Manchester, England, October 2, 2025: In the most violent act of antisemitic hatred Britain has seen in years, a Muslim man rams a car into a group of Jews on a sidewalk in front of a synagogue, exits the vehicle and begins stabbing other Jews. He is shot by the police. Two Jews are killed, one by the murderer and another who was shot accidentally by police.
A well-armed jihadist group affiliated with al Qaeda is closing in on Bamako, the capital of Mali. The country’s military junta and their Russian partners are struggling to counter the jihadis, who now hold sway in many parts of the huge Sahelian country.
Fuel is running short in Bamako as militants belonging to a group called Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam al-Muslimin (JNIM) cut roads to the capital, attack military patrols and ambush tanker trucks.
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For years, France choreographed the politics of the Sahel with soldiers and secret deals. Today, the tables have turned
For half a century, Niger’s plains fed France’s atomic dreams. The uranium pulled from the ground there lit Paris’ streets, powered its factories, and gave France the illusion of energy independence.
Jama’at Nusrat ul-Islam wa al-Muslimin (JNIM) claimed its first attack in Nigeria on 28 October. The strike, in the north of Kwara State near the Benin border, left one soldier dead. The Sahel-based group says it seized weapons, equipment and cash.
Decade-old allegations of spies and betrayal in the Syrian desert, involving one of the world’s biggest corporations which stands accused of crimes against humanity, are to be played out in a Paris courtroom.
French cement manufacturer Lafarge and eight former executives and middlemen go on trial on November 4 in a case expected to last six weeks.
Autrefois symbole de l’unité européenne, l’enquête sur Nord Stream est devenue le miroir de ses divisions. Entre puissance américaine, intrigues ukrainiennes et opacité polonaise, la quête de vérité de l’Europe risque désormais de devenir une nouvelle victime de la guerre de l’énergie.
Introduction
Au fil du temps, j’ai rédigé plusieurs séries d’articles approfondis sur l’issue du grand conflit entre l’Occident et le Sud global, dont la plus récente est ma série «La guerre entre deux mondes a déjà commencé» (Partie 1 ; Partie 2 ; Partie 3 ; Partie 4 ; Partie 5). J’en suis arrivé à la conclusion que ce conflit durera très longtemps, mais que la multipolarité du Sud global finira par l’emporter.
American sources claim that Vladimir Putin is offering to renounce his claims to the partially occupied Kherson and Zaporizhia regions in exchange for full control over Donbas, making this a condition for a ceasefire. By the end of the fourth year of the war, Russia has managed to capture only 70% of the Donetsk region. Kramatorsk, Sloviansk, Kostyantynivka, and Pokrovsk—important industrial centers and well-defended fortress towns—remain under Ukrainian control. The Insider spoke with residents of the unoccupied part of the Donetsk region about how they have endured shelling for three years and how they view the prospects of a “Russian world” coming to power in exchange for an end to the war.
Despite passions running high, it is notable that both countries have made demonstrable progress in the direction of normalising ties over the past weeks, suggesting something major is in works behind the scenes.
Recent developments have raised hope that some progress might soon be made behind the scenes in comparatively – a key qualifier – normalising relations between India and Pakistan after they had dramatically deteriorated two years ago over Kashmir.