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Thousands of French police officers protested in Paris on Tuesday, led by the Alliance Police Nationale union. Concerns over working conditions, staff shortages, and stagnant allowances are driving demands for increased funding of up to €500 million annually to address these issues. Authorities have shown signs of responsiveness following the demonstrations.

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Russian attacks across Ukraine have killed at least five people and injured over 12 in the last 24 hours. Strikes targeted Kyiv, Kherson, Zaporizhzhia Oblast, and Sloviansk, while Ukraine’s military reported successful counteroffensive operations near Lyman, clearing an area of approximately 75 square kilometres.

Former Moroccan intelligence officer Mehdi Hijaouy sought protection from extradition by offering information on Morocco’s intelligence operations to Spanish authorities. He claimed knowledge of the Pegasus spyware targeting Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez but ultimately abandoned this route and fled Spain, with his current location unknown.

Belgian police early Tuesday arrested a suspected gunman thought to have who killed two Swedes with stunning viciousness.  The gunman, who is thought to have terrorist motives, created such fear in Brussels that authorities shut down a Belgium-Sweden soccer match and held 35,000 fans inside for several hours as a precaution. 

Polish opposition parties appear to have won enough votes in Sunday’s parliamentary election to oust the governing nationalist conservative party, with the highly-anticipated election bringing out the largest numbers of voters in decades. So far exit polls and around a quarter of votes that have been counted confirm a “remarkable” victory for the three parties opposing the right-wing Law and Justice party, said France 24 corresepondant Gulliver Cragg, reporting from Warsaw.

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