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Journey to ground zero of the unrest in France 26 October 2026 at 15:11

Journey to ground zero of the unrest in France

26 October 2026 at 15:11

A drug-selling spot in Bobigny, a 'banlieue' north of Paris.

Moktar, 21, pulls up his neck gaiter, tightens the hood of his puffer jacket and steps out of the house in the late afternoon, dressed in immaculate black from head to toe. Behind the little mustache and the thick-lensed glasses with gold-rimmed temples, he smiles — a third-year college student from a very modest Tunisian family. Friendly, sharp, with an unusually political sense for his age and skin toughened by his surroundings, Moktar grew up in one of the poorest buildings in the L’Abreuvoir neighborhood in Bobigny (population 48,873), right opposite one of the drug-dealing hotspots where traffickers, police, customers, and addicts come and go all day. “Ballon here,” reads graffiti on the wall, advertising the nitrous oxide gas sold for inhalation.

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Moktar talks with his friends in an abandoned apartment in Bondy, a 'banlieue' north of Paris.

Street market in Saint-Denis, on the outskirts of Paris.

Timeo, photographed in Bobigny, a 'banlieue' north of Paris.

Didi, 27, in Saint-Denis, in the north of Paris.

The Paul Éluard high school in Saint-Denis.

Lyes, A 38-year-old Algerian, in Saint-Denis.

The Times of Israel
Kasparov hopes Netanyahu’s days are numbered, urges Russian-Israelis to vote him out 26 October 2026 at 13:28

Kasparov hopes Netanyahu’s days are numbered, urges Russian-Israelis to vote him out

The Times of Israel

26 October 2026 at 13:28

Chess legend and Putin critic says Russia’s propaganda machine is backing the PM, predicts a new government without him, urges Israel to side with Ukraine against a shared enemy

Kasparov hopes Netanyahu’s days are numbered, urges Russian-Israelis to vote him out

The Guardian - Europe
Could Europe’s autumn of discontent threaten the survival of the EU? | Catherine De Vries 26 October 2026 at 05:00

Could Europe’s autumn of discontent threaten the survival of the EU? | Catherine De Vries

The Guardian - Europe

By: Catherine De Vries

26 October 2026 at 05:00

Anger on the streets could increasingly turn against the EU itself if it can’t show why cooperation makes people’s lives better

Europe is living through an autumn of unusual discontent. What protesters from Paris to Milan to Madrid share is a deepening anxiety about the future and a growing anger at the gap between what they expect from their governments and what they feel governments are delivering, whether the issue is unaffordable housing, stagnant wages, the spiralling cost of living or failing schools.

The electoral consequences of the failure to get a grip on this public anger are already with us. Spain goes to the polls next month in a snap election called after parliament voted down key housing reforms. France begins the process of electing a new president in April, while Poland, Italy and a string of smaller states will vote before the end of 2027. The stakes could not be higher.

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