France deploys about 70,000 police and gendarmes for a third consecutive weekend of protests, with the authorised Paris march pushed out to the outer boulevards, République and Les Halles sealed overnight and a 9pm curfew for unaccompanied minors around the Champs-Élysées — on Halloween.
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A third weekend of living-cost protests meets the largest security deployment of the crisis so far: some 70,000 officers on the streets, a Paris march banished from the centre, two famous squares sealed overnight and…
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A day of youth marches in 34 German cities ended in Frankfurt with looted shops, a smashed gun store, Molotov cocktails thrown at emergency services and a large section of the Zeil shopping street closed off — as police and organisers fought over how big the movement really is, and who was responsible for its worst night.
Read articleFrankfurt protests shops looted, a gun store smashed and Molotov cocktails thrown at emergency services — that is how Saturday ended in Frankfurt, after a day in which the youth alliance Gen Z regelt marched in 34…
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The protest wave that has filled French streets for three weekends reached Germany on Saturday, as the youth alliance Gen Z regelt marched in 34 cities. Police counted thousands in Berlin, Hamburg, Frankfurt and Munich — and after dark there was water cannon in three cities, burning barricades in Hamburg and injured officers in Frankfurt.
Read articleWorld / Europe — The protest wave that has filled French streets for three weekends reached Germany on Saturday, as the youth alliance Gen Z regelt marched in 34 cities for education funding, cheaper living and…
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France protests today drew an estimated 320,000 people nationwide — 70,000 of them in Paris — for a third consecutive weekend over living costs and education, as hours of festive marching gave way at dusk to bottles, fireworks, stun grenades and tear gas near Porte de Charenton, and about 300 arrests.
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A third straight weekend of protest over living costs and education brought 320,000 people onto France’s streets on Saturday — fewer than on the two Saturdays before it, but more than enough for the day to end the…
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Astronomers using the Rubin Observatory in Chile have found 2026 ED138, a bright world roughly 1,000 kilometres across hiding in a crowded star field beyond Pluto — and if its size holds up, it becomes the sixth dwarf planet in the solar system.
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The Rubin Observatory was still being commissioned when its software pulled a bright, slow-moving point of light out of one of the most crowded patches of sky astronomers know. That point is 2026 ED138 — quite…
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Sir Patrick Stewart, the Mirfield-born Shakespearean who became Captain Jean-Luc Picard and Professor Charles Xavier, died at home in Los Angeles on October 28 in the care of his wife Sunny Ozell — and his final performance, in Avengers: Doomsday, is still to come.
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The Mirfield-born Shakespearean who taught two blockbuster franchises how authority sounds — measured, humane and unmistakably his — died at home in Los Angeles on Wednesday, in the care of his wife Sunny Ozell. His…
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Three Russian drones struck the same critical infrastructure facility in Kyiv on Friday evening, knocking out power to the capital's water-distribution system and leaving the entire left bank — plus three right-bank districts — without water. No casualties were reported.
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Three drones, one facility, and a capital divided by a river learned again how tightly its water is bound to its power: on Friday evening the whole left bank of Kyiv lost its water supply, three right-bank districts…
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One month after Tennessee injected her twice with pentobarbital and failed to kill her, Christa Pike has spoken publicly for the first time: she is in constant pain, largely isolated in a prison infirmary, recovering but — in her own words — healing is not the same as being okay.
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Thirty days after Tennessee gave her two doses of pentobarbital and she lived, Christa Pike has dictated a 460-word statement to her lawyers. It describes unrelenting pain, a mind and soul in pain with her body, an…
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Hundreds of residents of Russian-occupied Oleshky crossed back into Ukraine on Saturday afternoon, ending a journey through Crimea, Anapa and Gomel — and completing the final leg of the Melania Trump-brokered ceasefire hours before it expires.
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Oleshky evacuees arrive Ukraine at last: hundreds of residents of the Russian-occupied Kherson-region town crossed the Belarus–Ukraine border on Saturday afternoon, many carrying pets, at the end of a route that ran…
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Rubio says support is growing for a limited Black Sea ceasefire to keep grain and energy moving, with Turkish and Indian proposals under U.S. review — and he defended Russia's seat at the G20 table in Atlanta.
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No ceasefire was agreed in Atlanta — but Washington is publicly reviewing Turkish and Indian plans to stop the shooting at sea long enough for grain and energy to move, and warning the alternative threatens food…
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President Volodymyr Zelenskyy pays a working visit to Istanbul on October 31 at President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's invitation, with the Russia-Ukraine war and Black Sea security at the top of the agenda — and a possible Abu Dhabi trilateral meeting in November hanging on what the two men say at Dolmabahçe.
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A bilateral working visit, not a peace summit — but with a possible trilateral meeting in Abu Dhabi days away, a fresh Patriot sale approved in Washington and Moscow publicly unmoved, what Zelenskyy and Erdoğan say…
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Erdoğan used a joint press conference with Zelenskyy at Dolmabahçe to condemn attacks on civilian ships in the Black Sea as unacceptable under any circumstances — and the two leaders agreed to work on a safer grain corridor, Turkish energy equipment for Ukraine, and a possible Turkish role in November's trilateral talks.
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The working visit was billed as positioning. It ended with the Turkish president publicly rebuking both Moscow and Kyiv over attacks on civilian shipping, a pledge of generators for Ukraine's battered energy grid, an…
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The U.S. Embassy in Moscow warned on Saturday of a credible threat of a mass casualty event today at the Tsaritsyno Museum Reserve, Russia's FSB confirmed it had received the American information, and the palace museum was temporarily closed — a warning, not an attack, with no incident reported.
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A U.S. Embassy alert naming one palace museum and one day — today — set off a rare public sequence on Saturday: Washington warning Moscow, Russia's FSB confirming it had received the information, and the Tsaritsyno…
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Canada and the EU closed their 21st summit in Montréal by launching an Alliance for the Future — and confirming they are working toward Canada becoming the EU's first associate member, with more than twenty measures on trade, defence, research and critical minerals.
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Twenty-plus deals on trade, defence, research and critical minerals — and a membership label that does not exist in any EU treaty — made Montréal the place where the map of the West was quietly redrawn this week.
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Police ringed Poland's Constitutional Tribunal on Friday night after a judge suspended the court's president and took direction of the court herself. The court's own channels cried coup d'état; the president turned his plane around. Both camps now accuse the other of a coup.
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Police in riot gear ringed Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal in Warsaw on Friday night after one of its own judges suspended the court’s president and his deputy and took direction of the institution herself. The…
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