Bollocks, Saudi is just doing what makes sense for their government, it’s not retaliatory it’s just self interest. Israel is currently experiencing issues and the US Saudi relations are less close than they have been so closer ties with Iran is a good move.

China Iran and Russia’s ‘advantage’ is that they are run by totalitarian leaders who don’t need to worry about public opinion or perception.

Do we have a motive?

I'm for the reform, France's social security budget is starched to its Breaking point.

But France is a democracy, and if the people don't want this reform than is shouldn't be past.

How is that ironic? Uncontrolled immigration is also bad for immigrants. Immigrants are not some entirely separate entity within a country, what affects citizens generally affects immigrants too.

Come on don't argue with them, they have a job to do.

Considering that 8 out of 10 French people are pissed off at Macron right now I’d say yes.

And a lot of eggs ports.

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Because police are the first line of defense for capitalists and serve their interest only even if they are working class as well.

They haven't resolved shit. Fact is it's not about "cutting off the head and it dies". It's more about "kill one, two will replace them". There is money and opportunity in the drug trade and anyone who wants that money will take that risk.

Then again, we could probably follow suit, by lining people up in the street and executing them like it's wartime. That will surely solve the issue...

...or criminals will just get smarter at hiding their activities.

Symbolic politics with bloodshed, really.

You're talking like every Indian man wants to grope literally every woman he meets.

I wouldn't expect any officialist party to oppose NATO whims, but the green party case and their rhetoric is funny to me

I prefer supermassive black hole *

Is it George Soros funded? That’s the real question.

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naaah my guy, US and China still are dominating.

Next year is max west is reaching limits od supplying weapons unless USA willa engage more

Paris (AFP) – French authorities raided five banks on Tuesday as part of an investigation into suspected cases of massive tax fraud and money laundering, prosecutors said.

Some 150 investigators conducted searches in Paris and the financial district La Defense, the financial prosecutor's office (PNF) said in a statement.

The raids follow five preliminary investigations that were opened in December 2021 in connection with suspected money laundering and aggravated suspected tax fraud related to dividend payments, the statement said.

The operation "required several months of preparation", the statement said, and involved 16 investigating magistrates and more than 150 financial investigators.

Prosecutors from Germany, where similar tax frauds came to light in recent years, were also involved in the raids, the statement added.

A spokesman for Societe Generale confirmed to AFP that the French bank was being searched by authorities, but he said he did not know the reason.

French rival BNP Paribas and its Exane unit, financial group Natixis and British banking giant HSBC are the other targets of the raids, according to Le Monde newspaper. Disappearing dividends

A group of European news outlets published an investigation dubbed the "CumEx-Files" into the tax fraud in 2018.

Its title referred to trading of shares with ("cum" in Latin) and without ("ex") dividends.

The amounts involved are suspected to have reached 140 billion euros ($151 billion) over a period of 20 years, the media group said in 2021.

Tuesday's raids stem from so-called "Cum-Cum" tax fraud.

"The fraud involves a foreign shareholder in a company listed in France temporarily transferring the shares he owns to a French banking institution, around the date the dividend is paid out," the PNF said.

The aim is "to avoid paying the tax applicable to the payment of this dividend," it added.

Banks are suspected of acting as intermediaries in the practice and even charging a commission to the investors taking part.

A German court in December sentenced lawyer Hanno Berger to eight years in prison over the "cum-ex" tax scam, convicting him of three counts of aggravated tax evasion.

The regional court found that the 72-year-old -- believed to be the original mastermind of the scheme -- helped arrange fraudulent transactions at German bank M.M. Warburg between 2007 and 2013 that cost Berlin's treasury 278 million euros.

In addition to the jail time, the court ordered 13.7 million euros ($14.8 million) of personal revenues from the scheme to be confiscated from Berger's accounts.

Berger only partially admitted wrongdoing during the proceedings, insisting that some of the transactions were legal at the time.

Meloni is a dumbass and so are her voters, she's just appealing to old and ignorant people basically.

Police fire on car in Paris, killing two: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/police-fire-car-central-paris-killing-two-people-media-2022-04-25/

Time to make fun? France is burning. Every street in Paris is on fire. Police are extremely brutal, they killed 2 people today. The point of no return.

Many thanks for this, you've briefly made me forget about the pain in all the diodes down my left side

China and India has a huge population as well. Indian middle class is rapidly rising.

Things would be different in Vietnam and Phillipines.

Then why answer?

My question is are the police also okay with working until a later age before retirement? If not, they might be on the wrong side of the line.