Breaking News, World Updates & Headlines
Breaking News, World Updates & Headlines
French president will decide on concrete ‘next steps’ regarding demonstrations on Friday as part of tough security response to recent riotingAngry lawyers and bewildered defendants: the fallout from fast-tracking French rioting casesEmmanuel Macron has…
Read MorePoliticians have called for ruthless sentencing, but lawyers blame the politicians for the poverty, and anger, behind their clients’ lootingEurope live – latest updatesAwa, 18, stood in the dock in the tribunal de Paris, a small, mute and bewildered fi…
Read MoreThe Ukrainian leader says talks with US envoys covered security guarantees and he hopes to hear Russia’s response tomorrowNordic correspondentAs well as Steve Witkoff, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy will also meet the Norwegian prime minister,…
Read MoreLast weekend there were mass protests across France, with more than half a million people estimated to have been involved. The unrest included rioting, looting and violent clashes with outnumbered police in cities including Paris, Marseille and Limoges…
Read MoreInterior minister concedes police ‘lost control’ of weekend protests as PM vows to restore public orderEurope live – latest updatesPartial curfews have been issued for a number of French cities, including parts of Paris, after the government admitted p…
Read MoreMinisters, officials and police under pressure over response to protests as government holds crisis talks amid ‘colossal failure of the state’The French president, Emmanuel Macron, has criticised “unbridled violence” after one of the most violent days …
Read MoreInterior minister says ‘the Republic will not yield’ to France’s worst protests in yearsA dispatch here from Sam Jones, our reporter in Madrid, as protests have spread to Italy and PortugalThe angry protests that have convulsed Spain and France in rece…
Read MorePolice fire teargas in Paris and Limoges town hall ‘largely lost’ to fire – with officials blaming violence on ‘ultra-left’More than 1,200 people were arrested in France on Saturday after protesters supporting high school students clashed with police, …
Read MoreWhether it was youngsters proving their skills or state sabotage, Europe’s most hacked country was left with a mountain of waste after food began cooking in freezersShortly before midnight last Sunday, the digital thermostats controlling hundreds of su…
Read More‘A lot of sadness’ after 17th century landmark that escaped demolition in the 1980s goes up in flamesFire has ravaged Paris’s oldest surviving covered food market, a popular street food venue dating back to the 17th century in the Marais district of th…
Read MoreDescendant of 19-century artist demands removal of Marc Chagall’s 1960s canvases that cover original frescoIn 1962, the then French culture minister, André Malraux, reportedly bored by the ballet he was watching at Paris’s opera house, raised his eyes …
Read MoreIn today’s newsletter: A youth-led movement is protesting crumbling school buildings and teacher shortages while turning adult focus onto wider educational inequalitiesGood morning. In my experience, at any protest, the most memorable and encapsulating…
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