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Putin tells security services to find ‘traitors and spies’: Media

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Russian President additionally ordered strengthening of Russia’s borders and security of residents in annexed areas of Ukraine.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered the strengthening of Russia’s borders and instructed safety providers to maintain larger management of society and root out “traitors, spies and saboteurs”, the nation’s information companies have reported.

Talking on Safety Companies Day, extensively celebrated in Russia, Putin on Monday instructed his safety officers to guard the borders, improve management of society, and maximise their “use of the operational, technical and personnel potential” to forestall dangers coming from overseas and inside traitors.

“Most composure, focus of forces is now required from counterintelligence companies, together with army intelligence,” the TASS state information company cited Putin as saying.

“It’s essential to severely suppress the actions of overseas particular providers, shortly establish traitors, spies and saboteurs,” TASS stated.

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Russia’s borders should even be strengthened, he stated.

“Work have to be intensified by means of the border providers and the Federal Safety Service [FSB],” Russia’s state-owned RIA information company cited Putin as saying on Monday.

“And it [the border] have to be reliably coated. Any makes an attempt to violate it have to be thwarted shortly and successfully utilizing no matter forces and means we’ve got at our disposal, together with cellular motion items and particular forces,” he stated.

Putin additionally stated that it’s the job of particular safety providers to make sure the protection of individuals dwelling in areas in Ukraine that Moscow claimed in September had been included into Russia. Kyiv and its Western allies have branded the strikes as unlawful annexations.

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“It’s your obligation to do all the pieces needed to make sure their safety to the utmost, respect for his or her rights and freedoms,” Putin stated, promising them extra “fashionable tools and weapons”.

Putin’s feedback come as Russian missile assaults on Ukraine have intensified and there’s no finish in sight to Russia’s conflict on Ukraine, now in its tenth month.

Talking to the leaders of a number of NATO international locations by way of video hyperlink on Monday, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy continued to induce Ukraine’s allies to produce its army with extra weapons.

“Russian aggression can and should fail. And our job now could be to speed up it,” he instructed the NATO leaders assembled in Riga, Latvia.

Zelenskyy stated in a late-night deal with on Sunday that some 9 million of Ukraine’s estimated 40 million folks had their electrical energy restored after Russia’s missile barrage final week targeted on electrical energy and water infrastructure.

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Additionally on Monday, Russian Overseas Minister Sergei Lavrov accused Zelenskyy of a “lack of expertise of the seriousness of the second and lack of concern for his folks”.

Lavrov additionally made a pointy verbal assault on the West and what he described because the “hysterical response” to the scenario in Ukraine in an interview with the Belarus 1 TV channel in Minsk.

Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine had destroyed the “geopolitical video games of the West”, which had needed to show Ukraine right into a everlasting risk to Russia, TASS quoted the Russian overseas minister as saying.

UN Secretary-Basic Antonio Guterres, in a year-end information convention on Monday, stated with remorse that he anticipated the conflict in Ukraine “will go on”.

“I’m not optimistic about the opportunity of efficient peace talks within the rapid future,” Guterres stated.

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Max Christie is getting a 4-year, $32 million deal to return to the Lakers, an AP source says

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Promising wing Max Christie is returning to the Los Angeles Lakers with a four-year, $32 million contract, a person with knowledge of the deal tells The Associated Press.

The person spoke on condition of anonymity Sunday because the Lakers haven’t announced the deal for their former second-round draft pick. ESPN first reported it.

The 21-year-old Christie has averaged 3.8 points, 2.0 rebounds and 0.8 assists while playing inconsistently during his first two NBA seasons, but the Lakers clearly believe in his potential.

The Michigan State product is a career 37.8% shooter on 3-point attempts, and he showed promise as a three-and-D wing during his stretches in the Lakers’ rotation last season, including seven starts.

New Lakers coach JJ Redick mentioned Christie prominently when he spoke of the team’s promising young talent ripe for development during his introductory news conference last week.

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Even with two years of NBA experience, Christie is two years younger than Dalton Knecht, the Lakers’ first-round draft pick last Wednesday.

Christie’s brother, Cam, was drafted by the Los Angeles Clippers last week.

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Macron on edge as France’s right-wing National Rally party gains momentum in first round of elections

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France’s right-wing National Rally party on Sunday made considerable gains in the country’s first round of elections, putting the centrist President Emmanuel Macron and his supporters on edge. 

Early projections suggest that the National Rally, led by Marine Le Pen, stands a good chance of winning a majority in the lower house of parliament for the first time, with an estimated one-third of the first-round vote, nearly double their 18% in the first round in 2022.

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French polling agencies indicated that Macron’s grouping of centrist parties could finish a distant third in the first-round ballot. Their projections put Macron’s camp behind both the National Rally and a new left-wing coalition of parties that joined forces to keep Le Pen”s anti-immigration party from potentially forming the most conservative government since World War II. 

Still, the election’s ultimate outcome remains uncertain, and the decisive final vote will happen next Sunday, July 7. 

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French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte Macron leave the voting booth in Le Touquet-Paris-Plage, northern France, Sunday, June 30, 2024. (Yara Nardi, Pool via AP)

Earlier this month, Macron dissolved parliament and called for a surprise vote after the National Rally clobbered his party in the European Parliament election. The move was seen as a risky gamble that French voters, complacent about the European election, would be motivated to back moderate forces to keep the National Rally out of power.

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Many French voters are frustrated about inflation and other economic concerns, as well as the leadership of Macron, who is seen as arrogant and out of touch. Le Pen’s anti-immigration National Rally party has tapped that discontent, notably via online platforms like TikTok, and led in pre-election opinion polls.

Voters in Paris had issues from immigration to the rising cost of living on their minds as the country has grown more divided between the right-wing and left-wing blocs, with a deeply unpopular and weakened president in the political center. 

Le Pen called on voters to give the National Rally an “absolute majority” in parliament. She said a National Rally majority would enable the right to form a new government with party President Jordan Bardella as prime minister to work on France’s “recovery.”

Marine Le Pen after voting

Marine Le Pen, with local Mayor Steeve Briois, after voting in the parliamentary election, Sunday, June 30, 2024, in Henin-Beaumont, northern France. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

“Following historic victories for conservatives in the EU elections a few weeks ago, France today reaffirmed the drastic shift we are seeing in Europe away from the failed left-wing playbook in favor of a common-sense conservative agenda centered around lower taxes, a crackdown on illegal immigration, and support for freedom of speech,” Matt Mowers, EU-US Forum founding board member and former State Department official, told Fox News Digital. “Today’s results serve as another major message to bureaucrats in Brussels – Europeans want conservative policies and leaders.”

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Turnout on Sunday stood at an unusually high 59% three hours before polls closed – 20 percentage points higher than turnout at the same time in the last first-round vote in 2022.

The first polling projections emerged after final polling stations closed. Early official results were expected later Sunday.

The second round of voting next Sunday will be more decisive, but questions will still remain about how Macron will share power with a prime minister who is hostile to most of his policies.

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National Rally President Jordan Bardella waits for the start of an interview on the French TV channel TF1, in Boulogne-Billancourt, outside Paris, on June 20, 2024. (Ludovic Marin/AFP via Getty Images)

In the scenario of a National Rally victory, Macron would be expected to name the party’s president, 28-year-old Jordan Bardella, as prime minister in an awkward power-sharing system known as “cohabitation.” While Macron has said he won’t step down before his presidential term expires in 2027, cohabitation would weaken him at home and on the world stage.

The results of the first round will give a clear picture of voter sentiment, but not necessarily the overall makeup of the next National Assembly. Predictions are difficult because of the complicated voting system, and because parties will work between the rounds to make alliances in some constituencies or pull out of others.

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Bardella, who has no governing experience, said he would use the powers of prime minister to stop Macron from continuing to supply long-range weapons to Ukraine for the war with Russia.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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French far-right leader Marine Le Pen announces her re-election

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Le Pen’s success in Hénin-Beaumont underscores her enduring influence in the region, where she has consistently garnered strong support

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Marine Le Pen, the prominent leader of the French far-right National Rally (RN) party, has announced that she has been re-elected in the first round of the parliamentary election in her stronghold constituency of Hénin-Beaumont.

According to initial results, the three-time presidential candidate won with over 58% of the vote, against nearly 26% for New Popular Front candidate Samira Laala.

In a speech following her victory, Le Pen emphasized the importance of the upcoming second round. “Nothing is certain: the second round is decisive. In order to give Jordan Bardella an absolute majority in the National Assembly and for him to be appointed Prime Minister by Emmanuel Macron in eight days’ time, I invite you to renew your vote,” she urged her supporters.

Le Pen’s success in Hénin-Beaumont underscores her enduring influence in the region, where she has consistently garnered strong support. Le Pen was a candidate in the 11th constituency of Pas-de-Calais, where she has been elected since 2017.

The first-round victory is a significant step for the National Rally as they aim to increase their representation in the National Assembly and push for their broader political agenda.

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The final outcome of the parliamentary election will be crucial in determining the balance of power in France. As Le Pen and her party prepare for the decisive second round, the political stakes remain high, with the potential to reshape the nation’s future direction.

The National Rally, the far-right party led by Marine Le Pen and Jordan Bardella, has surged to first place in the first round of legislative elections, according to a projection produced by Ipsos Talan today (30 June) after polls closed. The National Rally may have gained 34% of votes cast, according to the poll, a slight decrease from opinion polls last week which put the party and its allies at 36%.

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