🇫🇷🗳 The French Parliament unanimously rejected the 2027 budget bill. Not even Emmanuel Macron's party supporting the cabinet of Sébastien Lecornu voted for it.

The Parliament spent weeks amending the budget bill trying to cater to everyone's demands but ended up creating a bill that nobody liked.

France's political deadlock continues and risks seeing a repeat of the 2025 deadlock which caused France's credit score to drop from AA- to A+ and a spike in yields. The gridlock was eventually ended by Macron who cut a deal with the social-democrats and socialists and used their votes to pass a budget and appoint Lecornu as PM.

With elections coming close, the social-democrats and socialists will be less inclined to help Macron pass a budget as they risk damaging their image and thus help Jean-Luc Mélenchon's campaign position himself as the only leftist fighting Macron.

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🇵🇾 Paraguayan President Santiago Peña has resigned amid a deepening political and financial crisis sparked by the collapse of Ueno Bank, a major digital lender with nearly three million customers and approximately $850 million in public deposits.

The Central Bank seized control of Ueno after it fell into insolvency, leaving millions of customers unable to access their money. Peña, who held shares in the bank’s parent company until 2025, faced impeachment over alleged conflicts of interest, misuse of public funds, and institutional cover-ups.

The scandal resulted in protests in the capital city of Asunción, forced the resignation of the Central Bank chief, and prompted criminal investigations of bank executives. Peña’s resignation comes as lawmakers were preparing to vote on his impeachment, with some of his powerful allies in the ruling Colorado Party withdrawing their support for him.

The scandal highlighted the close ties between the Colorado Party and the country’s financial institutions, drawing sharp rebuke from many Paraguayans.

“Santiago Peña and the Colorado Party have stolen all our savings,” Luis Pineda, a demonstrator in Asunción, told AP. “We are fed up with 70 years of plunder.”

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🇺🇸⚡️ — Harmeet Dhillon resigned Thursday as the U.S. Justice Department's assistant attorney general for civil rights, according to Fox News.

Dhillon, who took office in April 2025 and oversaw the department's Civil Rights Division, stepped down following Republicans' midterm election defeats, though no reason has been disclosed.

🇺🇸 Senator-elect Abdul el-Sayed on Vice-president, James David Vance's criticism of the Iran War:

"(...) You see JD Vance now sprinting as hard as he can backwards from this terrible, disastrous war in Iran and I say to him: "Now its not the time my guy, that would've been 8 months ago when you should've spoken up but you never will because you're a coward who decided that whatever Donald Trump says should go until, of course, Donald Trump is a loser at the ballot box and now we have to go a different way".

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🇷🇺⚔️🇺🇦 Russian forces continue to launch a large number of KAB glide bombs in the rear of Ukrainian forces in the Dobropolye direction

🔴Impacts from February to August 2026
⚪️Impacts in September 2026
🟡Impacts in October 2026

From what I am seeing, Russia is bombing a lot west of Druzhkovka and Kramatorsk, which shows that they intend to push there. Most of the KAB strikes happen far from the frontline, always in front of the most advanced infiltrated soldiers.

In October, KAB impacts were recorded far from the frontline between Novodonetskoe and Kramatorsk.

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🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️ — Court documents reviewed by AP show that the U.S. government held talks with Iran on deporting Iranians as the Iran War waged on, with some documents dated mid-October saying the Iranians would be deported to a third country.

The documents show continued collaboration between American and Iranian officials on Iranians being sent back to Iran, specifically in regards to travel documents and "avenues for removal".

This came amidst certainly by U.S. officials that deported Iranians would face peril if sent back to Iran.

🇫🇷 Protests in Paris are hurting local businesses.

Hotel owners report a 30% reduction in bookings compared to the previous year while restaurant owners mention a 50% reduction in reservations. One restaurant owner told France 3 that he saw a 70% decrease in revenue for the duration of the protests which began in September and have no end in sight.

The report strictly refers to Paris.

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