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The trial of Rachida Dati commenced at the Paris criminal court, where the former justice minister faces charges including passive corruption linked to €900,000 received from Renault-Nissan’s Dutch subsidiary between 2009 and 2013. Carlos Ghosn, the company’s former head, is being tried in absentia.
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.
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.
President Emmanuel Macron met leaders of all of France’s political parties Wednesday, including his most bitter opponents, outside Paris in a bid to break the deadlock of a hung parliament.
Between 10 and 20 drones reportedly hit an airport in the Pskov region of Western Russia.
The number of people who have died in Poland from the Legionella bacteria has risen to 14 after it claimed more lives in Rzeszow
Messages transported by small planes over Italy’s beaches this summer have spread the debunked conspiracy theory that Pope Francis is not the legitimate head of the Catholic Church.
A forest blaze in Greece is “the largest wildfire ever recorded in the EU” and the bloc is mobilising nearly half its firefighting air wing to tackle it, a European Commission spokesman said Tuesday.
‘He intends to take revenge on people who were intending to destroy him, and destroyed people close to him.’
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