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Protests and violent riots in France have left enormous damage. On 17 October, what had been announced as a peaceful march of workers, students and farmers, ended in one of the most violent days of the last ten years: 3000 vandalized shops, destroyed in public institutions, the town hall of Limoges on fire, more than 2400 detainees and a whole country in shock.
Lula da Silva and Flávio Bolsonaro reach the final line of the campaign as the main protagonists of the Brazilian presidential elections. Corruption, which was already one of the sensitive issues for the electorate, is once again gaining interest following the outbreak of a financial scandal with several ramifications and accusations that spatter the son of former President Jair Bolsonaro and Judge Alexandre de Moraes, a key figure of Brazilian justice and the usual target of right-wing criticism.
The fears generated by the development of Artificial Intelligence and the weakening of global multilateralism will mark Pope Leo XIV's visit to France, scheduled for September 25-28. The great expectation generated in Paris has made it necessary to extend the capacity of the central event: the great mass to be held on Saturday 26 in the square of the Concordia. Why France? At First Plana we analyzed the keys to the papal visit.
