🇨🇦 🇵🇸 🇮🇱 Fin de Pencier on X: Israeli settler pepper-spraying me in the face at point blank range today, during an olive harvest near the village of Burqa.

📎 Fin de Pencier

🇫🇷⚡️- BREAKING: French police forces repelled a crowd attempting to charge towards the presidential palace. Several townhalls and officials buildings are currently in flames across France as violence erupts.

—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 BREAKING: The amount of crude oil and refined products flowing out of the Strait of Hormuz has plummeted from about 17 million barrels per day in early October to just 9 million barrels per day, after Iran intensified its attacks on tankers

Per UBS Evidence Lab, a major maritime research agency, crude and product outflows exiting the Gulf of Oman collapsed to 9.1mb/d over the last few days, versus an average of 13.5mb/d last week and a steep drop from early October peaks of 17mb/d.

@Middle_East_Spectator

🇾🇪⚡- BREAKING: Ansarullah have broken through the PLC's defenses in western Ta'izz city.

The al-Houthi forces have advanced east from the Hanjar Gate, with fighting reported in the al-Matar al-Qadim district, as well as the al-Jabali neighborhood in the south.

Violent street clashes are ongoing.

Rerum Novarum’s proprietary maps are now available at MINIMAP.TECHNOLOGY

The City of Buenos Aires has a lower TFR than China, South Korea, or Singapore…

Latam speed running demographic decline. Colombia heading to 1.0. Argentina, Costa Rica, & Chile right on its heels…

South Korea managed to partially rebound TFR to take advantage of their last chance cohort (born from 1991 to 1996). They are giving birth now & TFR is rising sharply from 0.72 to~1.0 this year.  After this cohort even if TFR continues⬆️to 1.3,births may fall as post 2000 cohort is relatively so small.

🇫🇷 Limoges town hall set on fire

📎 Fabrice Bidault

🇫🇷 Scenes of looting in the heart of downtown Marseille.

📎 Faisons parler Marseille

🇫🇷 The rioters in Paris are a few metres away from the Élysée building.

📎 Georges-Alexis

🇫🇷 Louis Vuitton store in Bordeaux looted by rioters.

📎 Heather

⚡️🇮🇹Violent clashes in Milan, in Piazza Duomo and Piazza dei Mercanti, where groups of hooded protesters threw stones, bottles, and other objects at the police.

Officers responded with tear gas, charges, and water cannons, dispersing the crowd and clearing the square in front of the cathedral. Several people, including some police officers, were injured and treated by ambulances.

@medmannews

⚡️🇮🇹Clashes in Bologna in front of the station during a protest against the high cost of living.

Groups of hooded young people threw stones, bottles, and barriers at the police, who responded with water cannons and tear gas. Dozens of rental bicycles were overturned, and at least seven people were detained.

@medmannews

🇦🇱 Violent protests continue in Albania on Day 5.

Protesters clashed with police in the center of Tirana as tensions continue to escalate.

📎 kos_data

🇫🇷 Protesters in France hijack a tourist train amid ongoing unrest spreading across the country.

📎 Europa

🇫🇷 Protesters arrived on board the Marseille tourist's little train.

📎 Impact