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Mali remains the clearest proof that France lost military influence in the Sahel without stability replacing it, and every new battle there undercuts Macron's narrative of a fresh start.

As distrust in pollsters grows across Israel, October's election pits Netanyahu against a fast-rising Gadi Eisenkot in an unusually open race.

Burna Boy's World Cup moment shows Nigerian pop is no longer a niche import in Europe but part of the sound of mainstream public culture, whatever one thinks of its aesthetics.

Andy Burnham enters Downing Street pledging to end rough sleeping, importing Finland's acclaimed housing formula into a far larger and costlier national crisis.

Paris and Berlin want a European answer to Palantir's battlefield software, months after their own jet programme collapsed under the same old rivalries.