France politics
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 days agoFrance's radical left on brink of local election victory in Roubaix
Roubaix, once a textile hub, faces poverty and unemployment, with local elections seen as pivotal for political change.
Turnout in the vote to elect 275 members of the House of Representatives was estimated at 60 percent, acting Chief Election Commissioner Ram Prasad Bhandari said at a news conference. Apart from a few isolated incidents of obstruction, the preliminary reports from the national and international observers deployed to monitor the election also indicate that the election has been conducted peacefully.
Displaced Palestinians, fleeing northern Gaza due to an Israeli military operation, move southward after Israeli forces ordered residents of Gaza City to evacuate. More than a quarter of a million people have been displaced from Gaza City in the last month, according to figures from the UN, with tens of thousands more forced to flee makeshift homes and shelters daily in the face of a new Israeli offensive Photograph: Mahmoud Issa/Reuters Photograph: Dawoud Abu Alkas/Reuters
"We have crossed a line. We are in a place we did not want to be, but we are there. The thing we were all warning about for the last few years is not coming, it is here."
The documentary highlights protest encampments at Columbia University in 2024, reminiscent of past movements, but the film struggles to capture the evolving political landscape.