US adds just 29,000 jobs as unemployment rises before midterm elections
The US economy added 29,000 jobs in September, with unemployment rising to 4.2 percent, according to Labor Department.
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The European Union rejects the threat of Trump to ban diesel exports and calls for action to contain the sharp rise in fuel prices
The United States presses Europe to release diesel reserves in the midst of the threats of the United States President Donald Trump to ban exports.
Bosnia and Herzegovina is elected among the divisions of the past and the challenges of the present.
On this Sunday, the Bosnians turn to the ballot boxes to participate in general elections with complex mechanisms, where ethnic tensions inherited from a war that broke out 30 years ago are still present and are even fuelled by national currents and sometimes separatist ones at a time when Bosnians, Serbs and Croats in Bosnia and Herzegovina, one of the poorest States in Europe, suffer from a worsening economic situation.
France: political and social tension months before presidential benefit
With the beginning of the presidential election campaign in France and a social climate on the verge of the explosion, a sustained movement of high school students began with clashes with the police, acts of vandalism and violence. Trade unions promised the Government to organize street demonstrations. France is also witnessing a rise in public debt to record levels during the presidential states of Emmanuel McRon, making the debt file one of the main headings before the presidential ballot scheduled for 2027. Today ' s guest: Musab Hamudi, Professor of Political Science, High School of Humanities in Paris.
France: What are the causes of violent protests by high school students? What details of the education sector budget?
In the economic week, we discuss the allocation by the French Government of Euro64 billion to the education sector in the next year ' s budget, while the country is experiencing violent protests against secondary school students. What details of the budget for the next public education sector? How much do you meet the demands of protesters? We also address the dispatch by the French President of soldiers and radars to protect the Saudi oil spring site. What is important in the export of Saudi oil across the Red Sea? We highlight the World Bank ' s warning of lack of water in Tunisia. How will agriculture and the Tunisian economy be affected?
Spain: the rent crisis is setting the street and pressing the government and the deputies.
The Spanish deputies, on Friday, vote on two housing decrees submitted by the left Government in the midst of a wide wave of protests. It is feared that the rejection of the two texts would lead to a new impasse for Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, who is essentially facing a fragile political situation.
Spain’s parliament rejects gov’t housing decrees amid mass protests
Both decrees to tackle housing affordability crisis shot down as critics say measures would tighten the housing market.
First minister told Burnham 'do not undermine Wales'
Wales' first minister spoke at Plaid Cymru's autumn conference at Venue Cymru in Llandudno on Friday afternoon.
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Brazil: Who is presidential candidate Flavio Bolsonaro?
He was still relatively unknown in Brazil just a few months ago. The 45-year-old senator is now neck and neck with incumbent President Lula in the polls for the upcoming presidential election. Flavio Bolsonaro's victory would add Brazil to the long list of Latin American countries that have shifted to the right or far right in recent months.
Brazil: The craze for candidate merch ahead of elections
Nearly 159 million Brazilians will head to the polling booths on Sunday to vote in general elections. They will elect their new MPs, see two-thirds of the Senate change ranks and, most importantly, vote for their next president.Though the vote is held by secret ballot, people wear their support on their sleeve. Candidates and parties are brandished on flags throughout the streets of #RiodeJaneiro, and business is booming for vendors selling merchandise for President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and his rival Flavio Bolsonaro.FRANCE 24's Brazil correspondent Jan Onoszko brings you this report.
Rajoy and González call for elections now and a State pact on the housing and "invasion" of Ceuta
The former PP is reaffirmed as "unconditional of bipartisan" and the socialist of "extreme center"
The Spanish Parliament votes against two decrees on housing by the Pedro Sánchez government following the crisis over the eviction of old Maricarsen
The vote took place in the midst of protests about the housing situation in the European country.
Germany's Franz Reindl elected new IIHF president
Franz Reindl has been elected president of ice hockey's world governing body. The former forward was a member of West Germany's Olympic bronze medal-winning team.
Tories aim to be election-ready ahead of party conference
The party will focus on the economy and welfare, as Kemi Badenoch tells her team to prepare for a possible early election.
Greens can move Labour in the right direction, says Polanski
The Green leader tells his autumn conference that a vote for his party can force changes from Andy Burnham.
Ethiopia: Resumed fighting, Addis Ababa under tension
Several explosions of unknown origin were heard during the night in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, at the headquarters of the Federal Armed Forces engaged in a new conflict against anti-government groups in the north of the country. The details of Tom Canetti for France 24.
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Students and police clash as France struggles to quell school protests
Riot police clashed with high school students in cities across France on Friday, as President Emmanuel Macron's government battled to contain increasingly violent protests over classroom conditions and funding. The protest movement has forced the closure or disrupted education at more than 560 establishments.
Netanyahu warns of 'very heavy price' if any country found to be behind FlyDubai incident
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday warned that any country or organisation found to be responsible for the violent clash on board an Israel-bound FlyDubai flight would "pay a very heavy price". While Netanyahu has alleged the co-pilot who stabbed his captain mid-flight had undergone "Islamist radicalisation", the motive behind the incident remains unclear.
The Cornell 7: Allegations spark fury over gang rape culture
How allegations of a gang rape at an American Ivy League university have set social media alight, sparking widespread fury over the way colleges and universities handle sexual assault cases. Also the French parliament is currently debating a major new bill aimed at tackling violence against women and children. But does it go far enough? Annette Young asks Dr Andreea Gruev-Vintila, a social psychologist who assisted with the drafting of the legislation. Plus the king of Morocco names Marrakesh mayor, Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri, as the country's first female prime minister.
Can India’s ‘cockroach’ movement oust Modi’s election chief?
India's youth protests return to streets, eyeing PM Modi's prized bureaucrat who oversees the world's biggest elections.