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Apr 2024
David Yambio, the South Sudanese “survivor” who warns of the fate of migrants in Libya

The sun illuminates the streets of Rome on this day in June 2023. David Yambio, elegantly dressed in a suit and tie, appears in front of the Montecitorio Palace, seat of the Chamber of Deputies, where he is invited by parliamentarians to bear witness to the...

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Apr 2024
Gabriel Attal goes to Viry-Châtillon, ten days after the death of 15-year-old Shemseddine, to talk about “authority”, “secularism” and “role of the State”

'Authority”, 'secularism” and the 'role of the State” will be on the menu of a trip by the Prime Minister, Gabriel Attal, to Essonne and an interview on BFM-TV, Thursday April 18 , to mark his first hundred days at Matignon. The head...

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Apr 2024
In Tunisia, journalist Mohamed Boughalleb sentenced to six months in prison for defamation

A Tunisian court sentenced journalist Mohamed Boughalleb, a virulent critic of President Kaïs Saïed, to six months in prison on Wednesday April 17, arrested almost a month ago after a defamation complaint from a civil servant, we learned Agence France-Presse...

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Apr 2024
The United States reinstates oil sanctions against Venezuela

The threat brandished by Washington has become reality. The United States announced on Wednesday April 17 that it would reimpose sanctions against the Venezuelan oil and gas sectors. The administration of President Joe Biden thus returns to the reduction...

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Apr 2024
Croatia: conservatives in the lead in the legislative elections, but far from the majority

Croatia is preparing to experience a period of fierce discussions and probably new tensions, following legislative elections which did not show any clear trend on Wednesday April 17.According to partial results based on the counting of more than 80% of the...

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Apr 2024
Champions League: at the end of the suspense and penalties, Real Madrid brings down Manchester City

It seems that the Champions League anthem has the power to transform Real Madrid. Opposed to Manchester City on Wednesday April 17, in the quarter-final second leg of the competition, the Merengue had several missions: to bring down the defending champion,...

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Apr 2024
Giorgia Meloni returns to Tunis to consolidate her migration cooperation project

Tunisia continues to occupy a special place in Giorgia Meloni's foreign policy. For the fourth time in less than a year, the President of the Italian Council went to Tunis on Wednesday April 17 to meet her counterpart, President Kaïs Saïed.Accompanied...

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Apr 2024
United States: Alejandro Mayorkas, the minister in charge of immigration, escapes dismissal

It only took a handful of hours for the US Senate to rule the lawsuit against Alejandro Mayorkas unfounded. Joe Biden's Secretary of Homeland Security thus escaped, on Wednesday April 17, impeachment proceedings launched against him in mid-February by...

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Apr 2024
In Georgia, 20,000 demonstrators take to the streets after Parliament's first vote on the law on “foreign influence”

Around 20,000 people demonstrated against the first reading vote of the bill on 'foreign influence” in front of the Georgian Parliament in Tbilisi on the evening of Wednesday April 17. In the evening, demonstrators blocked the main artery of the capital...

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Apr 2024
In Ecuador, the government decrees two days off to compensate for the hydroelectric deficit

The hydroelectric deficit has 'exceeded a historic record” in Ecuador, the presidency announced on Wednesday April 17, which declared two non-working days to ration electricity and upgrade the country's electrical installations.'Senior state...

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Apr 2024
European elections: Emmanuel Macron denounces the “hypocrisy” of the RN

Questioned on the sidelines of his trip to Brussels about the European election campaign, Emmanuel Macron deplored that 'fears take advantage of the most simplistic answers”, Wednesday April 17. He also castigated the 'hypocrisy” of those who...

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Apr 2024
Swedish Parliament Passes Controversial Gender Reassignment Law

On Wednesday April 17, the Swedish Parliament approved a law lowering the minimum age from 18 to 16 for changing one's gender in civil registration and facilitating access to surgical interventions. After six hours of heated debate, the deputies adopted...

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Apr 2024
In Ecuador, the government decrees two days off to compensate for the hydroelectric deficit

The hydroelectric deficit has 'exceeded a historic record” in Ecuador, the presidency announced on Wednesday April 17, which declared two non-working days to ration electricity and upgrade the country's electrical installations.'Senior state...

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Apr 2024
Paris 2024: from LeBron James to Stephen Curry, a constellation of gold diggers mobilized by Team USA in basketball

This isn't the Dream Team, but it's pretty close. One hundred days exactly before the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games (OG), USA Basketball announced, Wednesday April 17 in a press release, the list of twelve men selected to compete...

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Apr 2024
“Louis XIV and his spies”, on Planète: the dark side of the Sun King

Classically crafted, with reconstruction in period costumes, and a former member of the Comédie-Française, Francis Perrin, in the leading role (and narrator), this documentary nonetheless reveals not-so-classic information on the absolute monarchy of Louis...

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Apr 2024
Systovi, French manufacturer of solar panels, announces the cessation of its activities

The French solar panel manufacturer Systovi announced on Wednesday April 17 the cessation of its activities following its placement in compulsory liquidation by the commercial court, according to a press release. Created in 2008, Systovi, which has eighty-seven...

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Apr 2024
Studio Ghibli will receive an honorary Palme d’Or at Cannes

The legendary Japanese animation studio Ghibli, co-founded by Hayao Miyazaki, will receive an honorary Palme d'Or at the 77th Cannes Film Festival in May, organizers announced on Wednesday April 17. Porco Rosso, Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away, My Neighbor...

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Apr 2024
“Mascus. Men who hate women”, on France.tv Slash: an attempt to approach the “masculinist” movement

'Stop letting yourself be emasculated by girls! » This statement is called "masculinist", from the movement born in the 1970s in the United States and which believes that feminism then the movementJournalist Pierre Gault investigated for nine months...

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Apr 2024
Paris 2024: the transport package is open for sale

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...

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Apr 2024
Jacques Cooper, the designer of the TGV, is dead

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,...

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Apr 2024
In Afghanistan, floods kill 70 in five days

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...

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Apr 2024
The University of Lille cancels a conference by Jean-Luc Mélenchon and Rima Hassan on Palestine, for lack of being able to “guarantee the serenity of the debates”

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...

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Apr 2024
Unusual rains kill 65 in four days in Pakistan

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...

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Apr 2024
United States: Joe Biden wants to triple customs duties on Chinese steel and aluminum

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...

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