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France Elections 2024 second round of voting ended with left-wing parties as the surprising victor , beating both President Emmanuel Macron’s centrist coalition and Le Pen’s far right party coming in last.  No one group is even close to a majority, the left-wing group won 177 seats, Centrist won 148 and the far-right won 142 seats. In the 577-seat National Assembly, a party is needed to win 289 seats to win absolute majority. A hung parliament will be formed in France, not used to coalition government. Prime Minister Gabriel Attal says to offer resignation, but it’s not clear who will…

Iran Presidential Election runoff won by  reformist candidate Masoud Pezeshkian. The second and final round of polling closed and the vote counting began a few hours ago . The voting for the second round started on Friday morning.The winner will replace late President Ebrahim Raisi, who died in a helicopter crash on May 19th. The snap poll became necessary due to the demise of then President Ebrahim Raisi, who was elected in 2021. The elections were originally scheduled in 2025.   Image: Associated Press photo Presidential Candidates: Masoud Pezeshkian and Saeed Jalili As per the Iranian constitution, the President is the…

Iran-backed Hezbollah, militant group operating from Lebanon launched a big attack on Israel in retaliation for killing its senior commander in southern Lebanon a day earlier. The attack was one of the largest so far between Israel-Hezbollah cross border fighting. There has been regular exchange of fires across the borders since Israel launched a war in Gaza last year. Hezbollah says it will continue to fight Israel until Israeli forces keep up its attack on armed group Hamas in Gaza Strip. Reuters Israel vs Hezbollah war might escalate into a larger regional conflict The two sides have repeatedly launched air…

UK Elections 2024 is set on July 4th where british voters are going to elect their new Prime Minister and Parliament. Political analysts have predicted that Rishi Sunak’s Conservative Party is going to lose big time. The election polls show a slim chance of the sitting PM to come back to power. He might become the first sitting PM to lose his own seat in the Parliament. A massive Labour landslide will be a big transition to British politics. As  Conservative Party has been leading the British Parliament more frequently than any other party in the UK. Britain is set to…

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has reached Astana, capital city of Kazakhstan to attend Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Summit. This is the 24th meeting of the Council of Heads of State which is being held under the chairmanship of Kazakhstan on July 3 and July 4. Prime Minister Modi will be skipping the Summit and in place Dr S Jaishankar will lead the Indian delegation. Photo: X/@DrSJaishankar Changing stance of India towards SCO SCO is a prominent Eurasian group founded in 2001 consisting of nine member states with recently added member Iran. India has also extended its efforts to collaborate…