Latest editorial
Travellers wait outside the Gare de Bordeaux Saint-Jean at the 2024 Summer Olympics, July 26, 2024, in Bordeaux, France
FRANCE’S high-speed rail network was hit on Friday with widespread and “criminal” acts of vandalism including arson attacks, paralysing travel to Paris from across the rest of France and Europe.
The attack came only hours before the opening ceremony of the Olympics and as workers took strike action at a five-star Paris hotel where Games officials are staying.
French officials condemned the rail arson attacks as “criminal actions,” though they said there was no sign of a direct link to the Games, and prosecutors in Paris opened a national investigation saying the crimes could carry sentences of 15 to 20 years.
Tehran retaliates with attacks on Israel, the Gulf Arab states and crude oil flows
DENNIS BROE gives an update on the last week of anti-austerity protests against the Macron regime, which has seen the supposedly more right-leaning Gilets Jaunes join with the unions and the left
Meanwhile, over 110 human rights organisations and trade unions demand the EU immediately suspend its trade agreement with Israel over its ‘egregious human rights abuses against Palestinians’