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From Jakarta to Los Angeles, protesters in cities in Asia, Africa, Europe and the Americas began a weekend of protests calling for a ceasefire in Gaza and Lebanon. Security has been stepped up in several cities ahead of planned protests and celebrations ahead of Monday’s anniversary of the Hamas attack on Israel. Source link

Maritime authorities pulled several dead, including a small child, from a boat and airlifted another would-be asylum seeker to hospital on Saturday. Around 47 undocumented migrants have died trying to travel from France to the UK by boat this year. Source link

France’s public debt is very much in the spotlight. The country’s newly appointed prime minister, Michel Barnier, calls it a “Sword of Damocles” hanging over future generations. Indeed, for many countries, paying interest on the national debt deprives them of investing in education, health, research and so on. Similar discussions are taking place across the…

It has been a year since Israel suffered its worst terror attack ever, with Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups killing more than 1,000 Israelis and taking more than 250 hostage. Israel’s response has devastated Gaza, displacing the largest part of the population and killing more than 41,000 people, according to Gaza health authorities. Meanwhile,…

“Emmanuel Macron has very much followed the line we expected of him, defending the international organization of the French-speaking world (OIF), insisting that this language allowed people from all over the world to spread their art and their influence,” FRANCE said. 24 corresponding to Villers-Cotterets Carys Garland. “He also announced the creation of an international…

A court trying a French man who has pleaded guilty to enlisting dozens of strangers to rape his then-wife has decided to allow the public and press to be present when video evidence is shown. The ruling reverses a previous ruling that banned the broadcast of the images in public. Source link

French President Emmanuel Macron opens the two-day Francophonie summit on Friday, hoping to boost French influence in a conflict-ridden world. Chadian President Mahamat Idriss Déby, a French ally and regular visitor to Paris, will be a prominent guest, as will Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Watch Macron’s opening speech live on 24 FRANCE at 14:30…

Peter Cherif, a suspected French jihadist who was close to the perpetrators of the 2015 Charlie Hebdo massacre, was sentenced Thursday to life in prison. Cherif fought for al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) in Yemen from 2011 to 2018, during which he was suspected of training his childhood friend in Paris, Cherif Kouachi, who…

President Emmanuel Macron is hosting the “Francophonie” summit this week in a bid to boost French influence in a conflict-ridden world, particularly in Africa. Chadian President Mahamat Idriss Déby, a French ally and regular visitor to Paris, will be a prominent guest, as will Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Source link

During his maiden trip as NATO Secretary General, Mark Rutte met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Kiev and pledged support for Ukraine in its war with Russia. Ukraine faces a critical few months over the winter as Russian forces continue to advance in the east while targeting the key logistics hub of Pokrovsk. Source…