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Britain Blames France For English Channel Congestion

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Holidaymakers and truck drivers are waiting in lines that stretch for kilometers at the port of Dover, because of Brexit there will be more controls. But the foreign minister blames France. A high volume of travel and the additional border controls required due to Brexit have led to traffic jams spanning several kilometers on the way across the English Channel to France. Unions, port authorities and French authorities agreed on Saturday that the main reason for this was Britain's exit from the EU. The ferry company P&O Ferries said that car and truck drivers sometimes had to calculate more than six hours for the way to the port and through the security checks. Russia And Ukraine Seal An Agreement To Unblock Grain Trade But British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss sees the blame elsewhere: The French border authorities are understaffed, said Truss, who is applying to succeed Prime Minister Boris Johnson. The government in Paris must do something "to solve the terrible situation ...

ESPIONAGE WITH PEGASUS: The Most Scandalous Cases Of Espionage With Pegasus

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Pedro Sánchez is the first acting head of Spanish government to acknowledge having been spied on by the Israeli Pegasus software, with which Morocco also infiltrated one of the mobile phones of French President Emmanuel Macron. The Spanish Government has reported this Sunday that the mobile phones of the Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez and the Defense Minister, Margarita Robles, were subjected to "illegal and external" wiretapping by the Pegasus program, according to two technical reports from the Cryptologic Center National. It is the first time that espionage with this software of an acting head of government has been confirmed. Already last summer, an investigation uncovered that Morocco had infected one of the mobile phones of the President of France, Emmanuel Macron, with Pegasus, who however did not confirm the information. The Pegasus software from the Israeli manufacturer NSO is able to read all data from mobile phones attacked with it. In addition, Pegasus can switch o...

Elections France 2022, The Second Round | Le Pen Is In The Lead In Most Of The French Overseas Territories

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The far-right candidate achieved 69.6% of the votes in Guadeloupe and 61% in Martinique, which are some of the French territories that voted yesterday and whose results are already known. France's far-right presidential candidate, Marine Le Pen, leads the current president and liberal candidate, Emmanuel Macron, in most of the French overseas territories, who voted in the second round of France's elections this Saturday due to the time difference in results published by the Belgian press this Sunday. In Guadeloupe, where the turnout was 47.18%, Le Pen got 69.6% of the vote against Macron's 30.4%, while both in Martinique (45.45% turnout) and in French Guiana, the leader of the National Association has received around 61% of the votes. In addition, Le Pen has won 55.52% of the votes in Saint Barthélemy and Saint Martin and 50.69% in Saint Pierre and Miquelon, while in French Polynesia voters have opted for Macron with 51 .81% of the votes. The Election Of Emmanuel Macron The...

Presidential Election In France: French Media Are Calling For The Election Of Emmanuel Macron

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Several media outlets have positioned themselves for Macron in view of a possible victory for Marine Le Pen. Left-wing and conservative newspapers took the unusual step. A day before the decisive final round of the presidential election in France, numerous media called for Emmanuel Macron to be elected. Referring to the war in Ukraine, the daily Le Parisien wrote about Macron's right -wing opponent Marine Le Pen: "Is it appropriate to elect a populist candidate who, by her willingness to break this major crisis, would add more?" Le Pen's victory would mean the opposite of the national unity that is needed, the paper continued. Their economic policy is not counter-financed, their foreign policy makes France an unreliable partner. Explosion In Mosque The conservative newspapers Le Monde and Le Figaro warned against feeling safe because of Macron's lead in polls. "A massive absenteeism from the election should not ruin this crucial moment in our history," t...