There’s a new Pope in town and he’s got very different ideas on what France’s far-right calls the defense of Christian civilization. Leo the 14th concluding his trip to France in the eastern city of Metz, hometown of a founding father…
François Picard is pleased to welcome Barbara Slavin, Distinguished Fellow at the Stimson Center. She describes the US-Iran conflict as a dangerous combination of military escalation, diplomatic ambiguity and political calculation. Slavin sees an absence of true diplomacy: The recent…
The Trump administration’s policy of deportating thousands of people to countries with which they have no links is “increasing risks of torture and ill-treatment and enforced disappearance”, a panel of independent UN experts warned on Monday. An investigation by an…
France’s largest wildfire since 1949 has been declared extinguished more than two months after it broke out in southwestern Gironde, forcing the evacuation of around 224,000 people and covering the city of Bordeaux with a thick plume of smoke. The blaze was…
With a month to go until Israel goes to the polls on October 27th, a new opinion poll shows the opposition bloc led by Gadi Eisenkot’s Yashar party in a dead heat with Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu’s coalition. It comes…
Authorities in Ethiopia are accusing outside forces of backing armed groups fighting the country’s troops in the north. Since last week, heavy clashes have been reported between government forces and the Tigray people’s liberation front.It’s raised fears of a wider…
The US midterm elections are just five weeks away – and while the US President is not on the ballot, his influence is top of mind for Republicans. Donald Trump’s approval ratings have been hitting record lows in recent weeks,…
Monday is the final day of Pope Leo’svisit to France and the trip has been marked not only by an outpouring of emotion from France’s Catholics but also flurry of economic activity. The first figures are beginning to come in…
Five suspects arrested by British police on suspicion of terrorism and explosives offenses after white vans drove towards an airbase used by US forces were all British nationals from London in their early 20s, police said on Monday. France 24…