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French government celebrated having put down nationwide strikes and roadblocks with 80,000 police in a day which saw hundreds of arrests.

French President Emmanuel Macron has rejected calls from Marine Le Pen’s National Rally to hold fresh elections in the wake of the collapse of another government in Paris.

France’s public broadcasting media apparatus is facing calls for privatisation after two state-funded journalists were caught on hidden camera allegedly strategising with senior Socialist Party officials over the upcoming presidential and Paris mayoral elections.

Paris politics has once again descended into chaos, as the government of Prime Minister François Bayrou collapsed on Monday after the National Assembly overwhelmingly voted against a confidence measure brought forward by the embattled PM in a last-ditch effort to pass through a national budget. 

In its ongoing battle to root out the Muslim Brotherhood, the French Ministry of the Interior on Wednesday banned the European Institute of Human Sciences, a training centre for Imams, for promoting “radical Islam” and “armed jihad”.

French movie star Gérard Depardieu was summoned to trial before a criminal court in Paris over allegations of rape and sexual assault against actor Charlotte Arnould.

French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot insisted that Greenland “is not for sale,” and criticized the U.S. for its intentions to take control of the strategic Arctic territory during a visit Sunday to its capital, Nuuk.

The E3 nations – France, Germany, and the United Kingdom – initiated the process of imposing “snapback” sanctions on Iran at the United Nations on Thursday.

Russia is reportedly prepared to use its position as a permanent member of the U.N. Security Council (UNSC) to protect Iran from “snapback” sanctions, which European leaders are threatening to invoke because Iran has failed to comply with its obligations under former president Barack Obama’s 2015 nuclear deal.

A 17-year-old migrant allegedly of Libyan nationality has been arrested in Paris over the suspected rape of a woman near the Eiffel Tower.

State media in Venezuela reported on Tuesday that dictator Nicolás Maduro had deployed 15,000 security operatives to the nation’s border with Colombia, allegedly to fight narco-terrorist organizations.

Yet another French government appears on the brink of falling as a go-for-broke gambit from Prime Minister François Bayrou to call for a vote of confidence ahead of the budget fight appears set for failure as the opposition right and left look to vote against the government.

The government of France announced a substantial investment in law enforcement and military activities in the Caribbean on Sunday, including the deployment of two nautical brigades and a slew of surveillance drones and radar resources, to fight an explosion in drug trafficking in the region.

France summoned U.S. Ambassador Charles Kushner on Sunday after he published a scathing open letter in the Wall Street Journal to President Emmanuel Macron, accusing the French government of failing to adequately combat rising antisemitism and warning that “public statements haranguing Israel embolden extremists.”

“This is about defending my honour!”, Macron told a French magazine when justifying his decision to go against advice to sue Candace Evans.

Leader of ‘Coalition’ says it doesn’t want front line role while Russia says bid to decide security questions without it a ‘road to nowhere’.

On Tuesday’s broadcast of Newsmax TV’s “The Record,” Israeli Ambassador to the United States Yechiel Leiter said that Israel has intelligence that whenever French President Emmanuel Macron “makes a statement in favor of a Palestinian state, Hamas hardens its heart

President Trump gave personal assurance that there will be no American boots on the ground in the Ukraine security operation.

President Trump says one of the key questions hanging over a potential Ukrainian peace and beyond may be answered today.

Zelensky can immediately end the Russian invasion “if he wants to” by accepting the terms being offered to him, President Trump said.

British government says the UK is ready to deploy troops “from day one” of a ceasefire should one be agreed in the coming days.

Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar delivered a blunt rejection of international two-state solution pressure Wednesday, telling a delegation of American journalists that “a Palestinian state in the heart of Israel would indeed be a solution—for those who seek to eliminate us” and suggesting Western nations advocating for Palestinian statehood should “establish it on their own territory” instead.

France waged a “war” in Cameroon marked by “repressive violence” President Emmanuel Macron said in a letter published Tuesday.

The sleepy Amiens suburb of Pont-de-Metz in Northern France was rocked this week by the gruesome killing of a local man, who was reportedly mutilated and disembowelled.

A Moroccan migrant will have his residence permit revoked from France and faces potential jail time after denigrating the country’s war memorial.

An number of illegal boat migrants have been detained pending their exchange, one-for-one, for other migrants from France.

Senior Hamas political bureau member Ghazi Hamad openly credited the October 7 terrorist massacre with forcing Western nations to recognize a Palestinian state, declaring in a weekend Al Jazeera interview that “the initiative by several countries to recognize a Palestinian state is one of the fruits of October 7” while vowing that Palestinians will never surrender their weapons.

France suspended receiving Palestinians for investigation into how student sharing antisemitic posts was allowed into the country.

Summer camp counselor has accused police of using brute force against her during removal of a group of French Jewish teenagers from a plane.

Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar delivered a defiant rebuke to mounting international pressure Tuesday, declaring “Israel will not be the Czechoslovakia of the 21st century” as he warned that European demands for Palestinian statehood would create “a Hamas state, a jihadist state” and vowed that diplomatic pressure attempting to force Israel’s surrender “ain’t going to happen.”

The Trump administration delivered a forceful rejection of international efforts to pressure Israel into accepting Palestinian statehood, with the State Department declaring it “will not participate in this insult” as over 100 countries gathered at the U.N. in New York to push the failed two-state solution.

European leaders appear to be in two minds about the historic trade deal negotiated by U.S. President Donald Trump and EU chief Ursula von der Leyen, with some praising the pragmatism of avoiding a broader trade war and others lambasting the deal as an effective surrender on behalf of Brussels.

Leaders in London, Rome, and Berlin rejected pressure to follow the lead of Paris in recognizing Palestine as a state after French President Emmanuel Macron broke with the majority of the Western world on the issue.

Several top American Jewish groups rejected a meeting with representatives from the French government after President Emmanuel Macron announced that Paris would officially recognize Palestine as a state.

On Friday’s broadcast of Newsmax TV’s “Finnerty,” U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee reacted to French President Emmanuel Macron announcing he plans to recognize a Palestinian state by saying that it is pretty silly for Macron to think he can