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Madonna Shines in Paris despite Tensions

Madonna performs during a show. AFP file photo
Madonna performs during a show. AFP file photo
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Madonna Shines in Paris despite Tensions

Madonna performs during a show. AFP file photo
Madonna performs during a show. AFP file photo

Madonna’s shows in Paris have made a remarkable success despite the global headlines, political tensions and protests against antisemitism in several French cities. The US legendary singer has four scheduled concerts in the French capital that started on Sunday, at the Accor Arena.

Madonna’s fans were impatiently anticipating her after the health complications that sent her to the intensive care unit three months ago. The malaise urged her to cancel several concerts in North America during the summer, while keeping her European “Celebration Tour”, which kicked off in London last month.

But despite the high demand on tickets and the wide publicity, a Le Monde critic slammed Madonna in an article titled “Madonna's Paris Show: From Celebration to Boredom” on Sunday. The boredom was probably caused by the one hour and forty minutes delay of the concert, reportedly due to technical problems. Ticket prices ranged between 194 and 386 euros.

During the concert, Madonna sang a selection of her most popular songs, but didn’t perform any from her new album.

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Schwarzenegger Tells Environmentalists Dismayed by Trump to ‘Stop Whining’ and Get to Work 

US-Austrian actor, businessman and former Governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger speaks as he attends a panel discussion during the Austrian World Summit in Vienna, Austria on June 3, 2025. (AFP)
US-Austrian actor, businessman and former Governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger speaks as he attends a panel discussion during the Austrian World Summit in Vienna, Austria on June 3, 2025. (AFP)
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Schwarzenegger Tells Environmentalists Dismayed by Trump to ‘Stop Whining’ and Get to Work 

US-Austrian actor, businessman and former Governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger speaks as he attends a panel discussion during the Austrian World Summit in Vienna, Austria on June 3, 2025. (AFP)
US-Austrian actor, businessman and former Governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger speaks as he attends a panel discussion during the Austrian World Summit in Vienna, Austria on June 3, 2025. (AFP)

Arnold Schwarzenegger has a message for environmentalists who despair at the approach of President Donald Trump's administration: “Stop whining and get to work.”

The new US administration has taken an ax to Biden-era environmental ambitions, rolled back landmark regulations, withdrawn climate project funding and instead bolstered support for oil and gas production in the name of an “American energy dominance” agenda.

Schwarzenegger, the former Republican governor of California, has devoted time to environmental causes since leaving political office in 2011.

He said Tuesday he keeps hearing from environmentalists and policy experts lately who ask, “What is the point of fighting for a clean environment when the government of the United States says climate change is a hoax and coal and oil is the future?”

Schwarzenegger told the Austrian World Summit in Vienna, an event he helps organize, that he responds: “Stop whining and get to work.”

He pointed to examples of local and regional governments and companies taking action, including his own administration in California, and argued 70% of pollution is reduced at the local or state level.

“Be the mayor that makes buses electric; be the CEO who ends fossil fuel dependence; be the school that puts (up) solar roofs," he said.

“You can't just sit around and make excuses because one guy in a very nice White House on Pennsylvania Avenue doesn't agree with you,” he said, adding that attacking the president is “not my style” and he doesn't criticize any president when outside the US.

“I know that the people are sick and tired of the whining and the complaining and the doom and gloom,” Schwarzenegger said. “The only way we win the people's hearts and minds is by showing them action that makes their lives better.”