A thousand police arrived in New Caledonia from France and streets were relatively calm after a week of unrest, the French High Commission said on Monday, but roads were blocked by protesters and the airport remained shut, stranding tourists.
But Red Bull face a genuine threat to their supremacy led by McLaren and Ferrari. That was the stark conclusion to draw after Lando Norris came home less than a second behind the championship leading Dutchman in Sunday's Emilia Romagna Grand Prix. After another weekend of difficulties for the troubled champions, whose technical chief Adrian Newey made clear he is ready to join a rival next season, AFP Sport looks at three things we learned amid the passions and emotions stirred at the 'old-school' Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari... Читать дальше...
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was given permission on Monday (May 20) to appeal against extradition to the United States after arguing at London's High Court that he might not be able to rely on his right to free speech in a U.S. court. FRANCE 24's Benedicte Paviot tells us more.
The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court on Monday (May 20) applied for arrest warrants against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and top Hamas leaders. Karim Khan said he was seeking warrants against Netanyahu and Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant for crimes including "starvation". FRANCE 24's Irris Makler tells us more.
Radio contact was lost on Sunday afternoon with the aircraft, but it took an all-night effort involving hundreds of search and rescue crew before the mangled wreckage was found shortly after the sun rose on Monday. When the first teams finally reached the crash site on a steep and soggy slope covered in sparse mountain forest, the uncertainty about Raisi quickly lifted even if the heavy mist and drizzling rain did not. They found the twisted wreckage of the blue and white Bell 212 helicopter, surrounded... Читать дальше...
City finished on 91 points -- two above runners-up Arsenal -- who came from behind to beat Everton 2-1 after Senegalese Idrissa Gueye put the visitors ahead. Congolese Yoane Wissa was the other African scorer in the Premier League as his Brentford team fell 4-2 to Newcastle. Here, AFP Sport highlights African headline-makers in the major European leagues: ENGLAND IDRISSA GUEYE (Everton) Gueye put Everton in front at Arsenal with a free-kick from outside the box in the 40th minute that took a... Читать дальше...
Bagheri, 56, had served as deputy to the foreign minister of the Islamic republic, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, who perished along with the Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi and seven others in the accident. Bagheri is considered close to Iran's ultraconservatives and a member of the inner circle of supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who is the father-in-law of Bagheri's brother. The negotiator with the salt-and-pepper beard came to be known to his interlocutors for a soft-spoken composure that... Читать дальше...
Belgium's bishops conference previously said the pope had been invited to attend celebrations for the 600th anniversary of the Catholic university of Louvain. The university was founded in 1425, but is holding events throughout the 2024-2025 academic year. "His Holiness Pope Francis will make an apostolic journey to Luxembourg on September 26 and in Belgium from September 26 to 29, going to Brussels, Louvain and Louvain-la-Neuve," the Vatican said in a statement. The last papal visit to Belgium was in 1995... Читать дальше...
Lai Ching-te was sworn in as Taiwan’s new president Monday (May 20). FRANCE 24's Kan Camenzind Broomby tells us more.
Nearly two weeks since Israel defied international opposition and sent troops into Rafah, which the army has described as the last Hamas stronghold, the UN said more than 810,000 Palestinians have fled the city. "The question that haunts us is where will we go" said Rafah resident Sarhan Abu al-Saeed, 46. "Certain death is chasing us from all directions," he said. Witnesses told AFP that Israeli naval forces struck Rafah, and medics reported an air strike that hit a residential building in the city's western parts. Читать дальше...
The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court on Monday applied for arrest warrants against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and top Hamas leaders on suspicion of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi was declared dead on Monday (May 20) after rescue teams found his crashed helicopter in a fog-shrouded western mountain, near the Azerbaijan border. For more, FRANCE 24's Stuart Norval is joined by Kasra Aarabi, Director of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) research at United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI).
“Mi Bestia”, which screened at the Cannes Film Festival’s parallel segment ACID, follows a 13-year-old Bogota girl grappling with adolescence amid an impending lunar eclipse said to bring the devil to earth. FRANCE 24 spoke to director Beltrán, whose debut feature offers a visually bold study of patriarchal oppression in her native Colombia.
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, a hardliner seen as a potential successor to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was killed after his helicopter crashed in poor weather in mountains near the Azerbaijan border, officials and state media said on Monday (May 20). FRANCE 24's Angela Diffley tells us more about international reactions to the news.
Indians began voting early on Monday (May 20) in the fifth phase of mammoth general elections, with thousands queuing at polling stations to beat the scorching heat in the financial capital of Mumbai and the sprawling states of Uttar Pradesh and Odisha. The world's largest election began on April 19, amid high summer temperatures, with the weather office predicting more days of heatwaves than usual through the season. FRANCE 24's Pavni Mittal tells us more.
Georgians took to the streets this week against a highly-controversial "foreign influence" law. The bill has sparked a wave of protests unprecedented in the recent history of the Black Sea nation. Its critics say it resembles Russian legislation used to silence dissent. Some Russians have joined Georgians in the street, while others support them but prefer not to attend.
Taiwan’s new President Lai Ching-te in his inauguration speech has urged China to stop its military intimidation against the self-governed island Beijing claims as its own territory. FRANCE 24's Yena Lee tells us more.
International Paralympic Committee (IPC) president Andrew Parsons believes the Games, which follow the Olympics and open in 100 days' time on August 28, "will have a big impact on how people with disability are perceived around the world". "This is one of the key expectations we have around Paris 2024; we believe that we need people with disability to be put back on the global agenda," Parsons told AFP in an interview. He says disability has fallen behind issues such as gender identity in recent years. Читать дальше...
Taiwan’s new president, Lai Ching-te, said in his inauguration speech Monday (May 20) that he wants peace with China and urged it to stop its military threats and intimidation of the self-governed island that Beijing claims as its own territory.
The helicopter crash that killed Iran’s president and foreign minister has sent shock waves around the region. Iranian state media said on Monday (May 20) that President Ebrahim Raisi, the country’s foreign minister, Hossein Amirabdollahian, and others have been found dead at the site after an hourslong search through a foggy, mountainous region of the country’s northwest.
The People's Mujahedin of Iran (MEK) and its political wing the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) have long detested Raisi, accusing him of involvement in the 1988 mass executions of thousands of their members and other dissidents when he was a young prosecutor. Raisi's death "represents a monumental and irreparable strategic blow to the mullahs' supreme leader Ali Khamenei and the entire regime, notorious for its executions and massacres", NCRI leader Maryam Rajavi said in a statement. Читать дальше...
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi was declared dead on Monday (May 20) after rescue teams found his crashed helicopter in a fog-shrouded western mountain, near the Azerbaijan border.
Iran confirmed President Ebrahim Raisi's death on Monday (May 20) after his helicopter crashed in the East Azerbaijan province. Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei assigned vice president Mohammad Mokhber to assume interim duties after the death of president Ebrahim Raisi. FRANCE 24's Kethevane Gorjestani gives us her analysis.
South Africa's former president Jacob Zuma is barred from running for parliament in this month's election, the country's top court ruled on Monday, a judgment that could influence the outcome and trigger unrest from Zuma's supporters.
Spain recalled its ambassador to Buenos Aires for consultations on Sunday after Argentina's President Javier Milei made derogatory comments about Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez's wife during a far-right rally in Madrid.