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France’s National Assembly will give final approval to assisted-dying bill after years of debate

PARIS, July 15, 2026 (AP) — France’s National Assembly is set to give final approval Wednesday to a bill allowing adults with incurable illnesses to receive lethal medication, the culmination of years of debate over end-of-life care. The lower house of parliament is widely expected to approve the measure after backing it in three previous readings, completing parliament’s work on the legislation announced by French President Emmanuel Macron over three years ago. According to various estimates, assisted dying is available to some 300 million people worldwide, with euthanasia legal under certain conditions in some countries and assisted suicide allowed in

India’s June unemployment rate at 5.5% y/y

NEW DELHI, July 15 (Reuters) – India’s ‌unemployment rate stood ​at ​5.5% in ⁠June, ​the same ​as in May, ​government ​data showed on ‌Wednesday. A ⁠Reuters poll had ​projected ​the ⁠June unemployment ​rate ​at ⁠5.4%.

Trump administration wants to dismantle the International Criminal Court. Can it?

July 15, 2026 (Conversation) On Monday, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio wrote a blistering missive in the Wall Street Journal unveiling plans to dismantle the International Criminal Court (ICC). He claimed it threatened “US soldiers, police officers, Border Patrol agents and elected leaders” under international laws that “we neither consent to nor control”. The State Department then unveiled the steps it would take to target the court, which include pressuring allies to resist ICC attempts to prosecute Americans, travel bans on ICC officials, and increased sanctions on the court. The State Department called the court an “intolerable threat to

Files relating to India’s largest nuclear power plant Kudankulam exposed in data breach

BENGALURU, July 15 (Reuters) – Ransomware group World Leaks has posted on the dark web a huge cache of files related to India’s largest nuclear plant, including purported blueprints of parts of its facilities and supplier details — information it ​labelled as coming from Reliance Group. The Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant, located in the southern state of Tamil Nadu, is the largest of India’s seven nuclear plants and central to Prime Minister ‌Narendra Modi’s ambitious plans to expand the country’s atomic energy capacity. Indian businessman Anil Ambani’s Reliance Group, one of the plant’s contractors, told Reuters in a statement that

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