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Sep 2023
Cinema: “Deserts”, mystical western in the Rif

Faouzi Bensaïdi is a passionate person who spins metaphors whenever he talks about the seventh art. At the last Filmmakers' Fortnight, at the Cannes Film Festival, the Moroccan director readily admitted: he is often very demanding of his team, not to...

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Sep 2023
Unesco site in Cyrene risks collapse after floods in Libya

The imposing ancient Greek site of Cyrene in Libya, classified since 2016 by UNESCO as world heritage in danger, is at risk of collapse after the devastating floods which hit the east of the country, according to testimonies and an archaeologist.It is a 'gigantic...

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Sep 2023
When climate anxiety pushes young Portuguese to sue 32 states

Seeing her house 'covered in ashes” by one of the deadly 2017 fires in Portugal sparked a stir in Claudia Agostinho, who with five other young Portuguese people is attacking 32 states for climate inaction before the European Court of Human Rights (...

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Sep 2023
Azerbaijan "restored its sovereignty" over Karabakh after its lightning victory

Azerbaijan has 'reestablished its sovereignty” over Nagorno-Karabakh, after a lightning victory over the Armenian separatists who 'started” to lay down their arms, the Azerbaijani president welcomed on Wednesday."Most" of the forces and equipment...

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Sep 2023
Gold but no books for minor children in Venezuela

Barefoot, 10-year-old Martin digs the earth with his 9- and 11-year-old cousins ​​in an open-air mine in El Callao, a small landlocked town in southeastern Venezuela where countless "mills" hum and crush the earth. and stones to extract gold.He can't...

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Sep 2023
The Lépine competition for EU enlargement is launched

Expand without collapsing, opening up to new entrants without paralysis, welcoming very poor countries without throwing down the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and the solidarity of cohesion funds, ensuring that the EU acts quickly without falling into...

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Sep 2023
“Last Summer”: Catherine Breillat’s shot-shot bourgeois drama

The pitch is very simple: what happens when a fifty-year-old is seduced by her seventeen-year-old stepson? Are we going to see a new version of Dying to Love or Souffle au coeur? No way. Announced at the last Cannes Film Festival as a sulphurous, disturbing...

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Sep 2023
Iran toughens sanctions against women refusing the veil

The Iranian Parliament increased the pressure on women refusing to wear the veil by approving a bill on Wednesday which toughens sanctions, which could go as far as heavy prison sentences.After months of discussion, the deputies gave their agreement to the...

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Sep 2023
Conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh: Russia gets involved and evacuates more than 2,000 civilians

The Nagorno-Karabakh region is once again at the heart of international concerns. The Russian peace contingent present in Nagorno-Karabakh has evacuated more than 2,000 civilians from the most dangerous areas of the separatist region, the Russian Defense...

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Sep 2023
Somalia: with the boom in construction, women engineers are demolishing stereotypes

In a booming Somali capital, construction engineer Faduma Mohamed Ali has a lot of work, supervising male workers twice her age, while defying stereotypes in this conservative Muslim country in the Horn of Africa. Africa.For example, she had to face social...

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Sep 2023
In Poitiers, a theater in honor of Maria Casarès

The Poitevin cultural landscape will be enriched this Thursday, September 21, with a new theater. With the opening of the Maria Casarès Stage, Poitiers has a new distribution center of nearly 500 square meters dedicated to young creation. The initiative...

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Sep 2023
“Oppenheimer” becomes the highest-grossing biopic in cinema history

Oppenheimer makes a sensational entry into the history of cinema by becoming the most profitable biopic in the history of the seventh art. Until then, the record for biographical films was held by Bohemian Rhapsody, by Bryan Singer, carried by Rami Malek...

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Sep 2023
Libya: in Derna, the unbearable wait for relatives of the missing

In the Libyan town of Derna, the sea breeze mixes with the nauseating smell of bodies buried under the rubble. Ten days after the deadly floods, relatives of the missing wait in anguish to learn their fate, without having any illusions.Survivors say that...

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Sep 2023
Cinema: “The Dead Leaves”, the beautiful romance by Aki Kaurismäki

It's one of the gems of the last Cannes Film Festival, a rare, funny, modest film, concocted by the Finnish filmmaker Aki Kaurismäki (Le Havre, The Man Without a Past), who always keeps it simple. This time, it tells a moving love story between two...

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Sep 2023
Gabon: the son of Ali Bongo and relatives of the deposed president indicted and incarcerated

Three weeks after the coup d'état which ousted Gabonese President Ali Bongo Ondimba from power, one of his sons and people close to the cabinet of the deposed head of state were indicted and imprisoned in particular for "corruption".Ten people were...

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Sep 2023
Glyphosate: Brussels proposes to renew authorization in the EU for 10 years

The European Commission proposed on Wednesday to renew the authorization of glyphosate in the EU for ten years, under conditions, after a report from a regulator estimating that the level of risk did not justify banning this controversial herbicide.The European...

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Sep 2023
Endometriosis: Olivier Véran clarifies the government's strategy

The recognition as a 'long-term condition” (ALD) of endometriosis, a disease which affects around 10% of women of childbearing age, does not have to become 'systematic”, government spokesperson Olivier Véran said on Wednesday. . The government...

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Sep 2023
Antibiotics: individual sales made compulsory in the event of a shortage

The delivery of drugs to the unit will be made compulsory for certain antibiotics in supply shortage, a measure intended to combat shortages and antibiotic resistance, a source close to the matter told AFP on Wednesday. 'There's no rationing. The...

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Sep 2023
Visit of Charles III: in Versailles, a sumptuous dinner to “reinvigorate” Franco-British friendship

Charles III and Emmanuel Macron carried a message of Franco-British "friendship" focused on "the future" during a sumptuous dinner at the Palace of Versailles, the highlight of the king's visit to France which began Wednesday with a ceremony at the Arc...

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Sep 2023
Climate: humanity "has opened the gates of hell", denounces the head of the UN

Humanity, which is reluctant to detoxify itself from fossil fuels, has "opened the gates of hell", denounced the UN Secretary General on Tuesday during a summit on climate ambition in the notable absence of the United States. United and China.The continued...

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Sep 2023
Mali – Alioune Ifra Ndiaye: “We must be wary of bureaucratic directives”

Since August 7, 2023, France has no longer issued any new visas to Malian, Nigerien and Burkinabe nationals. No exceptions will therefore be made for artists, nor for students or all those from the academic and scientific world who have planned a trip to...

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Sep 2023
Rwanda: President Paul Kagame running for a fourth term in 2024

'I am happy with the confidence that Rwandans have shown in me. I will always serve them, as much when I can. Yes, I am indeed a candidate,” declared Paul Kagame, 65, to the French-speaking magazine Jeune Afrique, to which he gave a long interview...

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Sep 2023
Africa: discovery of a half-million-year-old wooden structure

Archaeologists have unearthed the oldest wooden structure ever fashioned by humans, nearly half a million years old, a complex construction that assumes advanced technical abilities among early humans, according to a study published Wednesday . Exceptionally...

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Sep 2023
Anti-racism: the astonishing positions of the new boss of Dilcrah

Former minister Olivier Klein was reappointed at the end of July to head the interministerial delegation for the fight against racism, anti-Semitism and anti-LGBT hatred (Dilcrah). A strategic position, placed under the direct authority of the Prime Minister....

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