Yellow Vests

PARIS: France will withdraw from use an explosive tear gas grenade used by riot police and blamed for injuring numerous protesters, the interior minister said Sunday, amid growing anger at perceived police brutality. Sanctioned for use by French law enforcem…

Paris (AFP) - France will withdraw from use an explosive tear gas grenade used by riot police and blamed for injuring numerous protesters, the interior minister said Sunday, amid growing anger at perceived police brutality.Sanctioned for use by French law enforcement since 2011, the GLI-F4 grenade explodes with a loud,…

UK20:24 GMT 25.01.2020(updated 14:50 GMT 26.01.2020) Get short URLThe rally, which took place outside of one of the UK's largest high-security prisons outside London, saw hundreds of protesters from across Europe and beyond speak out against the Wikileaks founder's imprisonment and potential extradition to the United States.Hundreds of demonstrators from…

Today, hundreds of “yellow vests” from France and protesters from other countries across Europe, including Belgium and Britain, are protesting outside Belmarsh maximum security prison in London to demand the freeing of WikiLeaks founder and journalist Julian Assange. A principled and courageous journalist whose revelations exposed imperialist crimes against humanity…

It's another wonderful case of Elon Musk telling the world "do as I say, not as I do"... Emboldened by the success of Tesla's Gigafactory 3 in Shanghai (i.e. it caused a short squeeze in the stock), the company is now pushing non-stop to get its Gigafactory 4, which will be…

Authored by Diana Johnstone via The Unz Review, The people are angry with their government. Where? Just about everywhere... So what makes ongoing strikes in France so special? Nothing, perhaps, except a certain expectation based on history that French uprisings can produce important changes – or if not, can at…

French transport users breathed a sigh of relief on Monday as services went back to normal after 46 days of uninterrupted strikes over the controversial pension reforms.Yet a number of incidents over the past few days suggest that the social movement has all but come to an end.On Monday, hardline…

January 20, 2020 7:25AM PT One of the widest-selling titles at the UniFrance Rendez-Vous, a showcase of French cinema that wraps Monday, is Claus Drexel’s “Under the Stars of Paris.” The French-German speaks to Variety about the pic and his upcoming prostitution documentary “The Amazons.” “Under the Stars of Paris”…

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Pop-punkers Sum 41 canceled two Paris concerts after an explosive device was detonated outside the venue — although event runners insist it was just firecrackers from city-wide protests, according to reports. “During load-in for tonight’s performance in Pari…