You’re reading an excerpt from the WorldView newsletter.... Projections suggest that the far-right National Rally could emerge with the biggest bloc of seats, followed by a rival coalition comprising the French left, and then the centrist party loyal to French President Emmanuel Macron trailing in a distant third.... The result would be astonishing on multiple levels, likely yielding France’s first far-right prime minister and plunging the final years of Macron’s presidency — he is ineligible

Jeff Ayton, the chief medical officer from the Australian Antarctic Division’s Polar Medicine Unit, said the lack of sunlight in Antarctica in winter can interfere with circadian rhythms.... The sun sets for the last time in five weeks near the Davis research station in Antarctica on June 2.... If we have the absence of light, then we can get in some difficulties in synchronizing our sleep/ wake patterns, ” Ayton said....

Recent remarks by President Emmanuel Macron at a meeting of French ambassadors included a statement about the end of the West’s dominance in international affairs, an idea quite in tune with the spirit of the times. Tectonic shifts in the world order and a transition to some new global model have b

For Shanghai’s lonely and retired, love is elusive.... They mill about an Ikea canteen on Tuesdays in search of some fun. They arrive dressed a little nicer than usual, ready to talk about their virtues, their past lives and the future.“ I’m simple.... There are more people in China who are 65 or older than there are in any other country....

twilight deepens Grandma's wrinkles--Bakhtiyar Amini( Duesseldorf, Germany) Selected by Dhugal J

THE TWILIGHT WORLD, by Werner Herzog, translated by Michael HofmannTwenty-five years ago in Tokyo

Amanat, who invested in the studio behind the" Twilight" films, to five years in prison on his fraud

the world.... On YouTube, my 18th single" Tasogare no Bay City"( Bay City in evening twilight

government had opposed the vaccine mandate ever since it was introduced in December in the twilight days

appear to be in the twilight zone.In June, the consumer price index( CPI), a main gauge of inflation