Iran on all fronts, Netanyahu rejects Saudi peace plan, China's baby bust, French education minister
How about never? Netanyahu rejects US-backed Saudi peace plan The plan is straightforward: Gulf states rebuild Gaza and Israel signs onto Saudi Arabia's decades-old roadmap for lasting peace with the Palestinians.
The Americans are on board. One party, though, still needs convincing: Israel. China's baby bust: Population drops for second year in row China's troubles may only just be starting: for the second year running, the population is declining with two million fewer people: that's double the drop of 2022.
Despite the lifting in 2016 of the country's one-child policy, the birth rate seems stuck, fuelling that favorite question: will the country grow old before it grows rich? For whom the bell rings?
Macron's education minister apologises over private school row French politics junkies call her AOC: sports minister Amélie Oudéa-Castéra, who last week was also promoted to education minister when her predecessor Gabriel Attal became prime minister.