Tim Pearce A French protester lost his hand after reportedly attempting to throw an active stun grenade back at police, a French news outlet reported, according to The Daily Mail. A graphic video of a man clutching his bloody arm surfaced Saturday as the “yellow vest” protests continued into a fourth straight weekend. The protests, named after…
This week, the government of France gave concessions to the “gilets jaunes” (the yellow vests), suspending the fuel tax rise for six months. France has been rocked by mass protests for weeks, with an estimated 300,000 participants. These protesters have constructed barricades, blocked traffic, attacked roads and street signs with everything from fire to pulling…
Tim Pearce French protests over the country’s proposed gas tax hike are intensifying in Paris as rioters and police clash with rocks, batons, tear gas and fireworks. Protests by so-called “yellow jackets,” named after their neon yellow traffic vests, erupted earlier in November across France. Protesters set up barricades and blocked streets and highways across the country…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Joshua Gill The Russian Supreme Court’s July 17 ban on the Jehovah’s Witnesses was the result of a decades long conspiracy funded by the French government, blessed by the Russian Orthodox Church, and sanctioned by the Putin administration. A French NGO — fully-funded by the French government with the…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Jacob Bojesson France and Germany announced deeper cooperation plans for the future Thursday, including a number of defense and security initiatives. French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel met with their respective cabinets in Paris to discuss a number of projects. The countries will develop a new European fighter…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Michael Bastasch The French government is offering climate scientists from around the world lucrative grants to temporarily move there and do research on global warming. President Emmanuel Macron’s administration set up the website, “Make Our Planet Great Again,” which advertises positions for senior researchers, junior researchers and PhD students…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Chris White France’s President Emmanuel Macron said Thursday that his country has no interest in taking up the Trump administration’s offer of renegotiating the terms of the Paris climate deal. Macron told President Donald Trump that France will keep open lines of communication with Washington, D.C., but the country will no…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Michael Bastasch French President-elect Emmanuel Macron told President Donald Trump he would “protect” the Paris climate change agreement during their first phone conversation Monday. “He told him he’s going to try to protect what was made in Paris,” Macron’s spokeswoman Laurence Haim told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour Monday. “He is…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Russ Read French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen called for the expulsion of all terrorist suspects from France Friday, in the wake of Thursday’s Islamic State attack. Le Pen, the leader of France’s right-wing National Front party, has been the most hawkish candidate on security issues and is a…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Russ Read The ISIS terrorist responsible for Thursday’s shooting in Paris, France had an extremely violent criminal history and radical past. It is difficult to tell when a radical believer will turn to violence, but in the case of Karim Cheurfi, also known as Abu Yusuf al-Beljiki, violence and…