A coalition of the “Yellow Vests” movement, trade unions and students will march across France on Saturday with demands over studying conditions and purchasing power. Some 70,000 police are expected to be deployed as authorities fear looting and vandalism similar…
Adding to the tensions, France is reeling from a shooting that authorities are investigating as a potentially racist and Islamophobic terrorist attack. One person was killed and five others wounded in the Paris suburbs of Trappes and La Verrière, including…
Far-right candidate Marine Le Pen is officially launching her presidential campaign this weekend at the National Rally’s two-day party congress in Orléans, where thousands of supporters are expected to attend. Local authorities have put exceptional security measures in place as…
France is bracing for another day of cost-of-living protests, with extra police deployed nationwide to prevent a repeat of the violence that followed last Saturday’s demonstrations. In Lyon, where protests have been banned, police used tear gas to disperse around…
“You can’t police yourself into social cohesion. You can’t police yourself into a political future,” explains Andrew Smith, historian of modern France at Queen Mary University of London. He identifies a central paradox confronting the French Republic: the state may…
Young Israelis preparing to vote in parliamentary elections on Tuesday are leaning further to the right than their elders, with some drawn to the far right and its focus on security. In Rehovot, a city whose results tend to mirror…
Thousands of anti-fascist protesters took to the streets of Orléans on Saturday to demonstrate against a congress held by Marine Le Pen’s far-right National Rally party. Marchers criticised both Le Pen and President Emmanuel Macron, chanting slogans and carrying banners…
And now, in a rather surprising development, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio is directly urging Cubans to cooperate with the CIA. Havana has responded by mocking what it calls the Trump administration’s “desperation”.
With the US midterm elections less than two weeks away, concerns are growing over whether President Donald Trump would accept a major Republican defeat. Trump has called for legal action to block the certification of Alaska’s Senate race if Republican…
Student protests in France began more than a month ago, over poor conditions in high schools, teacher shortages, the pace of the school day and inequalities between private and public education. The movement has since grown into a broader mobilisation,…