French Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu is set to meet with high school students on Monday afternoon (October 26) to ease tensions in the country after nearly a month of protests. This follows another meeting in which French president Emmanuel Macron promised a concrete response to demands for better education standards and funding.
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The Saudi-led coalition backing Yemen's government said Monday that its forces carried out a military operation targeting areas controlled by the Iran-backed Houthi rebels in response to repeated attacks by the group using ballistic missiles and drones. In a statement posted on X , coalition spokesman Maj. Gen. Turki Al-Malki said the operation sought to neutralize "the sources of threat," and included strikes against Houthi military infrastructure. "The operation included the destruction of (5) tunnels used for storing ballistic missiles, (4) ballistic missile launchers, and a missile storage [unit]," Al-Malki said.
A nurse has been killed and another health worker seriously injured in an attack as they were responding to an Ebola alert in north-eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. The two were targeted by local youths who accused them of contaminating water sources and spreading the Ebola virus, according to the UN-backed Radio Okapi. The World Health Organization (WHO) condemned the attack. In an attempt to prevent the virus spreading, neighbouring Uganda has banned all non-essential travel to and from DR Congo and says its citizens returning from there will be quarantined for 21 days.
President Emmanuel Macron on Monday said public order will be maintained in France without the need for a state of emergency, while noting that it was not “off-limits or taboo” if “things were to deteriorate". During a visit to Marseille, Macron promised "concrete" measures to address the demands by high school students after their protests triggered weeks of nationwide unrest. Follow our live blog for all the latest updates.