PRESS REVIEW – Thursday, November 13, 2025: The French and Belgian dailies mark 10 years since 130 people were killed in the Paris terror attacks. What trauma have the victims suffered? The Belgian daily Le Soir, meanwhile, looks at how the Molenbeek neighbourhood of Brussels has tried to shed its terrorism-linked image. Also: Tehran will run out of drinking water in days, while New Delhi suffocates from record pollution. Plus: a new study confirms that yelling at seagulls is the best way to scare them off!

It's been 10 years since gunmen stormed a series of locations in Paris and killed 130 people, including 90 at the Bataclan concert hall. A decade on, France commemorates the victims. For many, the last decade has been traumatic. Le Parisien tells us about Salim Toorabaly, the security guard at the Stade de France who prevented a terrorist from going inside. He was present when the other terrorists blew up their vests. The last decade has been traumatic for him – Toorabaly even attempted suicide. As Le Parisien says, that night still haunts us all. Libération looks at "life after survival" and has gathered testimonies from four of the survivors, including a hostage at the Bataclan concert hall. L'Humanité evokes a "living memory" on its front page and notes that 10 years later, the terrorist threat has not completely abated in France. 

Le Soir, the Belgian paper, also headlines on the 10-year anniversary. It focuses, however, on the Brussels neighbourhood of Molenbeek, from where the terrorists planned their carnage. The neighbourhood is still stigmatised by its terrorist affiliations, despite trying to shed itself of this negative image. 

Moving on, as the COP30 summit continues in Belem, Brazil, the Daily Telegraph looks at Tehran's drought, which could make the city unliveable. The paper calls the crisis "national and extraordinary." Tehran has about nine days of drinking water left in its reservoirs. If it doesn't rain in the city soon, Iranian authorities may have to evacuate the capital's 10 million residents, and government offices would have to relocate elsewhere. While a lack of rainfall can partially be blamed, other factors are at play here. As well as thoughtless government mismanagement of Iran's resources, ageing networks and decades of over-pumping have also led to water wastage, as Iran International, the Iranian television network, writes. It looks to South Africa’s Cape Town, which in 2015 faced going dry within days. Thanks to strict action by authorities, water usage fell by 50 percent in less than two years. The network offers solutions for Tehran to follow Cape Town’s example: scaling up recycling, transparency, repairing networks, public education and realistic pricing.

Over in India, pollution is threatening the lives of the residents of New Delhi and the city could also become unliveable in the near future, Le Monde reports. While New Delhi's winters were once a haven from the scorching summers, that's no longer the case. Winters have also become toxic for the capital's 30 million inhabitants. Due to agricultural burning and recent Diwali firecrackers, fine particle pollution has become a real health hazard. Since 2010, pollution-linked deaths have increased 38 percent, according to the scientific journal The Lancet, cited by Le Monde. The pollution also costs $100 billion per year in lost productivity and health expenses. The Indian government has attempted short-term solutions, but experts accuse them of not addressing the long-term solutions: banning thermic cars, developing public transport and moving New Delhi's industries out of the city.

Finally, a new study has revealed the best way to shoo away seagulls, those thieving birds who steal our fries on the beach and slop up our untouched food. It's not all their fault – a loss of habitat has forced them to look for food closer to humans. Nonetheless, their brazen swooping and adamant refusal to leave can be a source of great frustration! Researchers at the University of Exeter set out to show that physical violence isn't needed to scare off the gulls. They evaluated the reactions of 61 Cornwall gulls when the birds heard a man speaking in a calm voice, versus an angry voice. The conclusion is clear: continue yelling at seagulls!

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