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A shock surge in Thursday's UK election for David Cameron's Conservatives and the SNP's near clean sweep in Scotland revives the spectre of a possible British breakaway from Europe - and the break-up of Britain itself. David Pollard reports.
Nigeria's President Bola Tinubu said West African leaders should try all diplomatic routes to ensure a swift return to constitutional rule in Niger, including dialogue with the coup leaders there, as a summit of heads of state began on Thursday. The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) must decide how to respond to the junta, which defied an Aug. 6 deadline to stand down, instead closing Niger's airspace and vowing to defend the country against any foreign attack.
President Emmanuel Macron's government faces two motions of no confidence in the National Assembly on Monday after it bypassed the lower house to push through a deeply unpopular overhaul of the pension system that will raise the retirement age. FRANCE 24's French Politics Editor Marc Perelman tells us more.
Is it one reform too many for Emmanuel Macron? France’s president braving the wrath of the street in what organizers promise is only Day One of the protest movement against his pension reform. A reform he put off during his first mandate because of Covid but insisted he would submit again in his second term.