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Riot-torn France struggles with chaos at home as Macron eyes military mission thousands of miles away
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French President Emmanuel Macron is pushing ahead with plans for a new European military presence in Lebanon while struggling with mounting political and economic turmoil at home, even as the initiative encounters resistance from a key European partner and Washington considers an alternative that may not require troops.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio confirmed that he had discussed the future of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) with Macron, suggesting that a replacement monitoring mechanism could be civilian rather than military.
«It doesn’t have to be a military mission. It could be a civilian mission,» Rubio said in remarks published Tuesday.
Rubio explained that the administration is seeking a credible mechanism to verify arrangements under which Israeli forces withdraw from designated areas, the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) assume control and the Iran-backed terrorist group Hezbollah is prevented from returning.
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Soldiers from the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon UNIFIL attend a ceremony marking the International Day of UN Peacekeepers in Naqoura, Lebanon, May 29, 2025. (Ali Hashisho/Xinhua via Getty Images)
He suggested France could play a constructive role but emphasized that any arrangement would require agreement from both Lebanon and Israel.
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz also made clear that Washington has no intention of preserving the existing peacekeeping mission.
«UNIFIL in its current form will not continue, and it must not continue — we are working with our international partners to draw down the mission and ensure that the Lebanese people can choose their own future and to ensure that the Lebanese Armed Forces can secure the nation’s future,» Waltz told Fox News Digital.
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French President Emmanuel Macron reviews the troops during his visit to the nuclear submarine navy base of Ile Longue in Crozon, France, March 2, 2026 (Yoan Valat /Pool via Reuters)
The French initiative, meanwhile, envisions a multinational force potentially involving thousands of European troops to support the Lebanese army as UNIFIL prepares to end its nearly five-decade mission. The proposed force’s final size, mandate and participating countries remain unconfirmed.
However, Italy, which previously joined France in calling for an international coalition following UNIFIL’s withdrawal, does not support deploying its troops under the proposal currently advanced by Paris, three sources with knowledge of the discussions told Fox News Digital.
The initiative comes as Macron faces growing domestic pressure, with France experiencing widespread demonstrations over rising living costs, wages and deteriorating public services.
The unrest has further complicated the government’s efforts to pass its 2027 budget, as mounting debt and political divisions limit its room to maneuver, Reuters reported Nov. 5.
Against that backdrop, France’s proposed deployment raises questions about the financial and military resources Paris could commit to another overseas mission, particularly without firm support from its European partners.
Simone Rodan-Benzaquen, senior envoy for Europe at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, argued that replacing UNIFIL with another international military force risks repeating the shortcomings of the existing mission.
«UNIFIL’s mandate should end as scheduled. Hezbollah built up its military presence in southern Lebanon with international peacekeepers already on the ground. Keeping troops there under a new mandate would repeat an approach that failed to prevent that buildup. The basis for what comes next should be the U.S.-brokered agreement Israel and Lebanon reached in June. France can help both sides put it into practice and move further,» Rodan-Benzaquen told Fox News Digital.
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US Secretary of State Marco Rubio sits with France’s Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs Jean-Noël Barrot during the G7 foreign ministers summit at the Quai d’Orsay in Paris to discuss support for Ukraine and stabilization efforts in the Middle East. Nov. 9, 2026. (Christophe Petit Tesson / POOL / AFP via Getty Images)
The question of who would conduct such inspections has already proved contentious.
The United States and Israel had previously opposed France serving as a third-party verifier of Hezbollah’s disarmament, according to an Aug. 7 Reuters report citing Lebanese officials and foreign diplomats. A Lebanese official also told Reuters that Beirut had rejected an earlier proposal involving private security companies.
The challenges extend beyond diplomatic disagreements.
According to a Congressional Research Service assessment updated November 9, Hezbollah continues to refuse disarmament while Israeli forces maintain positions in southern Lebanon.
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A protester holds a rock to throw at police as a kiosk burns during a demonstration near Place de la République, as the Gilets Jaunes join students for a weekend of action on October 17, 2026, in Paris, France. (Carl Court/Getty Images)
A U.S.-brokered framework agreement reached in June linked a phased Israeli withdrawal to the verified disarmament of armed groups and the deployment of Lebanese forces. But implementation has stalled beyond the initial pilot areas, and negotiations in October ended without agreement.
Rather than committing additional troops, Rodan-Benzaquen argued that Paris should focus on using its diplomatic influence to strengthen the Lebanese government’s efforts to disarm Hezbollah.
«France’s greatest leverage is notably in Beirut. The Lebanese cabinet has already outlawed Hezbollah’s military activity. Paris should work with the Lebanese government to press disarming Hezbollah. Israel needs credible evidence that Hezbollah cannot return to an area its troops are eventually leaving. Beirut needs confidence that once its army secures that area, the agreed Israeli withdrawal will eventually follow. That is where French diplomacy can make a difference.»
The debate follows the August 2025 Security Council resolution extending UNIFIL’s mandate for a final time, until December 31, 2026, with an orderly withdrawal authorized over the following year.
Washington backed terminating the mission amid longstanding concerns about its inability to prevent Hezbollah from maintaining a military presence in southern Lebanon. France, by contrast, has warned against leaving a security vacuum.
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United Nations peacekeeping force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) vehicles drive along the main road leading to Lebanon’s southern town of Naqura close to the border with Israel on October 27, 2022. (Photo by Mahmoud Zayyat/ AFP/Getty Images)
In a previous Security Council statement, the French Mission to the U.N. said: «France will support UNIFIL until the expiration of its mandate. It will contribute to defining the future international engagement in Lebanon, in support of its sovereignty and the implementation of resolution 1701.»
U.N. spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric told Fox News Digital that Secretary-General António Guterres presented three options for a future U.N. presence in June, but the Security Council has not formally selected one.
He added that the U.N. is aware of discussions about a possible non-U.N. military presence in southern Lebanon but is not directly involved in those negotiations.
With UNIFIL’s mandate approaching expiration, France faces the challenge of securing agreement not only on which countries would contribute personnel, but also on what those forces would be authorized to do in a country where Hezbollah remains armed and Israeli troops have yet to fully withdraw.
A member of the Spanish UNIFIL peacekeeper forces stands in front of the rubble of destroyed buildings during a patrol in the southern Lebanese village of Borj El Mlouk, near the border with Israel, on January 7, 2025. (ANWAR AMRO/AFP via Getty Images)
The Italian government has not responded to Fox News Digital’s request for comment. Requests for comment were also sent to the State Department, Spanish and Lebanese authorities.
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New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is quietly working towards a new goal: to become a progressive kingmaker in the burgeoning battle for the 2028 Democratic presidential nomination.
The socialist mayor of the nation’s most populous city, who can’t run for president himself because he’s not a natural-born U.S. citizen, has been meeting behind closed doors with labor leaders to highlight the need for a union-aligned or left-wing candidate to seek the presidency.
The mayor’s moves come as he’s reportedly said he’s uncertain whether progressive champion Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, his close political ally, will run for the White House.
According to Axios, which was first to report the news, Mamdani is concerned that if Ocasio-Cortez stays out of the 2028 race, it could leave progressives without a standard-bearer to face off against a more centrist presidential front-runner in the primary battle.
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Mamdani, who is seen as a major powerbroker for the left-wing of the Democratic Party after his historic 2025 mayoral election victory, argues that the progressive movement can’t waste their momentum coming out of last week’s trouncing of Republicans in the midterm elections, as Democrats won a massive House majority and control of the Senate.
A source familiar with Mamdani’s 2028 conversations told Axios the mayor «wants the progressive ecosystem to mobilize quickly, strategically and efficiently if a moderate candidate is clearly on the rise,»
Meanwhile, Ocasio-Cortez is publicly pumping the brakes on speculation she’ll launch a presidential campaign or bid for the Senate in New York, even as a newly formed group of activists is urging her run for the White House.
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«I think the thing that’s important here is the last thing that people want to hear from me or any other politician here is about the next election. And what they actually want to hear from us is about what we are going to do with the electoral results they just gave us on Tuesday,’ Ocasio-Cortez told reporters Monday night, as she pointed to the Democrats’ trouncing of Republicans in the midterms, as the party won a massive House majority and control of the Senate.
The comments from Ocasio-Cortez, who was re-elected last week to a fifth term representing parts of New York City, came hours after the formal launch of Ready for AOC, a political group working to encourage her to run for president by showing her she has legions of supporters ready to mobilize on her behalf.
«A people-powered movement asking Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to run for President in 2028. No campaign. No money. Just names,» is how the group described itself on social media.
But Ocasio-Cortez said that voters are more concerned about congressional Democrats’ immediate legislative agenda rather than speculating about the next election.
«I think people are less concerned about the horse race, and they want to know: What are the investigations we’re going to be starting? What is the legislation that we’re going to be starting?» she said.
Veteran Democratic strategist David Plouffe, campaign manager for former President Barack Obama’s landmark 2008 White House victory and a senior adviser on then-Vice President Kamala Harris’ 2024 bid, said last week, «If AOC runs, she’s going to start, 20-25%, probably. The question is, can she add to that? If she doesn’t run, then that is wide open. That’s where I think someone like Abdul may say ‘even though I just won, should I look at it?’»
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Plouffe, who was speaking at a forum hosted by Harvard University’s Institute of Politics, was referring to Democratic Sen.-elect Abdul El-Sayed of Michigan, who made history last week as the first Muslim elected to the U.S. Senate.
«That’s the thing about this race. It’s so wide open that there may be some people run who surprise us. I also think they’ll be some people who don’t run who’ll surprise us,» Plouffe added.
Ocasio-Cortez said in September that she’s weighing what to do next, whether it be a White House run or a bid for the seat currently held by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, a fellow Democrat and New Yorker.
«I know there is a lot of speculation about what I will decide to do in 2028. I get asked about it nearly every interview and event,» Ocasio-Cortez wrote in a fundraising email to supporters.
The now-37-year-old lawmaker with a massive social media footprint said in a New York Times interview two months ago that her decision, which could happen sometime after the midterm elections, would come down to answering the question, «Where can I do the most good?»
Schumer, who turns 76 later this month, has left his 2028 plans open and has not announced whether he’ll run for sixth six-year term in the Senate.
Ocasio-Cortez isn’t the only leading figure on the left who is mulling a presidential run. So is Rep. Ro Khanna of California, a top House progressive.
Allies of the soon-to-be six-term congressman last week launched a draft committee called «Run Ro» to build support and raise funds for a potential 2028 presidential campaign.
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Escándalo en Nvidia: el romance de su CEO con una presunta espía habría facilitado la venta de chips a China por US$7500 millones
El escándalo que involucra al director ejecutivo de Nvidia, Jensen Huang, y una empresaria señalada como presunta espía del Gobierno chino sumó una nueva revelación. Según una investigación publicada este martes, la relación entre ambos habría facilitado el envío de chips de inteligencia artificial por al menos US$7500 millones a empresas chinas, mediante una red de sociedades que operaban en distintos países de Asia.
La información fue difundida por el medio especializado The Information y reproducida por la agencia Reuters. El informe, basado en testimonios de dos personas que conocen a Alice Huang, sostiene que la empresaria habría aprovechado sus vínculos con el máximo responsable de Nvidia y con distribuidores de la compañía para obtener procesadores avanzados, algunos de ellos sujetos a restricciones comerciales impuestas por Estados Unidos.
De acuerdo con la investigación, unas 240.000 unidades de los modelos H100, H200 y A100 habrían llegado a China mediante estas operaciones. Reuters aclaró que no pudo verificar de manera independiente los resultados del informe.
Según The Information, Alice Huang, junto con su marido y su hermana, construyó una estructura empresarial con sociedades registradas en China y Singapur para adquirir procesadores de Nvidia.
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¿Cuáles son los países de Centroamérica menos seguros para viajar en 2027, según ranking global?
Nicaragua y Guatemala concentran las alertas de viaje más severas de Centroamérica para 2027, mientras Costa Rica y Panamá se consolidan como el polo más estable de la región, según el Global Risk Map 2027, informe anual de Global Guardian, firma estadounidense de seguridad corporativa que opera en más de 140 países.
El documento, difundido el 30 de septiembre, clasifica a las naciones del mundo en cinco niveles de riesgo: bajo, moderado, medio, alto y extremo.
El Salvador no figura con datos propios en ese mapa, una ausencia que contrasta con el perfil de seguridad que el Gobierno salvadoreño exhibe en otros ámbitos.
Qué mide el nuevo mapa de riesgo global
El Global Risk Map no se limita a contar delitos. Cruza 11 variables: criminalidad, conflicto armado, terrorismo, estabilidad política, protestas, salud, infraestructura, desastres naturales, exposición ambiental, detención arbitraria y protección de datos.
La edición 2027 incorporó cinco categorías específicas que una calificación nacional genérica puede ocultar: ciudades de mayor riesgo global, países con mayor exposición de datos, naciones donde conviene llevar un teléfono descartable, y los territorios con mayor riesgo de detención arbitraria y de amenazas sanitarias.
El informe advierte además que las capitales suelen tener mejor infraestructura y control gubernamental que el resto del territorio, mientras las zonas rurales cercanas enfrentan niveles de criminalidad mucho más altos.
Centroamérica no exhibe un país único como “el más peligroso”: Nicaragua lidera el riesgo de detención arbitraria y Guatemala concentra la alerta por criminalidad urbana, mientras Costa Rica y Panamá sostienen el perfil más estable, sin figurar entre las categorías de mayor alarma del informe.
Guatemala y Nicaragua concentran las alertas más altas
Ciudad de Guatemala aparece entre las ciudades de mayor riesgo del mundo en el listado de Global Guardian. El dato coincide con la alerta de nivel 3 (“reconsiderar el viaje”) que mantiene el Departamento de Estado de Estados Unidos para todo el país desde marzo, que por primera vez incorpora el terrorismo como factor de riesgo junto al crimen.
Esa alerta señala prohibición total en los departamentos de San Marcos y Huehuetenango, la zona 18 de la capital guatemalteca y la ciudad de Villa Nueva. El Gobierno británico añade que se han registrado atracos armados en la mayoría de las rutas turísticas que conectan la capital con Antigua, Tikal y el lago de Atitlán.
Guatemala registró 17.2 homicidios por cada 100,000 habitantes en 2025, cifra inferior a la de Honduras (26.2), aunque ambos países comparten la alerta de nivel 3.
El tribunal electoral guatemalteco activó un panel para prevenir conflictos antes de los comicios de 2027: más de 100 de sus 340 municipios figuran con algún nivel de riesgo de confrontación.
Nicaragua, por su parte, lidera entre los países con mayor riesgo de detención arbitraria del planeta, categoría que Global Guardian define como el patrón de naciones que detienen a ciudadanos de países adversarios sin causa legítima para generar presión diplomática.
El Departamento de Estado mantiene su propia alerta de nivel 3 para el país desde mayo y advierte que los detenidos de forma injusta pueden permanecer presos durante años, sin acceso consistente a representación consular.
El Centro Global para la Responsabilidad de Proteger, organismo de monitoreo con sede en Nueva York, documentó en marzo una campaña sistemática del Gobierno nicaragüense contra voces críticas, con denuncias de asesinatos, torturas y desapariciones forzadas.
Costa Rica y Panamá, el polo más estable
Frente a esos dos focos de alerta, Costa Rica y Panamá no aparecen mencionados en ninguna de las categorías de mayor riesgo del informe 2027. Según Global Guardian, presentan el menor riesgo combinado de la región gracias a su estabilidad institucional, infraestructura turística consolidada y bajo nivel de riesgo político.
Eso no los exime de riesgos puntuales. Costa Rica enfrenta presión creciente del narcotráfico, con aumento de homicidios en determinadas provincias, mientras Panamá concentra sus focos de alerta en barrios específicos de la capital y en la región del Darién, frontera con Colombia, que ninguna autoridad recomienda como ruta turística por la ausencia de asistencia estatal efectiva en esa zona selvática.
El Salvador, el país sin datos en el informe
El Global Risk Map 2027 no incluye una calificación propia para El Salvador, por lo que el país queda fuera de la comparación directa. El vacío llama la atención porque el Gobierno salvadoreño exhibe la caída de homicidios más pronunciada del hemisferio en los últimos años.
El país pasó de más de 100 homicidios por cada 100.000 habitantes antes de 2019 a una tasa de 1.3 al cierre de 2025, según cifras oficiales citadas por Infobae.
El cambio se atribuye al Plan Control Territorial, vigente desde 2019, y al régimen de excepción, aprobado en marzo de 2022 y prorrogado en 56 ocasiones.
El vicepresidente Félix Ulloa presentó esa política como el eje central de la campaña oficialista rumbo a las elecciones de 2027 y afirmó ante Infobae que el país pasó de ser “la capital mundial del homicidio” en 2015 a convertirse en el más seguro del hemisferio occidental.
Honduras y Belice completan el panorama regional
El Departamento de Estado mantiene para Honduras una alerta de nivel 3 vigente desde agosto, que combina riesgo de criminalidad y terrorismo.
El organismo eleva esa recomendación a nivel 4, “no viajar”, para el departamento de Gracias a Dios, región remota con infraestructura débil y presencia escasa de policía y ejército.
Belice figura en nivel 2, “ejercer mayor precaución”, aunque el sur de Ciudad de Belice tiene recomendación de nivel 3 por la concentración histórica de delitos violentos vinculados a pandillas.
El propio Departamento de Estado emitió una alerta de seguridad el 4 de noviembre tras la declaración de estado de emergencia en zonas específicas del país.
Un año marcado por emergencias simultáneas
Global Guardian atribuye el repunte de riesgo en Medio Oriente y América a un 2026 marcado por disrupciones simultáneas: dos emergencias sanitarias globales por hantavirus y ebolavirus, el cierre del estrecho de Ormuz con su consecuente choque petrolero, y la aparición de modelos de inteligencia artificial con capacidades de pirateo informático sin precedentes.
En ese escenario, solo Jamaica, Corea del Sur y Hungría mejoraron su calificación respecto al año anterior, según el documento.
El contraste refuerza la lectura sobre Centroamérica: mientras la región no lidera las categorías de mayor alarma mundial, el reparto interno entre sus países marca de forma directa las recomendaciones para viajeros y empresas que operan en la zona.
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