FRENCH PRESIDENT MACRON PROPOSES A 'DOUBLE MORATORIUM' UNDER WHICH UKRAINE STOPS STRIKING RUSSIAN REFINERIES AND RUSSIA COMMITS NOT TO STRIKE UKRAINE'S ENERGY SYSTEM AND CIVILIAN INFRASTRUCTURE, WARNING THAT RUSSIA 'CONSIDERS EUROPE TO BE UKRAINE'S STRATEGIC DEPTH' AND THAT EUROPE 'CAN BE TARGETED', CITING INTENSIFYING ATTACKS INCLUDING THE 'EXTREMELY SERIOUS' FAILED ATTACK IN GERMANY.
FRENCH PRESIDENT MACRON SAYS ON TRUMP'S THREAT TO BAN U.S. DIESEL EXPORTS THAT 'YOU NEVER HAVE GUARANTEES WITH DONALD TRUMP. NEVER', CALLING A POTENTIAL BAN 'CATASTROPHIC', AND SAYS RUSSIA COULD BE PREPARING TO MOBILIZE AROUND 300,000 ADDITIONAL TROOPS — A SCENARIO HE CALLS CREDIBLE BASED ON EUROPEAN, U.S. AND UKRAINIAN INTELLIGENCE.
FRENCH PRESIDENT MACRON SAYS FRANCE WILL DEPLOY TROOPS, RADARS AND AIR DEFENSE SYSTEMS TO PROTECT SAUDI ARABIA'S YANBU OIL TERMINAL, DAMAGED BY A HOUTHI ATTACK, SAYING IT IS 'NOT TO ENGAGE IN ANY CONFLICT, BUT TO PROTECT THIS SITE', WHICH WAS EXPORTING MORE THAN 5 MLN BARRELS A DAY BEFORE THE STRIKE.
FRENCH FOREIGN MINISTER SAID THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY NEEDS TO ESTABLISH A COMMON FRAMEWORK TO MANAGE AI RISKS, WHILE BRITAIN'S FOREIGN SECRETARY SAID THE WORLD 'CANNOT IGNORE WARNINGS FROM AI LEADERS'.
French President Emmanuel Macron criticized Gaza diplomacy at the UN General Assembly, calling it a ‘spectacle that shames us all’ and urging action to reopen humanitarian routes