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The French government acquired Bull from Atos for €404 million, ensuring a sovereign IT service provider in critical military sectors.
Tehran, Iran Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian has called on the United States to respect his country as the two nations look ahead to another round of nuclear negotiations next week following mediated discussions in Oman. Our reasoning on the nuclear issue is based on rights stipulated in the Non-Proliferation Treaty, he wrote in a post on X on Sunday. The Iranian nation has always responded to respect with respect, but cannot withstand the language of force.
I 've been looking back at Brexit through the rear-view mirror of Alberta's runaway referendum train. And I've been studying David Cameron, the British prime minister who called for the Brexit referendum in 2013. Ran a re-election campaign on the promise of one. Was handed a majority government in 2015 in part on the basis of that promise. Ran a campaign to remain in the European Union in 2016. Lost. And then resigned the next day.
Alberta separatists seek funding from the Trump administration after three reported meetings. Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney has said that he expects the United States to respect the country's sovereignty after reports that Alberta separatists have met several times with officials of the Donald Trump administration. The Financial Times reported that US State Department officials held meetings with the Alberta Prosperity Project (APP), a group calling for a referendum on whether the energy-rich western province should leave Canada.
We emphasise once again our desire for the US contempt for our country to end, the leaders of all five political parties elected to Greenland's parliament said in a joint statement late on Friday. We do not want to be Americans, we do not want to be Danes, we want to be Greenlanders, they said in the statement, posted on social media by Greenland's Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen.
President Donald Trump is withdrawing the United States from the world's overarching treaty on climate change in a move that escalates his attempts to reverse years of global negotiations toward addressing rising temperatures. The announcement to sever ties with the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change came as Trump quit dozens of international organizations that the White House said no longer serve U.S. interests by promoting what it called radical climate policies and other issues.
Colombia's Foreign Minister Rosa Yolanda Villavicencio has warned that her country would answer any breach of its sovereignty with a military response, in the wake of threats from United States President Donald Trump. At a news conference on Tuesday, Villavicencio underscored that, under international law, countries have the right to self-defence should they be attacked. list of 3 itemsend of list If such aggression were to occur, the military must defend the national territory and the country's sovereignty, she said.
Iran's United Nations ambassador Amir Saeed Iravani has written to the UN secretary-general and the president of the UN Security Council (UNSC), urging them to condemn unlawful threats towards Tehran from United States President Donald Trump amid ongoing protests in the country. The letter sent on Friday came hours after Trump said the US was locked and loaded and ready to go if any more protesters were killed in the ongoing demonstrations in Iran over the cost of living.
Responding to the U.S. military's drone strikes on small boats and seizures of oil tankers off the coast of Venezuela, Andreína Chávez says U.S. claims of pursuing fentanyl traffickers lack evidence and are "pretext" for an attempt "to asphyxiate the Venezuelan economy" and wrest control of the country's state-owned oil reserves.
In these uncertain times-whether it is foreign interference directed at our democratic institutions, the Russian invasion of Ukraine and its threatening rhetoric toward the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, the surreptitious interest in the Canadian Arctic by Russia and China, peril to key nodes on supply chains such as Taiwan and the Strait of Hormuz, or United States president Donald Trump's taunting that Canada should become the fifty-first state-our sovereignty is under serious threat.
Mexico's President Claudia Sheinbaum has flatly denied reports that the United States is planning to send troops into Mexico to confront the country's powerful cartels, noting that she had repeatedly rejected such offers from Donald Trump. It's not going to happen, Sheinbaum said during her daily morning news conference on Tuesday. We do not agree with any process of interference or interventionism.
S ince the Quiet Revolution, the question of whether one identifies first as Québécois or Canadian has remained a powerful marker of Quebec's political and cultural life. The ambivalence of Quebec identity is deeply rooted in a long historical evolution-from the "Canadians" of New France before the British conquest to the "French Canadians" after the Act of Union of 1840, and, finally, to the "Quebecers" of today.
Decentralized communications network Matrix is hoping to be the beneficiary as European public and private sector organizations ponder alternatives to the messaging status quo. During Matrix's recent Strasbourg conference, more than two dozen public sector entities were noted to have tried (or were currently using) the technology. The vast majority were European, highlighting worries on the continent about dependency on closed and potentially insecure messaging platforms.