Izraelio ministras pirmininkas Benjaminas Netanyahu (Benjaminas Netanjahu) ketvirtadienį pareiškė, kad bendrovės „FlyDubai“ lėktuvo kapitoną užpuolęs antrasis pilotas buvo patyręs „radikalią islamistinę indoktrinaciją“.

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BERLIN — The Trump administration has circulated a proposal to European governments asking them to release a large portion of the bloc’s strategic diesel reserves to ease soaring fuel costs, according to four officials in European and U.S. governments. The plan, put forward by U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright, was pitched as an alternative to President Donald Trump’s threat of a blanket ban on diesel exports from the U.S. Under the proposal, EU governments would release 120 million barrels of diesel from their national strategic reserves over 180 days, a government official from a European country told POLITICO. The official, like others in this story, was granted anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the proposal’s details publicly. That would account for well over a third of the approximately 315 million barrels of diesel EU countries held in reserve as of June this year, according to Eurostat figures. Among EU countries, Germany, France, Italy, Spain and Poland hold the largest reserves of the essential transport fuel. POLITICO reported Tuesday that the White House was floating the idea of asking the EU to use its diesel reserves to bolster global supply and thus lower prices. A German government official on Thursday confirmed that the United States had contacted Berlin in the matter.  Germany was not the only country approached by the U.S. Reuters reported that France had been approached about the plan, while a third major EU member was also approached bilaterally in the U.S. last week, according to another senior European energy official. “It was very hypothetical: ‘What do you think about Europe releasing some of the reserves in order to decrease prices, put pressure on supplies?'” the official said of the approach. “‘It could also help our government not to continue the discussion on the export ban.'” Wright, along with the U.S. oil and gas industry, opposes an export ban on one of the world’s most in-demand petroleum products, and the proposal is seen as an attempt to find an alternative to such a drastic measure. At a press conference Thursday, Commission spokesperson Anna-Kaisa Itkonen wouldn’t confirm whether the EU had received Wright’s request but said that any stock releases would only be agreed through the International Energy Agency, a Paris-based institution which coordinates energy policy among rich countries and oversaw an earlier stock release this year. She added that the Commission was in close contact with EU member countries and Washington.   Meanwhile, President Trump on Wednesday confirmed that a diesel export ban by his administration was still on the table. “I’m thinking about it,” Trump said of the export ban at an Oval Office event. “I speak to [Energy Secretary] Chris [Wright] and [Interior Secretary] Doug [Burgum] about it a lot — they sort of think it’ll help diesel, but it might raise the price of other things.” Trump declined to rule out restricting diesel shipments. “It’s something that we think about and we talk about every day,” he said. “But it just seems that it would have a negative impact on gasoline, so that would go up a little bit, and diesel would come down a little bit.” Wright, who was with Trump in the Oval Office on Wednesday, said the administration would soon announce measures aimed at bringing down diesel prices. Europe would also be announcing moves to add supply to the market, he said. “You will hear announcements from our friends in Europe about new diesel supplies that’ll come to the market that’ll meaningfully push diesel prices down,” Wright said. Ben Lefebvre and James Bikales contributed reporting.

PARIS — French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu called an emergency meeting on Thursday to address the fast-growing number of student protests across the country. The movement, which was born of anger over conditions in secondary schools, began in recent days with teenagers blocking entrances to educational institutions in underprivileged suburbs of Paris. The Union Syndicale Lycéenne, the student union spearheading the demonstrations, said they want authorities to address a “shortage of teachers and staff, dilapidated high schools, overcrowded classrooms, and overloaded schedules.” While the protests have been largely peaceful, some have seen trash cans set on fire outside school entrances and buildings vandalized. The head of the greater Paris region, Valérie Pécresse, said Thursday that more than 200 schools were affected and the damage had exceeded €1 million, Le Monde reported. Protesters and their supporters have accused the police of using excessive force to disperse gatherings. The protests have also sparked political finger-pointing. The far-left presidential candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon and his France Unbowed party have attended demonstrations in their constituencies, saying they were there to show support and protect minors from confrontations with police. Marine Le Pen, the far-right front-runner in next year’s presidential election in France, said on X that Mélenchon “bears a heavy responsibility for the situation our country is facing today.” Mélenchon responded by saying his party was protecting “young people from violence perpetrated by Ms. Le Pen’s allies in the police force.” Earlier in the week, Lecornu accused Mélenchon and his party of irresponsibly escalating the situation. “The duty of an elected official of the Republic is to protect young people and call for calm. Exploiting their anger for partisan purposes is wrong,” Lecornu said Monday on X.

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