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Last updated: October 2026
The species is quietly opting out — Magna Bureau
Mexico's birth rate halved in five years. France now buries more than it births. Humanity may already be below replacement fertility.
NewsFrance pays the crisis premium again: OAT-Bund spread tops…
France now pays more than Italy and Greece to borrow: the OAT-Bund spread tops 100 basis points for the first time since 2012, as debt nears 119% of GDP.
NewsThe Luxembourg breakthrough: Le Pen's… — Magna Bureau
For the first time in its history, the Rassemblement National will hold a parliamentary group in the Senate — 15 seats won Sunday, seven months before a presidential election in which Marine Le Pen le
NewsFrance walks out: 150 demonstrations, one — Magna Bureau
On Tuesday, eight public-sector unions called a national strike — 150+ demonstrations in 91 departments — against the index-point freeze. 862,000 public servants earn below the minimum wage. The stree
NewsFrance's €54 billion budget walks into — Magna Bureau
Lecornu presents the 2027 budget bill this week with no majority behind it: deficit from 5.4% toward 5%, debt at 121.7% of GDP, and the OAT spread still above 100 basis points. Paris is about to find
NewsNo clear frontrunner to succeed Guterres — the veto math…
Three months before Guterres's term ends, no candidate commands the field — Grynspan leads the straw polls but five 'discourage' votes, possibly P5, keep…
NewsInflation's second act: Germany at… — Magna Bureau
September prices hit multiyear highs across the eurozone's big economies, all of it energy. Lagarde preaches a "measured response" — but markets are pricing four more hikes.
NewsFrance's Biomass Hydrogen Pioneer Decides… — Magna Bureau
Haffner Energy will market the renewable hydrogen produced at its Marolles plant through a new refuelling station — a small announcement, and a signal that Europe's hydrogen economy is finally learnin
NewsPink October: The Race to Outrun Breast… — Magna Bureau
October is breast cancer awareness month, and France is all in — 61,000 diagnoses a year, a national screening push, and a Paris lab growing 'tumors on a chip' to beat the disease in four days.
NewsNetanyahu says flydubai co-pilot was… — Magna Bureau
After FZ1073's 14,000-foot dive and emergency landing at Tabuk, Israel's prime minister calls it an attempted terror attack and the Emirates opens a criminal probe — and the Abraham Accords' flagship
NewsSaudi-led coalition accuses Houthis of… — Magna Bureau
The Taibah station was hit at 5:11 am Tuesday, knocking one transformer out of service; the coalition calls it a Houthi 'terrorist act' against the holy cities, the Houthis call it a lie — the gravest
NewsThe euro's French discount: currency of a… — Magna Bureau
At $1.1237 the euro sits at a 17-month low — and the market has named the culprit: France. As the 10-year OAT flirts with 5% and the spread over Germany hits crisis-era wides, the bond vigilantes are
NewsChina Turns Off the Fuel Taps for October — Magna Bureau
On Beijing's orders, Chinese refiners have suspended all October fuel exports beyond Hong Kong and Macau. PetroChina is canceling cargoes, Asia's diesel squeeze is deepening, and the world is learning
NewsThe Market Stopped Trusting Governments — Magna Bureau
Treasury yields hit their highest since 2002, the dollar reached a 17-month peak, and Europe’s bond markets buckled under France’s fiscal mess — all in a single day.
NewsLeo XIV at Lourdes: 150,000, One Defiant… — Magna Bureau
On the prairie beside Lourdes' basilica, before 150,000 people — many in wheelchairs — the first American pope condemned assisted dying as “false compassion” at the shrine of miraculous cures, and dec
NewsThe Lab on Wheels Chasing Ebola's Fastest… — Magna Bureau
On the shore of Lake Albert, a mobile laboratory delivers its verdict in about an hour. But the fastest-growing Ebola outbreak ever recorded is still outrunning the science meant to stop it.
NewsMcAllister: Europe, 'no longer at peace'… — Magna Bureau
The European Parliament's foreign affairs chief tells France 24 the EU cannot yet take sovereign decisions in key defence areas ‘because we are too dependent on US capabilities’ — a diagnosis of the g
NewsOn the run for 20 years, Kony is still… — Magna Bureau
In an interview with France 24, the ICC's lead investigator on the Kony case says the Ugandan warlord remains active within the Lord's Resistance Army, as fresh attacks in eastern Central African Repu