575,000 demonstrators for the Interior Ministry, 1.6 million for the CGT: the biggest day of the autumn, in 260 mostly calm marches. On Monday, a social conference at Matignon.
Mariam Touré supports disabled pupils for 1,030 euros net a month. On Thursday, with her colleagues Dulce and Nacera, she joined the Paris march; the violence of previous Saturdays had kept her at home. On Place de la République, an orchestra played the Imperial March, where tear gas had silenced it on 17 October.
Gare de Lyon, this Friday morning: the first new-generation TGV takes its passengers to Marseille, two and a half years after the promised date, with 573 seats instead of 500.
On the platform at Gare de Lyon, a tapered nose that travellers had only seen in photos, at the Alstom plant in Belfort. This Friday morning, the new-generation TGV takes its first passengers to Marseille: 320 km/h on two decks, the only train in the world to go that fast that way. It was meant to run for the 2024 Games; Covid, then three and a half years of testing up to the green light of May 2026, decided otherwise.
In South Carolina, Democrat Annie Andrews won her Senate seat by nicknaming her rival “data center Darline”. On Tuesday, 56% of voters cited artificial intelligence and data centres, those server sheds that drink electricity, among the reasons for their vote, according to CNBC. Texas has just elected a governor who promised a moratorium. On Thursday, Wall Street read the ballots.
A 71-year-old man who has had an operation, says the Vatican, not a sick man. Last month, a routine scan found a tumour; surgeons removed the lower lobe of Leo XIV’s right lung, and the cancer had not spread. This Friday, he takes off for twelve days: Uruguay, without a pope for forty years; Francis’s Argentina, where Javier Milei awaits Leo “with immense joy”; then Peru, his twenty years as priest and bishop. In all three countries, he will meet survivors of clerical abuse.
Starting in Congo on 15 May, the Ebola epidemic counts 10,699 cases and 5,202 deaths in five countries, including one in Abuja. In South Africa, the ANC heads for its worst result.
On 20 October, a 42-year-old woman who had flown in from Uganda walked into a private hospital in Abuja; several days passed before the diagnosis. Nigeria’s first Ebola case, the fifth country hit since 15 May; 53 people who came near her are being monitored, none ill. As of 5 November, the Bundibugyo virus epidemic counts 10,699 confirmed cases and 5,202 deaths, almost all in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where it adds to cholera.
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.
