The Norwegian Nobel Committee has awarded the Nobel Peace Prize to Navanethem “Navi” Pillay for her efforts to promote peace and international law. The award recognizes “a person who with exceptional courage and integrity has led the way towards a more comprehensive global legal order,” the committee stated. The laureate, the committee continued, “has been instrumental in ensuring that war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide are prosecuted.”
Riot police confront students in Paris. Around 450,000 people came out across the country to protest, including 100,000 in the French capital, according to organizers.
Demonstration in Rennes, in western France, on Tuesday. Around 900 educational centers out of a national total of 3,700 suspended classes either partially or completely, according to the Education Ministry.
There are moments in the life of democracies when parliament, because of its divisions and deadlocks, is unable to respond to the urgent needs of a country — and when that happens, it means it is time to give citizens a voice. Spain is living through one of those moments.
King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia of Spain on Tuesday received French President Emmanuel Macron and First Lady Brigitte Macron at the Royal Palace for a gala dinner as part of a state visit by the French leader — one of his last before France holds general elections in April of next year. After almost 10 years in office, this was the first state visit to Spain by Macron, whose second term ends in the spring, after which he is barred from running for a third consecutive term.
French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte Macron walk with Spain's King Felipe and Queen Letizia during a welcoming ceremony for the gala dinner hosted in their honor at the Royal Palace in Madrid.
The 81st UN General Assembly, which ends this Monday, will be remembered for the photograph of a smiling Delcy Rodríguez and Donald Trump—a perfect metaphor for the new era in Venezuela–U.S. relations—and for the decision by many delegates to leave the chamber when Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was speaking. The New York gathering is concluding with the realization that the world faces a pressing choice between a future governed by “a return to the law of the jungle or a civilized international society,” as French President Emmanuel Macron summed up.
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