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Govt quits just hours after appointed

PARIS, Oct 06 (Reuters): France's new Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu and his government resigned on Monday, hours after Lecornu announced his cabinet line-up, in a major deepening of France's political crisis that drove stocks and the euro sharply lower.The swift, unexpected resignation came after allies and foes alike threatened to...

Red Cross ready to help on Gaza hostages, detainees

GENEVA, Oct 06 (AFP): The Red Cross said Monday it stood ready to help bring hostages held in Gaza back to their families in Israel and deliver aid into the Gaza Strip.Delegations from Hamas, Israel and the United States are due to convene in Egypt for talks on Monday aimed...

Putin's offer on N arms control sounds like a good idea: Trump

WASHINGTON, Oct 06 (Reuters): US President Donald Trump on Sunday said Russian President Vladimir Putin's offer to voluntarily maintain limits on deployed strategic nuclear weapons "sounds like a good idea".Putin last month offered to voluntarily maintain limits capping the size of the world's two biggest nuclear arsenals set out in...

Syria selects members of 1st post-Assad parliament

DAMASCUS, Oct 06 (AFP): Local committees in Syria cast their ballots for members of a transitional parliament in a process criticised as undemocratic, with a third of the new lawmakers to be appointed directly by interim leader Ahmed al-Sharaa.The assembly's formation is expected to consolidate the power of Sharaa, whose...

UN rights council launches probe into violations in Afghanistan

GENEVA, Oct 06 (AFP): The UN Human Rights Council decided on Monday to launch a probe into serious rights violations in Afghanistan, amid growing alarm over the Taliban's measures targeting women and girls.The United Nations' top rights body decided to set up an investigation to gather and preserve evidence of...

Indonesia school collapse toll hits 63

SIDOARJO, Oct 06 (AFP): The death toll from an Indonesian school collapse rose to 63 on Monday, officials said, as workers pulled more remains from the rubble of the building that collapsed last week.Part of the multi-storey Islamic boarding school on Indonesia's Java island collapsed as more than 150 students...