On Tuesday in Oslo, Volodymyr Zelensky took Steve Witkoff in his arms. Donald Trump’s envoy, with Jared Kushner joining by video link, was handed the Ukrainian list: Patriot missiles whose deliveries keep slipping, a share of the intelligence Kyiv accused Washington of holding back, and the return of the Starlink and Starshield satellites. Zelensky says the intelligence is now flowing again.
On Tuesday evening the shutters came down before dark. Parts of Paris, Lyon, Bordeaux and Nice spent another night under curfew, and the ban on demonstrations in some Paris districts runs until 6 a.m. on Wednesday. Sébastien Lecornu, the prime minister, sees it as his remedy: the curfews “contributed to the calm of this night”, he wrote on X.
On Tuesday evening, Elon Musk played spectator to his own company. The boards of SpaceX and Tesla have formed committees of independent directors to study a merger; he, with a conflict of interest, is not sitting on them. He likes the idea, but warns it is not a done deal: at Tesla, it will take half of all shareholders, not just of those who vote.
Kyiv wants its overdue Patriots, shared intelligence and the return of Starlink and Starshield. Trump says he is open to a summit with Xi and Putin in Shenzhen in November, without Ukraine.
Another night under curfew in Paris and other cities, with Sentinelle troops promised for Saturday.
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149 people are in custody and 800 have been brought before the courts; Darmanin promises prison terms. Lecornu meets the unions and the parties; Bompard takes Nuñez to the Court of Justice of the Republic.
SpaceX posts a record quarter, with 14.6 billion dollars in revenue and 4.4 billion in net profit.
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Independent board committees at SpaceX and Tesla are studying a merger that Musk wants. Anthropic, its AI rival, is hunting for computing power at AWS, Google and Microsoft ahead of a November listing.
At first, I printed this paper for myself alone, every morning. I wanted to know what mattered in France, in Paris and in the world without spending an hour scrolling through screens. So I sorted, then I wrote.
filou d’actu is that sorting, shared. A few topics chosen every day, told simply, with the names of the media the facts come from. You read it with your coffee, from start to finish, then get on with your day.
