In 2019, France watched a national treasure go up in flames. Now, there's a fear that the structures holding up French politics are starting to catch. There is clearly a problem with French public finances.Further worsening of the budget deficit. France's political crisis deepened today. Most French citizens adore their nation's system of social safety nets, but those programs have become increasingly unsustainable.France has the Euro area's largest deficit, massive debt, and every attempt at reform has end ...

Violence swept through parts of Bangladesh after the murder of a prominent activist behind the 2024 mass uprising, deepening concerns about the South Asian country’s fragile political transition https://t.co/SvJtUk0sLY ...

South Korea is preparing to relocate the presidential office back to the Blue House in a move aimed at erasing former leader Yoon Suk Yeol’s legacy a year after his failed bid to put the country under martial law triggered months of political instability https://t.co/ch1jrLbGOr ...

Guinea-Bissau's new interim military leader is vowing a crackdown on drug trafficking and corruption after taking power General. And Tom was sworn in a day after soldiers arrested the president and ordered last weekend's election results to be suspended. For more.Let's bring in Bloomberg's on Darrell Ganga, who joins us now with the latest on terror. What more do we know. Good morning, Tom.A lot has escalated in Guinea-Bissau in the last 48 hours. First, it started with gunfire. The presidential palace was ...

Soldiers in Guinea-Bissau appeared Wednesday on state television saying they have seized power in the country, following reports of gunshots near the presidential palace https://t.co/swq68ArAls ...

The country is facing ruin, with a government paralysed by its own contradictions and a people apparently too exhausted to rise up and overthrow it https://t.co/NQC6UKjZr1 ...

'Killed because they are Alawites': Fear among Syria's minorities after the fall of Assad https://t.co/QM0rRjBJpr ...

Geopolitical Risk - Al Qaeda militants are advancing towards the capital of Mali [1] - The potential fall of Mali's capital could result in the first country governed by a U S-designated terrorist group [1]

Unrest in Tanzania following this week’s election that barred the incumbent president’s main rivals left about 100 people dead, Amnesty International said. The country’s biggest opposition party said hundreds more may have been killed https://t.co/4Uhc3MXxtX ...

Al Qaeda militants are moving closer to seizing the capital of the West African nation of Mali, which, should the city fall, would become the first country in the world run by the U.S.-designated terrorist group https://t.co/QWmwU6ooXk ...