Former U.S. President Donald Trump has ordered the approval of the 211-mile Ambler Road project in Alaska, reopening a major mining route that had been blocked under the Biden administration. The gravel road, stretching through remote wilderness north of Fairbanks, aims to provide access to rich deposits of copper, cobalt, gold, and other critical minerals essential for electric vehicles, renewable energy technologies, and defense...
The resignation of Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu has pushed President Emmanuel Macron closer than ever to his ultimate constitutional power: the "nuclear option" of dissolving the National Assembly and calling snap legislative elections. This latest government collapse may have made this high-stakes gamble unavoidable.
For months, Macron has resisted this option, likely fearing that new elections could result in an even more fragmented and hostile...
