Mario Nawfal

🇫🇷 France's protests have reached the Louvre, with art and culture students blocking the entrance to the world's most visited museum this morning. A protester says the tourists stuck in line are getting aggressive with them, since they've already paid for their tickets. They came for the Mona Lisa. They got French protest culture thrown in for free. Sources: @JBSemerdjian / Writer: Julie t.co/qtwfRu8Hea

He fed ant colonies sugar in an experiment to see what happens when you eliminate their need to do any work. Writer: Mhedi t.co/5QvPdUd1b0

🚨🇫🇷 Rioters in Paris have reportedly begun breaking into people's HOMES! Poor people KNOW the French authorities WON'T be helping them. It may be too late to save France at this point! Writer: Mhedi t.co/tru447BROG

Weasel is a 15-year-old golden retriever who has apparently discovered Pilates, and now he's refusing to grow old gracefully. While other dogs his age are contemplating retirement, this gentleman is working on his core strength. Fifteen years old, doing Pilates, and making the rest of us look like lazy bastards. Legend! Writer: Oliver t.co/GUPUw7fMr0

PARIS HAS FALLEN

🚨🇫🇷 France's weekend of riots has now spilled into the markets... 📉 French stocks, bonds and the euro all slid this morning, with the CAC 40 down nearly 1% and government borrowing costs hovering near their highest since 2002. The extra interest France pays to borrow compared to Germany is sitting near levels last seen during the euro debt crisis, and Goldman Sachs warns taxes will probably have to go up. If things get bad enough for the ECB to step in, Goldman says France could be in for the kind of painful reforms Greece and Ireland went through. Ask the people in those countries what “painful reforms” actually feel like. Source: CNBC / Writer: Julie

🇫🇷 The remains of one French supermarket affected by the savage Paris lootings. A close look at what they DIDN'T TAKE reveals more than taking stock of what they did. Writer: Mhedi t.co/d0HALTlTLl

🇮🇩 3 HIKERS have DIED after an eruption at Indonesia's Dukono volcano caught their group near the crater. Now authorities are investigating whether their tour guide ignored warnings about the danger. It's heartbreaking to think these people set out for an adventure and never came home. Volcanoes are incredible to witness, but the warnings exist for a reason. If they were ignored, the families deserve to know why. Writer: Oliver t.co/7UwcMtyOEY

Muscles are one thing. Making it count in a fight is another thing entirely. Writer: Mhedi t.co/KZICa1lmO2

This is how we entertained ourselves before TikTok 😂 Writer: Ian t.co/MkRptVpTGi

🇵🇸 Half a million people in Gaza are about to lose their food aid, right as winter sets in. The World Food Program says a funding gap is forcing it to cut the number of people it feeds from 1.6 million to 1.1 million. Community kitchens will drop from 250,000 hot meals a day to 150,000, and families in the hardest-to-reach areas will now eat EVERY OTHER day. The reason comes down to money, with the WFP receiving less than half its usual funding for Gaza this year. Markets in Gaza are stocked, but with more than 80% of people out of work, few can afford to buy anything. Cooking gas still isn't allowed in, so children are sent out to collect plastic and cardboard to burn just to bake bread. The agency says it needs $450 million to keep going for the next 6 months. Source: BBC / Writer: Julie

🇫🇷 If Macron doesn't make an example of these scumbags, it's game over for France Writer: Ian t.co/EY8mi29E2x

🇮🇱🇪🇺 Netanyahu says Europe has two very different attitudes toward Israel. At the UN, European countries accuse Israel of stealing land and losing the moral high ground. But behind closed doors, he says, those same countries come asking Israel for help fighting terrorism. Europe seems to like Israel’s intel a lot more than it likes Israel. Source: Clash Report / Writer: Julie t.co/ww2Sy4PVUg

🇫🇷 Footage of the bruised woman who lost her restaurant in the Paris riots. The looters reduced the restaurant to what looks like the ruins of a fallen city. "A life of work," she exclaimed in tears. Something that the parasites the French government won't try very hard to prosecute will never know. Writer: Mhedi t.co/cyyZ9D3L49

🇮🇱🇪🇺 Netanyahu on his belief that Europe has been seized by far-left lunatics and Islamists: "I really get pissed off with them. You don't have to bend to Islamist constituencies and the lunatic left. Stand up. Be a leader. President Trump is a leader. Be a leader! They're not leaders. They're so weak and passive, and they're basically trying to appease the worst fanatics in their realm." Surprised he didn't add that they need to bomb a few countries Writer: Mhedi t.co/OkYaMxh4wQ

This was Ohio's answer to looters back in 2020 The right to bear arms certainly has its benefits Writer: Ian t.co/g9NQ00pj9Z

🇺🇸 Bernie Sanders just explained how DEMOCRATS managed to LOSE THE WORKING CLASS to a billionaire. And he isn't being particularly gentle about it. Democrats spent years promising ordinary Americans a better life while backing trade deals that wiped out good-paying manufacturing jobs. “They lost faith in the Democratic Party, and not unjustifiably.” The party that spent decades calling itself the champion of working Americans watched those same voters turn to Trump. And Bernie, who has been complaining about this forever, is still trying to get his own side to listen. Imagine losing the factory worker vote to a billionaire with gold-plated furniture and then needing Bernie Sanders to explain what went wrong. Source: Fox News / Writer: Oliver

The cost of living in New York City is insane!! Writer: Ian t.co/8CJJBWZiFM

🇺🇸🇸🇦🇦🇪 The U.S. just told Americans in 12 Middle East countries to be ready for cancelled flights, closed airspace and sudden changes to their travel plans. The alerts cover Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, Oman, Jordan, Iraq, Lebanon, Yemen, Israel and Iran, warning that hostilities could spread and that Iran and its allies may target U.S. interests, including American businesses. They also flag Houthi strikes on Saudi airports and infrastructure, and Americans are being told to keep a low profile and steer clear of crowds and anywhere tied to the U.S. The alerts don’t mean airports are shutting down, but when Washington’s travel warning reads like a map of the whole region, maybe hold off on that Gulf getaway. Sources: U.S. State Department, Iran International (anti-IRGC outlet) / Writer: Julie

🇫🇷 Marine Le Pen urging immediate action against rioting in Paris, calling it an attack on France: "Behind every looted business lies the work of entire lives. Behind every police officer assaulted, behind every public servant threatened, it is the Republic itself that is attacked. France cannot, must not, and will never become accustomed to such scenes." Writer: Mhedi t.co/XZo8alQYNJ

🇫🇷 Marine Le Pen promising she would take the NECESSARY action to eliminate riots as president: "The first principle I will apply is responsibility, with the rule: the rioter pays. Whoever breaks the law must answer for their actions. Whoever causes damage must pay for it. Anyone who attacks public property, businesses, or representatives of the state must know that the Republic will not back down. Justice must be swift and effective, and criminal and financial penalties must be genuinely enforced and deliberately deterrent." It may be COMMON SENSE to make sure the CRIMINAL is the one who suffers instead of the VICTIM, but in today's mad world, that suggestion will get you labelled 'far-right.' Writer: Mhedi t.co/d0XkRiPcjb

🇫🇷 "We undoubtedly failed this weekend." That's France's Justice Minister Gérald Darmanin, admitting the government got caught flat-footed by the riots and pointing to "flaws in the intelligence." Nonetheless, he's still standing by Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez, the man in charge of the police. So who pays for that failure, the ministers or the shop owners left sweeping up the glass? Writer: Julie t.co/kyski1EPeB

🇮🇱🇬🇧 Netanyahu called it the “Islamic Republic of Britain” back in August. Now it’s just “Islamist Britain,” and this time he’s going after its speech police. “Look at what they do in Islamist Britain now. Do you know that 3,000 Brits have been brought to the dock, put on trial for tweeting this or that, and quite a few of them have gone to jail?” The label will make London fume, but the numbers back him up more than they’d like. UK police arrest around 12,000 people a year over online posts and messages, roughly 30 a DAY. Sources: The Times / Writer: Julie t.co/r7V7BxGhFH

🇺🇸🇵🇸 Macklemore’s “Free Palestine” tour has landed him in hot water again. Ed Sheeran’s tour dropped him, so Macklemore hit back with his own “Free Palestine” tour. Dublin, Paris, London, with proceeds going to 12 organizations supporting Palestinians. The problem? One of them is the Palestinian Youth Movement. A speaker from the group was heard celebrating the October 7 attacks, and a spokesperson for its UK branch reportedly called the hostage-taking “legitimate.” Now a UK Jewish group wants Live Nation to explain how the organizations were checked. And with this group on the list, his critics have plenty more to go after him for. Source: Fox News / Writer: Daniyal

🇺🇸🇩🇪🇷🇺 Rubio is reviving the viral clip of German diplomats smirking at Trump’s Russia warning, and this time he’s the one laughing. “President Trump, in his first term, said that the Germans had left themselves vulnerable to Russian energy as a tool of blackmail in case of conflict. And they laughed. They mocked him. Our media mocked the president for saying that, and our media celebrated European leaders who laughed at the president. Well, guess what? That’s exactly what happened.” Back at the UN in 2018, the German delegation was caught smirking as Trump warned them. By the time Russia invaded Ukraine, Germany was getting more than half its gas from Moscow. Who’s laughing now? Writer: Julie t.co/jMpV84QMNG t.co/BrKb48pfDv

🇺🇸🇸🇦 The engineer accused of bugging an OpenAI executive conference room was chatting with a Saudi royal on WhatsApp just 4 days before his arrest, prosecutors say. The royal kept trying to lure him to a Saudi AI project, at one point telling him, "Saudi needs you more than the U.S!" His reply: "100." The bug was allegedly tucked behind a TV in a room where OpenAI execs were meeting with government officials around the same time. Once he was arrested, his wife and 3-month-old son flew out of the U.S. business class, courtesy of a member of the Saudi military. Prosecutors don't claim the royal told him to plant anything, but they want him locked up without bail, saying he has the connections to flee. A judge decides today. Source: CNBC / Writer: Julie

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇵🇸 Rubio says the Middle East’s problems basically come down to one thing: Iran’s clerics. “If there were no radical Shia clerics in Iran, if they didn’t exist, if that wasn’t there, none of these problems would exist. You may still have a Palestinian issue. I would argue that issue would be easier to deal with if Iran didn’t exist.” Maybe so, but the Palestinian issue had a 31-year head start before the clerics took power in 1979, and nobody managed to solve it then either. Writer: Julie t.co/vXa7nTlBgk

🇦🇱 Protests have spiraled out of control in Albania, with one police officer engulfed in FLAMES during anti-government chaos in the capital. The unrest is part of a growing movement demanding Prime Minister Edi Rama's resignation over corruption allegations, rising living costs, university expenses and limited job opportunities. Clashes have intensified since October 13, with government buildings and police facilities attacked and set ablaze. Authorities have arrested around 1,000 people so far. Writer: Mhedi t.co/mJCmWPKjG7

🇺🇸🇪🇺 Marco Rubio arguing that Europe's self-destructive energy policies set the groundwork for the Ukraine war: "Their dependence on Russian energy is one of the reasons why Putin went into Ukraine because he thought he could. Because he believed Europe wasn't going to do anything about it. So, I hope they've learned that lesson. It seems like they are now, but reversing 20 years of green hyperbole, neglecting domestic energy development, and overreliance on one energy source takes time." Writer: Mhedi t.co/k3Oa2mPNkP

Neuralink is becoming as much a part of patients' daily routine as getting out of bed. For people living with ALS, that means being able to control a computer through their thoughts throughout the day. Think about being able to send a message, browse the internet, or handle everyday tasks when your body can no longer do what you ask it to. An extension of the body. A lifeline that can give people back some independence. Millions of people will one day benefit from that same freedom. @Neuralink / Writer: Annette, Designer: Janné