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Jean-Luc Mélenchon and the left see an opening to take the presidency next year. The riots in France turned even uglier on the weekend, spreading across the country and including brazen acts of violence. We’ve explained the underlying fiscal and political woes behind the crisis, but the news this time is the pre-election play by far-left candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon. Heretofore Mr. Mélenchon, head of the far-left Indomitable France party, had taken a somewhat detached attitude to the protests. But this weekend he participated in protests in Paris. He also blamed police for “unleashing” on protesters, while condemning looting and arson....

Newly-revealed Hamas document details plans to plant explosives near displaced civilians, triggering panic and allowing terrorists to escape advancing IDF forces. The IDF has revealed an internal document belonging to the Hamas terrorist organization detailing plans to plant explosive devices in areas of displaced persons camps in the Gaza Strip. "This was part of Hamas’ preparations to protect its leadership and operatives and evacuate them from areas where the IDF was expected to operate, while endangering and exploiting the civilian population in the area, fully aware that these actions were likely to cause direct harm to civilians," the IDF emphasized....

Italy, like France, witnessed a day of protests on Saturday — several turning violent — as some Italian politicians blamed the extreme left for the lawlessness. Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni took to social media to condemn the unrest and back law enforcement. Meloni wrote on X: "Once again, the women and men of the Law Enforcement Forces have had to face the violence of criminals who, even through organized groups, exploit demonstrations to seek confrontation and sow chaos," she posted.

Violence broke out across France on Saturday during the latest day of demonstrations against education standards and the cost of living.At least 1,200 people were arrested during what the French government described as an "escalation in violence" alongside an estimated 550,000 taking to the streets.In Paris, there were significant clashes into the evening with riot police, who used tear gas and water cannon on crowds.Buildings were set alight in the capital and other areas, including in Limoges where a large fire in the town hall caused the roof to partly collapse.Looting broke out in several cities, with widespread vandalism targeted...

More than half of adults in thousands of neighbourhoods across England and Wales are on out-of-work benefits, a report has found The common denominator in these counties is Deindustrialization, structural economic decline, and a post-pandemic surge in health and incapacity-related benefits (such as Personal Independence Payments or PIP) that keep working-age adults permanently out of work.

A beloved bronze statue of explorer Matthew Flinders has been cut down and stolen from a Mornington Peninsula park, leaving locals furious. The bronze statue at the entrance to Mornington Park was cut off at the ankles on Monday night in an attack similar to several others carried out by far-left extremist anti-Australian vandals in Melbourne in recent years. “It is with great sadness to announce that the Matthew Flinders bronze statue in Mornington, Victoria, has been destroyed by mindless, uneducated cancel culture vandals. I can’t begin to describe how angry this makes me feel right now,” one local said...

...GeoMatch’s published funding roster names Google.org, the Rockefeller Foundation, and Schmidt Futures. Technology money and major foundations have helped build a system that recommends where refugees should settle.... ...The donor-funded work also extends into collecting evidence to improve the system. GitLab Foundation’s published portfolio lists a $100,000 grant for the U.S. GeoMatch pilot and a separate $50,000 grant to deepen evaluation. The latter describes tracking employment and quality of life up to 240 days after arrival, improving the algorithm, and supporting agencies’ reporting to the State Department....

The Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Refugee Resettlement released a memo Thursday that identified six different types of fraud in the Biden administration's Unaccompanied Alien Children program. The office is responsible for vetting potential sponsors for the unaccompanied minors before releasing them to that individual's care. The Department of Homeland Security refers unaccompanied minors to the ORR's care for vetting when they arrive at the northern and southern borders and 479,000 UACs were referred to the office between 2021 and 2024. The HHS’ Office of the General Counsel and ORR said it has identified six types of...

House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan is investigating how the United Nations is working with the Biden administration to “fast-track” thousands of migrants into the United States as the country reels from the ongoing border crisis.Jordan demanded the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the International Organization for Migration (IOM), which are each part of the UN, hand over documents showing how they have coordinated with the Biden administration to resettle thousands of foreign nationals into the U.S., according to two letters obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation on Thursday. Both the UNHCR and the IOM work with...

U.S. officials charged an Uzbek citizen in Idaho with providing bomb-making knowledge and other support to an Islamist militant group, knowing that it would be used in an attack, authorities said on Thursday. Fazliddin Kurbanov, 30, a national of Uzbekistan living legally in Idaho, was arrested in Boise and faces a three-count grand jury indictment in Idaho and a single-count indictment in Utah, prosecutors said. They said Kurbanov provided information and money to the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, which the United States has designated as a foreign terrorist organization. The group supports establishing strict Islamic rule in Uzbekistan. Authorities said...

Mosquito bites can be more than a nuisance this summer — they can make you sick. Florida has become a hotbed for mosquito-borne diseases, reporting hundreds of cases of dengue fever, chikungunya fever, and even West Nile virus. The state leads the nation in dengue cases this year with 270 reported. Increasingly, residents aren’t just acquiring the virus while traveling abroad — they are getting bitten right at home. Mosquito control experts note that peak dengue season runs from July through September. As many as 111 people as of early September have contracted locally acquired dengue in six Florida counties...

Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., has suggested that churches and family members of refugees could sponsor and fund people's relocations, as he calls for an end to federal welfare benefits for refugees, some of whom remain on benefits long-term.Paul appeared on Fox News’ “The Will Cain Show” Tuesday to discuss separate lawsuits filed by major American cities and 22 states over a pending rule that seeks to prevent immigrants who would be dependent on government assistance from entering the U.S. “We actually have laws on the books that [say] if you come here illegally, you’re not supposed to be eligible for...

The United Nations has decided that Britain has not grovelled enough. After years of toppled statues, boarded-up war memorials and official lectures about “colonialism,” a UN human-rights committee now wants the country that ended the Atlantic slave trade to fill its public squares with statues of “people of African descent,” The globalist body also suggests Britain should rewrite what children are taught, and treat historic slavery as a live brief for migration policy and hate-speech enforcement. This comes in the form of formal “reparatory justice” guidance from the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, published six months after...

Police were slow to react to an "exceptionally well organised" protest that ground the Port of Dover to a halt for hours, a council boss has said. Kevin Mills, who leads Dover District Council, told the BBC that demonstrators "caught several agencies on the hoof" when they arrived on Saturday. Hundreds of masked men chanting "stop the boats" blocked roads, causing miles of tailbacks and preventing access to the port. Kent Police is yet to comment, but cabinet minister Jonathan Reynolds said officers "did deal with it swiftly". Mills said the force "appeared to be quite slow to keep the...

The mass deportations come amid rising tensions between Algeria and its southern neighbours, all now led by military juntas that ousted elected governments previously aligned with Algiers.Authorities in Algeria have rounded up more than 1,800 migrants and left them at the border with Niger in a record expulsion earlier this month, a migrant rights group has said. Alarmphone Sahara, which monitors migration across the region, said the migrants were bussed to a remote desert area known as "Point Zero" after being apprehended in Algerian cities. Abdou Aziz Chehou, the group’s national coordinator, said that 1,845 migrants without legal status...

Hundreds of police officers from across England have been drafted in to restore order in Middlesbrough amid fears the town is on the brink of descending into a gang war. Violence, believed to be linked to five young men who were killed in a wrong-way crash on the A66 on Saturday, has spiralled across Teesside. This afternoon, armed police swarmed a house on the Bankfield estate in Eston after a 39-year-old man was injured in a stabbing. A house was also rammed by a vehicle this morning in South Bank. The suspected knife attack took place just down the road...

Some violent crimes have seen the number of foreign suspects triple. A forensic science police van drives towards the scene in an allotment complex in the western Spandau district of Berlin on July 26, 2026, where the chief suspect in the previous nights’ deadly attack near Berlin’s Pride parade was shot dead. JOHN MACDOUGALL / AFP. According to official German government data, the number of foreign suspects in violent crimes have skyrocketed in Germany, since the start of the century. The number of foreigners accused of homicide increased by 77.1% between 2000 and 2025, while the increase in suspected sexual...

The suspect is only 16 years old, but police determined his level of radicalization has reached an advanced stage. Italian police officers display a confiscated Islamic State (IS) flag during a press conference at the police headquarters in Romeo n January 10, 2017. - TIZIANA FABI / AFPA 16-year-old Italian of immigrant background has been arrested on suspicion of supporting ISIS and spreading jihadist propaganda, after investigators allegedly found a large collection of extremist material on his computer, including videos showing how to build an improvised explosive device. The teenager was arrested by Milan police in Grosseto, where he was...

Temporary protected status (TPS) for hundreds of South Sudanese nationals in the United States is set to end after a federal judge ruled that the Trump administration can move forward with stripping their protections. On Friday, US district judge Patti Saris of the district of Massachusetts rejected an attempt by immigrant rights organizations including the New York-based African Communities Together to keep TPS for South Sudanese nationals living in the US. Saris’s decision follows a 6-3 supreme court ruling in June allowing the Trump administration to strip hundreds of thousands of Haitians and Syrians of TPS, which granted them permission...

Cases of leprosy are on the rise in Florida, and health officials are linking many cases to exposure to a specific animal. As of July 23, Florida’s Department of Health reported 17 cases statewide, with 81 percent in Central Florida, according to NewsNation affiliate WFLA. The heaviest concentration of cases has been reported in Volusia, Brevard, Lake, Orange and Seminole counties. Last year, Florida had 36 cases, a record high since reporting began in 1992. At least 26 of those cases were contracted in Florida, one was contracted out of state, and two were contracted outside the country. Where the...