France’s interior minister said that 135 people have been arrested as tens of thousands join protests across the country.

Police in Paris earlier seized weapons and gas masks in a crackdown; in a social media post, they say “all is calm” in the city.

Today’s marches follow last weekend’s riots and looting that impacted thousands of businesses and saw more than 2,700 arrested.

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How did the civil war in Yemen become a conflict with global consequences? From attacks on key shipping routes to the rivalry between Iran and Saudi Arabia, we explain how events in Yemen came to affect trade, oil prices and food supplies around the world.

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Ukraine’s capital has come under a new missile attack, hours after Russia said it was “ready in principle” to resume peace talks and the US president said the world was “the closest we’ve been” to ending the war.

Several houses were hit on Wednesday night, injuring six people, Kyiv Mayor Vitaliy Klitschko said.

The attack came amid a new diplomatic push led by Donald Trump’s envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner. Witkoff met Russia’s President Vladimir Putin in the city of St Petersburg on Wednesday – a day after meeting Ukraine’s leader.

Three-way talks were paused in February, after which Russia stepped up attacks as Ukraine ran out of Western-supplied interceptors to defend against missiles.

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A US judge has ordered President Donald Trump to answer questions under oath in his defamation lawsuit against the BBC by 11 December.

Trump is suing the BBC over an episode of Panorama that edited together two different sections of a speech he gave before the riot at the US Capitol in 2021.

Charles Tobin, a lawyer representing the BBC, said in court that “we still haven’t been able to depose the plaintiff” with two months left in the discovery period, during which both sides are legally required to exchange information with each other on their case.

Trump cancelled a previous deposition on 16 October, citing “matters of national importance” while he was campaigning in Georgia.

The judge in the case, US Magistrate Judge Enjoliqué Lett, said that Trump must sit for the deposition by 11 December, unless the discovery period is extended.

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Iranian-state media emphasises the country’s readiness for war, amid renewed concerns in Tehran about a return to fighting.

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