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With elections due next year, Giorgia Meloni's far-right government risks being outflanked by Roberto Vannacci's National Future party, which is pushing hard for ‘remigration' and ‘traditional family values'. - 2026/11 / article
We haven't written up this one. Le Monde diplomatique (English) has the full story — the link below goes straight to it.
It's become a familiar strategy: announce an online public consultation and ignore the demands. - 2026/11 / article
French students are challenging a rigid institutional order through festive subversion. The media and government frame the protests as deeply violent, but the real story is the unprecedented…
A spontaneous school student rebellion has united disparate groups across French society whose grievances have long been ignored. A frightened government's attempts to suppress dissent aren't working.
Navies around the world are racing to deploy deep-sea drones known as autonomous underwater vehicles. These machines promise to transform the exploration – and control – of the ocean depths.
Unprecedented Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia have exposed its vulnerability. And with Donald Trump reluctant to intervene and other potential allies holding back, Iran's position is only strengthened.
Who in the Arab world really wants peace? While war rages on in Gaza, Lebanon and Iran, and within Libya, Sudan and Yemen, no major initiative is emerging to stop the fighting or prevent new conflicts…