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French police have evicted more than 400 migrants who had been squatting inside the Gaite Lyrique theatre in central Paris for more than three months.Officers began their operation shortly before 6am on Tuesday at the theatre, where hundreds of demonstrators had gathered to protest against the eviction.Since December 10, the migrants, including many unaccompanied minors, had occupied the concert and arts venue as part of their demands for shelter, leading the Gaite Lyrique management to suspend its operations on December 17.A large banner on the Gaite Lyrique read: “400 lives at risk, 80 jobs under threat”.”Shame, shame, shame to authorities…

NFL free agency 2025 will not rank among the most memorable in league history. There were few stunning address changes or jaw-dropping, bank-breaking contracts handed out.Yes, backup quarterbacks found themselves in high demand. And some players managed to secure solid deals. But the more interesting — and seemingly impactful — moves of last week involved trades or contract extensions rather than unrestricted free-agent paydays.Still, some teams helped themselves while others made head-scratching decisions. And while the full picture of the biggest winners and losers of free agency won’t be complete until the quarterback carousel stops spinning, here’s how things look…

Pro-Israel influencer Zach Sage Fox once again found himself in enemy territory when he went undercover as an antisemite near Barnard College in New York City.While Fox did not go on campus, he had the opportunity to talk with several students in the area, and he told Fox News Digital that what he saw was “shocking.”In the video, which has garnered over 24,000 likes on Instagram, Fox got several students to be brutally honest about their thoughts on the ongoing Israel-Hamas war and Jews. He said it gives the public a look at what these students say, “without the keffiyehs…

The annual rate of inflation ticked up last month as a temporary “tax holiday” ended, Statistics Canada reported on Tuesday. Consumer prices in Canada went up to 2.6 per cent in February, up from 1.9 per cent the month before.StatCan said the end of the GST/HST break on Feb. 15 contributed “notable upward pressure to prices for eligible products.”For two months, the federal government removed the goods and services (GST) or harmonized sales tax (HST) on dozens of items, including certain groceries and restaurant meals.That tax break dipped restaurant food prices by 1.4 per cent year-over-year.But once the GST/HST was reapplied, “restaurant food prices contributed…

Almost two million people worked in the public sector as of 2022, according to the government, which announced this year that 100,000 people would be made redundant or offered early retirement as part of the bureaucratic reforms. Tra said so far more than 22,000 jobs had been cut, according to state-controlled news site VNExpress. This is a “real revolution in the entire political system”, she was quoted as saying. It is unclear if there will be further job cuts as part of the provincial mergers, or which provinces will be affected. Vietnam’s top leader To Lam, who last year became…

Lawyers for former senior executives at the Countess of Chester Hospital in northern England have asked for a halt to the public inquiry into the murders of babies by Lucy Letby, a former nurse, citing new evidence that they said called her guilt into question.Speaking in front of the inquiry on Tuesday, Kate Blackwell, a lawyer representing those executives, said that new evidence that has emerged in recent months suggested that the babies that died or collapsed unexpectedly in 2015 and 2016 had not been intentionally harmed but had died of other causes.“There now appears to be a real likelihood…

There’s little in Elbridge A. Colby’s past to suggest that President Trump’s most loyal and fierce allies would embrace him.Mr. Colby, 45, has deep roots in the foreign policy establishment that Mr. Trump is trying to destroy. He is the grandson of the former C.I.A. director William Colby; a product of Groton, Harvard and Yale Law School; someone who has spent much of his career working across party lines on some of the most complex national security issues: nuclear weapons strategy, China’s military buildup, the commercialization of space.Yet when Mr. Trump nominated Mr. Colby to a top Pentagon job, the…

Respondents to the March CNBC Fed Survey have raised the risk of recession to the highest level in six months, cut their growth forecast for 2025 and raised their inflation outlook.Much of the change appears to stem from concern over fiscal policies from the Trump administration, especially tariffs, which are now seen by them as the top threat to the U.S. economy, replacing inflation. The outlook for the S&P 500 declined for the first time since September.The 32 survey respondents, who include fund managers, strategists and analysts, raised the probability of recession to 36% from 23% in January. The January…

A raging warehouse fire is blowing potentially hazardous smoke across parts of Balcatta.Firefighters were called to the incident on Stretton Place about 7.20pm on Tuesday.Flames soaring tens of metres high can be seen from the front of the warehouse.Camera IconIndustrial Fire on Stretton Place, Balcatta. Credit: Unknown/NIGHT NEWSFirefighters were using a crane at 8.30pm to try to control the blaze.The Department of Fire and Emergency services issued a HAZMAT warning for people in the immediate vicinity as DFES tried to determine what materials were burning.The smoke is blowing in a northerly direction with Main Roads also cautioning drivers as smoke…

“Oh!” Tituss Burgess said, the curls of his Mary Todd Lincoln wig bobbing as he spoke. “I need kneepads.”Fully in costume, wearing the wig and a bell-shaped black dress, Burgess was about to rehearse Cole Escola’s hit comedy “Oh, Mary!” onstage at the Lyceum Theater on Broadway, just days before stepping into the starring role on Tuesday.And, yes, he really did need those kneepads. When Escola played Mary Todd, they channeled their sprung-coil energy into a performance of relentless hilarity and chaos. Burgess’s take on the role is no less physical; if anything, he is upping the ante with the…