International news in seven languages
Topic
On 20 September, the Iranian authorities closed the French Language Centre (CLF) in Tehran, claiming that the institution, linked to the French embassy, had carried out "illegal acts that violated diplomatic conventions" and "abused its status as a language training centre." France summoned the Iranian ambassador to Paris to consultations and promised an appropriate response.
This Sunday, French President Emmanuel Macron received Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney in San Pedro and Miquelon, a French North Atlantic archipelago off the coast of Newfoundland, Canada. The symbolic visit serves to strengthen cooperation in sectors such as fishing, security and energy, and to ratify French sovereignty in the territory, weeks after Donald Trump published an image in which the islands appeared covered by an American flag.
The French company MazelFreten debuted in Mexico with its show 'Rave Lucid', as part of the celebration of the 200 years of diplomatic relations between France and Mexico. The presentation, which combines contemporary dance and electronic music, symbolizes the cultural exchange between the two countries and strengthens the historical ties between the two nations.
On Saturday, September 19, President Emmanuel Macron began a symbolic visit to San Pedro and Miquelon, a French territory off the coast of Newfoundland, Canada, where he will receive Mark Carney. The first visit in the history of a Canadian Prime Minister to that archipelago takes place at a time when Carney has marked a turn in Ottawa's foreign policy towards Europe, amid the growing tensions with Donald Trump.
More than 4,000 km from Paris, the French archipelago of San Pedro and Miquelon, located opposite Canada, returns to the centre of geopolitics. Emmanuel Macron seeks to return his strategic dimension after the publication of a map on Donald Trump's social network where the territory appeared with the US flag. United States. To strengthen its position, France is trying to get close to Canada, while in Miquelon the resettlement of families is progressing by rising sea level.
Spain has borders with France, Portugal, the United Kingdom, Andorra and Morocco, some of which are particularly particular.
The prices of fuel and gas in France were fired. The concern led President Emmanuel Macron to convene a meeting of the G7, whose presidency this year France exercises, to strengthen energy cooperation and to consider a possible coordinated release of strategic oil reserves. The tension over the US-Iran war and the blockade of the Ormuz Strait has increased prices and made it difficult for oil and liquefied natural gas to pass around the world.
After two hundred years in France, the Codice Azcatitlan makes its appearance in Mexico. The manuscript is displayed until the end of the year at the Museum of Anthropology of the capital. After the arrival of the Spaniards in the 16th century, it is considered one of the most important testimonies in the indigenous history of Mexico.
In addition to the strong political fragmentation, there are doubts about its budgetary rigour after the Government has raised the deficit forecast for this year to 5.4%.
The war in Ukraine and the closure of the Ormuz Strait for the war in Iran have direct consequences in France. President Emmanuel Macron met with the Welsh political leaders and then addressed the press to announce that he gave the order to protect the critical infrastructure and facilities of the country's defence industry from "Russian hybrid attacks." The president also stated that the fuel crisis in the country is not linked to any Government decision. Our journalist Erika Olavarría has added information.
The French President, Emmanuel Macron, addressed the press after meeting with political leaders, with whom he assessed the situation in the country, in the midst of external situations that have affected the Galo territory, such as the war in Ukraine, the changes in the Russian strategy and the oil crisis caused by the war in Iran and the closure of the Strait of Ormuz. The President said that although France is not involved in these events, it is being affected and diplomatic efforts are being made to reopen the strategic trade step in the Middle East.
The old document that tells the history of the Mexican people returns in a loan from France to Mexico after almost two centuries of being in Europe.
The President of France, Emmanuel Macron, stated on Friday, 18 September, that he ordered measures to protect the critical infrastructure and facilities of his country's defence industry from "Russian hybrid attacks." He also noted that the threat from Moscow has intensified in recent weeks.
The nuisance of carriers and car owners over the high price of fuels is felt worldwide. In European countries such as France and Germany, in Asia with Syria and Pakistan up to Latin America with Guatemala and Bolivia, the cost of petrol has triggered demonstration and pressure on Governments to subsidize the population months after the close of the Ormuz narrow strategy.
The French head of Real Madrid, Killian Mbappé, is facing ever more intense criticism by conservative and extreme right-wing Spanish and French politicians for partially hiding a T-shirt in support of the residents of Ceuta, a Spanish territory bordering Morocco that is in the midst of a migration crisis. Mbappé said he was wearing his T-shirt to show his solidarity with "all the immigrants who have lost their lives."
Lebanese President Joseph Aoun and Jordanian King Abdala II met with French President Emmanuel Macron on September 17 in Paris to promote international support for the Lebanese Army in the end of the UN FIFUL mission in southern Lebanon, scheduled for December 2026. Aoun took advantage of the meeting to address with Macron the situation in the south of the country and what Beirut calls continued Israeli "attacks," as well as the state of negotiations between Lebanon, the United States and Israel.
