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Published on 03/06/2025 – 15:00 GMT+2•Updated 15:31French Justice Minister Gérald Darmanin says he wants tougher punishments for anyone found guilty of violence against police officers, in comments that come after clashes broke out following Paris Saint-Germain’s (PSG) Champions League win.In a social media post, Darmanin argued that the current legal framework is too lenient and insufficient to deal with incidents occurring in the country.”Following this weekend’s serious public order incidents and repeated disturbances, some of the convictions for violence, particularly against law enforcement officers and for destruction of property, are no longer commensurate with the level of violence in our…

At least five people have been killed and several others wounded in an attack on an aid convoy in Sudan’s Darfur region on Tuesday, the United Nations has said, with the warring parties in the northeast African nation trading blame for the attack.The attack on the 15-truck convoy carrying desperately needed food and nutrition supplies happened on Monday night near the Rapid Support Forces (RSF)-controlled town of Koma in North Dafur province.It was trying to reach besieged el-Fasher city, according to a joint statement from the World Food Programme and UNICEF. Both agencies called for an investigation into the attack.”This was the…

Tan Albayrak, a sanctions lawyer at Reed Smith, agreed: “I do not see a legal basis, either way, because the funds are frozen.  They cannot be used to fulfill any of the parties’ wishes.”  “In sanctions laws, frozen means frozen — and just that,” said Albayrak. “Normally, the funds can’t be distributed — neither according to Mr. Abramovich’s wishes nor to the U.K. government’s wishes,” he said. Still, the £2.5 billion figure pales in comparison to the hundreds of billions of pounds frozen by the EU and U.K. since the Ukraine invasion in 2022. Despite bold statements, the British government…

Published on 03/06/2025 – 17:10 GMT+2•Updated 17:16A French police officer will face a murder trial next year over the 2023 killing of teenager Nahel Merzouk, authorities said on Tuesday.The trial of the 38-year-old officer — a decision reached at the end of a two-year investigation — could take place in the second or third quarter of 2026, the court and prosecutor in the Paris suburb of Nanterre, where the killing at point-blank range took place, said in a joint statement. The lawyer for Merzouk’s mother, Frank Berton, welcomed the order for a trial. “We are just seeing the law being…

The deal aims to cut through high tariffs on U.K. goods in India with 85 percent becoming tariff-free within a decade. The effect will be equivalent to slashing £1 billion in tariffs after 10 years.  Measures include immediately slashing India’s 150 percent tariff on Scotch whisky in half before it is cut to 40 percent after ten years. Duties on the auto sector will drop from 100 percent to 10 percent with quotas on both sides for the sensitive sector. Indian duties will also be lowered on cosmetics, aerospace, medical devices, electrical machinery and agriculture and food. Britain will lower…

PARIS — Le bras de fer entre Aylo et le gouvernement français se poursuit. L’éditeur de sites pour adultes va suspendre dès demain après-midi en France les trois sites X de son écurie —Pornhub, YouPorn et Redtube — pour contester l’obligation de vérifier l’âge de ses utilisateurs. Une obligation issue de la loi sur l’espace numérique de 2024. “Nous avons fait le choix de perdre des millions de revenus publicitaires pour faire comprendre aux Français ce que fait leur gouvernement”, a ainsi déclaré un porte-parole d’Aylo à la presse. La France représente son deuxième marché mondial après les Etats-Unis. A partir…

Police in the Hungarian capital issued an order on Tuesday denying a request to hold an pro-LGBTQ+ event in Budapest, a consequence of recent steps by the right-wing government aimed at banning the popular Budapest Pride march.The police’s decision to prohibit the event planned for later this month came after Hungary’s parliament passed legislation in March that allowed the government to ban public events by LGBTQ+ communities.That was followed a month later by a constitutional amendment banning such events.Both moves were slammed by legal scholars and critics decried it as another step towards authoritarianism by what they call an autocratic government.In its…

Offener Dissens zwischen dem CSU-Landesgruppenchef Alexander Hoffmann und dem CDU-Außenpolitiker Johannes Wadephul. Wadephul bekommt deutlichen Widerspruch dafür, dass er deutsche Waffenexporte nach Israel überprüfen lassen will. Rasmus Buchsteiner berichtet von der Fraktionsebene im Bundestag, wie offen heute über den Streit zwischen den Schwesterparteien gesprochen wurde – und analysiert gemeinsam mit Rixa Fürsen, wie tief der Riss tatsächlich ist. Außerdem:Jürgen Klöckner erklärt, wie die deutsche Autoindustrie Druck auf Friedrich Merz ausübt – noch bevor dieser morgen zu seinem Antrittsbesuch bei Donald Trump in die USA reist. Es geht darum, dass Merz ohne Wirtschaftsdelegation fliegt, welche unberechenbaren Situationen mit dem US-Präsidenten ihn…

The industry giant has fought French officials tooth and nail over the measures. The French audience is Pornhub’s second-largest in the world, after the United States and ahead of the Philippines, Mexico and the United Kingdom, its own internal 2024 statistics showed. Solomon Friedman, a partner at Ethical Capital Partners, which owns Aylo, told reporters in a Tuesday briefing the French law was “dangerous,” “potentially privacy infringing” and “ineffective.” “It’s a matter of putting our values first, and that means communicating directly with the French people to tell them what their government is refusing to tell them,” Friedman said. The…

Published on 03/06/2025 – 15:47 GMT+2More false videos alleging criminality and health issues in Moldova and attributed to Euronews are circulating online, with some even being posted by accounts posing as Euronews staff.One video claims that Moldova ranks first in the number of STD carriers in Europe, while others talk of waves of illegal immigration flowing from Moldova into the European Union, particularly Italy.Rome has seen a rise in the number of criminal gangs making false documents for immigrants from Moldova, according to one of the fake videos.All of them use Euronews’ graphics and branding and many have been shared…