Recent News Highlights
Several news stories have caught attention recently, including food poisoning from Halloween pumpkins, war crimes in Ukraine, and ceasefires in Gaza and Lebanon.
- Dozens of people in France suffer from digestive symptoms after eating inedible squash, with the biochemical origins of this plant toxicity now better understood.
- Investigations into murders in a street in Bucha, Ukraine have been closed by the police.
- Ceasefires in Gaza and Lebanon have been fragile, with Israeli strikes defying the ceasefire.
- Marineland in Canada has threatened to euthanize its beluga whales.
- Europe's far right has sworn allegiance to Trump's politics after Charlie Kirk's murder.
- Sanctions against Russia have sparked a rift between the US and Europe over China.
- France's political instability has put the Franco-German alliance to the test, with France facing higher borrowing costs than Italy.
- A trial is underway over red hand graffiti at the Paris Shoah Memorial, with the defendant stating
I did it for the money
.
- The French justice minister's visit to Nicolas Sarkozy in jail has sparked a political firestorm.
Author's summary: Recent news highlights global conflicts and controversies.
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Le Monde — 2025-10-31