Belgrade, Sunday evening. Shortly after 9.30 pm, Aleksandar Vučić lets it out: “We have lost the elections”. In power since 2012, he had resigned the presidency on 27 September to run for prime minister. According to projections by the CRTA observatory, the Student List wins 51% of the vote, 138 of 250 seats, against 40% and 104 seats for his Progressive Party.
Classes of 28 in the first year of lycée, 15,000 more university places, a new platform in 2028: the government gave way on Monday, the youth unions keep up the pressure.
Matignon, Monday noon. Nathanaël Combary, board chair of Renouveau lycéen, leaves the meeting with the words the government was hoping for: “The method of dialogue has won”. In the same breath, he calls for the mobilisation to go on.
Marseille, Sunday. In an Instagram story, SCH says he is “proud to see that most of our youth has a political conscience”, recalls that “violence has an origin, it is never gratuitous”, then turns to the shop windows: “My support also goes to the shopkeepers who suffered collateral damage.” A rapper who speaks to both sides.
A living room, a switched-off television, a man in a wheelchair, hand over his mouth. Terry, an American with bulbar-onset ALS diagnosed in 2024, had lost his voice. In the video released by Neuralink, he says “Hello, how are you doing today?”, then, to his wife, “I love you”. She cries, so does he.
Mayumba, southern Gabon, Saturday 8.37 pm. In amateur footage, the Prospector 5 drilling rig leans, legs pointing at the sky, then disappears. The Borr Drilling unit was preparing four wells on the Dussafu Marin permit for BW Energy. 115 people were on board; 110 were brought back to Port-Gentil by two vessels.
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.
