FRANCE YELLOW VESTS WEEK 400*US-FRANCE HUMAN RIGHTS ISRAEL TENSIONS*GOVERNMENT CRACKDOWN ON RUSSIAN ADVOCATE*WILDFIRE CONTAINED BUT UNCONTROLLED*
(NEWS, COMMENT, ANALYSIS WITH MAINSTREAM MEDIA SOURCES)
US DIPLOMATS WALKING OUT OF THE UN SECURITY COUNCIL WHEN FRENCH DIPLOMATS TOOK THE FLOOR.
IT HAPPENED DURING A MEETING TO DISCUSS THE UKRAINE WAR.
THE US WALKOUT WAS LINKED TO FRENCH COMMENTS ABOUT US OPPOSITION TO THE RE-ELECTION OF OUTSPOKEN CRITIC OF ISRAELI PALESTINIAN POLICIES VOLKER TURK TO HEAD THE UN'S HUMAN RIGHTS OFFICE.
FRANCE'S UN MISSION IN GENEVA MADE COMMENTS LINKING THE US TO GOVERNMENTS LIKE THOSE OF NORTH KOREA, RUSSIA, MALI AND NICARAGUA.
THE COMMENTS ALSO INCLUDED THE NOTION THAT THE US WAS NO LONGER A 'BEACON OF HUMAN RIGHTS'.
US DIPLOMAT DAN NEGREA SAYING FRANCE MUST RENOUNCE ITS 'CONSESCENDING AND DISRESPECTFUL RHETORIC'.
THE US UN AMBASSADOR MIKE WALZ SAYING FRANCE SUPPORTED MR. TURK WHO CRITICIZED 'DEMOCRACIES' LIKE THE US, UK AND ISRAEL WHILE 'COZYING UP' TO 'OPPRESSORS'...
The former head of the "Russia Today" media outlet in France Xenia Fedorova given an expulsion order this week.
Fedorova's assets now frozen with an order to report daily to a police station.
Her lawyers appealing the expulsion order.
Fedorova says she is being subjected to 'political pressure' and 'censorship' as she continues to express Pro-Russia opinions.
The French government claiming her views constitute 'disinformation and destabilization' at the direction of Russian authorities to 'manipulate public opinion'...
THE MASSIVE WILDFIRE IN SOUTHWESTERN FRANCE'S GIRONDE REGION DECLARED CONTAINED BUT UNCONTROLLED.
AROUND 42,000 HECTARES (103,784 ACRES) BURNED IN THE BORDEAUX AREA....FRANCE 24 (VIDEO EMBED)
For now that's news from France.
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