{"id":16659,"date":"2025-04-01T01:25:33","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T01:25:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/tuesday-briefing-a-shock-ruling-in-france\/"},"modified":"2025-04-01T01:25:33","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T01:25:33","slug":"tuesday-briefing-a-shock-ruling-in-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/tuesday-briefing-a-shock-ruling-in-france\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday Briefing: A Shock Ruling in France"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<h2 class=\"css-13o6u42 eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-2b21a729\">France\u2019s far-right leader was barred from running for office<\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Marine Le Pen, the far-right leader, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/31\/world\/europe\/france-marine-le-pen-embezzlement-2027-election-ban.html\" title=\"\">was found guilty of embezzlement<\/a> yesterday and disqualified from running for public office for five years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The verdict set off a crisis that could lead to new political turmoil in France. It effectively knocked Le Pen, France\u2019s most popular politician, according to the polls, out of the 2027 presidential election. <\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The decision infuriated Le Pen, an anti-immigrant, nationalist politician who has already mounted three failed presidential bids. She claimed that the ruling was a \u201cpolitical\u201d attempt to thwart her and vowed to fight back despite slim chances of legal success. \u201cI\u2019m not going to submit to a democratic denial so easily,\u201d she said angrily.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\"><strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\">Context: <\/strong>The court ruled that Le Pen <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/31\/world\/europe\/marine-lepen-embezzlement-france.html\" title=\"\">played a \u201ccentral role\u201d in an illegal scheme<\/a> to use millions of euros of European Parliament funds for party expenses from 2004 to 2016. Le Pen was a member of the European Parliament from 2004 to 2017.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\"><strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\">Analysis: <\/strong>Millions of Le Pen supporters are now adrift and angry, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/31\/world\/europe\/marine-le-pen-embezzelment-democracy.html\" title=\"\">our Paris bureau chief, Roger Cohen, writes<\/a>. France could see a gale of political protests, as well as an attack from the global far right.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\"><strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\">Reactions:<\/strong> Across Europe, hard-right leaders sharply criticized the court\u2019s decision. Viktor Orban, the Hungarian prime minister, posted \u201cJe suis Marine!\u201d (\u201cI am Marine!\u201d) on social media.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"css-7ad88g e1mu4ftr0\"\/><\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<h2 class=\"css-13o6u42 eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-670b90e2\">Stocks plunged as new Trump tariffs loomed<\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">World markets tumbled yesterday as investors braced for President Trump\u2019s new round of tariffs that would affect <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/30\/business\/stocks-nikkei-sp500.html\" title=\"\">the U.S.\u2019s biggest trading partners<\/a>. Trump has promised to overhaul the global trading system and plans to unveil tomorrow what he is calling \u201creciprocal tariffs\u201d that would match the import taxes and other policies that other countries impose on American exports.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Trump has taken to calling April 2, when the tariffs are supposed to go into effect, \u201cLiberation Day,\u201d arguing that their imposition will end years during which other countries have been \u201cripping us off.\u201d The White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said yesterday that there would be \u201cno exemptions at this time\u201d as some foreign nations tried to negotiate a last-minute reprieve. On Thursday, a separate 25 percent tariff is set to be imposed on all cars and car parts that are shipped into the U.S.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Asian markets tumbled, with the Nikkei 225 index in Japan falling into a correction.<strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\"> <\/strong>The S&amp;P 500 recorded its worst month since 2022. European stocks slumped.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\"><strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\">Mixed messages: <\/strong>A White House trade adviser said that tariffs would raise about $6 trillion over the next decade. But experts say that using tariffs to increase revenue conflicts with the administration\u2019s goal of bringing manufacturing back to the U.S. <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/31\/us\/politics\/tariffs-estimates-consumers.html\" title=\"\">This is why<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\"><strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\">At home:<\/strong> The tariffs are expected to raise the cost of cars, electronics and other products that American consumers buy from overseas. But Trump and his aides are betting they can convince Americans to swallow higher prices. <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/31\/business\/trump-tariffs-higher-prices.html\" title=\"\">It could backfire<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-5\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<h2 class=\"css-13o6u42 eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-6dbee111\">Myanmar\u2019s military slowed aid to a rebel city<\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">As the death toll from the earthquake rose to more than 2,000 people, help was just starting to trickle in yesterday to the remote city of Sagaing in Myanmar, where monasteries and apartments were razed. Over <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/31\/world\/asia\/myanmar-earthquake-rescue.html\" title=\"\">80 percent of the city was destroyed<\/a> in the quake that hit Friday, residents said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The military has been battling rebel forces for control of Sagaing since it seized power in a coup four years ago. Doctors said they had been blocked from entering, and volunteers said their rescue efforts were stopped. The authorities also closed a vital bridge because of safety concerns, further isolating the area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\"><strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\">Thailand: <\/strong>The Bangkok building razed by the quake employed men and women who had found love at work. Despite glimmers of hope, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/31\/world\/asia\/collapsed-bangkok-building-rescue-earthquake.html\" title=\"\">many yesterday were still beneath the rubble<\/a>.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"css-7ad88g e1mu4ftr0\"\/><\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-9\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Atlantique 2 plane of the French Navy was designed to hunt submarines and other enemy craft, but now one aircraft\u2019s goal is to observe \u2014 and to be seen observing. The plane is part of a NATO program aimed at suspected Russian sabotage in the Baltic Sea. <\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">A reporter and a photographer spent 14 hours aboard the plane. <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/31\/world\/europe\/nato-baltic-sentry-russia.html\" title=\"\">Read about it here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\"><strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\">Lives lived:<\/strong> Joe Harris, thought to be the oldest World War II U.S. paratrooper, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/30\/us\/joe-harris-dead.html\" title=\"\">died at 108<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"css-1uuxri4 e1gnsphs0\" id=\"link-286d948a\"><span><strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\">CONVERSATION STARTERS <\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<ul class=\"css-1le37cb ez3869y0\">\n<li class=\"css-1i3ul0c eoqvrfo0\">\n<p class=\"css-1il0jfh evys1bk0\"><strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\">The Essential Tanith Lee:<\/strong> The author wrote over 90 books. <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/article\/tanith-lee-books.html\" title=\"\">Here\u2019s where to start<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"css-1i3ul0c eoqvrfo0\">\n<p class=\"css-1il0jfh evys1bk0\"><strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\">Not getting over it:<\/strong> Joost Klein found success since getting thrown out of last year\u2019s Eurovision. <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/31\/arts\/music\/joost-klein-unity-eurovision.html\" title=\"\">He\u2019s still upset<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"css-1i3ul0c eoqvrfo0\">\n<p class=\"css-1il0jfh evys1bk0\"><strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\">A small screen megastar:<\/strong> Richard Chamberlain, who died at 90, was <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/30\/arts\/television\/richard-chamberlain-shogun-thorn-birds.html\" title=\"\">the most compelling face<\/a> of a maximalist, soapy television era.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-11\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<h2 class=\"css-13o6u42 eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-151b3626\">A quest to find joy and then bring it home<\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Finland has topped the World Happiness Report for the past eight years, owed in part to its welfare state, a closeness with nature and three million saunas. One anxious American, Britta Lokting, went to Helsinki to see if she could bring some of that joy home with her.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Lokting sampled local food, confessed emotions to the trees and plunged into cold waters. On her return to America, she still found happiness to be a luxury. But maybe the answer wasn\u2019t to recreate a dopamine rush, she writes, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/31\/travel\/finland-happiness-challenge.html\" title=\"\">but something altogether more simple<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"css-1uuxri4 e1gnsphs0\" id=\"link-705d9918\"><span><strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\">RECOMMENDATIONS <\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br 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