Emma-Kate Symons

Watch Isabelle Adjani read from Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses in French as she accepted the César award for best actress in 1989. The year Islamists first slapped a (constantly renewed) fatwa on the renowned novelist, stabbed today in New York.

🚨🇫🇷 BREAKING : HITTLER WINS FRENCH LOCAL ELECTION DEFEATING ZIELINSKI ! The mayor of Arcis-sur-Aube, decorated for his support of ukrainian refugees, defeated Antoine Renault-Zielinski, candidate supported by pro-russian politician Florian Philippot. And yes, I'm serious.

Bonne nouvelle, la candidate socialiste Catherine Trautmann (désavouée par Olivier Faure !) est élu à Strasbourg face à la candidate écologiste soutenue par LFI.

Impressive win for the new Mayor of Paris Emmanuel Grégoire who with 53%+ of the vote saw off challenges from the right, extreme right extreme left to keep Paris a city led by the centre left Socialists - and keep cars away from the Seine! 🚲🚴🚴‍♀️

@PedderSophie ‘Alias Benito’ 😎

The RN has not won Marseille or Toulon or Nîmes, which it had hoped for. But Le Pen’s candidate, Eric Ciotti, from an allied right-wing party, has won Nice, 🇫🇷’s fifth-biggest city. Ciotti defected from the centre-right, making this Le Pen’s biggest municipal prize ever

Good news for Edouard Philippe’s 🇫🇷 presidential ambitions : this evening he has been re-elected mayor of Le Havre , with 47.7% of the vote

Résumé des municipales. Branlée pour LFI et le RN, qui s'y voyaient déjà. A voir Bompard pour les insoumis et Ballard pour le RN, on dirait les Belges quand ils perdent en foot contre la France (à quelques exceptions près, comme Nice et Roubaix).

Quand la gauche s’allie avec LFI, elle perd en conjuguant défaite et déshonneur. Une gauche républicaine, sociale, laïque et universaliste est encore possible.

It’s funny how almost the entire European far-right pretends Russia poses no threat to Europe—while attacking Brussels, the very institution that made Europe united and successful

FOR THE SECOND DAY IN A ROW, ISRAELI SETTLER POGROMS CONTINUE IN THE WEST BANK. More horrific footage from the Israeli settler pogrom in the village of Deir al-Hatab in the West Bank. Homes and vehicles were burned, and settlers opened fire on civilians, injuring at least nine people—one of them in critical condition.

BREAKING: Hundreds of Israeli settlers are gathering right now at the entrance to the village of Sinjil in the West Bank, preparing for a pogrom.

BREAKING: Hundreds of Israeli settlers are right now carrying out a pogrom in the village of Deir al-Hatab in the West Bank, setting homes and vehicles on fire and attempting to burn families alive. So far, at least seven people have been injured.

He has none of these things even in scarcity, which is why Orban is polling so far behind the challenger. A strange concatenation of geopolitics: Russia is interceding in the Hungarian election to help Orban, including with GRU officers in Budapest and an SVR-mooted fake assassination plot, even as Russia assists Iran with targeting packages in the Middle East. Yet Netanyahu follows Trump into helping a Russian client in Europe.

BREAKING: Iran threatening to launch missiles against Al Jazeera offices in Doha, Qatar for “propaganda”

Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu supports Orban, the enemy of Europe and friend of mass murderer Putin, in the Hungarian parliamentary elections: "I want to thank my friend Viktor Orban. He has been like a rock. We live in turbulent times. We need leaders who can stand up to this rising tide and guarantee security and stability for their countries. And Viktor Orban has that in abundance. I know many world leaders and can say that he is among the best. Viktor Orban stands for stability, security, and protection." Anyone who publicly blesses a Putin ally and EU destroyer in the midst of Russia's war of annihilation against Ukraine has forfeited any moral authority they ever claimed. Netanyahu is no longer "just" controversial. He has become an active accomplice of those who are undermining the democratic West from within—and all in the name of Israel's security. It's hard to imagine anything more tasteless, contradictory, and dangerous.

Avant / Après Rue de Calais dans le 9ème arrondissement de Paris. C'est sans doute historiquement l'arrondissement le plus minéral de la ville, mais de la nouvelle végétation apparaît ces dernières années dans les rues.

Is it a small minority taking advantage of the government being distracted, or benefiting from government complicity?

Avant / Après la rue aux écoles Rue de Jourdain dans le 20ème arrondissement de Paris, terminée récemment. Ce sera plus vert dans quelques années.

This is disgusting. While Israeli soldiers are risking their lives in Lebanon and over Iran, these thugs are taking advantage to attack random Palestinians in the West Bank. The reality is a sizeable minority of the coalition support this Jewish terrorism and the rest don't care enough to do anything about it.

I think we have a pretty serious problem. It is not the role of a NATO Secretary General to make political comments about a member state of the Alliance. It is even a sheer violation of his mandate, which requires complete neutrality. A stern warning is in order. #Daddy

Avant / Après la métamorphose de la Rue Mouton-Duvernet dans le 14ème arrondissement de Paris. C'est bien le même point de vue dans les deux photos, cf l'arbre à droite et les immeubles au fond !