Police in Tirana fired tear gas and water cannons on Tuesday after student demonstrators threw bricks and concrete blocks at Albania’s Education Ministry. The nationwide protests have been driven by anger over poor...
Police try to disperse about 100 protesters as demonstration ends • FRANCE 24 English
FRANCE 24’s Claire Paccalin reporting from the student demonstrations near Invalides characterised Tuesday’s protest as “mostly calm and smooth” and that the vast majority of demonstrators want this to go peacefully as...
ISS amid global conflict: A rare bastion of ‘scientific collaboration’ between the East and West
François Picard is pleased to welcome Alban Guyomarc’h, Researcher in Space Geopolitics at Paris’s École Normale Supérieure School of Higher Learning. As a new era of space rivalry unfolds, the International...
Russia strikes Ukraine — what happened to Trump’s energy ceasefire? | DW News
Donald Trump says Russia and Ukraine have agreed to stop attacking each other’s energy infrastructure. But neither side has confirmed the deal. Could an energy ceasefire take hold as Russian strikes on Ukrainian cities...
Digital distrust and polarisation: ‘We need to get back to engaging with one another as a society’
François Picard is pleased to welcome Valdemar Osted, partner and head of technology at Danish digital consultancy Common Consultancy. Can the fear of disinformation become as dangerous to democracy as disinformation...
Clashes erupt in Paris as major education protest turns violent
Riot police and demonstrators clashed in Paris as a large march over teacher shortages, overcrowded classrooms and deteriorating school buildings turned violent. Now in its fourth week, the nationwide protest movement...
Student protesters tell police to join them in Paris demonstrations • FRANCE 24 English
As student-led protests in Paris came to a close on Tuesday, demonstrators chanted "join us, join us" to police officers, who took off their helmets to cheers of the crowd. "When police take off their...