France reels from violent protests as Ukraine fires 1,000 drones at Russia
France faced one of its most violent weekends in years, with more than 2,300 arrests after cost-of-living protests, while Ukraine launched more than 1,000 drones across Russia. Fighting in Yemen, a spreading Ebola outbreak in Kenya and unrest in Albania added to a day of widening crises.
Police arrested more than 2,300 people over the weekend after protests over the cost of living and school conditions drew hundreds of thousands and turned violent. About 1,500 businesses were damaged, with losses estimated at hundreds of millions of euros. Macron said on Sunday that "nothing justifies" the violence and promised full transparency on the police response, and on Monday he rejected Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez's resignation after politicians on the left and right called for him to go.
Ukrainian attacks set an oil export terminal ablaze in St Petersburg on Sunday in one of Kyiv's largest aerial bombardments. Two people were killed and at least 17 injured as both sides keep hitting power infrastructure after Trump's "energy ceasefire" broke down. Trump defended sanctions relief for Russia and accused Zelensky of prolonging the war, while Zelensky said contact with Washington is "virtually nonstop".
Gulf ministers urged action against the Houthis after their attacks on Saudi Arabia, while fighting has displaced more than 233,000 people across Yemen. Egypt's defense chiefs pledged support to Saudi Arabia after President Sisi asked lawmakers to authorize military assistance he said would be defensive. Aid agencies warn of a deepening humanitarian crisis.
Kenyan authorities say the latest patient was likely exposed to the country's first Ebola case. The outbreak is spreading across the region. Separately, Russia has given the WHO little information nearly three weeks after a worker at a Siberian plague research unit died of a mysterious respiratory illness.
Offices at the Supreme Court in Tirana were set ablaze as anti-government protests continued into a fifth day. Clashes had broken out near the prime minister's office on Saturday. Prime Minister Edi Rama denounced the violence and said "outside forces" were using the protests.
US officials condemned settler attacks during the West Bank olive harvest, while Netanyahu downplayed accounts of them. France and Belgium condemned an attack on diplomats. The World Food Programme says 1.4 million people in Gaza face acute food shortages despite the ceasefire, with funding gaps forcing aid cutbacks.
A speeding truck ploughed into a crowd at a Hindu festival, killing 13 people, officials said. President Droupadi Murmu called the deaths heartbreaking.
Five Salvadoran soldiers serving with a U.N.-backed force sent to combat gang violence are missing after an ambush in Port-au-Prince. They were apparently abducted.