PSG Wins First Champions League; 780 Arrested in Riots

France woke on Sunday to its first European football crown and the aftermath of a night of unrest. Paris Saint-Germain beat Arsenal on penalties in Budapest to win the Champions League for the first time in the club's history, but celebrations across the country turned violent: Interior Minister Laurent Nunez said more than 780 people were arrested nationwide and 57 officers were injured, and one person died. Around 20,000 gathered on the Champs-Elysees, where some set cars and bins ablaze and vandalised shops, ahead of a victory parade planned for the Champ-de-Mars and a reception for the players at the Elysee Palace with President Emmanuel Macron.

The weekend also handed Macron an economic win as he prepared to open an international investment conference at the Palace of Versailles on Monday. SoftBank's founder, Masayoshi Son, pledged 75 billion euros ($87.5 billion) for artificial-intelligence infrastructure in France -- the largest such commitment in Europe -- including 45 billion euros for data centres in the Hauts-de-France region by 2031, built with Schneider Electric and starting at Dunkirk, Cambrai and Amiens. Son cited France's status as an energy exporter and Macron's personal lobbying, a boost to the president's drive to keep Europe competitive in AI against the United States and China.

Abroad, France took a leading role in condemning Israel's expanded offensive in Lebanon. After Israeli forces captured the strategic Beaufort Castle and pushed north of the Litani River in the deepest incursion in 26 years, Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot called the operation a "major fault" that nothing could justify, said it was "contrary to Israel's interests and security," and requested an emergency UN Security Council meeting -- as Lebanon's death toll since early March reached 3,371.