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Paris (AFP) – A loosely federated network of scientists in more than two dozen countries plan acts of civil disobedience starting this week to highlight the climate crisis, members of Scientist Rebellion told AFP. Their non-violent actions are timed to the release Monday of a landmark report from the UN's climate science advisory panel laying out options for slashing carbon pollution and controversial schemes for extracting CO2 from the air, they said in interviews. Scientist Rebellion targets universities, research institutes and major scientific journals, prodding them and their staff to speak out more forcefully on what they describe as the...

French President Emmanuel Macron has warned against verbal "escalation" with Moscow after his US counterpart Joe Biden described Russian President Vladimir Putin as a "butcher." "I would not use those words," Macron said in an interview with broadcaster France 3. The French president stressed that "everything must be done to stop the situation from escalating" if there is to be any hope in stopping Russia's war in Ukraine. Macron told France 3 he saw his task as "achieving first a cease-fire and then the total withdrawal of (Russian) troops by diplomatic means. If we want to do that, we can't...

On Monday, Western NATO allies France and Germany tamped down President Biden’s Saturday assertion that regime change is needed in Russia, a statement the White House immediately retracted. Nevertheless, world leaders felt the need to respond to Biden’s statement by suggesting his words “could make it harder to resolve the conflict,” the Associated Press reported.

Archaeologists working to restore Paris’s fire-damaged Notre Dame cathedral have discovered something remarkable: previously unknown tombs hidden beneath the 850-year-old Gothic church. Workers made the discovery while installing ground-level scaffolding to help rebuild the church’s fallen spire, according to a statement from the French Ministry of Culture. When they realized that there was something buried at the spot where the transept crosses the nave, the cathedral called in the Institute for Preventive Archaeological Research to investigate. What they found were several tombs and a leaden sarcophagus, probably dating to the 14th century. “The floor of the transept crossing has revealed...

Multiple reports Monday hinted the White House is weighing a trip for President Joe Biden to Europe amid the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine. The plan, which is still being finalized, calls for Biden to meet with other leaders from the NATO alliance in Brussels on March 23, said three of the sources as cited by Reuters.

The French have long been known as trendsetters and purveyors of fine fashion, but it appears that President Emmanuel Macron has started taking style tips from the most in-vogue European leader. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has become an instantly recognisable figure amid the Russian invasion of his country, and has spent the past three weeks clad in simple khaki hoodies, jackets and t-shirts as he co-ordinates his country's defences. The Ukrainian leader has understandably ditched the suit and tie that would typically befit a head of state for more utilitarian attire as he splits his time between the presidential palace...

France lifted most COVID-19 restrictions on Monday, abolishing the need to wear face masks in most settings and allowing people who aren’t vaccinated back into restaurants, sports arenas and other venues. The move had been announced earlier this month by the French government based on assessments of the improving situation in hospitals and following weeks of a steady decline in infections. It comes less than a month before the first round of the presidential election scheduled on April 10. But in recent days, the number of new infections has started increasing again, raising concerns from some scientists it may be...

The European Parliament voted on Thursday morning in favor of imposing sanctions on Hungary and Poland, its two member states that have received the largest number of Ukrainian refugees following the invasion by Russia on Feb. 24. (snip) In January 2021, the EU introduced the Rule of Law Conditionality Mechanism which provided a tool whereby the Commission could refuse to release EU funds to national governments who they considered to be in breach of the common rule of law.In essence, it means that if conservative countries dissent against the liberal European mainstream on how to govern — for example, Hungary’s...

Tuesday was an unsatisfactory day at the Special Criminal Court in Paris, where those suspected of involvement in the November 2015 terrorist attacks are being tried. The Belgian police investigation has never identified the source of the weapons used in the killings. It was hoped that Tuesday's three Dutch witnesses might provide some clarity. They did not. There were technical problems, legal problems, language problems. Prison 'friction' First of all, there were two prisoners missing from the ranks of the accused. We've become used to the absence of Osama Krayem, who has been boycotting the trial since November. On Tuesday,...

MEMRI (@MEMRIReports) Tweeted:#ICYMI: Yemen Friday Sermon by Houthi Scholar Hamdi Ziad: "We Ask Allah that the War in Europe Does Not Stop; Paris, London, Berlin Will Be Destroyed."

The Russian rouble plunged nearly 20% to a new record low versus the dollar on Monday and the euro sank more than 1% after Western nations announced a harsh set of sanctions to punish Russia for its invasion of Ukraine, including blocking some banks from the SWIFT international payments system. read more The risk-sensitive Australian and New Zealand dollars also tumbled, while the safe-haven yen rallied as Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered his military command to put nuclear-armed forces on high alert on Sunday, the fourth day of the biggest assault on a European state since World War Two. The...

It's been terribly disappointing, both inside and outside of America, to see police forces rally to enforce tyrannical, unprincipled, and often illegal or unconstitutional government responses to COVID. Perhaps we shouldn't be surprised — the various governments pay their salaries — but, given that the governments are made up of the same leftist elitists who five decades ago called police "pigs," many of us expected more from our police. I can tell you, though, that one thing that none of us expected, and that's to see police marching peacefully alongside Parisians who were protesting COVID restrictions and vaccine passports. Once...

Around 7 p.m this Sunday evening, the police are present at certain strategic entrances to Brussels. It screens vehicles in order to prevent the planned gatherings of the so-called "freedom convoys."....

There have been a lot of protesters against vaccine mandates around the world, but the truckers and protesters of the Freedom Convoy in Canada have reenergized the effort around the world. The Freedom Convoy at the Ambassador Bridge in Windsor, Ontario, voted to remain, after a court injunction came down yesterday saying they had to leave.We’re watching what’s happening as the police continue to creep in slowly on the protesters at the Ambassador Bridge. The police in Windsor have made a mistake by waiting and not cutting off more people from coming in.Initially, when they started moving on them earlier,...

French police have squared off with thousands of protesters attempting to establish a Canadian-style convoy in Paris in response to the draconian coronavirus measures that Emmanuel Macron’s government has imposed upon the country. A little over a month after President Macron infamously announced that he wanted to “piss off” the unvaccinated people in France by introducing full-on vaccine passports in the country, over 3,000 vehicles have attempted to enter Paris to demand an end to the Covid regime. It is not clear at the time of writing how many vehicles of them actually made it into the city, as police...

Protesters angry over pandemic restrictions are driving toward Paris in scattered convoys of camper vans, cars and trucks to blockade the French capital despite a police ban French convoys protesting virus rules move toward ParisThe Associated PressPARIS PARIS (AP) — Protesters angry over pandemic restrictions drove toward Paris in scattered convoys of camper vans, cars and trucks Friday in an effort to blockade the French capital, despite a police ban. From the Mediterranean coast to the northern city of Lille, the protesters organized their “freedom convoys” online, galvanized in part by truckers who have blockaded Canada’s capital and blocked border...

Bernie's Tweets @BernieSpofforth PARIS - Armoured vehicles arriving in Paris, to be used against citizens protesting mandates and vaccine passports. When a government turns on its own civilians, it has no moral authority to remain.

And tonight with Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau saying "everything is on the table" and a State of Emergency set to begin in Ontario where the Sarnia, Windsor and Ottawa Freedom Convoy protests are taking place at Midnight local time less than an hour from now we await what comes next but here is a roundup of Freedom Convoy News from Canada and other nations tonight. News Alert: French Police Ban Freedom Convoy In Paris, Promise Fines And Jail Late Friday night the scene in Troyes, France just over 100 miles from Paris as a Freedom Convoy prepared to leave......

Atomic energy provides about 70% of French electricity, and low-cost nuclear power has been a mainstay of the French economy since the 1970s, but recent attempts to build new-generation reactors to replace older models have become mired in cost overruns and delays. Presidential candidates on the right have supported more nuclear power plants saying France should have “sovereignty” over its electricity, while detractors on the left have warned of the cost and complexity of building new reactors. Environmentalists have raised safety concerns over radioactive waste that remains deadly for tens of thousands of years. Macron said French nuclear regulators were...

The Belgian authorities have decided to ban the "freedom convoy" which was to connect Paris to Brussels to protest against health restrictions. The Belgian authorities decided Thursdsy to prohibit access to Brussels of the "Convoy of Freedom", a demonstration for which no authorization was requested, announced the burgomaster (mayor) of the Belgian capital, Philippe Close... Convoys also prohibited in Paris Thousands of motorists took to the road in Wednesday from Paris, Nice, Bayonne and even Perpignan to demonstrate peacefully against government policy and in particular the vaccination pass. In the same way, the prefect of Paris announced to prohibit in...