Tjera

Issued on: 05/07/2020 – 14:25Modified: 05/07/2020 – 14:25 About 34 people are either confirmed or feared dead — including 14 at a nursing home — after torrential rain in Japan triggered massive floods and mudslides, authorities said Sunday. Rescuers were searching for 14 people missing after floods hit the Kumamoto […]

Issued on: 05/07/2020 – 11:00Modified: 05/07/2020 – 11:01 Marseille became the latest French municipality to elect a Green mayor on Saturday, in a wave that has swept the country since local elections at the end of last month. Michèle Rubirola, the first female leader of France’s second city, won the […]

Issued on: 05/07/2020 – 10:07Modified: 05/07/2020 – 10:16 Italy is carrying out tests on 180 migrants rescued in the Mediterranean with a view to transferring them to a quarantine vessel in Sicily, an interior ministry source said Saturday. The migrants have been on the Ocean Viking ship operated by SOS […]

Issued on: 05/07/2020 – 08:52 Mexico topped 30,000 Covid-19 deaths Saturday, overtaking France as the country with the fifth-highest death toll since the coronavirus outbreak began. Officials reported 523 more confirmed coronavirus deaths for the day, bringing the nation’s total to 30,366 for the pandemic. Mexico’s total confirmed infections rose […]

Issued on: 05/07/2020 – 08:03Modified: 05/07/2020 – 08:03 US President Donald Trump on Saturday vowed to defeat the “radical left” and downplayed Covid-19 risks, in an Independence Day speech at the White House that condemned recent protests against monuments to historical figures as attempts to destroy the United States. Trump watched […]

Issued on: 04/07/2020 – 23:30Modified: 04/07/2020 – 23:32 Between 2,000 and 3,000 people turned out Saturday in Paris for a politically engaged Gay Pride march, a week after the officially scheduled event was cancelled because of coronavirus restrictions. A young, multicultural crowd marched behind a lorry bearing a banner declaring […]

Issued on: 04/07/2020 – 21:17Modified: 04/07/2020 – 21:17 In an exclusive interview with FRANCE 24, Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune says there is an opportunity to achieve “appeased relations” with France. He believes that French President Emmanuel Macron is “honest” and “proper” with regard to the country’s colonial past, welcomes the return […]

Issued on: 04/07/2020 – 17:20Modified: 04/07/2020 – 17:20 Books written by prominent Hong Kong democracy activists have started to disappear from the territory’s libraries, online records show, days after Beijing imposed a draconian national security law on the finance hub. Among the authors whose titles are no longer available are Joshua […]

Encouraged by US President Donald Trump’s so-called “deal of the century”, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been in a position to start his controversial West Bank annexation plan since July 1. The prime, fertile Jordan Valley, located in the West Bank’s Area C are in the Israeli leader’s sights […]

Issued on: 03/07/2020 – 13:22Modified: 03/07/2020 – 13:27 Every day thousands of people around the world continue to become direct casualties of the Covid-19. But there’s another group slowly emerging — indirect victims who have not contracted the virus but are suffering its consequences. Our reporter Julie Dungelhoff went to meet […]

Issued on: 04/07/2020 – 13:06Modified: 04/07/2020 – 13:06 Spain’s northeastern Catalonia region on Saturday locked down an area with around 200,000 residents near the town of Lerida following a surge in cases of the new coronavirus. The move came as the summer holidays started in Spain and the country began […]

Issued on: 04/07/2020 – 12:17Modified: 04/07/2020 – 12:17 While public health officials are urging Americans to avoid large crowds and hold more muted July 4 celebrations amid a spike of coronavirus cases, President Donald Trump is going big for what he is promising will be a “special evening” in the nation’s […]

Issued on: 04/07/2020 – 10:26Modified: 04/07/2020 – 10:26 The Louvre in Paris, the world’s most visited museum and home to the Mona Lisa, reopens on Monday but with coronavirus restrictions in place and parts of the complex closed to visitors. The Louvre has been closed since March 13 and this […]

Issued on: 04/07/2020 – 08:05Modified: 04/07/2020 – 08:05 England takes its biggest steps yet towards resumption of normal life on Saturday as people are finally allowed to drink in a pub, get a haircut or have a meal in a restaurant for the first time in over three months. Prime […]

Issued on: 04/07/2020 – 07:35Modified: 04/07/2020 – 07:35 A French court on Friday handed a 30-year prison sentence to a jihadist for crimes committed in Syria between 2013-15 including overseeing the execution of two prisoners while a senior figure in the Islamic State extremist group. Tyler Vilus, 30, who was […]

Issued on: 04/07/2020 – 07:10Modified: 04/07/2020 – 07:10 President Donald Trump on Friday railed against “angry mobs” that tried to tear down statues of Confederate leaders and other historical figures, warning thousands of supporters at Mount Rushmore that protesters were trying to erase U.S. history. On a day when seven […]

Issued on: 03/07/2020 – 22:56Modified: 03/07/2020 – 22:56 Unidentified armed men massacred 31 civilians in simultaneous attacks on several Mali villages this week, then killed nine soldiers responding to the assault as violence surges in the country’s conflict-wracked centre. An Islamist insurgency that erupted in the north of the vast […]

Issued on: 03/07/2020 – 18:55Modified: 03/07/2020 – 18:55 A French court is opening an inquiry into former prime minister Édouard Philippe and two other ministers over their handling of the coronavirus crisis, a prosecutor said Friday. The inquiry, which is being opened after nine complaints filed against the ministers were […]

Issued on: 03/07/2020 – 20:16Modified: 03/07/2020 – 20:16 Air France management said Friday it planned to eliminate 7,580 jobs at its flagship carrier airline and its regional unit Hop! by the end of 2022 because of the coronavirus crisis. The carrier wants to get rid of 6,560 of the 41,000 positions at […]

Issued on: 03/07/2020 – 19:21Modified: 03/07/2020 – 19:22 France’s new prime minister, Jean Castex, warned on Friday that the coronavirus pandemic was not over and an economic crisis was already making itself felt, as he took the helm of President Emmanuel Macron’s government. “The economic crisis is already here,” Castex said, praising […]

Issued on: 03/07/2020 – 19:04Modified: 03/07/2020 – 19:04 French prosecutors on Friday requested a life sentence on terror charges for jihadist Tyler Vilus, who is accused of overseeing executions in Syria as a senior figure in the Islamic State (IS) extremist group. Vilus, 30, is facing charges of belonging to […]

Issued on: 03/07/2020 – 18:06Modified: 03/07/2020 – 18:09 Nearly 400 elephants have been found dead in Botswana in recent weeks but local authorities and wildlife experts are struggling to find an explanation, with disease and poisoning among the possible causes. The reports of the deaths in the northern Okavango Delta region […]

Issued on: 03/07/2020 – 18:08Modified: 03/07/2020 – 18:08 For Amer al Dahn, the idea of eating meat is now a dream. Today, he can’t even afford bread and depends on credit from the local grocer to feed his wife and four children in the Lebanese city of Tripoli. “We can […]

Issued on: 03/07/2020 – 16:49Modified: 03/07/2020 – 16:51 Algeria on Friday received the skulls of 24 resistance fighters decapitated during colonial France’s conquest of the North African country that had been lying in storage in a Paris museum. The return of the remains, viewed as war trophies by French colonial […]

Issued on: 03/07/2020 – 17:02Modified: 03/07/2020 – 17:04 In the southern US state of Louisiana, Cajuns make up nearly 10% of the population. Although French is spoken less with each passing generation, some are fighting to preserve the language and keep their traditions alive. Our reporter Fanny Allard visited to […]

Turkish foreign policy has recently taken a hawkish turn in the Middle East and North Africa.  From a diplomatic row with NATO ally France over a Libyan arms embargo to the deployment of special forces in northern Iraq, Ankara seems newly willing to challenge allies and enemies alike in its […]

Issued on: 03/07/2020 – 13:24Modified: 03/07/2020 – 13:24 French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday named Jean Castex, who coordinated France’s virus reopening strategy, as the country’s new prime minister. The relatively low-profile Castex replaces Edouard Philippe, who resigned earlier in the day. Macron is reshuffling the government to focus on […]

Issued on: 03/07/2020 – 12:08Modified: 03/07/2020 – 12:08 Rescuers Friday pulled several bodies from the scene of a landslide which killed over 160 jade miners in northern Myanmar, many of them migrant workers seeking their fortune in treacherous open-cast mines near the China border. The disaster—the worst in memory to […]

Issued on: 03/07/2020 – 11:45Modified: 03/07/2020 – 11:45 This week FRANCE 24 looked at how Israeli PM Benyamin Netanyahu’s annexation plan is threatening the Palestinian and Israeli economies; breaking the silence on China’s campaign against the Uighurs; divisive colonial statues in South Africa; and the racy days of Hollywood – before […]

Issued on: 03/07/2020 – 10:11Modified: 03/07/2020 – 10:11 Prime Minister Édouard Philippe submitted his resignation and that of his government on Friday and President Emmanuel Macron has accepted, the Élysée Palace said in a statement.  The Élysée said that Philippe would handle government affairs until a new cabinet was named. A cabinet […]

Issued on: 03/07/2020 – 09:24Modified: 03/07/2020 – 09:24 Japan has formally asked the United States to extradite two men who helped former Nissan chief executive Carlos Ghosn escape the country to avoid prosecution, a court filing showed Thursday. The men — security contractor and former US special forces member Michael […]

Issued on: 03/07/2020 – 06:14Modified: 03/07/2020 – 06:14 A Turkish court will open the trial on Friday of 20 Saudi officials indicted over the 2018 killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, a step his fiancee hopes will shed more light on the death and reveal where his body was hidden. The indictment […]

Issued on: 03/07/2020 – 04:56Modified: 03/07/2020 – 04:57 A French court will decide Friday whether to reopen an investigation into the assassination 26 years ago of Rwanda’s president in a plane downing that triggered the country’s 100-day genocide. The appeals court in Paris has been asked to revisit a 2018 […]

Issued on: 03/07/2020 – 02:23Modified: 03/07/2020 – 02:23 The U.S. Senate unanimously approved legislation on Thursday to penalize banks doing business with Chinese officials who implement Beijing’s draconian new national security law on Hong Kong, sending it to the White House for President Donald Trump’s signature. The House of Representatives […]

Issued on: 03/07/2020 – 04:02Modified: 03/07/2020 – 04:02 The United States reported more than 55,000 new COVID-19 cases on Thursday, the largest daily increase any country has ever reported, according to a Reuters tally. A surge in coronavirus cases across the United States over the past week has put President Donald Trump’s […]

Issued on: 03/07/2020 – 03:46Modified: 03/07/2020 – 03:46 Police said Thursday they had arrested more than 800 people across Europe after shutting down an encrypted phone system used by organised crime groups to plot murders and drug deals. French and Dutch police said they hacked into the EncroChat network so they could […]

Issued on: 02/07/2020 – 21:48Modified: 02/07/2020 – 21:50 Fatou Bensouda, the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), tells FRANCE 24’s Marc Perelman that the United States’ decision to sanction the ICC officials investigating alleged war crimes committed by US troops in Afghanistan is an act of pure “political […]

Issued on: 02/07/2020 – 22:01Modified: 02/07/2020 – 22:01 Amsterdam’s red-light district re-opened on Wednesday, July 1 after being closed for more than three months during the Covid-19 lockdown, though sex workers have been advised to avoid kissing and follow strict hygiene measures to  reduce the risk of spreading the virus. […]

Issued on: 02/07/2020 – 22:07Modified: 02/07/2020 – 22:07 French President Emmanuel Macron said on Thursday the next phase of his presidency will be embodied by a new government team, but he remained coy about the future of his prime minister. Macron told regional newspapers in an interview that one of […]

Issued on: 02/07/2020 – 18:23Modified: 02/07/2020 – 18:23 French prosecutors on Thursday asked for ex-national team star and Real Madrid footballer Karim Benzema to face trial on charges of involvement in an alleged attempt to blackmail fellow player Mathieu Valbuena over a sex tape almost five years ago. Prosecutors in […]

Issued on: 02/07/2020 – 18:26Modified: 02/07/2020 – 18:26 Turkey’s foreign minister on Thursday demanded an apology from France over its depiction of a standoff between ships from the two countries in the Mediterranean Sea that prompted Paris to suspend its involvement in a NATO naval operation. France says its frigate […]

Venezuela has reversed its decision to expel the EU’s ambassador to Caracas ordered by President Nicolas Maduro, a statement said on Thursday, ending a tit-for-tat diplomatic row. Source link

A viral video filmed on June 30 shows a woman in Hong Kong frantically ripping down pro-democracy posters and flyers from the front window of the restaurant where she works. The footage is illustrative of the panic that has spread through the anti-government protesters after the implementation of a controversial […]

Issued on: 02/07/2020 – 16:43Modified: 02/07/2020 – 16:44 Ghislaine Maxwell, a British socialite who was accused by many women of helping procure underage sex partners for Jeffrey Epstein, was arrested Thursday in New Hampshire, the FBI said. Maxwell, who lived for years with Epstein and was his frequent travel companion […]

Issued on: 02/07/2020 – 16:12Modified: 02/07/2020 – 16:12 An Algerian court on Thursday granted prominent opposition figure and leader of the anti-government protest movement Karim Tabbou release from jail. Tabbou’s lawyer, Abdelghani Badi, said in a Facebook post that the Algiers court granted his request for the release of his […]

Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune on Thursday said France will return the remains of 24 fighters who were killed during its colonisation of the North African country. Source link

Issued on: 02/07/2020 – 12:58Modified: 02/07/2020 – 12:58 The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on Thursday condemned France for the “inhuman and degrading living conditions” of three asylum-seekers who were “living in the street without any resources”.  The Strasbourg-based court ruled that authorities “had failed in their duties” with […]

Issued on: 02/07/2020 – 13:57Modified: 02/07/2020 – 13:57 The EU on Thursday called on Russia to probe reports of irregularities during a nationwide vote to approve constitutional changes allowing President Vladimir Putin to potentially extend his two-decade rule until 2036. “We are aware of reports and allegations of irregularities during […]

Issued on: 02/07/2020 – 13:33Modified: 02/07/2020 – 13:33 In the month of June alone, almost 2,250 separate fires were recorded in the Amazon rainforest – up from around 1,900 fires detected in the same period last year. NGOs are worried that this summer will see a repeat of the infernos […]

Issued on: 02/07/2020 – 11:07Modified: 02/07/2020 – 11:07 The bodies of at least 100 jade miners were pulled from the mud after a landslide in northern Myanmar on Thursday, in one of the worst ever accidents to hit the perilous industry. Scores die each year while working in the country’s […]

Issued on: 02/07/2020 – 07:54Modified: 02/07/2020 – 07:54 Public health experts on Wednesday criticized the U.S. for securing a large supply of the only drug licensed so far to treat COVID-19. The U.S. government announced this week that it had an agreement with Gilead Sciences to make the bulk of […]

Issued on: 02/07/2020 – 06:35Modified: 02/07/2020 – 06:35 U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he was not told about a reported Russian effort to get the Taliban to kill U.S. soldiers because many U.S. intelligence officials doubted its veracity, a stance contradicted by four U.S. and European sources and […]

Issued on: 02/07/2020 – 06:09Modified: 02/07/2020 – 06:09 Turkey’s top court will deliver a critical verdict Thursday on whether Istanbul’s emblematic landmark and former church Hagia Sophia can be redesignated as a mosque, a ruling which could inflame tensions with the West. The sixth-century edifice — a magnet for tourists […]

Issued on: 02/07/2020 – 04:07Modified: 02/07/2020 – 04:07 Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves signed a bill into law on Tuesday that replaces the current state flag bearing a Confederate emblem, a gesture triggered by support across the United States to dismantle symbols of slavery and racism. The removal of the flag, a […]

Issued on: 02/07/2020 – 04:20Modified: 02/07/2020 – 04:20 Governors of U.S. states hit hardest by the resurgent coronavirus halted or reversed steps to reopen their economies on Wednesday, led by California, the nation’s most populous state and a new epicenter of the pandemic. New cases of COVID-19, the illness caused by […]

Issued on: 01/07/2020 – 23:56Modified: 01/07/2020 – 23:56 Britain on Wednesday extended Hong Kong residents a broader path to citizenship in response to China’s sweeping new security law for the former UK territory. Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s announcement represents the most direct international response to legislation that has been roundly condemned by Western […]

Issued on: 01/07/2020 – 22:09Modified: 01/07/2020 – 22:09 Russians appeared to have paved the way for Vladimir Putin to stay in power until 2036 by voting overwhelmingly for a package of constitutional changes which will also boost pensions, partial results of a nationwide vote showed on Wednesday. Results, after almost […]

Thousands of Palestinians protested in Gaza on Wednesday against Israel’s plans to annex parts of the West Bank, where Palestinian authorities announced a new five-day lockdown amid a worrying resurgence of the coronavirus. Israel‘s centre-right coalition government had set July 1 as the date from which it could begin implementing US […]

Issued on: 01/07/2020 – 19:18Modified: 01/07/2020 – 19:24 Israeli firm Redefine Meat is using 3D printing technology to produce plant-based steaks designed to mimic real meat and plans to start selling them in restaurants later this year. With a handful of other firms working on similar technology, could 3D-printed meat […]

More than three years after her father, a retired government official in China’s Uighur region, was arrested, Subi Mamat Yuksel finally spoke up about her family’s ordeal. The violations may have followed official Chinese directives, but the abuse was so severe that Beijing’s use of fear as a tool to silence […]

Issued on: 01/07/2020 – 16:58Modified: 01/07/2020 – 16:59 Maria Ressa, a prominent investigative journalist in the Philippines, is facing up to six years in jail after she was convicted of “cyberlibel”. In an interview with FRANCE 24, she claimed that the case against her was fabricated as part of a deliberate campaign to […]

Issued on: 30/06/2020 – 18:32Modified: 30/06/2020 – 18:32 In this edition, we’re focusing our entire programme on Israel’s planned annexation of settlements in the West Bank. The term ‘annexation’ is used when a state unilaterally incorporates another territory within its borders. Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has called these zones “an integral […]