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The British Government has determined that Israel is not committing genocide in Gaza, Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy told the chair of the international development committee in a letter on September 1. This differs significantly from the government’s previous position, which was that only courts can decide whether Israel is or is not committing genocide. It also marks the first time the UK government has stated explicitly that Israel’s actions in Gaza do not count as genocide. In the letter to Sarah Champion, Lammy, who was foreign secretary at the time of writing, acknowledged that the UK government has the...

The newly promoted First Secretary of State, speaking in Berlin, hailed the euro as a saviour that had brought stability to the European Union during financial turmoil. "It is perfectly clear that the euro has been a great success in anchoring its eurozone members during this financial crisis," he said.

EU's Mandelson lashes U.S. lawmakers for rejecting plan LONDON (Reuters) - U.S. lawmakers have "taken leave of their senses" by rejecting a $700 billion (388 billion pound) financial bailout plan, European Union Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson said on Monday. The U.S. House of Representatives earlier voted against the plan to help the financial industry in a shock vote that sent global markets sliding and led to recriminations between Republicans and Democrats. "I feel they've taken leave of their senses and I hope that in Europe we will not see politicians and parliamentarians replicating the sort of irresponsibility and political partisanship...

What do Theresa May and Andy Burnham have in common with Michel Barnier, François Bayrou and Emmanuel Macron? All five were admirably honest with the public about the trade-offs inherent in financing an ageing society, and all five were duly punished for their candour by the public, the press, opposition politicians or all three.The past two decades of French and British politics are a graveyard of proposals to slow the upward ratchet of spending on growing elderly populations. The same two decades of French and British fiscal balances show the results. Public disbursements to older citizens have climbed higher and...

President Emmanuel Macron moved quickly when his government led by Premier Francois Bayrou lost a confidence vote Monday. The 384-194 vote was a sign of deep opposition to the austere 2026 budget. Macron's quick move to appoint Defense Minister Sebastien Lecornu as Prime Minister... demonstrations called to 'block everything' led to various events blocking roads and railroads involving thousands of protesters leading to hundreds of arrests... Mr. Macron quick to contact the Emir of Qatar following Tuesday's Israeli attack. Macron denouncing the attack... he met families of the Israeli hostages at the Elysee Palace Wednesday... The French-Saudi conference on a...

Donald Trump issued a stunning threat to NATO allies for holding up his negotiations to end the Russia - Ukraine war and warned against 'wasting my time' in a blistering social media post. Trump took to Truth Social on Saturday morning to rebuke NATO allies for buying oil from Russia despite their opposition to Vladimir Putin's invasion, saying it 'greatly weakens your negotiating position, and bargaining power, over Russia'. 'I am ready to do major Sanctions on Russia when all NATO Nations have agreed, and started, to do the same thing, and when all NATO Nations STOP BUYING OIL FROM...

The International Committee of the Red Cross chose a wing in Al-Shifa hospital "adjacent to the [Hamas] movement offices,” according to documents found by the IDF in Gaza and recently declassified. Two Hamas documents found by Israeli forces in Gaza indicate that international organizations such as the Red Cross and Doctors without Borders are well aware of the presence of Hamas in the Gaza Strip’s medical facilities despite obfuscating or outright denying it publicly, NGO Monitor revealed on Wednesday. The internal Hamas memos were among a cache of documents declassified by the Israel Defense Forces. NGO Monitor translated the Arabic-language...

A decade ago, archaeologists made a grisly discovery when they unearthed two Neolithic mass graves at the sites of Bergheim and Achenheim in northeastern France. The pits contained severed limbs and human skeletons, evidence of excessive violence and mutilation that did not match normal Neolithic patterns. Some deceased individuals buried in other nearby graves, however, showed no signs of brutality. A new study has recently analyzed the chilling remains to try and reconstruct the identities of the individuals and determine why some were treated so cruelly, according to a statement released by the University of Oxford. Researchers conducted multi-isotopic analysis...

But don’t be concerned: Governor Cuomo says there is no “ongoing threat.” In lower Manhattan on Tuesday afternoon, a Muslim named Sayfullo Saipov, screaming “Allah akbar,” drove a rented truck along a bicycle path, killing at least eight people and injuring numerous others. According to Al Arabiya, “New York state governor Andrew Cuomo told media that there is no evidence to suggest wider plot or wider scheme.” And Time.com reported that Cuomo said that there was no “evidence of an ongoing threat or any additional threat.” No evidence to suggest a wider plot or an ongoing threat? Really, Governor? Here’s...

French President Macron late Tuesday appointed Defense Minister Sébastien Lecornu as France’s new prime minister and tasked him with immediately trying to get the country's fractious political parties to agree on a budget for one of the world's biggest economies. Lecornu, 39, was the youngest defense minister in French history and architect of a major military buildup through 2030, spurred by Russia’s war in Ukraine. A longtime Macron loyalist, Lecornu is now France's fourth prime minister in barely a year. A former conservative who joined Macron’s centrist movement in 2017, Lecornu has held posts in local governments, overseas territories and...

Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Ministry says it ‘condemns and denounces in the strongest terms the brutal Israeli aggression’. An Israeli attack in Qatar’s capital, Doha, targeting Hamas officials has drawn swift condemnation from across the region and beyond, with the United Nations chief calling it a “flagrant violation” of the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Qatar. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office confirmed that the Israeli military carried out the attack in Doha on Tuesday against Hamas leaders. It was the first such attack by Israel on Qatar, which has been a key mediator in ceasefire talks between Israel and Hamas...

PARIS (AP) — Legislators toppled France’s government in a confidence vote on Monday, a new crisis for Europe’s second-largest economy that obliges President Emmanuel Macron to search for a fourth prime minister in 12 months. Prime Minister François Bayrou was ousted overwhelmingly in a 364-194 vote against him. Bayrou paid the price for what appeared to be a staggering political miscalculation, gambling that lawmakers would back his view that France must slash public spending to rein in its debts. Instead, they seized on the vote that Bayrou called to gang up against the 74-year-old centrist who was appointed by Macron...

The appeal trial is set to last five weeks, with the verdict expected before next summer, ahead of the high-stakes presidential election in 2027. A Paris court has set dates for far-right leader Marine Le Pen's appeal trial, in a case that will determine whether the far-right leader can run for president in 2027 after being barred from office for embezzling EU funds. The Paris court announced the hearings will run from 13 January to 12 February 2026. Le Pen, leader of the National Rally (RN, formerly Front National or FN), is currently barred from holding office after being handed...

Britain’s first female Muslim Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood had a rough start on Saturday, with over 1,000 illegal migrants arriving after crossing the English Channel from France on her first day in office. Mahmood, a former pro-Palestinian activist whose Pakistani parents migrated to England from Mirpur in the disputed Kashmir region, was tasked by Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer on Friday to run the Home Office, the cabinet department tasked with controlling immigration and protecting Britain’s borders. It came amid the forced Downing Street reshuffle sparked by the scandal-induced resignation of former Deputy PM Angela Rayner over the socialist politician’s...

A Tunisian Muslim immigrant living in France went on a stabbing spree after learning he was being evicted from his hotel for not paying. The 35-year-old migrant was living in the port city of Marseille, but on Tuesday he found himself without housing, prompting a violent rampage that ended only when police shot him after he injured five people via stabbing, according to JFeed. The man possessed two large knives and an iron bar. It was initially reported that he attacked the hotel manager and his son before running onto the street and injuring three more people, while yelling “Allahu...

Well, you may think things are chaotic here in the US. But let's check in on our friends over in Paris, shall we? Yes, the government of France has collapsed. The politicians aren't happy. The people aren't happy. But, for now, President Emmanuel Macron is (probably?) safe from expulsion. I will never quite get over the French system, where governments can collapse but the president just keeps on keeping on.— eugyppius (@eugyppius1) September 8, 2025" Here's Politico Europe to explain what's happening: French lawmakers toppled Prime Minister François Bayrou's minority government on Monday evening, thrusting the country deeper into a...

France is plunged into a fresh political crisis as MPs vote to oust the prime minister French President Emmanuel Macron will name a new prime minister "in a matter of days", his office says - who's in the running?

French police are investigating a suspicious letter addressed to the interior minister that tested positive for the plague. Discovered at a mail-sorting centre near Dijon, the letter was addressed to the town hall of Roubaix, in the north of France outside Lille, for the attention of Gérald Darmanin, the minister of the interior. Police were called when the unstamped envelope, with undisclosed “inscriptions” on its back, roused suspicions among workers. Inside, they discovered a black powder and a letter containing racist insults.

The pressure building on France this week over plans to recognize a Palestinian state at the UN General Assembly in New York later this month. Israel's UN Ambassador warning France and other countries aligned with it... The United States joined Israel's strongarming of France. Secretary of State Marco Rubio called French Foreign Minister... France's foreign ministry taking to social media to slam US Secretary of State Marco Rubio's accusation regarding its decision to recognize a Palestinian state... President Emmanuel Macron in the spotlight this week in connection with the "Coalition of the Willing" in Ukraine those 26 nations meeting... Meanwhile...

Another day and another one of those things we’re not supposed to talk about. In the past few weeks, two Muslims were arrested for plotting to bomb the Eiffel Tower and another was shot down in France after stabbing 5 people. (Authorities are still searching for the motive of the stabber who was shouting “Allahu Akbar”. It’ll turn out to be ‘mental illness’. Now over to Italy. An attack foiled at the Santa Rosa festival in Viterbo . The newspaper Il Messaggero reports that two Turkish citizens were arrested by the Italian Special Operations Division (DIGOS) with machine guns and...