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POLITICSOct 14Shettima dismisses Obi’s 2023 victory claim as ‘delusion of grandeur’The Vice President also criticised Obi's use of statistics in making economic comparisons, while arguing that policies cannot be transferred wholesale between countries with different circumstances. The post Shettima dismisses Obi’s 2023 victory claim as ‘delusion of grandeur’ appeared first on Vanguard News.Vanguard Nigeria
POLITICSOct 14Furious judge cites Dr. Seuss’s The Lorax as she stops Trump from tearing down trees at DC golf courseWorkers cut down and bulldozed hundreds of trees because the president ‘demands haste,’ according to Judge Ana C ReyesThe Independent World
POLITICSOct 14Sally Rooney books withdrawn in UK over Palestine Action supportThe Irish writer is best known for novels such as Normal People, Intermezzo and Conversations With Friends.BBC World
POLITICSOct 14King Felipe VI delivers a strong speech of support to the citizens of Melilla: "We are prepared to defend our values and our freedoms"Los monarcas han recorrido Ceuta y Melilla para apoyar a sus ciudadanos en un momento de zozobra migratoria. Para el cuidado mutuo de la vecindad con Marruecos pide "confianza y responsabilidad basadas en la buena fe" LeerEl Mundo
POLITICSOct 14AI in politics: Is Albania the EU’s testing ground?Albania is experimenting with artificial intelligence in politics.Al Jazeera [en]
POLITICSOct 14Sally Rooney books can’t be sold in UK amid Palestine Action ban, publisher saysIrish author Sally Rooney can no longer sell her books in the UK because of her support for the activist group Palestine Action, her publisher Faber said on Wednesday. Rooney has previously expressed her support for the group, which was banned as a “terrorist” organisation by the UK government in July 2025. It is not banned in Ireland, where Rooney lives. The proscription, which the organisation is appealing against, puts Palestine Action on the same blacklist as militant groups Hamas and...South China Morning Post
POLITICSOct 14The King, in Melilla: “We are prepared to defend our values and freedoms”Felipe VI cierra un histórico viaje a Ceuta y Melilla con claros mensajes a Marruecos tras la entrada masiva de más 80.000 personas en julio por la frontera del TarajalEl País
POLITICSOct 14President Zelensky meets King Charles IIIPresident of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky thanked King Charles III for the United Kingdom’s unwavering support for Ukraine during an audience with the monarch at Buckingham Palace.Ukrinform [en]
POLITICSOct 14A classroom revolt with deep rootsFRANCE’S protesting students have secured a government concession, but they are keeping the barricades up. A revolt over a lack of teachers and crumbling classrooms has become a larger argument about what that country owes its young people. On Oct. 9, student unions vowed to continue rallies even after the French government pledged to deploy about 3,000 qualified teachers to schools facing shortages. Reuters reported that 141 schools remained closed. For President Emmanuel Macron’s administration, the challenge is meeting demands for better education while containing public debt, Italian news magazine Internazionale said. At school gates, those competing priorities are apparent. In Sevran, a low-income Paris suburb, students described overcrowded classrooms, broken toilets and prolonged teacher shortages, The Guardian reported on Oct. 10. What officials discuss as spending choices, teenagers experience as painful realities. The protest movement began on Sept. 21 at Saint-Exupéry high school in Créteil, southeast of Paris, where teaching posts were unfilled, according to Le Monde. Students elsewhere recognized their own frustrations. Blockades spread, bringing demands for more staff, better buildings and relief from exhausting schedules. There was no single grievance neatly printed on every placard. That helped the movement travel: a school struggling with absent teachers could join another battling overcrowding, while students anxious about university admissions found space for their concerns, reported Le Monde. A government consultation offered a glimpse of that everyday discontent in schools. On Oct. 10, 70 percent of recorded complaints were about long days, disrupted sleep, and inadequate lunch breaks. Building conditions were the next major concern. Outside the classroom, protest was expressed in anger with the exuberance of adolescence. Le Monde’s account of the Oct. 8 demonstration at Paris’ Place de la Bastille described improvised dance contests and homemade signs. WhatsApp, Instagram and Signal helped students coordinate. Later, clashes and tear gas changed the atmosphere. The confrontation has also altered the movement’s emotional center. Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (Acled), the organization that tracks political violence and demonstrations, recorded more than 800 student-led protests between Sept. 28 and Oct. 2. Its analysis described attacks on police and property damage, alongside police actions that provoked outrage, including serious injuries to teenagers. Agence France-Presse reported on Oct. 6 that a teenager had lost a hand after police fired a stun grenade. Rights groups, unions and students accused authorities of disproportionate force. For protesters, the response to demands about schooling had become another reason to demonstrate. The French government, meanwhile, has condemned violence and accused far-left agitators of encouraging it. Reuters reported on Sept. 30 that Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez alleged that individuals were moving between schools to incite confrontations. Students interviewed by the agency described neglected facilities and unequal treatment. Those conflicting accounts do not obscure the distinction between peaceful protest, violence and responsibility for individual acts. Past confrontations In the past, France had encountered such generational confrontations. In May 1968, university unrest expanded into a nationwide crisis and nearly toppled the government. A rapidly growing student population confronted hierarchical institutions and an authoritarian social order. Police intervention at the Sorbonne University helped escalate the conflict; barricades rose in the Latin Quarter, and workers joined a general strike involving roughly 10 million people. That episode left an enduring image of students as agents of national change. But later movements often pursued more specific goals: protecting access to education or resisting insecurity at the start of working life. In December 1986, protests against university reforms were overshadowed by the death of student Malik Oussekine after police beat him. Le Monde reported the government’s withdrawal of the reform. The episode joined educational protest and police violence in a memory that still gives confrontations with the youth particular weight. Two decades later, students again helped force a retreat. The 2006 First Employment Contract, or CPE, would have allowed employers to dismiss workers under 26 years old without explaining why in a two-year trial period. France’s national audiovisual archive (INA) recounted how sustained opposition ended with the government abandoning the measure. Alongside these organized movements were eruptions of anger in disadvantaged suburbs following deaths involving encounters with police. In October 2005, Zyed Benna and Bouna Traoré died by electrocution after taking refuge in an electricity substation while fleeing police. Le Monde’s report described three weeks of rioting and the declaration of a state of emergency. In June 2023, the police shooting of 17-year-old Nahel at a traffic stop in Nanterre triggered another wave of unrest. Reuters reported that his death reignited longstanding complaints about police violence and racism in poor, ethnically mixed communities. These episodes had different triggers and participants. Their relevance to today’s school protests lies in the recurring question of whether French institutions offer young people protection, opportunity and a fair hearing. Educational inequality gives substance to that question. In the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development’s (OECD) 2022 Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), advantaged students in France outperformed disadvantaged students by 113 points in mathematics, compared with an OECD average gap of 93. Family circumstances remained strongly associated with achievement. These historical results do not explain every protest, but they show why equal opportunity is more than a slogan. France’s independent constitutional authority Défenseur des Droits (Defender of Rights) supplied another part of the context in a February 2026 report. It described discrimination linked to origin across young people’s experiences of schooling, employment, housing and policing, warning that inadequate institutional responses undermine the republic’s promise of equality. Today’s teenagers are expressing their demands through school blockades and phone screens, drawing on familiar protest methods while organizing in their own way. Their concerns reach beyond a teaching staff emergency to the conditions in which they study and a future they can reasonably expect. The promised teachers may fill some empty classrooms. Whether they can restore confidence is a harder question. Meanwhile, another protest day approaches.manilatimes · philippines
POLITICSOct 14Le Pen and Melenchon gain momentum ahead of French 2027 election, poll shows - ReutersLe Pen and Melenchon gain momentum ahead of French 2027 election, poll shows ReutersReuters World
POLITICSOct 14Sally Rooney books can't be sold in UK due to support for Palestine Action, publisher says'To sell a writer's work and not be able to pass on earnings is an unconscionable situation,' publisher Faber said of the decision.Le Monde [en]
POLITICSOct 14Europe risks triggering major war if it accepts Russia’s terms, expert warnsUkrinform [en]
POLITICSOct 14Meloni says Vannacci MPs flip-flopping on Kyiv, resigning would be more credibleUkraine stance 'was in the manifesto on which you, too, were elected' tells RavettoANSA [en]
POLITICSOct 14David Lisnard, bubble or reality?Même s’il a dû mal à percer dans les sondages, David Lisnard, candidat à la présidentielle, a réussi à faire parler de lui ces derniers jours en surfant sur une campagne en ligne bien ficelée et en partie fabriquée. Voilà qui ne fait pas les affaires de Bruno Retailleau, le candidat des Républicains. Quelle est […]Politico Europe
POLITICSOct 14Sánchez promotes Robles to number two of the PSOE in Madrid ahead of Marlaska after the Ceuta crisisBolaños, uno de los ministros con más peso político, ocupará la tercera posición en la lista también por delante del titular de Interior, que será el quinto LeerEl Mundo
POLITICSOct 14India urges Russia, Ukraine to protect Black Sea shippingNew Delhi wants Moscow and Kyiv to ensure safe commercial shipping in the Black Sea amid attacks that put Indian seafarers at risk.DW News [en]
POLITICSOct 14Makinde-Daura campaign council inaugurates North-Central zone coordinatorsThe Director-General of Makinde-Daura Campaign Organisation Mr Felix Hyat, on Wednesday inaugurated North-Central zone coordinators with a charge on them to take message of the party to the grassroots. The post Makinde-Daura campaign council inaugurates North-Central zone coordinators appeared first on Vanguard News.Vanguard Nigeria
POLITICSOct 14Germany's far-right AfD forges a pro-Russia alliance with the BSWIn Saxony-Anhalt, the AfD and BSW are joining forces to push for negotiations with Moscow. What is driving this rapprochement?DW News [en]
POLITICSOct 14Margarita Robles will be Pedro Sánchez's 'number two' on the PSOE listsEl presidente elige a la ministra de Defensa como su segunda al igual que ya hizo en las elecciones de 2016. Once ministros irán en las listas socialistasEl País
POLITICSOct 14Eleuthera residents threaten BPL bill pay halt on outagesELEUTHERA residents are threatening to withhold Bahamas Power & Light (BPL) bill payments in protest over persistent outages, mounting appliance damage and what they describe as prolonged delays when seeking compensation.tribune242 · bahamas
POLITICSOct 14Longtime London MP Irene Mathyssen dies at age 75Former NDP MP Lindsay Mathyssen announced her mother's passing on Tuesday, saying she always strived to make the world a better place.thestar · canada
POLITICSOct 14NGO: Brussels confirms Czech PM’s agri business conflict of interestBabiš placed Agrofert in a trust fund before returning to power in an effort to preserve its eligibility for EU farm cash — but Brussels remains unconvinced.Politico Europe
POLITICSOct 14Croatia's wartime grievances threaten Montenegro's hopes of joining EU by 2028Croatia's list of grievances with Montenegro include missing persons, war crimes, prison camps, property seizures and borders. Podgorica has closed 21 of 33 chapters, but Zagreb is blocking progress unless bilateral issues are resolved.EuroNews [en]
POLITICSOct 14Albania: Fire at Education Ministry as students protestRiot police deployed in the Albanian capital Tirana on the second day of student protests. The sudden outbreak seemed at least somewhat reminiscent of the widespread demos in France courting international attention.DW News [en]
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