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The French Prime Minister narrowly avoided having his government collapsed for a second time in two weeks in a Parliamentary vote on Thursday, prompting the left-wing opposition to say they’ll try and impeach Emmanuel Macron directly to bring him down. Sébastien Lecornu, the now-two times French Prime Minister whose first government lasted just 12 hours last week faced two censure votes on Thursday morning — the French equivalent of a vote of no confidence which, if passed in the National Assembly, dissolves the government — by a narrow margin. Rebels needed 289 votes in the house of 577 and fell…
Transgender-identifying male swimmer Lia Thomas surfaced to double down on his trans activism and accept an award at an LGBTQ+ event sponsored in part by the Los Angeles Dodgers and Los Angeles Football Club. “On Thursday night in Los Angeles, the former UPenn swimmer, born William Thomas, arrived at the Serra on Vine, wearing a purple dress and stilettos — standing about 6-foot-5 — to accept the ‘Voice of Inspiration Award’ at the 2025 Violet Visionary Awards,” reported OutKick, which attended the 2025 Violet Visionary Awards organized by the nonprofit Rainbow Labs. Thomas took the stage to accept the award…
Purchases will be of “all types and altitudes” and will include defense and attack UAVs, Defense Minister Boris Pistorius has said Germany plans to spend €10 billion ($10.8 billion) in the coming years to massively expand its fleet of military drones, Defense Minister Boris Pistorius has said.The plan comes amid EU discussions of a “drone wall” – a proposed network of air defense and surveillance systems to counter alleged Russian threats. The German UAV acquisitions are part of a broader militarization drive across the bloc, with Berlin taking a leading role.Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of the NATO defense…
Trump, Zelensky, Putin, and Orbán: peace process has been jump-started again. Trump is focused on the fact that ‘peace is the prize’. On the eve of his arrival in Washington DC for a meeting with Donald J. Trump, Kiev regime leader Volodymyr Zelensky’s world turned upside down. The US President’s consequential phone call with Russia’s Vladimir Putin and the announcement of a meeting between the two in Hungary has shown Zelensky – and the world – the real face of the Trump administration on the Ukraine war. The prospect of Zelensky getting the Tomahawk missiles has become very distant, and…
Following reports of former New York Times editor and the Free Press founder Bari Weiss being appointed editor-in-chief of CBS News, editors on Wikipedia began negatively slanting her page and those of CBS and the Free Press. This includes attempting to label Weiss as right-wing and slanted edits about a CBS settlement with President Donald Trump. Some suggested blacklisting CBS as a source in the future. News about Weiss being appointed to leadership at CBS News first emerged on October 2 with the official announcement on October 6. The newly-merged parent company Paramount Skydance further announced its purchase of her…
AFP — Swedish prosecutors on Thursday sought the arrest a young Syrian man for killing Salwan Momika, who repeatedly burned copies of the Koran in 2023 and sparked outrage in the Muslim world. Momika, an Iraqi Christian, was shot on January 29 in an apartment in Sodertalje, south of Stockholm. He died soon after in hospital. “We have a clear picture of the sequence of events, and following extensive technical investigations and a review of the collected surveillance footage, we have requested that a person be remanded in custody,” senior prosecutor Rasmus Oman said in a statement. Oman added that…
President Donald Trump meets with Ukrainian Volodymyr Zelensky at the White House on Friday, October 17. Trump announced he will be meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Budapest after a phone call between the two leaders. The president continues to try to broker an end to the war between Russia and Ukraine, warning Putin recently he may provide Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine if the conflict isn’t resolved. Read the full article here
The Slovak prime minister has urged Brussels to stop ignoring the bloc’s ‘enormous economic and political problems’ The European Union’s constant focus on Ukraine is masking its inability to confront the bloc’s “fundamental” problems, Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico said in a post on X.At the European Council (EC) summit next week, EU leaders are expected to focus on defense spending, military cooperation, and continued support for Kiev.On Wednesday, Fico said he was “more and more convinced” that by “constantly discussing Ukraine, we in the EU are covering up our inability to deal with our most fundamental challenges and problems”…
Andrew has fallen. The inevitable has happened. After decades of public humiliations and scandals, the younger brother of British King Charles III has finally thrown in the towel. Prince Andrew announced today (17) that he is giving up his titles, including the Duke of York. BBC reported: “He has been under increasing pressure over his links with sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, with calls for the Palace to take action against him. That now seems to have resulted in the prince deciding to voluntarily hand back his titles and to give up membership of the Order of the Garter. In his…
I see a lot of young people in my practice. You know, the kids just out of university and setting out to make their mark in the world. They seem to have a very narrow focus. Get through school and training as effortlessly as possible, find a career that pays really well with little hard work required, and walk as narrow a line as possible by avoiding anything that isn’t part of the mainstream. I remember when I was a young person (a million years ago), it was simply not like that. Sure, people have wanted money for a long…