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Israel must stop killing babies and women in Gaza, French President Emmanuel Macron has told the BBC. In an exclusive interview at the Elysee Palace, he said there was "no justification for the bombing, saying a ceasefire would benefit Israel. While recognizing Israel's right to protect itself, "we do urge them to stop this bombing" in Gaza, he said. But he also stressed that France "clearly condemns" the "terrorist" actions of Hamas... Speaking the day after a humanitarian aid conference in Paris about the war in Gaza, Mr. Macron said the "clear conclusion" of all governments and agencies present at...

Last Sunday President Emmanuel Macron who's been on a conservative "law and order" path for much of this year tried to strike a more progressive tone last Sunday calling for abortion to be enshrined in France's constitution. Prior to his re-election last year, Macron moved the bar for abortion in France from 12 weeks to 14 weeks proclaiming it to be "Pro-Choice". In the United States some states like Mississippi passed slightly more liberal 15-week abortion laws proclaiming them to be "Pro-Life". This weekend marks five years since the Yellow Vests protests first emergeed in November of 2018... Today's Yellow...

"A period of decency" The expression used by French President Emanuel Macron to justify the blanket ban on Pro-Palestinian protests in France imposed on Thursday October 12th by Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin. That ban reversed last Wednesday by France's Council of State... On Thursday in Arras the funeral of teacher Dominique Bernard stabbed to death Friday before... President Macron's government again invoking Article 49.3 of the Constitution to force legislation through the National Assembly... On Saturday afternoon in Paris live video from a protest...Protesters gathering and writing their messages on cardboard... Around 230 pm this afternoon another protest a static...

Reacting to last weekend's attack on Israel President Emmanuel Macron condemning the attacks on civilians and the taking of hostages. The president of France's leading opposition force the National Rally, Jordan Bardella, expressing "totalist solidarity" with Israel stating that "crimes against humanity" took place last weekend.... On Thursday, Mr. Darmanin, suggested as a Presidential candidate in 2027, ordered all Pro-Palestinian protests in France banned. He also ordered arrests of those organizing such protests and "troublemakers" associated with the protests. Several thousand Pro-Palestinian demonstrators came out at the Place de la Republique in Paris on Thursday evening anyway. Police using tear...

The Minister of the Interior also ordered the arrest of the organizers and "troublemakers" of these pro-Palestinian demonstrations. The Minister of the Interior Gerald Darmanin, in a telegram addressed to the prefects, orders the systematic banning of Palestinian demonstrations and the arrest of the organizers and "troublemakers" of these demonstrations following the Hamas terrorist attacks in Israel. "Pro-Palestinian demonstrations, because they are likely to generate disturbances to public order, must be prohibited," writes the Minister of the Interior, adding that "the organization of these prohibited demonstrations must give rise to arrests"...

This week in France talk about bed bugs and fear of bed bugs with police using sniffer dogs to inspect trains and subways for the pests. The need to act driven by the Olympics in Paris set for July 26-August 11 of next year... But perhaps the bedbug issue was a way of distracting from the economic hardships in France related to inflation. That became obvious this week with word that clothing sales in France declined sharply last month... No sanctions against Azerbaijan at this time. The message from President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday... In Paris this afternoon the small...

Late Wednesday evening about Midnight French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne announced that Article 49.3 of the 1958 "Fifth Republic" Constitution would be invoked for the 12th time since President Emmanuel Macron was unable to secure a majority in last year's legislative elections... On Thursday President Emmanuel Macron in Corsica the homelands of Napoleon Bonaparte proposing autonomy for the always restive region. Macron broaching ideas like use of the Corsican language in a bid to appease nationalists who have controlled local offices on the island since 2018... Last Sunday night Mr. Macron announced that France's ambassador and soldiers were pulling out...

President Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte got to be "on stage" this week as British King Charles and Queen Camilla came for a on official visit. The visit postponed from earlier this year when there were mass street protests opposing the imposition of a higher retirement age by Presidential decree. Also visiting France at the end of the week, Pope Francis... The Interior Ministee Gerald Darmanin took a hard line this week as the European Union sought to move migrants who swarmed... Former President Nicolas Sarkozy threw a line to the current President Macron this week by urging his...

Hurricane Lee... The United Nations refugee agency saying thousands of migrants jamming the Italian island of Lampedusa must be relocated...126,000 migrants reaching Italy by sea so far this year, almost twice the number arriving in Italy for all of last year. Reacting to the situation Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni... In Poland a scandal involving cash payments in exchange for speeded up work visas... The Israeli military carrying out a drone strike... The Biden Administration Special Prosecutor Jack Smith seeking a gag order against President Trump... Polling for the US Presidential Contest from Fox News and Harvard-Harris... The African nation...

As it stands now Emmanuel Macron cannot run for a third term as France's President in 2027. After running as a finalist in the last two Presidential elections, Marine Le Pen seems poised for a win. No political polls have been taken in France since earlier this year when Le Pen was defeating the incumbent Macron in a face-to-face matchup. This week a new public opinion poll focused on the "favorability" of politicians and... The unpopularity of President Emmanuel Macron confirmed last night at the Stade de France... A 16-year old boy of Turkish descent declared brain-dead in France Thursday...

The Centrist Movement of President Emmanuel Macron's slavish devotion to banking-business priorities for France like a higher retirement age and a lower corporate tax burden doesn't excite grass roots voters. In fact, they caught on when fuel taxes were imposed back in the fall of 2018 in the name of "Climate" and millions came out into the streets to launch the Yellow Vests protests that were massive in scale until the government backed down on the fuel taxation. Also in the mix incidents of violence in the center of Paris and allegations of Anti-Semitism among the protesters. Last Sunday's move...

Highlights: French President Emmanuel Macron said on Monday that the expansion of the BRICS group signals the intention to build a new world order. . French President Emmanuel Macron said on Monday that the expansion of the BRICS group signals the intention to build a new world order.Macron said in a speech at the annual conference of ambassadors of the Republic at the Elysee Palace: "The expansion of the BRICS indicates the intention to build an alternative world order, which is seen as too Western.Macron explained that this creates the risk of "fragmentation of the world" that must be avoided,...

The US National Hurricane Center monitoring storm Idalia strengthening into a hurricane... Also out in the Atlantic Ocean causing minor issues for Bermuda and the US East Coast is powerful Hurricane Franklin... Problems this evening around 7 pm or shortly afterwards US Eastern Time for users of the social media platform "X"... Russia says its aerospace forces have attacked terrorist command centers in Syria... The situation in Libya already unstable further destabilized after Israel's Foreign Minister Eli Cohen said he met Libya's Foreign Minister... Israel's Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich saying there can be no concessions to the Palestinians in any...

President Emmanuel Macron talking about the violence on French streets in recent month and the police killing of "Nahel" in Marseille. Speaking to "Le Point" Macron said most of those arrested were born in France (90 percent) and that they often came from single-parent families or... On the big issue of "Climate" that has played in France this week... Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin denied that immigration would be a deciding issue in the 2027 presidential election. In an interview with the "La Voix Du Nord" newspaper Darmanin said it was possible that Marine Le Pen would win the Presidential Election...

The mix of the news from France this week includes the issue of migration and the massive trafficking in migrants through France and in some cases across the English Channel to UK. The British government is now paying France to help police the massive migrant influx. Six migrants died in a mishap... France's Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin continuing a "law and order" theme from the Emmanuel Macron government with the deployment of the elite CRS police to Marseille... Hot weather remains a big taking point in the Mainstream Media... The video of the Yellow Vests protesting in Paris this afternoon...

The World Economic Forum (WEF) has instructed major web browser company’s to begin blocking websites deemed “undesirable” by the globalist elites.The WEF-controlled nation of France is the first nation to issue a legal directive to web browser company’s to block all websites listed on a blacklist compiled by the Macron regime.Calling the plan “well-intentioned yet dangerous,” Mozilla warns that Young Global Leader Emmanuel Macron is plowing ahead with plans to force web browsers like Firefox “to create a dystopian technical capability” allowing the globalist elite to regulate what people see online.“Article 6 (para II and III) of the SREN Bill...

Tensions this week over Niger the former French colony that is a source of uranium for France's extensive network of nuclear power plants and home base for 1,500 French soldiers.... France's top political leaders remain highly unpopular. An Elabe poll this week for Radio Classique showing President Emmanuel Macron with the trust of only 29 percent of those 18 and older polled...

On Thursday Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin met with the leaders of police unions amid the tensions over the four police officers charged with attacking a protester in Marseille... As for President Macron his attention on the Pacific with visits to the French territory of New Caledonia and the South Pacific nations of Vanuatu and Papua New Guinea. Macron taking jabs at China during the journey underscoring the confrontation the "rules-based international order" is engaging in with China... As Mr. Macron tried to battle China in the South Pacific there was a coup in the former French African colony of Niger....

Tonight word of a bank failure in the United States... The United States ordering non-emergency employees and all family members at the US Embassy in Haiti to leave... Four crew members missing from an Australian army helicopter that crashed during the night off the coast of Queensland... A US military aid package announced for Taiwan... In Iraq four people killed in a fire... Russia says a US-coalition drone came dangerously close to a Russian warplane in Syria today... Democrat Presidential Candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has no Secret Service protection. The Biden Administration coming down with that... Joe Biden signing...

This week in France's National Assembly National Rally (RN) lawmaker Julien Odoul introducing legislation to require athletes to compete using the sex registered on their birth certificate. Odoul says the legislation is needed to "preserve women's sport" and to combat what amounts to "a form of legalized doping" that enables athletes born male to have a physiological advantage. On Thursday a reshuffling of the cabinet in France... In Marseille four police officers indicted and one placed in custody in connection with the beating of a 21-year-old man during the violent incidents on France's streets just weeks ago... There was a...