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Macron addresses energy crisis, warns of 'hybrid attacks'

President Emmanuel Macron said Friday that France would convene a G7 meeting dedicated to energy in the weeks to come as fuel prices soar amid the US-Iran war. Speaking to the press after a meeting with party leaders over the energy crisis and international security, Macron also said he had ordered measures to protect France's critical infrastructure from increasing Russian "hybrid attacks".

Macron convenes French party leaders as soaring energy prices put focus on wars in Iran and Ukraine

Haxie Meyers-Belkin is pleased to welcome Renaud Foucart, Senior Lecturer in Economics at Lancaster University’s Management School in the UK. According to Foucart, France’s energy and economic crises expose a deeper collision between economic constraints, political accountability and an approaching presidential election. He interprets Emmanuel Macron’s rare Élysée meeting with party leaders over soaring energy prices as both an exercise in presidential legacy-building and an attempt to force prospective successors to confront high energy costs, rising borrowing costs, limited fiscal room and t

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Legislative elections in Russia: a "poured-up" vote

Press coverage this Friday, September 18, the parliamentary elections in Russia, the Trump administration accused of war crimes, and speculation around the first list of the French team's selector, Zinedine Zidane.

Confrontations in Yemen: at least 63 deaths within 24 hours

During the clashes in Yemen over the past 24 hours, at least 23 government soldiers were killed in the Houthis missile and drone attacks in the provinces of Taez and Lahi, a military official of the Government said. On the Houthi side, military sources reported forty fighters killed in Saudi strikes and ground fighting.

Why Sébastien Lecornu's 2027 budget looks like a liar poker game

Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu announced on Thursday night a 2027 budget with €54 billion in savings. But with the presidential election in seven months and an explosive social context, difficult to imagine oppositions take the risk of disappointing their voters by letting such cuts pass. The budget battle promises to look like a lying poker game.

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Russian elections: 'Even the facade of opposition has gone'

Russians on Friday began three days of voting in the country’s first wartime parliamentary election, which features virtually no opposition and is all but certain to secure the Kremlin’s political dominance. France 24's Douglas Herbert takes a closer look.

Gaza documentary sparks political storm, protests in Israel

The Israeli filmmakers behind the award-winning documentary "NAZA", which uses anonymous military sources to speak about Israel's widespread killing of civilians in Gaza, have been the subject of a wave of threats and intimidation in their home country, one that has even targeted their families. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said he intends to introduce legislation aimed at revoking the citizenship of people who "defame IDF soldiers."

REPLAY: Macron orders plan to counter 'Russian hybrid attacks'

President Emmanuel Macron on Friday said he had ordered measures to shield France's key infrastructure and defence industry sites from increasing Russian hybrid attacks. The announcement came as Macron spoke to the press after meeting in Paris with political party leaders to discuss recent developments in the international situation including the wars in the Middle East and Ukraine. Watch his press conference in full above.

Ukraine strikes continue as polling stations open in Russia

Russia and Ukraine traded strikes overnight as Russians prepared to vote in parliamentary elections in which the Kremlin's main party, United Russia, is poised to keep its grip on power, with the only party that criticised the war was removed from the ballot.