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Huties hold Yanbu siege, while Macron announces military means to protect the Red Sea

The Huti rebels claim to have attacked the state oil facilities of Saudi Aramco in the port city of Yanbu, while the French president has decided to deploy "soldiers, radar systems and defence systems" to protect the Red Sea oil route, denying that he will be involved in the conflict. Meanwhile, the U.S. Senate has refused to limit Trump's offensive in Iran, amid an apparent reactivation of the Strait of Ormuz.

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Macron says 'CIA did not ​inform French services' of possible Russian drone attacks

French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday denied a report by Spanish newspaper El Mundo that the US Central Intelligence Agency had warned European governments of possible Russian drone attacks from the Mediterranean. He also said in a primetime TV interview that France will send troops and defence systems to Saudi Arabia to help protect the Red Sea port city of Yanbu.

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A "energy confining" announced by Macron this Thursday? Executive "formally"

Since the beginning of the week, many publications on social networks claim that restrictions on energy consumption will be announced by Emmanuel Macron during his interview scheduled Thursday night on France 2 and TF1. Contacted by France 24, the Ministère de l'Économie "dementally formally" announced an "energy conflict".

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Does the UN General Assembly reflect a crisis of international cooperation between member countries?

The first day of the 81st UN General Assembly in New York was marked by speeches about war, artificial intelligence and climate crisis. Discourses such as Trump, Macron and Lula showed a fracture in multilateralism. Sergio Castaño Riaño, international analyst, doctor in International Relations and coordinator of the degree in International Relations at the International University of La Rioja, addresses the issue in France 24.

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Trump, Lula and Macron mark the beginning of the UN General Assembly

The UN opened its 81st General Assembly in New York with the role of Trump, Lula and Macron. Trump proclaimed that the US is' the most powerful country in the world '; Lula denounced the democratic crisis in Venezuela and Cuba; and Macron called for greater international commitment to Palestine.

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Israel denounces Macron's UN remarks

Israeli officials have hit back at French President Emmanuel Macron after he criticised Israel’s conduct in the occupied West Bank during his address to the UN General Assembly. But while Macron used strong words against Israel, France allowed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s plane to fly through French airspace on its way to New York, despite an ICC arrest warrant against him. Delano D’Souza reports.

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Israel blasts ‘grotesque absurdity’ of Macron’s UN remarks on West Bank

The Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office on Wednesday issued a stinging rebuke to French President Emmanuel Macron's UN speech denouncing settler violence against Palestinians in the West Bank. Macron's remarks that "Hamas has never struck in the West Bank" was a "grotesque absurdity", said the statement.

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Macron urges world to 'stand firm' against 'abuse of power by empires' in final UN speech

French President Emmanuel Macron used his last address before the UN General Assembly as France's leader to urge the world's nations to stand alongside the United Nations in the face of a resurgent "law of the jungle". Macron also called for a moratorium on strikes on civilian and energy infrastructure in the Russia-Ukraine war and an "open-source" model for frontier AI independent of China and the US.

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Gaza: Emmanuel Macron denounces before the UN "a spectacle that shames us all"

French President Emmanuel Macron held a speech at the rostrum of the UN General Assembly on Tuesday. In particular, he criticized the peace efforts for the Gaza Strip, stating that no humanitarian path had been opened since an "apparent peace" in the Palestinian enclave and describing the situation as a "honest to all" spectacle.

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Emmanuel Macron at the UN: what to remember from his speech?

French President Emmanuel Macron, speaking in the framework of the UN General Assembly, warned Tuesday, September 22 against the "return of the law of the jungle" in the world and called to stand "right alongside the UN". What should be remembered from his speech in New York? The decryption of the chroniclers of France 24.

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Emmanuel Macron called Donald Trump to further support Ukraine

Donald Trump received Emmanuel Macron on Monday 21 September in New York City for an interview deemed "very constructive" by the latter on the situation in the Red Sea and the war in Ukraine. In particular, the two men discussed the "need to help our Ukrainian friends even faster and stronger in terms of (missiles) interceptors," said the Head of State. Sarah Anderson, France 24 correspondent in New York and Anne Corpet, columnist in France 24.

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Macron calls on EU to tackle soaring energy prices

Emmanuel Macron has written to the EU Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, calling on Brussels to take immediate action to lower energy prices. They have been on the rise as the conflict in the Middle East spreads, and as Ukraine's attacks on Russian diesel refineries continue.