❌

Reading view

Cristiano Ronaldo gets 30-day suspension for Portugal walkout

The football star received minimum penalty and will also have to pay a €255 fine. The disciplinary committee took into account 'the remorse shown' in Ronaldo's October 6 statement.

© PATRICIA DE MELO MOREIRA / AFP

Cristiano Ronaldo leaves the pitch at Jose Alvalade stadium in Lisbon on September 24, 2026.
  •  

Israel arrests 10 after West Bank settler attacks on American photographer and French mayor

One day after the beating of a 'Washington Post' photographer, settlers attacked a convoy of European diplomats, including the French and Belgian consuls general in Jerusalem and the French mayor.

© Ammar Awad / REUTERS

Clashes between Palestinians and Israeli settlers during olive harvest in Abu Falah, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, October 16, 2026.
  •  

Swedish parliament speaker asks Center Party leader to try to form government

In a bid to break the deadlock with neither the left nor the right blocs able to build a majority, speaker Andreas Norlen said he asked Elisabeth Thand Ringqvist to explore the conditions for a 'middle option.'

© JONATHAN NACKSTRAND / AFP

MPs, including Center Party leader Elisabeth Thand Ringqvist attend a session of the Swedish Parliament Riksdagen on October 15, 2026, in Stockholm.
  •  

US, China, Germany and UK urge caution to citizens visiting France

More than 2,500 people were arrested after violence broke out amid demonstrations on that saw some half a million people turn out across France to protest against the cost of living.

© Emma Da Silva / AP Photo/Emma Da Silva

People look at a charred car on Place de la République the day after a demonstration against rising living costs, joining students' grievances, in Paris, October 18, 2026.
  •  

Trump and Putin claim French protests are evidence of 'migrant chaos' and 'Europe's decline'

The MAGA movement and the Kremlin, along with European far-right groups, described the demonstrations in France as a consequence of immigration and the decline of 'Western civilization,' while other observers saw them as a sign of the Macron era's twilight.

© Jose Luis Magana/AP

US President Donald Trump at the White House, Washington, October 18, 2026.
  •  

Lula and Bolsonaro trade insults during debate

A week before the presidential election runoff, the two men sparred over the economy, public security, healthcare, corruption and Brazil's ties to the United States.

© Jean Carniel / REUTERS

Brazilian presidential candidates Flavio Bolsonaro and Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva take part in a presidential debate in Sao Paulo, Brazil, October 18, 2026.
  •  

Foucault in Iran: The archaeology of an illusion

Previously unpublished texts featured in the new book 'Iran: When the Earth Trembles,' shed new light, according to Islamic studies scholar and philosopher Christian Jambet, on how Michel Foucault misjudged the Islamic Revolution.

© Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images

On February 28, 1972, Michel Foucault (right) spoke with philosopher and journalist Maurice Clavel (1920-1979), during a demonstration in front of a Renault factory, in the western Paris suburb of Boulogne-Billancourt.
  •  
❌