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Paris Suburb Cancels Open-Air Screening Following Threats
American Renaissance
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August 15, 2025
Authorities in the Paris suburb of Noisy-le-Sec (Seine-Saint-Denis) canceled the screening of the Barbie movie, following threats from local individuals. Mayor Olivier Sarrabeyrouse (French Communist Party, PCF) said there was no alternative to...
Who was the greater leader: Winston Churchill or Charles de Gaulle?
The Times
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Winston Churchill could be extraordinarily insensitive. In 1942, for instance, the Tory minister Harry Crookshank interpreted the prime minister’s offer of a hereditary peerage as a cruel insult. Churchill had forgotten that a wound that...
I’ve interviewed so many migrants in France - Starmer must do these 4 things to end crisis
Daily Express
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August 16, 2025
“Smash the gangs” Keir Starmer has squeaked in his nasal I’m-speaking-to-the-judge voice enough times to sound ridiculous. And while countless rivals have mocked the Prime Minister’s tactics for stopping the migrant crisis, few have come up with...
The sad decline of the French village fête
The Spectator
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August 16, 2025
France’s village fêtes are disappearing. A survey by the association Les Plus Belles Fêtes de France found that in just four years, nearly a third are no longer held. Once the highlight of rural life, they’re now falling victim to shrinking...
“There’s no such thing as replacement theory; it’s a replacement fact”—Center for Immigration Studies Executive Director
The European Conservative
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August 16, 2025
Mark Krikorian is the Executive Director of the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), one of the leading institutions in the United States to analyze and formulate immigration policy. For decades, he has studied the impact of immigration on social...
France Is Being Held Hostage by Islamism
The European Conservative
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August 15, 2025
Move over, Salman Rushdie, Michel Houellebecq, and Ayaan Hirsi Ali. Islamists have a new bête noire—Barbie. In a Paris suburb, a gang of Muslim youths managed to shut down a screening of Barbie, the PG-rated 2023 movie, because it apparently...
UNILAG first-class graduate wins scholarship to study in France, Italy, Germany
Punch
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August 16, 2025
Samuel Badekale, the University of Lagos graduate who was widely celebrated for completing a Bachelor of Science in Cell Biology and Genetics with a perfect CGPA of 5.00, has been awarded the prestigious Erasmus Mundus Joint Master’s in...
Letters: Why Founders were wary of religion in government
Nola - Louisiana
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After 10 years of fighting over religious differences, primarily in Germany and Switzerland, with tens of thousands of casualties, the Religious Peace of Augsburg was signed in 1555. Notable products of this “peace” were that rulers of each state...
Children over 12 to be fingerprinted at EU border sparking travel chaos
The i paper
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August 15, 2025
New post-Brexit border controls that will require any Britons aged 12 and over to input photographs and fingerprints could spark “chaos” for holidaymakers travelling to the EU from October. Industry insiders and EU experts issued the warning after...
La Belle Vie: French phrases to use during a heatwave and escaping to the north-west
The Local - France
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August 16, 2025
From all the ways to complain about sweat in French to France's August public holiday and escaping to Brittany and Normandy, this week's La Belle Vie newsletter offers you an essential starting point for eating, talking, drinking and living like a...
Ice Stays Frozen In Alaska! Why Trump Must Convince France, UK & Germany To End Ukraine War & Not Putin: OPED
The Eurasian Times
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August 16, 2025
Did the “Ice melt” at the Anchorage base of Alaska during the talks between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his host, U.S. President Donald Trump, in what happened to be their seventh meeting as heads of their respective countries?...
Muslim group rejects calls to ban face veils in Finnish schools
Helsinki Times
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August 15, 2025
The Muslim Forum of Finland has criticised recent statements by ministers calling for restrictions on face coverings in schools, saying the issue is exaggerated and risks fuelling wider efforts to limit religious expression. Social Security...
The railway children’s later life
The Critic
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August 16, 2025
There surely cannot be a better day out in the British Isles this summer than the brilliantly ambitious and perfectly executed production of The Railway Children on the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway. Staged as part of Bradford Metropolitan...
France’s new bill to speed up the restitution of looted African artefacts
Thred
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August 15, 2025
Centuries after the colonial era’s looting practices, the legacies of the stolen artefacts continue to affect former colonies. Many of these loots remain within the confines of Western museums and private collections, far from their places of...
Full-fat faith: the young Christian converts filling our churches
The Times
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Squeezing through the thronging and startlingly youthful crowd in search of a decent place to sit at the 11am service at St Bartholomew the Great, next to Smithfield meat market in central London, you wouldn’t guess that the Anglican Church had...
French interns donate toilet facility to government school in Karnataka’s Udupi
Telengana Today
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August 15, 2025
A group of French interns in Kudlu, Kanyana village, Udupi, donated a fully functional toilet facility to a local government school after a two-month internship. Their act, captured on social media, has drawn praise for directly improving rural...
France condemns Israeli entity demolition of school under construction in West Bank
Yemen News Agency SABA
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France condemns Israeli entity demolition of school under construction in West Bank Paris – Saba: The French Ministry of Foreign Affairs strongly condemned on Friday the Israeli entity's demolition of a school under construction in the occupied...
Meta under scrutiny over AI policy that allows bots have ‘sensual’ conversations with children
Jamaica Observer
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August 16, 2025
The Meta logo is seen at the Vivatech show in Paris, France, June 14, 2023. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus, File) August 15, 2025 SAN FRANCISCO, United States (AFP) – A United States (US) senator on Friday announced an investigation into whether Meta AI...
French family are 30,000th visitors to Trossachs attraction in just one year
Daily Record & Sunday Mail
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August 15, 2025
A family visiting Scotland from France this week, took the overall visitor numbers to the stunning historic scenic tower at Loch Katrine to over 30,000. The popular Trossachs attraction, home of the Steamship Sir Walter Scott, presented the...
Britain’s real immigration scandal is not the one you think
The New World
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August 15, 2025
So far, this summer, those warnings have amounted to little. The riots of August 2024, an eruption of misplaced anger grounded in false rumours about the murder of children in Stockport, have not been repeated, though not for want of trying on the...