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Apr 2024
The largest squat in France in Vitry-sur-Seine being evacuated, one hundred days before the Olympic Games

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...

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Apr 2024
Zambia asks for more than $900 million to tackle drought

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...

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Apr 2024
In Canada, the government will tax the richest and seeks to seduce young people before the elections

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...

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Apr 2024
Iran's attack on Israel: Ebrahim Raïssi threatens the Jewish state in the event of a response; the United States and the EU want to expand sanctions against Tehran

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...

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Apr 2024
Members of the transition council in Haiti appointed, one month after the announcement of the resignation of Ariel Henry

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...

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Apr 2024
At the trial of Donald Trump, the puzzle of selecting twelve impartial jurors

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,...

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Apr 2024
Paris 2024: arrangements for the start of the school year studied for around seventy establishments

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...

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Apr 2024
UN envoy to Libya throws in the towel, seeing no hope of political solution

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...

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Apr 2024
PSG overthrows FC Barcelona, ​​with a double from Mbappé, and qualifies for the semi-finals of the Champions League

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),...

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Apr 2024
Rafael Nadal, a winning return to the clay court of Barcelona, ​​one month before Roland-Garros

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...

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Apr 2024
The glassmaker Duralex, in financial difficulty since the energy crisis, requests its placement in receivership

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...

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Apr 2024
Israel-Hamas War, Day 193: Israel 'obstructs' access to victims of Oct. 7 attack, UN investigators say

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...

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Apr 2024
Venezuela closes its diplomatic representations in Ecuador following the raid on the Mexican embassy

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...

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Apr 2024
In Georgia, demonstrations against the law on “foreign agents” continue, in a climate of tension

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,...

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Apr 2024
IMF more optimistic for global economy in 2024, but growth down in Eurozone

Supported by the economy of the United States and certain emerging countries, starting with India and Brazil, the world economy seems well on its way to achieving better performance than expected, estimated Tuesday April 16 , the International Monetary Fund...

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Apr 2024
In Tunisia, the government plans to decriminalize bad checks

For almost four years, Olfa has lived cloistered at home. Sentenced in absentia to thirty-five years in prison for bad checks, this 45-year-old divorced mother from Radès, in the southern suburbs of Tunis, is still wanted by the authorities. 'If I didn't...

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Apr 2024
Russia invited to the 80th anniversary of the Normandy landings, but not Vladimir Putin

Due to the "war of aggression" in Ukraine, Russia will be invited to the celebrations of the 80th anniversary of the Normandy landings in early June, but, "given the circumstances, [not its president, Vladimir] Putin", announced Tuesday, April 16, the Liberation...

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Apr 2024
Cocaine trafficking trial in Ivory Coast: ten years in prison required against thirteen defendants

After three months of legal drama, the trial of the vast international cocaine trafficking orchestrated between the coastal towns of San Pedro and Abidjan, in which nineteen defendants and four companies are implicated, is nearing its conclusion. Monday April...

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Apr 2024
The state of groundwater is improving in France, except in Languedoc-Roussillon

With more than half of them now above normal, the situation of French water tables improved in March, thanks in particular to significant rains, according to the latest bulletin from the geological and mining research office (BRGM ) published Tuesday, April...

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Apr 2024
Meeting with Eric Zemmour and Nigel Farage interrupted by police in Brussels

The Brussels authorities on Tuesday April 16 ordered the shutdown of a controversial meeting of representatives of the nationalist right, the 'National Conservatism Conference” ('NatCon”), organized a few weeks before the European elections....

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Apr 2024
The fire at the former Copenhagen Stock Exchange, a historic 17th-century building, is “under control”

The fire in the emblematic building of the Old Stock Exchange in Copenhagen, ongoing since Tuesday morning, April 16, is 'under control”, emergency services said in the afternoon. 'We are in the middle of post-extinction work,” emergency services...

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Apr 2024
Carlos Tavares assumes his controversial salary, validated by his shareholders: “If you think it’s not acceptable, make a law”

A non-binding but closely scrutinized vote: the shareholders of Stellantis, meeting in a general meeting on Tuesday April 16, validated with 70.2% of the votes the remuneration of the group's general director, which could reach 36.5 million euros for...

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Apr 2024
The American-style 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
In Brazil, social network X says it will respect court decisions, despite Elon Musk's revolt

Elon Musk seems to want to bury the hatchet. Lawyers for X, the social network it owns, told Brazil's Supreme Court that the platform will comply with all decisions issued by the Superior Electoral Tribunal (TSE), according to a letter seen by Reuters...

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