retired general and former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, is a war hero and a true patriot. Doing so would knock the Trump campaign off balance and, most important, inject a rare note of bipartisanship into our poisoned polity.

Persons: Kamala Harris, Josh Shapiro, Roy Cooper, Harris, Barack Obama, Gerald Ford, Mark Milley, Donald Trump Organizations: Democratic, Pennsylvania, Republicans, Joint Chiefs of Staff, Trump Republican, Trump Locations: North Carolina

The government’s repeated failure to address what it knew quickly fed suspicions that the silence itself was evidence of a conspiracy. In the wake of the attempted assassination of Donald Trump, we are seeing that happen again. Neither the public nor Congress learned much more when Kimberly Cheatle, the director of the Secret Service at the time of the shooting, appeared before a congressional committee on Monday. Ms. Cheatle acknowledged that the shooting at the Trump rally ranked as the agency’s “most significant operational failure” in decades. But there was outrage from both Democrats and Republicans at her repeated refusal to answer specific questions about the security failures that contributed to it.

Persons: John F, Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr, Donald Trump, Kimberly Cheatle, Cheatle Organizations: Service, Department of Homeland Security, Trump, Republicans

☆ Russian detained in Paris over fears of Olympic ‘destabilization’ plans
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-23 | by ( Joseph Ataman | Emmanuel Miculita | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

Paris CNN —A Russian national has been detained and placed under preliminary investigation in Paris over fears he was preparing to disrupt the Olympic Games, the local prosecutor’s office told CNN Tuesday. French authorities conducted a search of the man’s residence under an administrative order, during which they unearthed evidence he was preparing, “events likely to lead to destabilization during the Olympic Games,” the prosecutor’s office said. He was placed under preliminary investigation and detained Tuesday under suspicion of: “intelligence with a foreign power with a view to provoking hostilities in France,” the prosecutor’s office added. The prosecutor’s office released no further details as to what the man was allegedly planning. The Olympic Games begin this week with the official opening ceremony due to be held in central Paris on Friday evening.

Persons: Paris CNN —, Gerald Darmanin, ” Lucie Sorin, ’, –, “, ” Sorin Organizations: Paris CNN, Olympic Games, CNN, Olympic, ”, “, Paris Locations: Paris, France

☆ The Olympic Games face a unique set of potential security threats in Paris. Organizers say everyone will be safe
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-23 | by ( Ben Church | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

Opening Ceremony like no-otherThe Opening Ceremony of the Paris Olympics is set to take place on July 26 and will be the first ever held on a river. For years, French officials had boasted that some 600,000 people would attend the Opening Ceremony, but that number has been slashed due to safety concerns. He said a “strictly controlled” zone alongside the banks of the river will be closed off before the Opening Ceremony and anyone entering into it would be checked. The Opening Ceremony will be held alongside the banks of the River Seine. The Stade de France is where track and field events and Rugby Sevens matches will take place at the Paris Olympics.

Persons: Gérald Darmanin, Darmanin, Nicolas Nordman, ”, Gonzalo Fuentes, Nordman, Denis, Dale Buckner, ” Buckner, ” Darmanin, “, Eric Chasboeuf, Thomas Padilla, “ I’ve, ” Chasboeuf, Buckner Organizations: CNN, Summer, Games, Palestinian, Atlanta Games, Reuters, Paris, Paris Mayor, Olympic, Stade de France, Rugby Sevens, Global Locations: Paris, France, Saint

☆ Police officer attacked in Paris, as security ramps up for Olympics
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-18 | by ( Saskya Vandoorne | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

Paris CNN —A police officer was attacked and injured in central Paris on Thursday evening, as France ramps up security measures in the capital ahead of the 2024 Olympics. “A police officer was attacked in the eighth arrondissement of Paris while he was responding to a call from officers securing a store,” French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin said in a post on X. The attack comes a week before the opening ceremony for the 2024 Paris Olympics. This is the second violent incident against French security agents this week, after a soldier was stabbed on Monday in a Paris train station. France has been strengthening security in the city ahead of the Olympics, which are expected to draw around 15 million visitors, according to the European Union.

Persons: Paris CNN —, “, Gérald Darmanin, Charlie Hebdo Organizations: Paris CNN, Interior Ministry, CNN, Champs, Operation Sentinel, European Union Locations: Paris, France

☆ Bob Newhart, comedy legend and star of 'The Bob Newhart Show' and 'Elf,' dead at 94
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-18 | by ( Jason Guerrasio | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

Known for his comedic timing, the "Bob Newhart Show" and "Newhart" star was one of the funniest men of the 20th century. Breaking through into comedy in the '50sYoung Bob Newhart initially didn't consider comedy a career. Over the next 11 years, he released seven more albums, including "Bob Newhart Faces Bob Newart" (1964) and "Best of Bob Newhart" (1971). Bob Newhart during the first season of "The Bob Newhart Show," performing one of his popular telephone jokes. "The Bob Newhart Show" and "Newhart"Newhart on "The Bob Newhart Show."

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☆ Thomas Crooks, Donald Trump, and the Banality of Gun Violence - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-17 | by ( David Wallace-Wells | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Eleven of the last 12 American presidents have endured an assassination attempt or a plot against their lives. The same is true for 20 of the country’s 45. Most of the recent plots have been foiled early, making the indelible image of Donald Trump fist-pumping in Pennsylvania seem like an atavistic monument or an ominous portent or perhaps both. And though we may describe the stochastic terror of the past decade in terms of ugly bumper stickers and reckless speeches, there has been real violence, not just incitement. “No political party, movement, ideology or manner of thinking has had an absolute monopoly on this violence, and it really hasn’t mattered whether the surrounding political atmosphere was aggressive or docile,” Dayen wrote.

Persons: Donald Trump, David Dayen, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton’s, Barack Obama’s, Donald Trump’s, Gabrielle Giffords, Steve Scalise, hasn’t, ” Dayen, “ Organizations: The, White, Financial Times, Republican National Convention Locations: Pennsylvania

☆ What two assassination attempts in two violent elections in the 1870s warn about today
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-15 | by ( Dana Bash | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

The Civil War was over, and Black men were legally allowed to vote and helped Republicans win in 1870. Two years later, Louisiana Democrats were determined to take back the state by preventing Black men from voting through intimidation and voter suppression. On Easter Sunday morning, White supremacists stormed the building and went on a killing spree, brutally murdering some 150 Black men. Another disputed election, more political violenceAs for the gubernatorial election dispute in 1872, it happened again in 1876. And while violence should never be the answer, it has occurred more than any of us would want to admit.

Persons: William Pitt Kellogg, Charles R, Railey, “, scoundrel, ” Railey, Kellogg, David Fisher, Donald Trump, Abraham Lincoln, James A, Garfield, William McKinley, John F, Kennedy, Theodore Roosevelt, Harry S, Truman, Ronald Reagan, Gerald Ford, John D, McEnery, McEnery’s, ”, wasn’t, White supremacists, Stephen Packard, Francis T, Nicholls, Packard, Ulysses S, Grant, William Weldon, Frank Hudson, Weldon, ” Packard, Jim Crow Organizations: CNN, Louisiana Gov, American, Republican, Black, Republicans, Louisiana Democrats, Blacks, The White League, Philadelphia Press Locations: Louisiana, New Orleans, Colfax, Grant Parish , Louisiana, Washington

☆ Soldier in France’s anti-terrorism force stabbed in Paris ahead of Olympics opening ceremony next week
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-15 | by ( Saskya Vandoorne | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

Paris CNN —A French soldier deployed in the country’s anti-terrorism force was stabbed at a train station in central Paris on Monday evening, French government officials said, a little more than a week before the Paris 2024 Olympics’ opening ceremony is due to take place. “A soldier with Operation Sentinelle was stabbed while on patrol at Gare de l’Est in Paris. Operation Sentinelle is an anti-terrorism military operation that was established in the aftermath of the Charlie Hebdo terror attack in January 2015. France has increased its security measures around Paris ahead of the Olympics, which includes bolstering the Operation Sentinelle forces. “Our thoughts are with the soldier injured this evening at Gare de l’Est, who was deployed as part of Operation Sentinelle,” French Defense Minister Sebastien Lecornu said on X.

Persons: Paris CNN —, “, Sentinelle, Gérald Darmanin, Charlie Hebdo, Sebastien Lecornu, ” Lecornu Organizations: Paris CNN, Gare de, de, French Locations: Paris, Gare, Gare de l’Est, France, de l’Est

CNN —A suspected serial killer has confessed to murdering 42 women over the past two years, police in Kenya have said, in a shocking case that has sparked calls for increased measures to combat gender-based violence in the country. Authorities said Collins Jumaisi Khalusha, 33, “lured, killed, and disposed of 42 female bodies,” of which only nine have been recovered. Gerald Anderson/Anadolu/Getty Images“We are dealing with a serial killer, a psychopathic serial killer who has no respect for life,” Amin said Monday. A group of female leaders called for enhanced protections for Kenyan women on Monday after increasing cases of femicide. “It is so sad that someone who killed 42 people was still roaming out there.

Persons: Collins Jumaisi Khalusha, “, Mohamed Amin, ” Amin, Douglas Kanja, Kanja, Gerald Anderson, Khalusha “, Amin, dismembering, ”, Josphine Mulongo, Leah Sankaire Sopiato, women’s Organizations: CNN, Authorities, Anadolu, Getty, Kenyan Police, Kenyan Locations: Kenya, Soweto, Nairobi, Kware, Nairobi’s, Njenga

☆ The $25 Trillion System of Retirement Savings Needs Fixing
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-13 | by ( Mark Miller | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Classic car aficionados recall their sleek, innovative designs, but the brands are also a reminder of another bygone era: the traditional defined benefit pension. Their pension plans were terminated, leaving thousands of workers without their expected benefits. That, along with other pension plan failures, prompted efforts to make retirement savings safer, culminating in federal legislation that has shaped much of the current retirement benefit landscape. The Employee Retirement Income Security Act, or ERISA, which was signed into law in 1974 by President Gerald R. Ford, marks its 50th anniversary this year. It also created the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, a federally sponsored insurance fund that backstops failing pension plans.

Persons: Gerald R Organizations: Studebaker, Packard, Guaranty Corporation

☆ French voters head to polls for crucial second round of snap parliamentary election
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-07 | by ( Christian Edwards | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

The newly-formed left-wing coalition, the New Popular Front (NFP), came second with 28%, while Macron’s Ensemble alliance trailed in a distant third with 21%. In the outgoing parliament, Macron’s alliance had only 250 seats, and so needed support from other parties to pass laws. In an attempt not to split the anti-far right vote, more than 200 candidates from Macron’s alliance and the NFP agreed to stand down in the second round. Whatever the result of Sunday’s vote, France seems set to endure a period of political chaos, with Macron unable to call another parliamentary election for at least a year. Jordan Bardella speaks at the RN headquarters in Paris after the first round of voting, June 30, 2024.

Persons: Emmanuel Macron, –, Jordan Bardella, Bardella, Gerald Darmanin, Sarah Meyssonnier, Macron, Jean, Luc Melenchon, Raphael Gluckmann, Gabriel Attal, Macron’s Organizations: CNN — Voters, Front, NFP, National Assembly, Macron’s, France Unbowed, Melenchon Locations: France, Vichy, Paris, Europe, Brussels, Ukraine

☆ Weeks After Alice Munro’s Death, Daughter Tells of Dark Family Secret
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-07 | by ( Elizabeth A. Harris | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Andrea Robin Skinner, a daughter of the Canadian Nobel laureate Alice Munro, said that her stepfather sexually abused her as a child — and that her mother knew about it, and chose to stay with him anyway. Skinner, who is now an adult, detailed these accusations in an essay in the Toronto Star on Sunday. According to a separate article in the Toronto Star, Skinner went to the Ontario police, and in 2005, her stepfather, Gerald Fremlin, was charged with indecent assault against her. Because of her mother’s fame, Skinner wrote, “the silence continued.” Munro died on May 13 at 92. “What I wanted was some record of the truth, some public proof that I hadn’t deserved what had happened to me,” Skinner wrote of going to the police in 2005, about 30 years after the abuse began.

Persons: Andrea Robin Skinner, Alice Munro, Skinner, Gerald Fremlin, Munro, ” Munro, ” Skinner Organizations: Toronto Star, Ontario police Locations: Ontario

☆ 'A kind of civil war': Divided France on high alert for unrest amid political earthquake
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-06 | by ( Holly Ellyatt | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +9 min

Prime Minister Gabriel Attal has said French voters now have a "moral duty" to halt the party's advance. The officer — a father of three who's in his 40s, and a right-leaning voter — said the polarization in French society was "very worrying, but unfortunately normal with the 'diversity' of our society." The police officer said he expected civil unrest after the vote, whichever party gained the most votes. "There will be civil unrest whoever is elected, this is France and the people speak their mind." Civil unrest possiblePolitical experts agree that the current febrile atmosphere of French politics, and antagonism between the main bodies of voters, are the ingredients for further civil unrest.

Persons: that's, Emmanuel Macron, Macron, Gabriel Attal, Amel, Sebastien Salom, Gérald Darmanin, —, You've, Philippe Marlière, you've, Marlière, Jordan Bardella, Bardella, Ifop Organizations: la Republique, Nurphoto, CNBC, Front, Left, Afp, Getty, Republican, France's, Republique, Rassemblement, Anadolu, University College London, National Assembly, National, NATO, Le, Palais des Sports Locations: la, Paris, France's, France, Nantes, gomis, de, Bordeaux, Europe, Ukraine

☆ Demands in the Middle East risk leaving an aircraft carrier-sized hole in US naval power in the Western Pacific
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-05 | by ( Chris Panella | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

The only US carrier in the area is on its way to the Middle East following a series of military drills in the Pacific. Sailors conduct flight operations on the deck of the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt near Indonesia. The Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71), a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier is anchored in Busan, South Korea. The aircraft carrier Shandong and a Chinese amphibious assault ship conducted an exercise in the South China Sea earlier this week. AdvertisementLately, China has also ramped up altercations with the Philippines in contested waters in the South China Sea.

Persons: —, Theodore Roosevelt Carrier, Vladimir Putin, Kim Jong Un, Roosevelt, Gerald R, Dwight D, Eisenhower, Theodore Roosevelt, Navy Petty, Andrew Benvie, Ronald Reagan, Carl Vinson, Song Kyung Organizations: Service, US Navy, Business, Theodore Roosevelt Carrier Strike Group, North, South Korean, Nimitz, Ford, Navy, Pentagon, Western Pacific, USNI News, Information, AP, South China, Coast Guard Locations: China, South Korea, Japan, North Korea, Gulf of Aden, Israel, Indonesia, Pacific, Russia, Philippines, Western, Eastern Pacific, Hawaii, Philippine, Busan, Shandong, South, Soviet, Liaoning, China's, Fujian, Beijing, South China

☆ French elections: More than 50 candidates and campaigners physically assaulted ahead of runoff
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-05 | by ( Niamh Kennedy | Emma Leyo | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —French authorities have recorded more than 50 physical assaults on candidates and campaigners on the campaign trail, the country’s Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin said Friday as concerns mount about political violence ahead of France’s high-stakes parliamentary elections. However, we have counted 51 candidates, deputies, or campaigners who have been physically assaulted. The attacks have ranged from the less severe to “extremely serious,” Darmanin said, adding that some candidates have been hospitalised for their injuries. Roughly thirty or so people have been taken in for questioning in relation to the attacks, Darmanin added. In Cherbourg, a center-right candidate from The Republicans party, Nicolas Conquer, made a formal complaint after he claimed he was assaulted by left-wing campaigners on Monday.

Persons: Gérald Darmanin, ” Darmanin, Darmanin, Emmanuel Macron, Prisca Thevenot, Marie Dauchy, Nicolas Conquer Organizations: CNN, BFMTV, National, Republicans, Front, NFP, Interior Ministry, National Assembly Locations: “, France, Savoie, Cherbourg

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