Author: Press Room
During a celebration on Sunday to honour Champions League victors Paris Saint-Germain, French President Emmanuel Macron condemned the “unacceptable scenes of violence” and mayhem across the country following the match on Saturday. The historic repeat win for PSG was marred by a repeat of widespread destruction by hordes of youths who rioted, set fires, clashed with police, and looted in cities and towns throughout France. During the chaotic evening, which was described by French paper of record Le Figaro as “bad remake of A Clockwork Orange” with a “Dantean atmosphere”, some 780 people were arrested, 219 were injured, including eight…
Türkiye’s long-awaited constitutional overhaul may ultimately determine far more than the president’s political future Earlier this month, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan used a ceremony marking the 158th anniversary of the Council of State and Administrative Justice Day to renew his call for a new constitution.At the heart of Erdogan’s speech was a simple but powerful claim: Türkiye’s last two constitutions – the 1961 and 1982 charters – were not the product of free popular will. Instead, they were imposed by military regimes that came to power through coups. As a result, Erdogan argued, neither constitution truly reflected the will…
Nigel Farage has announced that a Reform UK government would release all government files concerning the scourge of child rape grooming gangs, and quadruple the budget for investigating the scandal and the local officials and police who “enabled” the mass rape of English girls. Mr Farage said on Saturday that the “rape gangs scandal is the greatest state failure in British history” and therefore the government must take firm action to redress the dereliction of duty in areas of the country often controlled by the left-wing Labour Party. “Public bodies and politicians aided and abetted the mass rape and sexual…
Democrat Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner is being criticized online for letting his wife answer for the controversy surrounding recent reports about him. Platner shared a video featuring his wife, Amy Gertner, on Saturday evening wherein she responded to news articles about their marriage. She said they married in 2023 and “love each other deeply.” Gertner added she found it “shameful” that there was a “group of media outlets and people who are willing to spread gossip instead of talking about real issues that Graham is running on like health care, and education, and child care.” Gertner said they work…
(AP) — Ukraine launched fresh strikes on Russian energy sites overnight into Sunday, Russian authorities and media reported, while Kyiv denied Russian claims that a Ukrainian drone struck a key Kremlin-occupied nuclear plant. Drone debris set fire to a fuel storage facility in Russia’s southwestern Rostov region, Gov. Yuriy Slyusar reported on Telegram on Sunday. He said residents of nearby homes were evacuated. The drones also damaged civilian infrastructure in Saratov province, also in southwestern Russia, according to Gov. Roman Busargin. Astra, an independent Russian news channel, said an oil refinery was on fire in the regional capital, Saratov. Ukraine…
Paris has more pressing issues on the home front with chaotic celebrations of the PSG’s Champions League victory, Waleed Gadban has implied A senior Israeli diplomat has mocked Paris after it summoned an extraordinary UN Security Council meeting over West Jerusalem’s actions in Lebanon, pointing at France’s domestic troubles.Over the past few days, Israel has intensified its bombing campaign in the country and advanced deeper into Lebanese territory despite the purported ceasefire announced more than six weeks ago. The Israeli troops seized the Beaufort Castle, a 900-year-old Crusader fortress, while Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he had instructed the military…
LONDON (AP) – Scotland’s former First Minister Nicola Sturgeon defiantly rejected any blame Sunday for her estranged husband’s embezzlement of Scottish National Party funds, saying she wouldn’t apologize for his crimes. Sturgeon told the BBC that she felt betrayed by the actions of her husband, Peter Murrell, who last week pleaded guilty to stealing more than 400,000 pounds ($540,000) from the SNP to fund a lavish lifestyle when he was the party’s chief executive. She consistently denied having any knowledge of his crimes. “I am not responsible for the crimes that my former husband committed,” she told the BBC. “I’m…
Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) has created a legal defense fund after Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) accused him of misconduct and referred the matter to the Senate Ethics Committee, while his office denies wrongdoing and says he is cooperating with the investigation. NBC News reported that Sen. Ruben Gallego has set up the “Senator Ruben Gallego Legal Defense Fund,” according to an IRS filing, to help offset the cost of responding to the allegations. “Senator Gallego is under attack from right-wing conspiracy theorists like Anna Paulina Luna, the Trump Administration, and their cronies. This White House has made clear it…
The bloc seeks to keep the threshold – which Moscow has dismissed as illegal – at below $60 per barrel, the report claims The EU is mulling a temporary freeze on its price cap on Russian oil as the US-Israeli war against Iran led to soaring energy prices and global economic shock, Bloomberg reported on Sunday, citing sources.The proposed measure is part of the EU’s 21st sanctions package against Russia over the Ukraine conflict, which is set to be discussed in early June. Under the current oil price cap mechanism, Western entities are barred from handling Russian oil above the…
A survey has found that over seven in ten people in France believe that crime is “out of control”, with fears that the country is sliding towards a “Mexinization” in which public authority is destroyed. According to a poll this week from CSA for Le Journal du Dimanche, 72 per cent of French people believe that crime is out of control. This belief is firmest among supporters of the centre-right Républicains at 92 per cent, followed by 83 per cent of National Rally, and 62 per cent of supporters of President Emmanuel Macron’s neo-liberal bloc. The sentiment was also held…