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In the middle of the week of vacation, French students take the streets again to demand increases in investment in education. The Government has met with the demonstrators on several occasions, but for young people the proposed measures are only "attempts to calm them" and "are not enough."
The French Prime Minister, Sébastien Lecornu, meets on Monday with representatives of high school and university student organizations with the aim of ending more than a month of protests and riots. The country faces another week of saucepan and demonstrations, which will have as a colophone a national mobilization on Saturday, October 31, which President Emmanuel Macron has listed as "high risk."
The United States brings together representatives of Ukraine and its European allies this Friday in Miami to try to move forward towards a common proposal to end the war with Russia. The envoys of Donald Trump, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner will address with the Ukrainian delegation the security assurances and the reconstruction of the country, while Washington warns about the stalemate of the conflict and the pressure for a diplomatic exit is growing before winter.
The leaders participate in a meeting with entrepreneurs from both countries and a delegation of Argentine governors
United Nations Venezuela's Acting President, Delcy Rodríguez, met with Donald Trump in New York, a few kilometres from the building in Brooklyn where Nicolás Maduro remains in detention.
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.
