Immigration: Darmanin announces reinforcements at the Italian border
The Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, announced Tuesday during a visit to Menton (Alpes-Maritimes) reinforcements in the fight against illegal immigration at the border with Italy, where pressure is increasing. At the end of April, Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne announced the sending of 150 additional gendarmes and police officers, while the number of migrants […]
Read MoreThe question of the day. Do politicians have their place in entertainment shows?
This is the shock duo of the new school year: former minister, 2007 presidential candidate and divisive figure on the left, Ségolène Royal is due to make her debut as a TV columnist this week under the wing of Cyril Hanouna, a host as influential as she is controversial. Thirty-four years after having attacked Japanese […]
Read MoreIn the news this Wednesday, September 13…
Parliamentary days, a court decision concerning the Paty affair, the release of the Netflix series on Bernard Tapie… All the news of the day. Justice. The Paris Court of Appeal rules Wednesday morning on the validity of the trials ordered for eight adults and six teenagers implicated in the investigation into the 2020 assassination of Professor […]
Read MoreProtest Erupts in India Against Saudi Crown Prince MBS Over Yemen Crisis
As Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud arrived in India to attend the G20 Summit hosted by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, protesters gathered in New Delhi to voice their vehement opposition to his presence. The demonstrators, holding placards and chanting slogans, demanded justice for the thousands of innocent Yemeni children, […]
Read MorePowerful earthquake causes damage across Morocco
A strong earthquake of magnitude 6.8 has struck central Morocco, killing at least 820 people, and causing damage in several areas. The epicentre was in the High Atlas Mountains, 71km (44 miles) south-west of Marrakesh, at a depth of 18.5km, the US Geological Survey said. It struck at 23:11 local time, followed by a 4.9 […]
Read MoreClimate change: UN calls for radical changes to stem warming
Tackling climate change needs a rapid transformation of the way our world works, travels, eats and uses energy, according to an important UN review. This is the first “global stocktake” to examine the efforts of countries to reduce planet-warming emissions since the Paris agreement was signed in 2015. While progress has been made, efforts now […]
Read MoreNew York fashion week kicks off at city’s public library
Libraries are usually quiet places where people go to study or relax, but on Thursday night the American luxury brand Coach broke from protocol when it kicked off New York fashion week by staging its spring/summer 2024 collection at the New York Public Library, the second largest public library in the US. Instead of shushing librarians and […]
Read MoreFrance 27-13 New Zealand: Antoine Dupont and his team answer the call of a nation
As a concept, perhaps it isn’t very Parisian. Maybe it is a little provincial and parochial for the capital, lacking a certain cosmopolitan sophistication. But down south, in French rugby’s heartlands, l’esprit de clocher – literally ‘the spirit of the bell tower’ – is a thing. It refers to the desire to defend what is […]
Read More‘The war had come to us too’: how Ukraine’s Danube ports became vital hubs – and targets
It had been hundreds of years since the world paid much attention to the Danube river port of Izmail at the edge of the estuary that now separates Romania and Ukraine. The Russian and Ottoman empires traded blows here in the 18th century, and one epic battle in 1790 – followed by a bloody massacre of civilians […]
Read MoreMeloni-Mitsotakis, Mediterranean axis for immigration
The European Union must recognize more forcefully the requests of the Mediterranean countries on the management of migrants: Italy and Greece are united by this objective, one of the focuses of the meeting between Giorgia Meloni and Kyriakos Mitsotakis in Athens, where the prime minister flew in the evening for a quick visit. A face […]
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