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Apr 2024
“Klaus Mäkelä, towards the flame”, on Arte: itinerary of a gifted conductor

We remember coming across a stunning concert on YouTube during the Covid-19 pandemic: a young, handsome chef in a double-breasted suit (a rarity on the catwalks and in today's men's wardrobe ), conducted Dmitri Shostakovich's Symphony No. 7...

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Apr 2024
Tadej Pogacar untouchable in Liège-Bastogne-Liège, Romain Bardet second in the oldest classics

The double winner of the Tour de France (2020 and 2021), Tadej Pogacar, had no real competition on Sunday April 21 on the capricious roads of Liège-Bastogne-Liège. His main opponents having withdrawn, the competition boiled down on paper to a duel against...

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Apr 2024
Israel-Hamas war, day 198: Benjamin Netanyahu promises to increase “military pressure” on Hamas “in the coming days”

Benjamin Netanyahu promised the Israelis on Sunday, April 21, to increase 'military pressure” on Hamas 'in the coming days,” without mentioning the army's intervention in Rafah, an overpopulated town in the south of the Gaza Strip, which...

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Apr 2024
Brest and its European dreams receive Monaco, the final sprint of Ligue 1 is launched

The months-long marathon begins its sprint phase. Nestled at the top of the Ligue 1 table, a few days before the end of the championship, Brest (2nd) and Monaco (3rd) meet on Sunday April 21 on Breton soil (5:05 p.m.), in high-stakes opposition.The club from...

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Apr 2024
Attack in Israel: Ali Khamenei hails Iran’s “successes”

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei welcomed, on Sunday April 21, the 'successes” obtained, according to him, by the Iranian armed forces during the unprecedented attack of April 13 in Israel.They have 'created a feeling of glory and greatness with regard...

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Apr 2024
Formula 1: Max Verstappen victorious for the first time in Shanghai, his fourth success of the season in five races

The Red Bull team and its virtuoso Max Verstappen had undoubtedly been circling the date of April 21, and the winding layout of the Shanghai circuit for a long time. On the track of the Chinese Grand Prix on Sunday, the essential 26-year-old Dutch driver...

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Apr 2024
Bill on end of life: “Robert Badinter would have supported this text” on assisted dying, assures Elisabeth Badinter

As the work of the special committee responsible for preparing the examination at first reading in the National Assembly, from May 27, of the bill relating to the support of the sick and the end of life begins on Monday, the Philosopher Elisabeth Badinter...

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Apr 2024
Javier Milei and Elon Musk giga happy, maybe that’s a detail for you…

Chip and Dale? No. Wallace and Gromit? Neither. Dumb and Dumber, then? On April 12, Argentine President Javier Milei and Tesla boss Elon Musk had a meeting in Texas. For a few hours, they visited the Tesla Giga Texas, the brand's factory inaugurated...

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Apr 2024
Crash of two Japanese military helicopters during an exercise, one dead and seven missing

Two Japan Self-Defense Force (JSF) helicopters crashed into the sea late Saturday evening. A crew member was found dead and seven others are still missing, Japanese authorities announced on Sunday April 21. According to them, the helicopters crashed off the...

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Apr 2024
Between shadow and light, the comical and tragic short stories by Florent Couao-Zotti

There is a surprise in How to Kill a Criminal Ten Times..., the new book by Beninese writer Florent Couao-Zotti. Starting with this title which, if it makes you expect detective stories, simply corresponds to the last text of a collection which brings together...

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Apr 2024
US presidential election 2024: the weather forces Donald Trump to postpone a meeting in North Carolina, the first planned since the start of his trial

Thousands of Donald Trump supporters gathered on Saturday, April 20, under the sun, at the airport in Wilmington, North Carolina, a state that will be fiercely contested by the former American president and his Democratic rival Joe Biden in the November 5...

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Apr 2024
In Colombia, 34 soldiers kidnapped by FARC dissidents, according to authorities

A group of 34 soldiers have been sequestered since Friday in southern Colombia, after an operation against environmental crimes, the authorities reported on Saturday April 20. Governor Rafaela Cortés assured that behind this kidnapping that occurred in the...

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Apr 2024
OL - PSG: the Lyonnaises overthrow Paris at the end of a spectacular Champions League semi-final first leg

The two favorite teams for the 2024 Women's Champions League almost suffered the same fate at the end of the semi-finals first leg. But unlike FC Barcelona, ​​beaten by Chelsea on Saturday April 20 (1-0), the Lyonnaises showed against PSG, a few...

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Apr 2024
What's included in the $95 billion aid plan for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan passed by the US House of Representatives

After long and difficult negotiations, the American House of Representatives adopted, on Saturday April 20, a huge aid plan for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, supported by elected officials from both sides. American parliamentarians voted in lockstep on this...

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Apr 2024
Armand Duplantis breaks a new world record, three months before the Paris 2024 Olympic Games

He never stops climbing. Archidominator in his discipline for years, the Swede Armand Duplantis took his pole vault world record up a notch on Saturday, April 20, during the opening meeting of the Diamond League in Xiamen (China). At just 24 years old, the...

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Apr 2024
“Ultima Patagonia. The last frontier", on Arte: on the borders of Patagonia, the daily life of an expedition

How can we not think of The Mysterious Star, by Hergé, when we see two small round white and red mushroom-shaped tents, placed on an austere bank, facing a dark ocean. We are at the base camp of the Center Terre association, established in the extreme south...

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Apr 2024
Swimmers tested positive but not sanctioned, Chinese swimming plunged into a vast doping affair

Swimming is experiencing new upheavals, which it would have done well without. According to an investigation conducted jointly by the American daily New York Times and the German public television group ARD, twenty-three of the best Chinese swimmers tested...

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Apr 2024
Paris 2024: on the sidelines of the opening of the Diamond League, athletics and its medal bonuses are disrupting the world of Olympics

It is a decision which could shower even more gold on the figurehead of the world pole vault, the Swede Armand Duplantis, who once again broke his world record, Saturday April 20 in Xiamen (China), for the opening of the Diamond League. As the headliners...

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Apr 2024
Israel-Hamas War, Day 197: Nine family members killed in Rafah, 'unprecedented' Israeli incursion into West Bank camp

An Israeli bombardment left nine dead, including six children, all members of the same family, on the night of Friday to Saturday, April 20, in Rafah, in the far south of the Gaza Strip, reports the Civil Protection of the Gaza Strip. Palestinian enclave.'Nine...

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Apr 2024
Iran downplays response attributed to Israel

The escalation seems to be fading away. On Saturday April 20, Tehran downplayed the attack the day before attributed to Israel in central Iran, affirming that there would be no retaliation. In an interview with the American channel NBC, Iranian Foreign Minister...

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Apr 2024
In Afghanistan, new floods kill 29 people

New floods have claimed the lives of twenty-nine people since Wednesday in Afghanistan, whose population had already been hit hard by floods in recent weeks, an official from the natural disaster management department announced on Saturday April 20.The victims...

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Apr 2024
OL-PSG: Lyon aspires to reaffirm its hold on this “continental classic” and the Women’s Champions League

They don't leave each other anymore. Since 2014, Olympique Lyonnais (OL) and Paris-Saint-Germain (PSG) have faced each other six times in the Champions League. Saturday April 20, in Décines-Charpieu (Rhône), and Sunday April 28, in the capital, the...

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Apr 2024
Israeli army says it killed ten 'terrorists' in raid in occupied West Bank

The Israeli army says it killed ten people and arrested eight others on Saturday April 20 during an operation in the Nour Shams camp, near Tulkarem, in the north of the occupied West Bank.An Agence-France-Presse (AFP) correspondent on site said he heard explosions...

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Apr 2024
Murder of Philippe Coopman in Grande-Synthe: the cousin of an indicted person attacked

A 15-year-old teenager, cousin of one of the two minors indicted on Friday April 19 for the assassination of Philippe Coopman in Grande-Synthe (North), was attacked during the night from Friday to Saturday in the same town, Agence France-Presse learned from...

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