Tag: France

Again today, people gathered in public areas in Paris to protest a highly controversial change to France’s retirement age that was passed by Emmanuel Macron’s government using special constitutional power that forced it through parliament. Since last night, protesters have fought police with fireworks and stones. Riot police responded with the...

After weeks of protests and weeks of debate in Parliament, French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne yesterday announced that President Macron was invoking Article 49.3 of the French constitution in order to pass the Pension Reform Bill, which allows the government to force a bill through without a vote from...

Following a vote from a Corsican court in Bastia, the use of the native Corsican language will be banned in all public offices, institutions, and ceremonies, sparking unrest in a region already fraught with protests and anti-French sentiment. While the ruling is in line with the French constitution in that...

Update (0844 EST): According to William Molinié, terrorism has been ruled out as a motive for the attack and the suspect used a 10cm king knife. https://twitter.com/europe1/status/1628356658815541248?s=46&t=fhcujmNnvQWvmX2rl0of1w At approximately 0430 EST, reports began to emerge of a stabbing at the Saint Thomas d’Aquin Middle School in Saint-Jean-de-Luz, France. https://twitter.com/prefet64/status/1628336253342044161?s=46&t=j2PbB3OYQjDd5rE8DpRcdA By 0530 EST, local...

Microsoft’s Digital Threat Analysis Center (DTAC) reported on Friday that Iranian hackers accessed the personal information of more than 200,000 customers of the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo last month in retaliation for a cartoon contest for depictions of Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. https://twitter.com/Charlie_Hebdo_/status/1611057062141693954?s=20&t=VRb615HI3R7nM5I9_RJMBA According to DTAC, the Iranian hacker...

Last month there was a joint operation to seize weapons shipments to Yemen supposedly meant for the Houthi rebels. The weapons originated out of Iran and included machine guns, anti-tank missiles, and rifles. This seizure comes after a long line of findings tracing shipped weaponry back to Tehran. This joint...