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On Tuesday President Emmanuel Macron accepting the resignation of his Prime Minister Gabriel Attal but asking Attal to stay on in a caretaker role. On the Left the ranks of the "New Popular Front" frayed and divided with debate and discussion about unity in general and the need to unify around a particular candidate for Prime Minister. On Thursday the forces of President Macron won the vote to select a President of the National Assembly... On Friday leading Leftist politician Jean-Luc Melenchon said the Socialist Party is standing in the way of him being nominated as the next Prime Minister......

Incredibly, President George W. Bush told French President Jacques Chirac in early 2003 that Iraq must be invaded to thwart Gog and Magog, the Bible's satanic agents of the Apocalypse. Honest. This isn't a joke. The president of the United States, in a top-secret phone call to a major European ally, asked for French troops to join American soldiers in attacking Iraq as a mission from God. Now out of office, Chirac recounts that the American leader appealed to their "common faith" (Christianity) and told him: "Gog and Magog are at work in the Middle East. ... The biblical prophecies...

French President Emmanuel Macron has officially accepted the resignation of his Prime minister Gabriel Attal. Emmanuel Macron has officially accepted the resignation of his Prime minister Gabriel Attal on Tuesday evening. Attal and his cabinet will remain in place during the upcoming Paris Olympics while a new head of government is nominated. The former prime minister and his cabinet will only be responsible as a caretaker government for ensuring the continuity of the state. In principle, no political measures can be taken during this interim period by the temporary government. Although this situation may work during the transition phase, it...

The Tour de France stepped up protective measures, to "limit health risks" in the face of a resurgence of Covid-19, which has affected several riders in recent days. Masks must now be worn by everyone, including organisers, guests and journalists, who may be "in contact with the riders and members of the cycling teams" before and after the stages, said organisers Amaury Sport Organisation (ASO). Several riders, including Britain's Tom Pidcock and Spain's Juan Ayuso, team-mate of yellow jersey Tadej Pogacar, have already retired after testing positive. Pogacar said before the start of the race that he had been affected...

US Central Command reporting destruction of five drones in Yemen and the Red Sea off the coast. The Houthi forces in Yemen launched attacks... The Biden Administration deciding to grant Secret Service protection to Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.... Three Israelis wounded by gunfire from Israeli soldiers late tonight. They were wrongly identified... In Paris a French soldier guarding the upcoming Olympic games stabbed. A suspect arrested... Ohio US Senator JD Vance has been selected as the Republican Vice-Presidential candidate... A Russian representative says Western nations seek to fabricate and allegation of chemical weapons use in Ukraine... Azerbaijan...

The right-leaning media and pundits are excited: Marine Le Pen’s party gained twice as many seats in recent French elections. The left-leaning media and commentariat are thrilled, too: Le Pen’s right-wing party won the popular vote but landed only third place in the French National Assembly. If both sides of the political spectrum are so enthusiastic, it could mean only one thing: something is missing here. The answer lies most likely in conflating two different political spectra: absolute and relative. Since Stalin proposed the modern relative political spectrum, it garnered popularity, and members of the Frankfurt School of socialism brought...

"although the far right came out on top in the first round with nearly 11 million votes, you clearly refused to allow it to enter the Government, In the end no one won..." That's part of the letter President Emmanuel Macron released Wednesday evening his first formal response to the National Assembly elections. Meanwhile on the Left the "New Popular Front" demanded the right to form a government by virtue of controlling 180 of the 577 seats... The Palestinian flags evident in today's protest. "Solidarity" with Palestinians advertised as a theme in today's demonstration. The Yellow Vests parade of a...

Paris? Its streets covered with homeless illegal-migrant encampments?Not for the Olympics, it isn't.According to the New York Times, President Macron has gone the full Potemkin Village ahead of the international television cameras filming Paris for the Olympics, which begin on July 24, sweeping the illegals out.The French government has put thousands of homeless immigrants on buses and sent them out of Paris ahead of the Olympics. The immigrants said they were promised housing elsewhere, only to end up living on unfamiliar streets far from home or flagged for deportation....Around the city over the past year, the police and courts have...

More military action around an inside Yemen in recent hours... Two weeks after the sudden death of his wife Rhonda Republican Congressman Thomas Massie of Kentucky returning to social media... A news conference this evening involving following a gaffe earlier in the day...during the conference Biden referencing Vice-President Kamala Harris as "Vice President Trump"... French politics on social media tonight Marine Le Pen of the National Rally saying RN members of the National Assembly will censure any government that includes... Russian Aerospace forces striking jihadist targets in northwestern Syria... NBC News quoting close allies of Joe Biden... NATO ratcheting up...

Emergency services remain at the scene as they work to successfully extinguish the blaze, the Mayor of Rouen, Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol said: "Start of fire in progress on the spire of the cathedral of @Rouen." "The origin of the fire is unknown at this stage. All public resources are mobilised. Thank you for facilitating their intervention." The cathedral spire was undergoing work which involved large scaffolding structures in place. "The construction site is complex because of this height with very large scaffolding structures," Richard Duplat, chief architect from Historic Monuments told Tendance Ouest. The local prefect - a state official -...

Paris — The famous medieval cathedral in the city of Rouen in western France was evacuated Thursday when a fire broke out in the spire. The Notre Dame of Rouen Cathedral is undergoing renovations and video from the scene showed thick smoke rising from the spire, which is partially covered in scaffolding. Fire trucks raced to the scene to save the cathedral, made famous by impressionist painter Claude Monet who depicted the imposing structure in a series of paintings in the 1890s.

The recent French election illustrated that elites will happily ally with left-wing radicals just to prevent the right from winning.After a promising first-round lead, France’s right-wing National Rally party came up short in the second round of the country’s legislative election. It ultimately came in third for seats in the National Assembly, France’s lower house, behind left-wing coalition New Popular Front (NFP) and French President Emmanuel Macron’s centrist alliance, Ensemble.More than 300 contests in the first round proceeded to a three-way runoff involving National Rally, the NFP, and Ensemble. If those three-way races had gone ahead, National Rally had a...

The story of both the UK and French elections is down to liberal establishments allying with and empowering the worst Islamists and Communists to come to power. (For that matter it’s the story of the Biden administration.) The difference between the UK and France though is that Labour appeared (to casual inspection) to have cleaned up its act enough that it was no longer a bunch of Marxists and Jihadists as it had been under Corbyn. But it didn’t take long to find out that it was the same bunch under the hood. In France, they didn’t even bother pretending....

For many years, I have testified and written about Antifa and its growing anti-free speech philosophy. Some Democratic leaders have embraced this violent movement, which continues to gain strength on campuses and its cities across the nation. It is also a global movement. That is reflected in the alarming election of Antifa candidates to the French National Assembly as well as the European Parliament. That is quite an accomplishment for a movement that President Joe Biden dismissed as “just an idea.”As discussed in my new book, “The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage,” I explore the history...

The French electoral system’s two-round structure, often criticized for favoring leftist coalitions over clear winners, contrasts with the simpler and more democratic single-round system of the UK, which would have given the National Rally approximately 295 deputies after the first round.

Baguettes, croissants, the Eiffel Tower, a “welfare system to die for,” vin et fromage à l'infini -- cliches are built on degrees of truth, but you can't live on them forever. There is no substitute for reality, and the French need a taste of it. Intoxicated by years of domestic and foreign policy success, Kierkegaard’s angst now grips the French elite; France under their tutelage is not faring well. And the person in the Elysee Palace? The French president is displaying his insecurity for all to see -- he is desperate to regain his image and what has been lost...

French criminal prosecutors today opened an investigation into ‘illegal financing’ by Marine Le Pen and her far-Right National Rally party. It followed them being beaten into third place in parliamentary elections held over the weekend. Judicial sources in Paris on Tuesday confirmed that the new criminal enquiry related to Ms Le Pen’s attempt to become President of France in 2022.

The surprise victory of the New Popular Front (NFP) in France's elections has set alarm bells ringing for the nation's wealthy as the hard-left alliance plans to roll out an eye-watering 90% income tax on high earners. Even before the election took place, financial advisers reported a huge influx of enquiries off the back of Emmanuel Macron's decision to call a snap election, with well-off French citizens considering a move to more fiscally favourable territories such as Italy, the historic tax haven of Switzerland, and Spain. But the victory of the NFP over Macron's centrists and the hard-right National Rally...

Political tensions in Israel tonight involving the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu... The political scene in the US Democrat Party strategist James Carville says there needs to be an open process including former Presidents...to select a replacement for Joe Biden... US, British and French warplanes violating Syrian airspace 12 times in the past day... The Biden Administration saying public statements from Israel and Hamas do not reflect the true state of the talks... Russian Foreign Minister spokeswoman Maria Zakharova saying she expects an accusation of chemical weapons use by Russia... "It's time for it to end" US politics Joe...

"Each one hopes that if he feeds the crocodile enough, the crocodile will eat him last," is how Winston Churchill, just months away from becoming Britain's wartime Prime Minister, described the appeasement that led to World War II. "All of them hope that the storm will pass before their turn comes to be devoured. " The same could be said of France's snap election, in which everyone from French Stalinists to the country's business interests banded together to defeat the country's "far right" at the polls. But the far right is not the threat, and the crocodile snapping at everyone's...