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Added on the 06/08/2016 00:00:00 - Copyright : Les Dernières Nouvelles d'Alsace
Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy says that no agreement had been reached following a high-stakes meeting with President Joe Biden over raising the US debt limit. "I didn't see any new movement," McCarthy says after the White House talks, which were also attended by Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell and the top Democrats in Congress, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer. SOUNDBITE
Thousands of protesters in Brussels demonstrate in support of the Iranian resistance movement, calling for action against Tehran's leaders as European Union foreign ministers meet. IMAGES
Pope Francis and U2 singer Bono launch the 'Scholas Occurrentes' International Movement at the Pontifical Urbaniana University in Rome. The movement started with educational projects created for children in impoverished areas of Buenos Aires, and has since expanded to a worldwide network of schools. IMAGES
"We just started a movement," says Starbucks employee Casey Moore after workers at a Starbucks shop in Buffalo, New York, voted to establish the first union at one of the coffee chain's company-owned shops in the United States. "This is the most incredible feeling in the whole entire world, to go through what we've done and then be victorious," Moore says. SOUNDBITE
Supporters of the M5-RFP protest movement rally in Bamako to mark the anniversary of the first demonstration held on 5 June 2020, which led to the coup d'état against former president Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta a few weeks later. IMAGES