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Apr 2024
In Zimbabwe, chaotic start for ZiG, new official currency

The new Zimbabwean currency, Zimbabwe Gold, or ZiG (for Zimbabwe Gold), had a chaotic start on Tuesday March 9, with most stores only accepting US dollars and queues outside banks lengthening in vain to obtain the new tickets, noted an AFP journalist.Zimbabwe's...

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09
Apr 2024
Death of Shemseddine in Viry-Châtillon: two minors were placed in pre-trial detention

Two minors indicted for murder were placed in pre-trial detention on Wednesday April 10 after the death of Shemseddine, 15, beaten to death last Thursday in Viry-Châtillon (Essonne), the Evry prosecutor's office announced in a press release .'My...

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09
Apr 2024
Video games “World of Warcraft”, “Diablo” and “Starcraft” will return to China

Since January 2023, the American Blizzard no longer had access to the Chinese market, the second most lucrative country for the video game industry with a global turnover estimated at 41 billion euros (around 44 billion dollars) in 2023. At issue: a falling...

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09
Apr 2024
Notre-Dame-des-Landes: justice rejects Vinci, who claimed 1.6 billion euros from the State

Justice rejected the request made by Vinci for compensation of nearly 1.6 billion euros to the State for the abandonment of the airport project at Notre-Dame-des-Landes (Loire-Atlantique), according to a decision published on Wednesday April 10 and consulted...

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09
Apr 2024
In Senegal, President Bassirou Diomaye Faye orders a vast economic inventory

The new Senegalese President, Bassirou Diomaye Faye, asked his Prime Minister, Ousmane Sonko, on Tuesday, April 9, to carry out a broad inventory of the country's economic and financial situation and to develop an action plan, according to a press release...

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09
Apr 2024
Understand the challenges of the European “migration pact”, which must be voted on in Brussels

Home stretch for the European pact on migration and asylum. MEPs vote on Wednesday April 10 in Brussels for or against the vast reform of European migration policy. This 'migratory pact” provides in particular for the tightening of control over migrant...

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09
Apr 2024
End of life: what French law will or will not allow, compared to the situations most observed abroad

The bill on 'assisted dying”, the broad outlines of which were unveiled by Emmanuel Macron in March, will be presented to the Council of Ministers on Wednesday April 10 and will arrive at first reading in the National Assembly on May 27. According...

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09
Apr 2024
In Gaza, “what he is doing is a mistake”: Biden distances himself from Netanyahu again

Ties between Washington and Tel Aviv have rarely seemed so strained. While, according to witnesses, the Israeli air force continues to bomb the Gaza Strip on Wednesday April 10 despite the efforts of mediators to secure a truce agreement between Israel and...

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Apr 2024
Nuclear safety: final adoption of the criticized merger of ASN and IRSN

This time, the bill for the controversial merger of the two players in nuclear safety - the Nuclear Safety Authority (ASN), responsible for control and decision-making, and the technical arm, responsible for research and expertise , the Institute of Radiation...

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09
Apr 2024
United States: three Boeing models targeted by investigations by the aviation regulator

These are now three of the four models of commercial aircraft manufactured by the American group Boeing which are officially targeted by an investigation by the American Civil Aviation Regulatory Agency (FAA).The regulator, which took restrictive measures...

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09
Apr 2024
Champions League: Real Madrid and Manchester City neutralize each other at the end of the show and make an appointment

To the left of the ring, Manchester City, the last winner of the Champions League. On the right, Real Madrid, record holder of titles in the competition (14). Tuesday April 9, the meeting between the two teams was promising, in the quarter-final first leg...

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09
Apr 2024
Basketball Eurocup: Paris easily wins the first round of the final against Bourg-en-Bresse

A fiery first period − twenty-three points ahead at the break (54-31) − was enough for Paris Basketball to pocket the victory at home against Bourg-en-Bresse, Tuesday April 9, during the first round of the Eurocup final, the second European competition...

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08
Apr 2024
Euro 2025 football: Les Bleues carry out a great operation by winning in Sweden

The last time it faced a major women's football nation – Spain in the Nations League final at the end of February – the French team was beaten 2-0. Les Bleues were therefore keen to live up to their ambitions on Tuesday April 9, when they met Sweden,...

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08
Apr 2024
In the United States, the parents of a teenager responsible for a massacre in a high school sentenced to at least ten years in prison

The parents of an American teenager sentenced to life in prison for killing four students in his high school in 2021 with a weapon they had given him were sentenced on Tuesday April 9 to a sentence of 10 to 15 years in prison, a first in the States -United.The...

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Apr 2024
Arizona court considers law banning abortion valid, except if the mother's life is in danger

Arizona's highest court ruled on Tuesday, April 9, that an 1864 law banning almost all abortions was applicable, a symbolic decision with important electoral implications a few months before the presidential election in this state. key to the southern...

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Apr 2024
Ethiopia: a war that does not speak its name in the Amhara region

That morning, the faithful were preparing to don their white shawls for the traditional Holy Mary procession in Merawi, a town in the Amhara region of northwestern Ethiopia. No one reached the church. Gunshots rang out at dawn and a long clash ensued between...

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08
Apr 2024
“DGSE. The factory of secret agents", on France 2: from excitement to tension

The first images are accompanied by a certain excitement, at the idea of ​​entering 'the Box” for the first time, a nickname given to the General Directorate of External Security (DGSE). Unprecedented fact, Bernard Emié, who was its general director...

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08
Apr 2024
In Iceland, an experienced political leader becomes prime minister

The leader of the Icelandic conservative party Bjarni Benediktsson was appointed prime minister on Tuesday April 9, following an agreement by the ruling coalition, his party announced. Her predecessor, Katrin Jakobsdottir, 48, announced her resignation on...

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08
Apr 2024
Israel-Hamas War, Day 186: “We will complete the elimination of Hamas, including in Rafah. No force in the world will stop us,” says Benjamin Netanyahu

The Israeli army announced Tuesday April 9 in a statement that it had destroyed 'terrorist infrastructure” in several sectors of the Gaza Strip and that 'a plane eliminated a terrorist in Khan Younes, who had participated in the October 7 massacre.”...

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Apr 2024
In Ivory Coast, Abidjan wants to “get rid of” street vendors and beggars

In Abidjan, the Ivorian economic capital, they are part of the daily life of motorists. We see them strolling on the medians, carrying pyramids of fruit on their heads or their arms loaded with mirrors, basins or mattresses... When the cars are stopped, they...

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08
Apr 2024
Higgs boson: Peter Higgs, Nobel Prize winner in physics in 2013 for his work on this elementary particle, has died

Physicist Peter Higgs died on Monday April 8, at the age of 94, the University of Edinburgh announced in a press release on Tuesday. 'He passed away peacefully at his home, following a short illness,” wrote the university, of which the scientist was...

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08
Apr 2024
George Lucas will receive the Honorary Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival

George Lucas, father of the Star Wars saga, will receive the Palme d'Honneur on May 25, during the closing ceremony of the 77th Cannes Film Festival, the organizers announced on Tuesday April 9. 'The Cannes Film Festival has always held a special...

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Apr 2024
Athlete Dimitri Bascou, Olympic bronze medalist in 2016, tested positive for steroids

Eight years after the peak of his career reached thanks to an Olympic bronze medal at the Rio Games, hurdler Dimitri Bascou was tested positive for steroids by the French Anti-Doping Agency ( AFLD), report Tuesday, April 9, Fanceinfo and Le Parisien.The...

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Apr 2024
Real Madrid-Manchester City: Champions League favorites clash in quarter-finals

'It will be a very attractive match for the world of football, with two teams with great individual quality on the pitch. » The Italian Carlo Ancelotti, the coach of Real Madrid, did not really get involved in predictions. It's difficult to find...

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