Hundreds of people besieged supermarkets in and around Paris Thursday, with scuffles and shouting matches breaking out as residents scrambled to get their hands on bargain air-cooling units before the next heatwave hits the French capital. FRANCE 24’s Nicholas Rushworth reports. Source link
Israelis on Thursday held memorials and joined protests to mark 1,000 days since the deadly October 7 Hamas attack on Israel, which triggered the war in Gaza. Many Israelis are calling for an official inquiry into why the government failed to prevent the attack and how it handled the aftermath during which 251 hostages were … Read more
Multiple wildfires scorched southern France on Thursday after weeks of dry weather and record-high temperatures during the recent heat wave. According to local authorities, the largest fires spread in the Aude and Hérault regions. 800 firefighters and 150 vehicles were deployed to tackle the flames that spread over 900 hectares (2,200 acres). In the Pyrenees-Orientales … Read more
The Vatican excommunicated six bishops from the ultraconservative Society of St Pius X on Thursday, while warning that any lay believers who “formally adhere” to the fraternity would suffer the same fate. Reporting from Rome, FRANCE 24’s Seema Gupta explains that the breakaway group deny key tenets of the Catholic Church, specifically its modernization, interreligious … Read more
Police in Albania used tear gas and water cannon to break up protests on Thursday against a planned resort linked to US President Donald Trump’s family. It was the latest extension of the so-called “Flamingo Revolution”, which has seen almost daily protests against a major development backed by Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner in the ecologically … Read more
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky vowed Thursday to retaliate for Russia’s strikes on Kyiv that killed at least 21 people and wounded dozens, as he visited an apartment block partially destroyed in the attack. Asked by reporters whether Ukraine would retaliate, Zelensky replied: “Definitely”. FRANCE 24’s Antonia Kerrigan reports. Source link
An international rescue team pulled a man alive from a collapsed building on Thursday, eight days after two earthquakes shook Venezuela. Hernan Gil, 43, was working as a security guard at a seven-story building in Catia La Mar when part of the building collapsed, trapping him in his security booth under the debris. “When we … Read more
Almost 1.2 million undocumented migrants have applied for legal status in Spain, with more than 600,000 requests already being processed, figures released on Thursday show. Initial forecasts predict that around half a million applications will be successful. Source link
Andy Burnham, the former mayor of Greater Manchester, is likely to be the next British prime minister following Keir Starmer’s resignation. Central to Burnham’s platform is improving living standards that have stagnated or even fallen since the 2008 global financial crisis. But with weak public finances, how realistic is his plan? FRANCE 24’s Charles Pellegrin … Read more
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said his conservative CDU/CSU bloc and the center-left Social Democrats (SPD) had approved a “list of important reforms” to modernize the economy and restore competitiveness. The announcement was made at a news conference on Thursday, in which Merz was joined by SPD leaders Barbel Baas and Lars Klingbeil, as well as … Read more