PARIS -- French Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu resigned Monday after less than a month in office, making him the shortest-serving prime minister of France's Fifth Republic. President Emmanuel Macron accepted his resignation, the presidency said.
In a statement, Lecornu admitted the formation of his government had not gone smoothly, saying conditions "were no longer met" for him to remain in office. "One must always put one's country before one's party," he said, adding that the cabinet's composition had stirred partisan tensions. (France-PM-Resign)
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STOCKHOLM -- Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell, and Shimon Sakaguchi were awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine on Monday for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance.
"Their discoveries have been decisive for our understanding of how the immune system functions and why we do not all develop serious autoimmune diseases," said Olle Kampe, chair of the Nobel Committee. (Nobel Prize-Medicine)
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NEW DELHI -- At least 24 people were killed and many others injured after incessant rains triggered landslides in the eastern Indian state of West Bengal, officials said Monday.
The landslides hit the picturesque Darjeeling town, about 626 km north of Kolkata, the capital city of West Bengal, on Sunday and swept away homes, cutting off roads and isolating villages.
The tragedy wreaked widespread devastation and left hundreds of people, especially the tourists, stranded in the Himalayan foothill township. The communication networks have also been snapped. (India-Landslides-Death)
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BEIRUT -- An Israeli airstrike on southern Lebanon killed two people and wounded another on Monday, the state-run National News Agency (NNA) reported.
The NNA said Israeli forces fired two guided missiles at a vehicle in Nabatieh, killing Hassan Atwi and his wife, Zeinab Raslan, whom it described as civilians. The couple had lost their two children earlier in the war with Israel. (Lebanon-Israel-Strike) Enditem
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