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French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin (left) and French President Emanuel Macron attend a visit focusing on security and the fight against drug trafficking, March 19, 2024 in La Castellane district of Marseille, southern France
FRANCE: Interior minister Gerald Darmanin announced multiple nationwide anti-drug crackdowns today in a law-and-order move ahead of European elections.
Mr Darmanin said that police units conducted raids and made several arrests in the northern city of Lille as well as Villeneuve-d’Ascq and Roubaix.
SOUTH AFRICA: Prosecutors said today they intended to charge the parliament speaker with corruption, alleging she took $135,000 (around £106,000) and a wig in bribes over a three-year period while she was defence minister.
The global left must be unwavering in it is support for Venezuela as Washington increases its aggression, and clear-eyed about the West’s cynical motives for targeting it, says CLAUDIA WEBBE
Starmer sabotaged Labour with his second referendum campaign, mobilising a liberal backlash that sincerely felt progressive ideals were at stake — but the EU was then and is now an entity Britain should have nothing to do with, explains NICK WRIGHT