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Apr 2024
Singapore: Prime Minister announces leaving his post after twenty years in office

The Prime Minister of Singapore, Lee Hsien Loong, announced on Monday April 15 that he would leave his post on May 15 after a twenty-year mandate to be replaced by the current Deputy Prime Minister, Lawrence Wong. A 51-year-old US-educated economist, Mr Wong...

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Apr 2024
Nigeria: ten years after the kidnapping of Chibok, the support committee expresses its frustration and anger

The support committee created for the release of more than 270 high school girls kidnapped ten years ago in Chibok, Nigeria, called on Sunday, April 14, the authorities not to forget the hundred of them still missing.On April 14, 2014, 276 young girls were...

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Apr 2024
The American timba made in France by Harold López-Nussa

From the first bars, we know that something has changed in Harold López-Nussa's music. Until now, the Cuban's career had followed a fairly classic trajectory. Coming from a family of artists, graduated from the Instituto Superior de Arte, with...

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Apr 2024
Technical inspection now compulsory for motorcycles and scooters

From this Monday, April 15, technical inspection is now mandatory for motorcycles, scooters, carts and even quads. If these category L vehicles were registered before January 1, 2017, the first check must be carried out no later than December 31, 2024.Nearly...

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Apr 2024
European elections: what you need to know about counting the speaking time of candidates and their supporters

While the main candidates for the 2024 European elections have launched their campaigns in recent weeks, Monday April 15 marks the start of counting their speaking time and that of their support in the audiovisual media between now and the holding of the...

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Apr 2024
NBA: Oklahoma City finishes first in the West where the Lakers must go through the play-offs

The surprise lasted until the end. After 82 regular season games, the Oklahoma City Thunder players managed to maintain their number one spot, and therefore home court advantage for the NBA Western Conference play-offs, the North American championship of...

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Apr 2024
Colombia: Government and ELN guerrillas resume peace negotiations

It is in Venezuela that the Colombian government and the National Liberation Army (ELN) have resumed peace negotiations, which were frozen due in particular to clashes between the guerrillas and other armed groups.'The two peace delegations began discussing...

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Apr 2024
Ligue 1: Brest falls to Lyon after a completely crazy match

Seven goals, two players sent off and a penalty after 16 minutes of added time: Olympique Lyonnais beat Brest 4-3 after a crazy match, Sunday April 14, during the 29th day of Ligue 1. Grace with this success snatched in its Groupama Stadium against the runner-up...

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Apr 2024
Iran-Israel, six deaths in Sydney, Wembanyama's last match... the five news stories of the weekend

Iran carried out an unprecedented air attack against Israel on the night of Saturday April 13th to Sunday April 14th. Tehran said the operation, dubbed 'Honest Promise,” was in response to the strike that destroyed its consulate in Damascus on April...

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Apr 2024
Manchester City, Arsenal and Liverpool neck and neck for the title of champion of England

It's a crossover worthy of a summer Saturday afternoon, on the Autoroute du Soleil. This season, in England, the football championship has already seen thirteen changes of leader, after the first 33 days – out of 38. Manchester City, Arsenal and Liverpool...

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Apr 2024
“1941. Last boat for exile”, on France 5: from Marseille to Martinique, an odyssey for freedom

Marseille, end of 1940. In the streets around the Old Port, hundreds of refugees, opponents of Nazism, artists, intellectuals, Jewish or not, wait to be able to leave Vichy France and embark for freedom. Objective New York or South America. And this, via...

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Apr 2024
Israel-Hamas war, day 191: thousands of Gazans try to go to the north of the enclave based on a false rumor

The war between Israel and Hamas has left 33,729 dead in the Gaza Strip, mostly civilians, according to a report released on Sunday April 14 by the Palestinian Islamist movement's health ministry. On the Israeli side, around 1,170 people died – most...

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Apr 2024
Villeneuve-d’Ascq basketball players beaten in the Euroleague final by Fenerbahçe

Their reunion had the feel of a David versus Goliath fight. Rachid Meziane, the coach of Villeneuve-d'Ascq, facing Valérie Garnier, his counterpart from Fenerbahçe, for whom he was an assistant on the French women's basketball team. On the one...

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Apr 2024
Iran seizes ship 'linked' to Israel off UAE, White House calls on Tehran to release ship 'immediately'

The maritime special forces of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, the ideological army of the Islamic Republic of Iran, seized a container ship 'linked” to Israel in the Gulf, the official IRNA agency announced on Saturday April 13. This seizure took...

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Apr 2024
Israel-Hamas War, Day 191: Both sides accuse each other of sabotaging truce talks

The war between Israel and Hamas has left 33,729 dead in the Gaza Strip, mostly civilians, according to a report released on Sunday April 14 by the Palestinian Islamist movement's health ministry. On the Israeli side, around 1,170 people died – most...

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Apr 2024
Stade Toulouse offers itself a sixth semi-final in a row in the Champions Cup

And six! Winner, in style, of the English of Exeter (64-26), Sunday April 14, at the Ernest-Wallon stadium, Stade Toulouse offers itself a sixth semi-final in a row in the Champions Cup, the great European cup of rugby.A demonstration-like success for the...

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Apr 2024
Stéfanos Tsitsipas makes the pass of three at the Monte-Carlo tennis tournament

Sitting in his chair, his eyes red with tears of joy, Stéfanos Tsitsipas can finally release the pressure after his third victory in the final of the Monte-Carlo tournament.The Greek, seeded number 12 in the table, won the first Masters 1000 of the clay...

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Apr 2024
Women's Six Nations Tournament: France wins without trembling against Italy

Real estate agents call this a 'crush.” On Sunday April 14, the French women's rugby team felt at home in a new home: the Jean-Bouin stadium, in the southwest of Paris. Les Bleues won an improved victory against Italy (38-15) on the third day...

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Apr 2024
Marianne Vos and Tom Pidcock take on the Amstel Gold Race, the first “Ardennes classic”

Funny day on the roads of Dutch Limburg, Sunday April 14, during the Amstel Gold Race, kick-off of the Ardennes classics. A little chaos, confusion, suspense... And, at the end, a victory down to the wire for Marianne Vos; a surprise defeat for Mathieu Van...

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Apr 2024
Indonesia: at least 19 dead, 2 missing in landslide

A landslide left at least nineteen dead and two missing in central Indonesia following heavy rainfall, the country's emergency services announced on Sunday April 14. The bodies of the dead and two survivors were removed from the area that was hit Saturday...

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Apr 2024
Cancer: Michel Sadelain, a Franco-Canadian, honored at the “Science Oscars” for his treatment against the disease

Franco-Canadian scientist Michel Sadelain was awarded a 'Science Oscar” on Saturday April 13 in Los Angeles for his research which made it possible to program cells of the immune system to fight cancer.This genetic engineer was awarded the Breakthrough...

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Apr 2024
Emmanuel Macron in the Alps, this may be a detail for you…

Thus began the celebrations of the 80th anniversary of the Liberation... Sunday April 7, Emmanuel Macron went to the national necropolis of Glières, in Haute-Savoie. There, in this place that has become a symbol of the Resistance where nearly one hundred...

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Apr 2024
End of season for Victor Wembanyama, saved for Spurs' last NBA game

He concluded his first NBA year with an impressive match (34 points, 12 rebounds, 5 assists) and a prestigious victory (121-120), in front of his home crowd, against the Denver Nuggets, reigning champions and then leaders of the Conference. west.Frenchman...

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Apr 2024
Gaston Kelman resurrects the figure of Ruben Um Nyobé, leader of the struggle for the independence of Cameroon

How can we bridge the distance between official memory and collective memory when institutional silence dilutes historical events that are proven and known to all into oblivion? In response to this question – and for the case of Cameroon – the writer...

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