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Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian Authority president, has called for Hamas to “hand over its weapons,” immediately free all hostages and cease ruling Gaza, the French presidency said on Tuesday after receiving a letter from him. The letter was addressed to President Emmanuel Macron of France and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia, who will jointly chair a U.N. conference in New York next week to explore the creation of a Palestinian state. Mr. Macron has set a number of conditions for the possible French recognition of such a state at that meeting, including the disarmament of Hamas. “Hamas...

One common Israeli tactic to get information about Israel's adversaries is to leak news out to elicit a denial of the leaked story... This week Israel's "Ynet News" claimed that France had backed away from plans to recognize a Palestinian state. But the Elysee Palace denied the content of the story... This week three Serbian nationals charged with paint vandalism of five Jewish sites in Paris last Friday. The judge in the case alleging the Serbs acted on behalf of a foreign power... And a story getting a lot of attention in the French media in the last 24 hours....

The Associated Press recorded an incident that led to widespread discussion and speculation as President Emmanuel Macron arrived in Vietnam... The incident seized on by critics of Mr. Macron including online influencer Candace Owens... (The tensions with Israel again boiling over on Friday as President Emmanuel Macron warned of a toughening French stance on Israel likely to include sanctions on 'right-wing' cabinet ministers and Jewish settlement in Judea and Samaria (The West Bank)... France's enemy of the future foretold on Friday in Singapore as President Emmanuel Macron spoke of France establishing security and other ties with Asian nations... In the...

French President Emmanuel Macron’s wife delivered a scathing four-word remark just moments after shoving him in the face, a lip reader has revealed. Shocking footage showed Brigitte Macron, 72, place both hands on her husband’s face before shoving him firmly just moments after the president’s plane door opened upon arrival in the Vietnamese capital, Hanoi, on Sunday evening. While the embarrassed-looking leader claimed the pair were “squabbling,” a professional lip reader has since decoded the shocking exchange. “As the aircraft door opens, President Macron is seen turning toward Brigitte. In an unexpected moment, she pushes him in the face,” a...

On Tuesday night French President Emmanuel Macron doing a "town hall" format meeting on TF 1 television in the style of American politicians like Donald Trump. Macron taking questions from prominent opponents... On Friday as Israel launched its new expanded offensive in Gaza President Emmanuel Macron said he hope to discuss it with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President... A contentious hearing as President Macron's Prime Minister Francois Bayrou appeared before a legislative committee... This week 76-year-old actor Gerard Depardieu giving an 18-month suspended sentence for sexual assaults involving groping incidents...Reaction very sharp from 90-year-old French screen legend...

French President Emmanuel Macron is reportedly pressuring cardinals to block Cardinal Robert Sarah, a conservative African prelate challenging the Church’s progressive path. French President Emmanuel Macron is facing renewed criticism after it was revealed that he is trying to influence one of the most sacred processes in the Catholic church—the papal conclave. The allegation, made by Cardinal Péter Erdő, Archbishop of Esztergom-Budapest, centers on purported communications between Macron and several French cardinal electors aimed at blocking the candidacy of Cardinal Robert Sarah. The Cardinal has said that “the West no longer knows who it is, because it no longer knows...

After President Emmanuel Macron met with Egyptian and Jordanian leaders regarding a ceasefire in Gaza and all three leaders held a conversation by phone with US President Donald Trump, Mr. Macron pointed to possible French recognition of a Palestinian state in the coming months. But that recognition is linked to some Arab countries recognizing Israel with the mutual recognition to take place in connection with a conference at the United Nations in New York in June... It appears that Mr. Macron is a silent partner in events that could involve military action against Iran in the coming months that may...

The French have been here before. In 1804, First Consul Napoléon Bonaparte, the Emmanuel Macron of his day (a short guy married to an older woman), ordered the seizure of a perceived political threat to his regime, the Duc d'Enghien. When Joseph Fouché, Minister of Police, learned that M le Duc had been executed in a moat, he observed, "C'est pire qu'un crime, c'est un faute" - it's worse than a crime, it's a mistake. (The remark is often attributed to Talleyrand, but I incline to Fouché.) Yet the cynical police chief was wrong: two months later the First Consul...

Volodymyr Zelensky rejected Emmanuel Macron's proposal to station a United Nations mission in Ukraine. "The UN will not protect us from occupation or Putin's desire to re-enter," stated the President of Ukraine. Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky expressed skepticism about Emmanuel Macron's proposal for a UN mission, emphasizing that it would not replace the European military contingent. Zelensky noted that the UN cannot protect Ukraine from Russian aggression, which he emphasized during a press conference with Czech President Petr Pavel.emphasized during a press conference with Czech President Petr Pavel Czech President Petr Pavel declared his country's readiness to participate in a...

Last Sunday Premier Francois Bayrou said there's no turning back when it comes to age 64 as the new standard for pensions. Bayrou saying there will be no return to age 62. A previous government of President Emmanuel Macron pushing the change to age 63 by 2030 through in the name of saving money. Now with increased defense spending a certainty Bayrou's statement a reflection of the position... France's self-reliant nuclear deterrence (Unlike British dependence on US technology) being expanded to include a fourth nuclear weapons base...

This week National Rally President Jordan Bardella saying he wants to see a French version of Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency.... Meanwhile the National Rally's leader in the National Assembly and leading 2027 presidential candidate Marine Le Pen worries about the exclusion of Calin Georgescu from Romania's presidential election... 200 percent tariffs on French wine. The idea presented by President Trump... On Saturday afternoon in Paris a live video stream of protest labeled "Les Gilets Jauns Historiques"... A video conference of leaders from the UK and Europe this weekend on Ukraine. Emmanuel Macron saying that Russia: "does not give...

Amid the drama over the Ukraine War and the resulting push for more European defense spending in line with US President Donald Trump's demands France's defense minister dramatizing an encounter in the eastern Mediterranean... On Wednesday night President Emmanuel Macron brought the notion of a Russian threat to Europe out in the open with blistering comments designed to promote both a European military buildup and the notion of 'peacekeeping troops' in Ukraine... But what is the real endgame of a French-European defense buildup? Russia and Ukraine played up the gravity of the Ukraine War stressed. But those questioning the war...

"Donald Trump reacts only to the wallet, the money" This week former French President Socialist Francois Hollande saying that US President Donald Trump needs to be hit financially. Hollande calling for France and Europe to be 'on the front line"... The differences over the Ukraine War had visible moments as President Emmanuel Macron visited the White House Monday meeting with President Donald Trump. The two leaders in front of the cameras had moments when the hands were carrying a message... Mr. Trump and Vice-President JD Vance confronted Ukraine's President... Macron affirming support for the war and polices related to it...

French President Emmanuel Macron is due to meet Donald Trump in Washington later, the first one-on-one meeting between the pair since the US president re-entered the White House. Macron said in a social media Q&A that he would warn Trump against appearing weak to Russian President Vladimir Putin.

So, does anyone want to buy a used war, and take it over? I can't think why they would do so. You might as well rush to obtain an unexploded bomb, or a leaking canister of some horrible virus. Whatever has come over the leaders of Europe, jostling to keep the Ukraine war going when it might at last be ending? This moronic, needless conflict has done this continent nothing but harm. As an event, it is horrible, a hellish panorama of innocent people shivering without electricity in half-ruined cities, broken homes, broken hearts and broken bodies, hospitals crammed with...

French President Emmanuel Macron and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer will visit Washington next week, amid other meetings aimed at bringing an end to Russia's war in Ukraine, U.S. national security advisor Mike Waltz said on Wednesday. Asked about the chances of reaching a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine, Waltz told Fox News in an interview: "We're engaging on all sides, and then the next step is we're going to put technical teams forward to start talking more details."

European leaders will hold an emergency summit on Ukraine Monday amid growing concern that the Trump administration’s push to work with Russia to end the war has left them isolated.The continent has been scrambling to respond after US President Donald Trump announced negotiations would begin “immediately” on ending the conflict following a phone call with Russia’s Vladimir Putin, and Trump’s Russia-Ukraine envoy Keith Kellogg saying Europe would not be involved.The summit was confirmed by the Elysée Palace, which said French President Emmanuel Macron would hold an “informal” meeting Monday with “the heads of government of Germany, the United Kingdom, Italy,...

Major employers in France hiring fewer people this year. 153,000 as opposed to... An Artificial Intelligence summit brought world leaders to Paris this week including India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US Vice-President JD Vance. The United States and United Kingdom refusing to sign an international agreement... Mr. Vance made a passionate speech concerning the threat to Europe 'from within' Friday in Munich... It appears the Trump Administration challenge to France's existing government comes from indirect sources like the online influencer Candace Owens who continued her series online this week critical of President Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte... On...

In spite of using Article 49.3 to force through budget legislation Premier Francois Bayrou survived censure motions thanks to the Socialists and National Rally declining to support them. A large faction of... The online trolling of French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife-former teacher Brigitte kept up this week by influencer Candace Owens who separated from the Conservative Media subculture as an alleged Antisemite... the first Mirage 2000 warplanes were delivered to Ukraine... And France's aircraft carrier "Charles De Gaulle" joining US and Japanese carriers in a show of force opposite China... On Friday former French President Nicolas Sarkozy shaking...

This week French President Emmanuel Macron announcing major renovations to the world-renowned Louvre museum in Paris... Plenty of excitement about the notion of French troops going to Greenland. France's Foreign Minister Jean Noel-Barrot broaching the idea... Interviewed by the "LCI' news channel this week Marine Le Pen, leader of the National Rally (RN) in the National Assembly and leading presidential candidate for 2027, urging dissolution of the assembly. Le Pen pushing for the notion that President Macron should dissolve the assembly so new elections can be held with proportional representation in the mix...' In Brittany on Friday morning police discovered...