French Presidential Candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon:

The clever people who provoke this kind of chaos never take responsibility afterward.

They don't say, "It was me." No, it's Mélenchon who has to deal with the consequences.

Everyone must take responsibility for their own strategy. We take responsibility for ours.

Not because we are nicer than the others. Don't believe that.

But because we believe nonviolent strategies are more effective.

If you organize chaos, or if participating means getting your face smashed in, losing your teeth, having your eyes or arms destroyed, do you think you're going to bring thousands of people into the struggle?

French Presidential Candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon:

They say that my words are adding fuel to the fire, that I'm encouraging action.

Of course I'm encouraging action!

But I'm not encouraging just any kind of action.

I said it ten times between September 30 and October 17: nonviolent strategies, nonviolent strategies.

I'm telling my comrades that if they choose another method of struggle, they will make the situation worse instead of expanding participation in the struggle.

French Presidential Candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon:

Put yourself in my shoes for a minute.

I wouldn't wish it on you, but imagine that every time you turn on the television or the radio, they're talking about you and presenting you as the devil himself.

And if you happen to look at certain social media platforms, you'll see images of me where you can practically see all the way down my throat.

That's where we are now.

French Presidential Candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon:

Iran was illegitimately attacked, whatever you may think of its government.

Just because you don't like a government doesn't give you the right to besiege it, bomb everything around it, and destroy its schools, roads and bridges.

That's what the Americans did.

Anthropic posted a net loss of $80.7 billion in the first half of 2026.

Third-quarter revenue rose 45% from the previous quarter to $16.8 billion.

Some investors were disappointed that growth slowed after revenue more than doubled in the second quarter.

Anthropic is expected to go public in November.

Some investors are now weighing a lower valuation of around $1.5 trillion.

The listing is seen as a key test for the AI market ahead of OpenAI’s potential IPO next year.

French Presidential Candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon:

Nonviolent methods are the ones that allow us to bring people together.

If we don't use methods of that kind, we don't bring people together. We frighten them.

What I have just said does not mean distancing ourselves from the movement, with which we are 10,000% in solidarity.

But we follow a strategy, and we refuse to have other people's strategies imposed on us when those people won't take responsibility for the consequences of what they have started.

French Presidential Candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon:

What could possibly make us, the insoumis, take pleasure in seeing a town hall burn?

Never in our lives!

A town hall is the people's house.

We do not agree with people ransacking the people's house, whether in Marseille, Paris, or anywhere else.

We do not agree with setting it on fire.

Even when you're anticlerical, you don't agree with Notre-Dame burning.

It's the same thing.

French Presidential Candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon on Macron's Gulf tour:

It's not true that he went there only to discuss fuel contracts. He went there to discuss military equipment.

He went there to discuss the military installations we're going to put in place.

While we're here trying to find a way out of the problems we're facing, he's dragging us headfirst into additional problems over there.

French Presidential Candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon:

Maintaining public peace is a profession.

If you don't like the job, do something else.

But don't claim to be professionals in maintaining public peace when you're nothing more than a bunch of clowns, from top to bottom, each doing whatever he wants, armed to the teeth.

French Presidential Candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon:

What is Macron putting on the table that would make someone say, "All right, let's talk?"

Nothing.

We come out of one evening of violence into another that promises to be very violent.

President Macron intervenes to say nothing, to propose nothing, and then announces that he's leaving to look for oil in Saudi Arabia.

French Presidential Candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon:

Down with war!

We will not fight it. We will not organize it. We will not prepare for it.

French Presidential Candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon:

As I speak to you about student revolts, there are student revolts everywhere in Europe, in Asia, and in the Americas.

Why is that?

Because there is a system called capitalism, which chose a strategy called neoliberalism.

That strategy consists of destroying public services everywhere and dismantling the achievements of workers and wage earners.

They have destroyed them everywhere, bringing everyone to the point of exasperation.

WATCH: French Presidential Candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon:

It's Mr. Netanyahu, who is influencing the elections in Marseille, Toulouse, Roubaix, and Paris.

That's the one!

And apparently there are the Russians too.

French Presidential Candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon:

You owe us €65 billion, Mr. Macron.

Surely, out of that €65 billion, you can give back €10 billion to satisfy the demands of this country's youth.

There is now more than €450 billion that represents a debt we owe to ourselves, sitting in the vault of the European Central Bank.

Russian diesel supplies could reach countries beyond the United States by the end of the year, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak said.

Russia will send its first tanker carrying diesel fuel to the United States tomorrow, October 22, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak announced.

“The tanker has a displacement of 40,000 tonnes. We will meet US diesel demand to the extent of our capabilities. Additional tankers will head to the US in the near future,” Novak said.

Putin to Witkoff:

I know that President Trump attaches special importance to the Ukraine war, mostly because of the humanitarian issues.

Putin asked Witkoff to convey his gratitude not only to Donald Trump but also to First Lady Melania Trump for helping resolve humanitarian issues.

Putin to Witkoff:

We have a special, trust-based relationship with our partners in Iran.

If we can contribute to the resolution of the war there, we would be willing to do so.

Russia has released 74-year-old American Stephen Hubbard after a visit by Trump envoy Steve Witkoff.

Hubbard had been imprisoned for over four years on disputed charges of fighting for Ukraine.