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Safran bets on the UK, where government support for aerospace is 'clearer and more decisive' than in France

Britain is backing its aerospace sector with €2.8 billion over 10 years, while France has yet to guarantee in its 2027 budget the €300 million a year Emmanuel Macron promised in 2023.

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An Airbus A320-200 after takeoff from Istanbul Sabiha Gökçen International Airport, Turkey, March 5, 2016.
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Israeli press reflects on opposition’s painful awakening and conflicting scenarios for breaking political deadlock

While Benjamin Netanyahu's coalition lost its majority of seats, the opposition lost even more in the October 27 election, finishing in second place. Israeli media fear a prolonged period of uncertainty.

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Far-right Channel 14 broadcast live from the Likud campaign headquarters in Jerusalem on October 27, 2026.
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How far-right language seeped from France's hard right to the highest levels of government

Thousands gathered in cities across France on Monday to protest against 'the normalization of racist hatred,' three days after an attack in Trappes left one person dead. Mayor Ali Rabeh has accused the conservative right and presidential camp of playing a dangerous game by adopting the rhetoric of the far right.

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A camera films the crowd at the start of the Rassemblement National congress in Orléans, on October 25, 2026.
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Dolores Huerta, US labor organizer and icon of the left, dies at 96

The civil rights campaigner, behind the slogan that influenced Barack Obama's 'Yes we can,' remained an activist into her 90s, rallying migrant workers against Donald Trump's immigration raids.

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Dolores Huerta, co-founder of the United Farm Workers (UFW) union, in Bakersfield, California, on July 21, 2025.
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UN rights experts condemn French police tactics against student protesters as 'unjustifiable'

Four UN special rapporteurs said they were 'appalled' by the violence against high school and university students, some of whom have suffered irreversible injuries, and called the arrest of several thousand people, mostly minors, disproportionate.

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Protesters take cover behind a plywood board as French riot police and gendarmes use a water canon, in Paris, October 24, 2026.
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Train crash in central Spain kills at least 68, country to observe three days of mourning

The collision, on the line linking Madrid to Andalusia, involved a train run by national rail operator Renfe carrying 397 passengers and one run by private company Iryo with 147 on board, a government spokesperson said.

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Medical staff arrive at a sports center converted into a temporary medical facility following a collision between two trains in Urda, Spain, on October 28, 2026.
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European intelligence services express concern over persistent Iranian threat

Assassination plots, arson, acts of sabotage, cyberattacks – European countries now face a sustained and wide-ranging Iranian threat, as arrests of individuals suspected of aiding Tehran's intelligence services multiply across the continent.

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Sir Ken McCallum, director general of the British intelligence service MI5, in London, April 1, 2025.
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French lawyers wage battle with government over curfews imposed after protests

Lawyers, academics, NGOs and ordinary citizens have mounted a legal offensive to challenge the measures imposed by the government after the protest and looting on October 17.

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At the Forum des Halles in Paris, shortly before the start of a second night under curfew, passersby read an information board as the metro station is closed.
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AI and work: 'Previous industrial revolutions have, over the long term, always created more jobs than they destroyed'

To harness the benefits of artificial intelligence, economists Jean-Hervé Lorenzi and Alain Villemeur advocate in this op-ed for Le Monde for a 'tax revolution' and the implementation of a bonus-malus system to regulate the costs of job creation and elimination.

Work, business, internet, cyber, computer, digital
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Train crash in central Spain kills at least 64, injures 80

The collision took place on the railway line linking Madrid to Andalusia. According to a government spokesperson, the Renfe train, operated by Spain's national railway company, was carrying 397 passengers, while the private company Iryo's train had 147 passengers on board.

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Climate change: Scientists call for declaration of 'global health emergency' after new report

The 10th Lancet Countdown report shows that the health impacts of global warming, such as heat-related deaths, have worsened significantly since the Paris Agreement was signed in 2015.

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On the hottest day ever recorded since 1947, a healthcare worker pushes a stretcher down a corridor in the emergency department of Pellegrin University Hospital in Bordeaux, June 23, 2026.
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Train crash in central Spain kills at least 31, injures 80

The crash is Spain's second major train collision in Spain this year, following one in the south of the country in January that killed 45 people.

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Emergency services work at the site of a train collision between a high-speed Renfe AVE train and an Iryo train around 150 km south of Madrid, between Urda and Los Yebenes in the province of Toledo, on October 28, 2026.
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Train crash in central Spain kills at least 10

Esther Padilla, spokeswoman for the Castilla La Mancha region, said that authorities can confirm 10 deaths, but that 'that number will surely rise.'

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The scene of a collision between two trains in Urda, Spain, on October 28, 2026.
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Ahead of EU-Canada summit, European leaders clash over terminology

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen's offer of EU associate member status to Canada has angered both Paris and Berlin. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney faces criticism over the proposal at home.

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Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney (left) during European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen's State of the European Union address at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, on September 16, 2026.
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Israel faces prospect of parliament without a majority after crucial elections

Provisional results on Wednesday morning showed significant losses for Netanyahu's bloc, but the opposition, led by Gadi Eisenkot, failed to unseat Likud as the largest party. Neither bloc is in a position to form a government. Arab parties made historic gains and play a role in future coalitions.

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The various candidates in the Israeli elections featured on the front page of the newspaper "Israel Hayom," in Raanana, Israel, on October 27, 2026.
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