The website for the French government was temporarily unavailable on Wednesday amid hacking concerns stemming from major bugs in a piece of software used widely across the internet.
L'attitude de Moscou reste inchangée, a estimé jeudi le président ukrainien après une rencontre avec l'émissaire américain Steve Witkoff, en déplacement à Oslo. Sur le terrain, des frappes nocturnes ont fait de nouvelles victimes en Ukraine, malgré une relance de la diplomatie.
Fox News and others have toed president’s line – seemingly hoping unrest abroad will make people vote Republican
Donald Trump sought to capitalize on the scenes of unrest in France, telling a crowd in Kansas on Monday that “migrants” and “communists” were responsible, and that the scenes were “what the radical ‘Dumocrats’ want to do to America”.
As Republicans struggle to convince voters across the country ahead of November’s midterm elections, Trump’s allies in the conservative media have followed suit, seemingly hoping that the scenes in France can scare people to the polls.
Europe’s leaders can no longer trust a word that comes out of Washington. No more slaps on the wrist – we need concrete steps to punish Trump
Historical comparisons are always inexact. No one conflict precisely mirrors another. Yet Donald Trump’s shameless appeasement of Vladimir Putin carries more than a noxious whiff of Neville Chamberlain’s failed attempt in Munich in 1938 to head off war with Nazi Germany. To be fair to the former UK prime minister – and history largely hasn’t been – his peacemaking efforts had the enthusiastic backing of most people in Britain and France who, like him, were desperate to avoid a repeat of the horrors of the first world war. Trump enjoys no equivalent public support for his treachery. Nor does he face the prospect of a US war with Russia. His betrayal of Ukraine is cynically self-interested, globally dangerous and utterly contemptible.
US-Russian talks on agreeing the shoddy terms of a precedent-setting American sell-out of Ukraine are at an advanced stage, after meetings in St Petersburg this week. Trump has zigzagged over the war ever since returning to office. Now, panicked by record-low poll ratings, he seems determined to scapegoat Ukraine and force its de facto capitulation. Recent steps – his shocking decision to fund Putin’s war machine by buying Russian diesel, his waiving of tougher sanctions, his mysterious, lethal interruptions in US satellite and intelligence sharing with Kyiv, and his renewed attempt to oust Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy – mark Trump out as the skulking Judas, the craven Brutus of the modern age. He makes Chamberlain look like a man of iron principle. All that’s lacking is an umbrella.
Simon Tisdall is a Guardian foreign affairs commentator
Le Parlement européen a décerné jeudi son prix Sakharov 2026, récompense honorant le combat pour la démocratie et la liberté de pensée, à la Cour pénale internationale (CPI).
Experts say Russia is trying to destroy energy infrastructure before winter and US ‘appeasement and flattery’ will not achieve peace
Russia has carried out a massive “demonstrative” attack on Ukraine, bombarding Kyiv with ballistic missiles just hours after Vladimir Putin said he had agreed to resume trilateral negotiations after talks with the US envoy Steve Witkoff.
Overnight, Moscow pounded the Ukrainian capital, killing at least two people and wounding 22, including four children. Targets included the southern bridge over the Dnipro River, civilian houses, energy infrastructure, an ambulance station, office buildings and a clinic.
Environ 200 manifestants pour le droit au logement ont dormi à la belle étoile dans la nuit de mardi à mercredi à Lisbonne, deux jours après le démantèlement de leur campement par les forces de l'ordre. Inspirés par les mobilisations espagnoles, ils entendent dénoncer la crise du logement au Portugal.
Au moins sept personnes ont été tuées en Ukraine dans une série de frappes dans la nuit de mercredi à jeudi, qui ont notamment touché la capitale Kiev. De son côté, Moscou a annoncé avoir abattu 808 drones ukrainiens. Ces échanges de tirs interviennent plusieurs heures après des pourparlers russo-américains en vue de mettre fin à la guerre avec l'Ukraine. Suivez notre direct.
La chambre basse du Parlement irlandais a approuvé mercredi un projet de loi visant à supprimer un mécanisme empêchant le déploiement à l'étranger de soldats irlandais sans l'autorisation des Nations unies. Le Premier ministre déplore un "Conseil de sécurité de l'ONU paralysé", défendant la volonté de répondre à des crises, quand l'opposition craint pour la neutralité militaire du pays.
Léon XIV a subi une intervention chirurgicale pour retirer un nodule, le 13 octobre. Les résultats des examens ont montré que le cancer du souverain pontife "était localisé" et "qu'aucun traitement supplémentaire n'était nécessaire", rapportent ses médecins dans un communiqué publié mercredi par le Vatican.
Since high school students began protesting in France in September, they’ve been joined by young demonstrators in at least seven other European countries.
Stocks of Elon Musk's two biggest companies are rising Wednesday after he suggested a combination was in the works to form a trillion dollar colossus in possibly the biggest deal ever
The website for the French government was temporarily unavailable on Wednesday amid hacking concerns stemming from major bugs in a piece of software used widely across the internet.
Russia frees Stephen Hubbard after US request while Steve Witkoff praises Putin, wanted by ICC as war criminal, as a ‘humanitarian’
Vladimir Putin ordered the release of an American man from a Russian jail as he met Donald Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff in St Petersburg on Wednesday for fresh talks on ending the war in Ukraine, amid increasingly close relations between Moscow and Washington.
Trump had previously asked Putin to free Stephen Hubbard, a 74-year-old former teacher who had spent more than four years in Russian jails on charges of fighting as a mercenary for Ukraine.
Alors que la mobilisation lycéenne et contre la vie chère continue en France malgré de nouvelles restrictions de rassemblements et des couvre-feux localisés, les manifestations se poursuivent également à travers plusieurs pays d'Europe cette semaine. Le Haut-Commissaire de l'ONU aux droits de l'homme Volker Türk a condamné mardi "tous les actes de violence" survenus lors de manifestations et s'est dit préoccupé par une réponse parfois "excessive" des forces de l'ordre.
Des perquisitions ont eu lieu au Parlement européen dans le cadre d'une enquête ciblant Identité et Démocratie, l'ex-groupe où siégeait le Rassemblement national, ont annoncé mercredi les Patriotes, le nouveau groupe incluant le RN. Le parquet européen a annoncé de nouveaux actes d'enquête sur le groupe d'extrême droite dissous portant sur des détournement de fonds européens.
Volodymyr Zelensky a appelé mercredi à un gel du front dans la guerre avec la Russie comme première étape avant des négociations avec Moscou. Alors que des émissaires américains se sont rendus plus tôt à Saint-Pétersbourg pour des pourparlers, le président ukrainien a affirmé que toute discussion pour mettre fin à la guerre devrait inclure l'Ukraine.
À Pavlograd, ville ukrainienne située à moins de 90 km du front avec la Russie, la guerre ne laisse aucun répit. Les habitants racontent leur quotidien sous les bombes, entre lassitude et détermination. Entre les critiques contre Trump, les rumeurs sur TikTok et les frappes contre les civils, France 24 a recueilli les témoignages de ceux qui "refusent de plier".
L'émissaire américain Steve Witkoff a rencontré Vladimir Poutine mercredi matin à Saint-Pétersbourg afin de tenter de faire avancer les négociations visant à mettre fin à la guerre en Ukraine. Lors de cet entretien, le président russe a annoncé la libération de l'Américain Stephen Hubbard, emprisonné depuis 2022. Une remise en liberté faite "sans contrepartie", selon le président américain Donald Trump.
Après un week-end d’affrontements et de pillages à Milan, la cheffe du gouvernement italien Giorgia Meloni a annoncé mardi le déploiement de 500 soldats dans la capitale lombarde jusqu'à la fin de l'année. Les militaires n’auront cependant pas de pouvoirs de police, le président Mattarella, une figure modérée, s’y étant opposé.
A handful of Republicans have spoken out against Donald Trump’s softening stance on Russia, threatening to pull financial support for his agenda over his “embarrassing” handling of the Ukraine war.
Don Bacon, an outgoing congressman in Nebraska, condemned Trump’s actions – which include a stunning agreement to buy Russian diesel and the pausing of sanctions on Moscow – as “absolutely disgraceful” and accused the US president of cozying up to a “war criminal” in Vladimir Putin, his Russian counterpart.
Le président ukrainien s'est entretenu, mardi, à Oslo, avec les émissaires américains Steve Witkoff et Jared Kushner. Cette rencontre visait à rétablir la diplomatie après l'accord conclu entre Donald Trump et Vladimir Poutine sur le gazole. Plusieurs pays de l'UE et de l'Otan étaient également présents afin de "développer une proposition de paix".
Kyiv has tried desperately to keep the United States on side since Trump returned to office. But the Ukrainian president may now feel the relationship is beyond saving, writes James C. Reynolds
A Sofia court has cleared European arrest warrants for two 19-year-old Germans charged with setting fire to Starlink antennas south of the Bulgarian capital, a court spokeswoman told dpa. Prosecutors named the pair in court, but both had already left Bulgaria. The case adds Bulgaria to a run of attacks on Starlink sites in Europe, which Poland and Lithuania have linked to Russia.
While Russia presses its assault along the front and strikes Ukraine’s cities, Starlink keeps Ukraine’s drone units and front-line troops connected, and Poland pays about $50 million a year for its terminals. The network’s ground links in Europe are now a target in their own right, and ISW has linked the Polish fire to a wider Russian pattern of sabotage. Each attack on a ground station hits a network whose speed caps already disrupted Ukraine’s drone missions this month.
Two names, a few hours in Bulgaria
Prosecutors identified the suspects as Zeka Islam and Tirpan Beytullah, Bulgaria’s state news agency BTA reported, noting the names may be misspelled. Their whereabouts are unknown, according to German authorities cited by the agency. They were charged in absentia on 14 October and face three to 12 years in prison if convicted.
According to the indictment, the two crossed from Serbia at the Kalotina checkpoint at 17:37 on 9 October and told border officers they were tourists. At about 22:25, wearing gloves and masks, they allegedly set fire to antennas at the Plana teleport, a satellite ground station near the village of Plana. They drove back into Serbia through the same checkpoint at 23:55.
Three antennas burned completely, two were partly damaged, and three more were affected, prosecutors say. The pair traveled in a Volkswagen with German plates, and a national warrant followed two days after the charges, ZDF reported.
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The court-appointed lawyers argued that investigators had pinned down the vehicle, not the men in it. The court rejected those objections, finding reasonable grounds to suspect the pair. The lawyers said they would appeal. The ruling can be challenged within three days.
A Starlink antenna. Illustrative photo: Christoph Soeder/dpa
An opposition MP made the fire public three days later
The fire became public only on 12 October, when opposition MP Ivaylo Mirchev of Democratic Bulgaria posted about it on Facebook. He said 11 antennas had been set on fire, more than prosecutors later counted.
In parliament two days later, Prime Minister Rumen Radev asked the head of the State Agency for National Security (DANS) not to reveal details, saying disclosure could harm the investigation. DANS head Plamen Tonchev told lawmakers he believes the fire was sabotage and that more such attacks cannot be ruled out, dpa reported.
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After the ruling, Mirchev wrote that Radev personally owes the public an explanation of what has been achieved, BTA reported.
Bulgaria’s case joins attacks Poland and Lithuania tie to Russia
Bulgaria has not said who might be behind the fire. Authorities in Poland and Lithuania have linked similar recent arsons on Starlink equipment to Russia.
In September, fire hit a Starlink ground station south of Warsaw, and Germany later detained two suspects. On 18 October, Lithuania’s prime minister said intruders had tried to burn a company’s Starlink antennas used by Ukraine, calling it part of Russia’s hybrid war. Moscow claims such accusations are baseless, Reuters reported.
As Republicans confront mounting political headwinds ahead of November’s midterm elections, Donald Trump is attempting to turn unrest in France into a cautionary tale for American voters, recasting the demonstrations that began as student protests against crumbling schools and the soaring cost of living as evidence of the dangers of immigration and the erosion of western civilization.
At a rally in Kansas on Monday evening, Trump described France as a once-great nation that had been “conquered, looted, and burned to the ground by migrants, jihadists, and communists”.
More than 100,000 people from Ukraine and Sudan can stay in the United States without immediate risk of deportation, the Department of Homeland Security said, in what amounts to a temporary reprieve after their right to stay in the country was set to expire on Monday.
Temporary protected status was set to end on Monday for about 101,000 Ukrainians and 1,800 Sudanese. But the DHS said an announcement “will be made at the appropriate time”. Until then, the department said in a written statement, Ukrainians and Sudanese in the US covered by those temporary measures “retain protection”. The department did not indicate how long they could stay or when a final announcement would be made on their status.
Russia wants America and China to decide Ukraine’s future without Kyiv. Europe must challenge this dangerous return to diplomacy of the strong for the strong
Does Vladimir Putin know exactly how to play Donald Trump? The history of chummy phone calls, high-profile meetings and attempts to bring Russia in from the cold certainly suggests that Moscow’s thuggish ruler has a hold on this American president. If Mr Trump agrees to negotiate Ukraine’s future with Mr Putin and China’s Xi Jinping without Ukraine at the table, he will have handed the Russian leader a victory before talks begin. The message will be that strongmen are ruling the world and determining the fate of weaker nations.
Ukraine has the right to determine its future. That right cannot be waved away by a self-serving Russian proposal, however much it indulges Mr Trump’s belief that world affairs should be settled by powerful men. The scales are falling from European eyes. Trumpian America is raising doubts about whether it will help deter aggression or even honour its Nato commitments. If Washington now rewards Moscow and pressures Ukraine to accept a raw deal, it would be a betrayal. European governments would wonder where America might be in the future when their own security is threatened.
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The fire, which did not seriously damage the network, came after similar incidents in Bulgaria and Poland involving the satellite internet provider, a key defense tool for Ukraine’s armed forces.
Ukrainian president accuses Washington of ‘denial of reality’ in continuing row with Trump over apparent support for Moscow
Ukraine did not receive a warning from the US about an impending Russian missile attack on Sunday evening, Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said, reviving concerns that Washington is withholding intelligence to bully Kyiv into capitulating to Moscow.
Yuri Ihnat, a spokesperson for the Ukrainian air force, said on television on Monday morning that Ukraine had not received a warning before a Russian missile barrage hit power plants in Kyiv at about 11pm. Earlier, a Ukrainian government official had told the Guardian the US had not warned the capital about the impending missile strike.
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