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Apr 2024
Ligue 1: Metz overthrows Lens (2-1) and breathes a little at the bottom of the rankings

With two fine goals from striker Georges Mikautadze, Metz gave itself some breathing space at the bottom of the standings on Friday April 12 by dominating Lens (2-1) at the opening of the 29th day of Ligue 1. Les Messins, who remained on four defeats at home,...

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Apr 2024
Haiti: transitional authorities created after weeks of difficult negotiations

The much-anticipated Haitian Presidential Transitional Council was officially created on Friday, April 12, following weeks of tense negotiations and a month after the announcement of the resignation of disputed Prime Minister Ariel Henry.The formation of...

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Apr 2024
15-year-old teenager killed in Romans-sur-Isère: the three main suspects indicted

The three main suspects in the death of a 15-year-old teenager in Romans-sur-Isère (Drôme) on Tuesday were indicted on Friday April 12, Agence France-Presse (AFP) learned from the lawyer of two of them. These three people are a 59-year-old father and his...

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Apr 2024
Roberto Cavalli, Italian fashion designer, dies aged 83

Italian fashion designer Roberto Cavalli, designer of the jet-set for decades thanks to his python skins and flamboyant prints, died on Friday April 12 at the age of 83, Italian media reported. The Italian agency ANSA specified that the designer died at his...

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Apr 2024
Isabelle Coutant-Peyre, lawyer and companion of terrorist Carlos, died at 70

Lawyer Isabelle Coutant-Peyre, who defended the leader of the 'Barbarian gang” Youssouf Fofana and the Venezuelan terrorist Carlos – whom she married in prison – died on Friday April 12 at the age of 70, we learned with one of his relatives. She...

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Apr 2024
“When the Impressionists wanted to paint the walls”, on France.tv: decorative art, a trial run for Renoir, Monet, Pissarro, Cézanne and the others

Before being considered the authors of a decisive aesthetic revolution and becoming the darling of collectors and museums, the so-called 'impressionist” painters were called all names, pulled the devil by the tail and sometimes waited a long time for...

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Apr 2024
Israel-Hamas war, day 189: Hezbollah says it fired several dozen rockets into northern Israel

Lebanese Hezbollah, supported by Iran, announced Friday evening April 12 that it had launched 'dozens of rockets” at Israeli positions, in response, according to it, to Israeli attacks in southern Lebanon. Hezbollah fighters attacked 'enemy artillery...

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Apr 2024
Paris 2024: reinforced health controls in restaurants near Olympic sites

Check the clarity of frying oils, the operation of extractor hoods, the cleanliness of pans, spot traces of possible rodents... as the Olympic Games approach, health checks are intensifying around the sites which will welcome athletes and visitors.Friday...

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Apr 2024
Nearly 100,000 Haitians fled Port-au-Prince in one month because of gang violence

In Haiti, nearly 100,000 people fled the metropolitan area of ​​Port-au-Prince in one month to seek shelter from escalating gang attacks, the International Organization for migration (IOM).Thanks to the implementation of data collection at the most used...

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Apr 2024
Israel-Hamas War, Day 189: Deadly Israeli Raids in Gaza; Israel on alert after threats from Iran

According to the Hamas press office, Israeli forces destroyed dozens of houses and residential buildings using explosives in the Nusseirat refugee camp in the center of the Gaza Strip.'Bombing hit Nousseirat all night. (…) This is the sixth time that...

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Apr 2024
Somalia once again confronted with the old demons of jihadism and secessionism

The hope of seeing Somalia turn the page on three decades of stagnation is dwindling. The country, which in December 2023 obtained an agreement to reduce its debt, the lifting of the thirty-year-old arms embargo and its integration into the regional organization...

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Apr 2024
In Tunisia, a young man dies by setting himself on fire after an altercation with the police

Yassine Selmi, a 22-year-old Tunisian, died by setting himself on fire in the Kairouan region, in the center of the country, after being threatened with arrest by police officers, his office said. family, Friday April 12, at Agence France-Presse (AFP).The...

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Apr 2024
Fallers of Prague, the basketball players of Villeneuve-d’Ascq validate their ticket for the Euroleague final

Twenty years since this happened: a French team in the final of the Women's Euroleague, the most prestigious of the European Basketball Cups. Villeneuve-d'Ascq offered itself the right to fight for the title after its victory over USK Prague (84-78),...

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Apr 2024
Russia summons French ambassador after Stéphane Séjourné’s remarks deemed “unacceptable” by Moscow

Russia summoned Pierre Lévy, the French ambassador to Moscow, on Friday April 12, after comments deemed 'unacceptable” by the head of French diplomacy, Stéphane Séjourné.On Monday, the latter estimated that Paris no longer had any interest in discussing...

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Apr 2024
In Ivory Coast, Gabonese general Brice Oligui Nguema comes to seek support from Alassane Ouattara

In Abidjan, diplomacy is not a matter of fatigues. At odds with the putschists who took power in the Sahel, the Ivorian President, Alassane Ouattara, welcomed for the first time the leader of the Gabonese transition, General Brice Oligui Nguema, on Thursday...

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Apr 2024
In Viry-Châtillon, a white march in tribute to Shemseddine, beaten to death in front of his college

The inhabitants of Viry-Châtillon (Essonne) paid tribute, Friday, April 12, to Shemseddine, 15, who died after being beaten near his college, during a white march in the streets of the city which brought together several hundred people.'Your gestures...

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Apr 2024
The arrival of the Africa Corps in Niger marks the rapprochement of the junta with Russia

The white wide-body aircraft adorned with the Russian flag landed on Wednesday April 10 at Niamey airport, filmed by Russian state media cameras. Plunged into the darkness of the Nigerien night and under the deafening noise of the plane's engines, the...

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Apr 2024
Ivory Coast, pivot of Ukraine’s influence strategy in West Africa

Diplomacy as a bulwark against Russian influence in Africa. After the opening of the Ukrainian embassy in Kinshasa on Wednesday April 10, it was in Ivory Coast that kyiv inaugurated its new chancellery on Thursday. Ribbon cutting, flag raising and national...

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Apr 2024
With “The Bobigny Trial”, on France Culture, the opportunity to relive a key moment in the decriminalization of abortion

For those who already know the story of the Bobigny trial – on November 8, 1972, Michèle Chevalier, mother of Marie-Claire, who was tried the previous month for having had an abortion, appeared for complicity – this in no way alleviates the strength...

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Apr 2024
Republicans denounce the “concrete consequences” of the refusal of their referendum on immigration

Angry after Thursday's decision of the Constitutional Council to invalidate their referendum on immigration, leaders of the Republicans (LR) went on Friday April 12 to the Franco-Italian border in Menton to denounce "the concrete consequences" of this...

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Apr 2024
In Rwanda, farmers “going against the grain of official policy”

Contemplating the shimmering plantations of Joséphine Mukankusi's farm is like taking in the agricultural problems of Rwanda at a glance. There, in the northwest of the country, on the edge of the village of Karurambi, the retired teacher uses every...

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Apr 2024
Cannes Film Festival: Francis Ford Coppola returns to the Official Selection, forty-five years after his last Palme d’Or

The Official Selection of the Cannes Film Festival, which will be held from May 14 to 25, is known. For this 77th edition, Francis Ford Coppola will present his latest film, Megalopolis, forty-five years after his second Palme d'Or for Apocalypse Now...

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Apr 2024
ExxonMobil to cut 677 jobs by reducing operations in France

The American oil group ExxonMobil announced, Thursday April 11, a reduction in its activities in Port-Jérôme-sur-Seine (Seine-Maritime), which 'should lead to the elimination of 677 jobs”, as well as a proposed sale, by its subsidiary Esso France,...

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Apr 2024
Middle East: the Quai d’Orsay recommends that the French “imperatively refrain” from traveling to Iran, Israel and Lebanon

Iran's threats of retaliation against Israel, following a deadly strike against the Iranian consulate in Damascus, Syria, are raising tension in the Middle East. In this context, the French Minister of Foreign Affairs, Stéphane Séjourné, 'recommends...

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