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France 24
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- France 24
Send in the Marines? Trump deploys troops to LA protests
Americas 43:10 Issued on: From the show The United States' main foreign expedition force deployed to… Los Angeles, this on top of the US president enrolling the National Guard in a show of force against pockets of violent protest against the arrest of undocumented immigrants at their place of work. It's a fight that Donald Trump wanted to pick for a long time, going over the head of the Democratic governor of California just days before another first, in Washington a US president staging a military parade on his own birthday. In his first term, Trump's Republican party was the party of states rights, regularly accusing the federal government of overreach. How did it all change so fast? A nation with a determined far-right that's up against a splintered mainstream, that sounds a lot like France where the next presidential election's in two years. As Marine Le Pen's party harks back to its trademark anti-immigrant rhetoric, a topic where a majority of US citizens back Trump, what lessons from the seemingly fast-changing form of democracy in America? Produced by François Picard, Maya Yataghene, Juliette Laffont, Ilayda Habip, Alessandro Xenos.
France 24
an hour ago
- France 24
Two Palestinians killed as Israeli forces storm West Bank city
The military said troops opened fire and "eliminated" two Palestinians who had attempted to steal a soldier's weapon as the "counterterrorism operation" was underway in the old city of Nablus. The Palestinian health ministry said authorities had been informed by Israel of the deaths of Nidal Amira, 40, and Khaled Amira, 35. It did not specify whether the two were related. The Israeli military said one soldier was "moderately injured" and three others lightly in the incident. AFPTV footage showed Israeli soldiers standing in one of the old city's narrow streets, next to two dead bodies. An AFP journalist said dozens of military vehicles entered Nablus's historic centre shortly after midnight (2100 GMT Monday). A curfew had been announced over loudspeakers the day before. At a major square outside the old city, young men and boys gathered on Tuesday to burn tyres and throw stones at the Israeli armoured vehicles. The Palestine Red Crescent Society said that during the Israeli raid, at least three people were injured from bullet shrapnel, four from "physical assault", and dozens more from tear gas inhalation. It added that ambulances were blocked from entering the old city, obstructing the work of medical teams. Israel said in a statement that its forces had searched "250 structures" and arrested "six wanted individuals" during Tuesday's operation. The northern West Bank, where Nablus is located, has been the target of a major Israeli offensive since late January. Israel has occupied the West Bank since 1967 and its forces regularly carry out raids that authorities say target Palestinian militants. An AFP correspondent in Nablus saw Israeli soldiers searching shops and detaining several people for questioning on Tuesday. The correspondent said Israeli flags were raised over the roofs of buildings taken over by the troops and used as temporary bases. Violence has surged in the West Bank since the start of the Gaza war, triggered by the unprecedented October 7, 2023 attack on Israel by the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas. The Palestinian Authority says at least 938 Palestinians, including fighters but also many civilians, have been killed in the West Bank by Israeli soldiers or settlers since October 2023. Over the same period, at least 35 Israelis including civilians and soldiers have been killed in Palestinian attacks or during Israeli military raids, according to official Israeli figures.
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Two men sentenced to life for links to murder of Maltese journalist
Two men were sentenced to life in prison on Tuesday after being convicted of complicity in the murder of Maltese journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia. Jamie Vella and Robert Agius were accused of supplying the bomb that killed Caruana Galizia in 2017. Both were found guilty of the charges last week and on Tuesday were given the maximum sentence of life in prison. Caruana Galizia, 53, was murdered on 16 October 2017 by a car bomb that was detonated while she was driving near her home. In her career, she had written extensively about suspected corruption in political and business circles in Malta, and her murder shocked Europe and triggered angry protests in the Mediterranean island country. Caruana Galizia's investigative reports had targeted people in then-Prime Minister Joseph Muscat's inner circle whom she accused of having offshore companies in tax havens disclosed in the Panama Papers leak. She also targeted the opposition and at the time of her death was facing more than 40 libel suits. The six-week trial also concerned the separate murder of a lawyer, Carmel Chircop, who was shot and killed in 2015. Two other men, George Degiorgio and Adrian Agius, were convicted and sentenced to life in prison for that murder on Thursday. George Degiorgio and his brother Alfred Degiorgio both pleaded guilty in 2022 to carrying out the murder of Caruana Galizia. They were each sentenced to 40 years in prison. A third man, Vincent Muscat, pleaded guilty in 2021 for his role in the Caruana Galizia murder, and was sentenced to 15 years in prison. He testified in the recent jury trial after being granted a presidential pardon for his role in the Chircop murder on the condition he tell the whole truth. Yorgen Fenech, a prominent Maltese businessman, is currently out of jail on bail awaiting trial on charges of alleged complicity in the Caruana Galizia murder. French leftist MEP Rima Hassan has remained in Israeli custody and was awaiting a hearing on Tuesday before an Israeli judge, after being detained the day before alongside seven other people. Hassan was part of the 'Freedom Flotilla', a group of activists who set off on 3 June from Catania, Italy, to try to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza by boat but were intercepted by Israel's authorities about 200 kilometres from the coast on Sunday evening. The Israeli Foreign Affairs Ministry said then that the crew of the Madleen vessel had been provided with water and sandwiches but Hassan's team said that after a brief, filmed, distribution of sandwiches during the arrest, no water or food was provided during the 16-hour journey to the port of Ashdod, which the crew was forced to spend on the ship's deck until nightfall. The 12 Freedom Flotilla members were then presented with a document urging them to recognise they had entered Israeli territory illegally. Signing it meant immediate expulsion, while refusal would result in being brought before a judge. Four of them chose the first option, including Swedish activist Greta Thunberg, Spaniard Sergio Toribio, and two French nationals, Baptiste Andre and Omar Faiad. But the other eight refused to sign the document, arguing that the Freedom Flotilla was intercepted in international waters and rejecting the claim that they entered illegally. These eight people are now detained awaiting a new hearing before an Israeli judge, who could order their expulsion in the coming days. Hassan's parliamentary immunity guarantees her freedom of expression and protects her from legal action stemming from any EU member state, but does not apply outside of EU territory. The MEP's team denounced the document presented as 'a propaganda operation aimed at legitimising an illegal arrest and detention' and claimed it is 'a blatant violation of her parliamentary immunity'. 'We strongly affirm that their humanitarian mission to Gaza was legal, necessary, and urgent; the arrest violates international law; the detention is illegal and arbitrary," the statement from Hassan's team also reads. The European Parliament told Euronews on Tuesday that its President Roberta Metsola has been in constant contact with the Israeli authorities to ensure the safety and security of Hassan. 'We will remain in round-the-clock contact with all parties until it is resolved safely," a Parliament spokesperson said. This is not the first time a MEP was detained in a third country. In February 2025, three MEPs - Isabel Serra (Spain), Catarina Martins (Portugal), Jussi Saramo (Finland), all from the Left group - were detained and subsequently expelled from El Aaiún, the main city of the disputed territory of Western Sahara, where they had gone to carry out a human rights observation mission. 'The European Parliament will always insist that all its members are kept safe and treated with respect as elected representatives of the people of Europe wherever they are in the world", the Parliament also said in its statement to Euronews. Her detention and the Freedom Flotilla's seizure have become a much-debated political issue in France and in Brussels. France Unbowed published an appeal calling for the immediate release of the passengers and the lifting of the Israeli blockade on Gaza. Its leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon and MEP Manon Aubry also called for urgent intervention from President Macron and European and international bodies, declaring they bear a moral responsibility to defend these activists. A rally they organised in Paris on Monday to protest against the detention and Israel's actions in Gaza gathered tens of thousands of people, according to Mélenchon. In the European Parliament, The Left, the Socialists and Democrats and the Greens/European Free Alliance co-signed a statement asking for all the activists to be released.
