🇫🇷⚡️- Jordan Bardella and Marine Le Pen have refused to attend French Prime Minister Lecornu's reunion with all of France's political leaders.

🇫🇷⚡️- Gatherings are spontaneously appearing across France in front of townhalls to support mayors and demand more ressources from the French state to enforce the law.

🇫🇷⚡️- Emmanuel Macron refused the Interior Minister's resignation. Local and regional authorities are voicing increasingly angry demands towards the state, which abandoned them, as the French nation enters a deeper crisis.

🇫🇷⚡️- BREAKING: The mayor of Limoges has indicated the fire that ravaged the city hall was orchestrated and not spontaneous. Fire accelerants were discovered in the ruins, accelerants that were present before the building was besieged.

🇫🇷⚡️- Hordes of hammer-wielding Africans broke into residential areas in Douai, France. The White residents tried to defend their cars before the invaders broke inside their building.

🇫🇷⚡️- Africans also attempted to pillage White neighborhoods in Marseilles last night, in the La Corniche district.

🇫🇷⚡️- Similar racially-motivated pillages targeting residential areas were reported in Lille and Paris last night.

🇫🇷⚡️- French Prime Minister Lecornu confirms the far-left is behind most of the riots.

🇫🇷⚡️- BREAKING: Partial curfews are planned in France, with local prefects deciding when, where and how long they will last.

🇫🇷⚡️- "A group of far-left groups are trying to derail the presidential elections in April by ramping up instability until then. This was confirmed to us [the government] by intelligence services this morning." - French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu.

🇫🇷⚡️- "While the physical damage and violences were immense, no one got killed. It is a miracle and it shows that law enforcement is doing an excellent job [despite the context]." - French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu.

🇫🇷⚡️- The state of emergency is not ruled out by the French government, which still wants to explore lighter options before resorting to "this heavy tool".

🇫🇷⚡️- Shop owners in Paris are increasingly hiring private security agents.

🇫🇷⚡️- Le Parisien confirms a man died during the riots tonight. He reportedly suffered a stroke and fell on his head. The video here matches the area he died in.

🇫🇷⚡️- At least 3000 shops have been pillaged across France according to a new count published by the French government.

🇫🇷⚡️- "Don't break in! This one [shop] belongs to a sister [female follower of islam]." - Rioter to pillagers attempting to rob a shop last night. The pillagers then left it alone.

In case our readers needed any more proof that the riots in France are purely ethnic and religious.

🇫🇷⚡️- About an hour later, another group of looters arrived and pillaged the store as no one was there to remind them it was owned by Arabs.

🇫🇷⚡️- On the 17th of October evening, at the height of riots, three entire police vans were seen in the calm street of Rue Delambre, Amiens. This heavy police force in a non-violent area were here to protect the Jean Trogneux shop which belongs to Brigitte Macron's family.

🇺🇦🇷🇺⚡️- Ukrainian forces have successfully evacuated a wounded soldier from an active frontline position using a heavy aerial drone, marking a world first in battlefield medical evacuation.

The soldier, from Ukraine's 30th Mechanized Brigade, was stranded in a mined area under threat from Russian FPV drones, which made conventional evacuation impossible. Specialists from the 92nd Assault Brigade worked with Ukrainian manufacturer Gurzuf Defence to modify a heavy hexacopter, normally used as a bomber, to lift him to safety. The company supplied the drone free of charge, while Ukrainian engineers developed the necessary modifications. The soldier is now receiving treatment.

🇮🇱⚡- Benny Gantz of the Blue and White Party has dropped out of the race just eight days before voters go to the polls.

🇮🇱⚡- Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar has called on right-wing parties that are polling below the Knesset threshold to follow Benny Gantz’s lead and withdraw from the race. His remarks appear to be aimed at Ofer Winter.

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich had earlier urged Winter and his Amach Yisrael party to drop out as well.