France descended into chaos Wednesday as protests initiated by the "Block Everything" movement swept across the country, leaving hundreds arrested, vehicles torched, and cities paralyzed.
France descended into chaos Wednesday as tens of thousands flooded the streets in the nationwide “Block Everything” protests, demanding an end to deep budget cuts and denouncing President Emmanuel Macron’s embattled government. The mass unrest marked Sébastien Lecornu’s first day as prime minister—and it was nothing short of a political firestorm.
President Emmanuel Macron appointed Armed Services Minister Sébastien Lecornu as France’s new prime minister, less than 24 hours after the National Assembly voted out his predecessor, François Bayrou. The move marks Macron’s third prime ministerial appointment in a year, deepening concerns about France’s democratic direction and highlighting the president’s refusal to return power to the people through new elections.
France's debt is sparking political chaos as Prime Minister François Bayrou faces a likely vote of no confidence over budget cuts and a massive fiscal deficit.
Switzerland’s supreme court on Thursday dismissed an appeal by Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan, upholding his conviction for rape and sexual coercion. Ramadan, the grandson of Muslim Brotherhood founder Hassan al-Banna, had been sentenced by a Geneva appeals court in 2023 to three years in prison, two of which were suspended, for assaulting a woman in a Geneva hotel nearly two decades ago.
A Moroccan migrant in France is facing deportation and potential jail time after desecrating the country’s most sacred war memorial. The individual, identified as “Hamdi H.,” was filmed lighting a cigarette using the eternal flame at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier beneath the Arc de Triomphe in Paris.
Senior Hamas official Ghazi Hamad openly celebrated that fruits of October 7—the terrorist attack that murdered over 1,200 Israelis—are now producing political gains in the West.
France has halted all evacuations from Gaza after a scandal involving a student visa rocked its higher education system and exposed deep flaws in its immigration policy.
