The Paris 2024 pass to allow tourists to use transport during the Olympic and Paralympic Games is open for sale on the Ile-de-France Mobilités (IDFM) website, the Ile-de-France transport authority announced on Wednesday April 17 .This package will allow...

He is the man who gave the TGV its distinctive silhouette, with its tapered, aerodynamic nose and its first orange color, which has become legendary in the French railway world. The designer Jacques Cooper, 'father” of the first TGV put on the rails,...

At least seventy people have died since last Saturday in floods and flash floods in Afghanistan, Janan Sayeq, an official with the natural disaster management department, announced Wednesday April 17.Fifty-six people were injured, more than two thousand six...

Organized at the initiative of a pro-Palestine student association, a conference by Jean-Luc Mélenchon and the 'rebellious” candidate for the European elections, Rima Hassan, which was to be held on Thursday April 18 at the University of Lille was...

In Pakistan, the volume of rain since the beginning of April has been twice as high as usual. In four days, this bad weather caused the death of at least sixty-five people, local authorities announced on Wednesday April 17.Between Friday and Monday, intense...

Joe Biden wants to triple tariffs on Chinese steel and aluminum, denouncing 'unfair competition” for American workers. This is a new appeal to workers in the middle of the electoral campaign.The White House denounced on Wednesday April 17 'China's...

More than anyone, probably, Steve Kerr knows that the greatest sporting dynasties are bound to disappear. Partner of Michael Jordan at the Chicago Bulls, the former shooter experienced the end of the great Illinois team, after the 1998 title – the sixth...

French filmmaker Quentin Dupieux believes that it is time for him 'to close [his] flap”. While his new film The Second Act is scheduled to open the 77th Cannes Film Festival on May 14, the director announced in a note to journalists that he would decline...

The Dutch Senate has approved the permanent closure of the valves at the Groningen (North) natural gas field, the largest in Europe. Its exploitation was the cause of earthquakes which shook local residents for decades. The tap will be definitively cut off...

The vice-president of the Representative Council of Jewish Institutions of France (CRIF), Gil Taieb, died at the age of 66, the institution announced on Tuesday April 16, saluting a 'tireless activist, fervent defender of Israel and of the Jewish community.”...

The evacuation had been expected for several days. On the morning of Wednesday April 17, the largest squat in France, located in Vitry-sur-Seine (Val-de-Marne), south of Paris, was being evacuated. The operation takes place one hundred days before the Olympic...

Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema appealed for help on Tuesday April 16, saying his country needed "vital" assistance of more than $900 million (around 850 million euros) to make facing the worst drought in its history.In a televised speech, he explained...

The Canadian government unveiled on Tuesday April 16 new taxes on the richest to finance housing in particular and attract younger people, hit by the increasing cost of living.The Minister of Finance, Chrystia Freeland, presenting her federal budget, forecast...

Israel wants to make Iran pay the price for its unprecedented attack on Israeli territory, despite international calls for restraint, including from its American ally, which announced new sanctions against the Islamic Republic.In Tehran, President Ebrahim...

Nearly two months after the start of the crisis which plunged Haiti into chaos and pushed Prime Minister Ariel Henry to announce his resignation, the nine members of the presidential transitional council were appointed on Tuesday April 16 by an official decree...

No fewer than 96 Manhattan residents armed with court summons made their way, Monday, April 15, through the crowd gathered in front of the New York court to reach the hypermedia courtroom on the fifteenth floor. As they entered, Donald Trump's gaze,...

This is one of the recurring questions for many Ile-de-France residents: will the return to school take place on the planned date, September 2, taking into account the Paralympic Games (from August 28 to September 8), synonymous with the establishment of...

United Nations envoy for Libya Abdoulaye Bathily resigned on Tuesday April 16, saying the UN cannot 'act successfully” to support the political process in the face of leaders who place 'their personal interests above the needs of the country ".'I...

This time, Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) has its revenge. Better yet: its own 'remontada.” Seven years after the trauma of a shameful elimination at the Camp Nou, PSG qualified for the last four of the Champions League by correcting FC Barcelona (4-1),...

This first round seemed as affordable as it was unprecedented. Opposed for the first time in his career to the young Italian Flavio Cobolli, 62nd in the world, Rafael Nadal did not hesitate in his return to competition, winning easily on Tuesday April 16...

In difficulty since the energy crisis of 2022, the French glassmaker Duralex 'has requested the opening of a judicial recovery procedure for its benefit with the Orléans commercial court”, announced the operating company New Duralex International...

Israeli bombings targeted the Gaza Strip on Tuesday April 16, in particular the town of Khan Younes, in the south, where fifteen people, including children, were killed, according to the enclave's health ministry. , controlled by Hamas. According to...

The President of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, announced on Tuesday April 16 the closure of all diplomatic representations of his country in Ecuador to protest against the raid by Ecuadorian police officers on the Mexican embassy in Quito to arrest the former...

A few hours after the start of the examination in Parliament of a controversial bill on 'foreign agents”, which had already provoked large-scale demonstrations in 2023, several thousand demonstrators gathered on Tuesday April 16 in the evening in Tbilisi,...