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  In Riot-Hit Cities, the French Snap Up Weapons for Self Defense Self-defense weapons for sale at a French armory store. Photographer: Nathan Laine/Bloomberg Save Translate Takeaways by Bloomberg AI Late Friday morning, Sam exited a hunting store in central Paris, fresh from spending €600 ($671) on weapons designed for self protection. The shopkeeper, who declined to give his family name for security reasons, owns a costume jewelry store in Les Halles, a sprawling commercial district. His business was spared by rioters who ransacked nearby stores last weekend, but he wants to be prepared in case more violence erupts.
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  Musk’s Promise to Give SpaceX Stock to Kids Is No Gift October 20, 2026 at 1:27 AM GMT+8 Promises, promises. Photographer: Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images Save Translate Takeaways by Bloomberg AI One of the great joys, but also miseries, of following business news over the past decade or so has been riding the dodgy roller coaster of the Elon Musk experience. He has gone from a guy people considered a real-life Tony Stark to something more like a modern-day Henry Ford, in the worst possible way, with countless gut-wrenching twists in between. At no point, however, did anybody think: “Hey, you know who’s missing out on this? Children.” Until today.
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  Pourquoi Moody’s a maintenu la note française malgré le dérapage budgétaire ? 00:00 -05:31 Moody’s a maintenu la signature française à Aa3, avec une perspective négative. ANGELA WEISS / AFP ENTRETIEN - Pour Raphaël Gallardo, chef économiste de la société de gestion d’actifs Carmignac, la non-dégradation de la note tricolore par Moody’s, vendredi soir, est difficile à comprendre. Elle ne devrait avoir que peu d’effet sur la situation inconfortable de la France sur les marchés. À la surprise générale, Moody’s - l’une des trois plus grandes agences de notation mondiales avec S&P et Fitch - n’a pas dégradé la note souveraine de la France vendredi soir. La société américaine a maintenu la signature française à Aa3, avec une perspective négative, alors que la plupart des observateurs imaginaient la France perdre son double A. Une décision difficile à comprendre, confesse Raphaël Gallardo, chef économiste de la société de gestion d’actifs Carmignac, alors que les marchés font, eux...
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  Trump and Musk are destroying a priceless American asset It backfired. India’s government dismissed his accusations as baseless. An influential nationalist group close to the ruling party went further, demanding that Starlink be kept out of India altogether, citing national security concerns. Media and online reactions were similarly hostile to Starlink. Musk did not understand that in India, as in much of the world, trust in America is collapsing. Indians have watched as President Donald Trump has discarded 25 years of bipartisan outreach to New Delhi in favor of cozying up to Pakistan and its de facto dictator, Field Marshal Asim Munir. They have watched Trump abandon Ukraine, where the military version of Starlink has been suspiciously restricted — thus crippling Ukraine’s military response to Russian aggression. Were India to find itself in another crisis with Pakistan, would it want its armed forces to be utterly dependent on a U.S. satellite system controlled by Trump ...
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  ¿Dónde y por qué se protesta en Europa? Las reivindicaciones de los jóvenes de cada país Estudiantes, sindicatos y vecinos han convocado más de 170 manifestaciones en poco más de un mes en todo el continente. Sus motivos a menudo coinciden 01:42 Así ha documentado EL PAÍS las protestas en 12 países europeos Media Europa vuelve a salir a la calle este sábado. Hay convocatorias desde Grecia hasta Bélgica, pasando por Albania, Francia, Portugal y España. Son las últimas de un otoño de movilizaciones : entre el 15 de septiembre y el 23 de octubre, 12 países europeos suman al menos 177 protestas o manifestaciones. La cifra es parecida a la media de 190 protestas mensuales entre septiembre y octubre de los otoños más intensos de la crisis del euro (2010, 2011 y 2012), según los registros de PolDem, un proyecto universitario que recopila protestas a partir de noticias de agencias. Francia, España, Italia, Portugal y Bélgica concentran la mayoría de las movilizaciones contabilizadas. La...
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  China Plows Ahead In Uyghur Region Controversial Xinjiang is key to plan to expand exports, energy production BY BRIAN SPEGELE KASHGAR, China—Four years ago, the United Nations human-rights agency said China’s abuses in its far western Xinjiang region were so severe that they potentially amounted to “crimes against humanity.” The U.S. limited imports from the region and blacklisted dozens of Chinese companies over growing evidence that ethnic Uyghurs were being arbitrarily detained and used in forced labor. Global firms such as BASF and Volkswagen sold their stakes in factories in Xinjiang, while Nike and H&M pledged that they weren’t sourcing products from the region. Yet a visit by The Wall Street Journal showed leader Xi Jinping is plowing ahead in transforming Xinjiang, despite international condemnation. In Kashgar, a historic Silk Road trading post, shopping malls were jammed with Chi- nese shoppers and Western brands, including Under Armour and Dairy Queen. Range Rove...
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The riot before the storm As dis­order engulfs Paris, the polit­ical centre col­lapses and Mar­ine Le Pen approaches power, France is run­ning out of money, patience and answers. Simon Kuper asks what hap­pens next Financial Times Europe Simon Kuper is author of ‘Impossible City: Paris in the Twenty-First Cen­tury’ 24 Oct 2026 Settings Print Share Copy Listen I live in Paris by the Place de la République, so last Sat­urday was lively. I spent the after­noon among the high school stu­dents demon­strat­ing with their revolu­tion­ary card­board signs. By 6pm, a dif­fer­ent crowd occu­pied the streets. Our court­yard reeked of police tear gas. Out­side, the boulevard was full of cas­seurs (wreck­ers), a group that his­tor­ic­ally accom­pan­ies French demon­stra­tions. I watched teen­age boys smash the shut­ters of the super­mar­ket across my street and pil­lage it, mostly for stuff they didn’t par­tic­u­larly want. One kid walked out cheer­ing with a crate of Volvic min­eral water. Oth­ers...
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