Power returned to Spain and Portugal on Tuesday after a major blackout disrupted flights, metros and communications across the two countries. Authorities said over 99 percent of energy demand was restored, but the cause of the outage remains unclear.
“The Nine”, by Gwen Strauss, tells the extraordinary true story of how nine young women from the Resistance survived the Ravensbrück concentration camp and then escaped from a death march in Nazi Germany. Its American author recounts their remarkable getaway, their friendship and the lives the women led once back home.
With powerful digging claws, protective spikes and highly sensitive beaks, echidnas are well suited to a life shuffling through the forest undergrowth. But a team of Australian and international scientists believe many of the echidna's unusual traits were first developed millions of years ago when its ancestors splashed through the water. "We're talking about a semiaquatic mammal that gave up the water for a terrestrial existence," said paleontologist Suzanne Hand, from the University of New South Wales. Читать дальше...
French authorities arrested Majdi Nema, now 36, in the southern city of Marseille in 2020, after he travelled to the country on a student exchange programme. He was detained and charged under the principle of universal jurisdiction, which allows states to prosecute suspects accused of serious crimes regardless of where they were committed. This is the first time that crimes committed in Syria's civil war have been tried in France under the universal jurisdiction. Nema -- better known by his nom-de-guerre... Читать дальше...
Amnesty International said Israel is committing a "live-streamed genocide" against Palestinians in Gaza by targeting critical infrastructure, displacing most of the enclave's inhabitants and depriving them of life-saving aid. Amnesty added that Israel had also committed numerous war crimes and created an apartheid state in the West Bank.
In its annual report, Amnesty charged that Israel had acted with "specific intent to destroy Palestinians in Gaza, thus committing genocide". Israel has rejected accusations of "genocide" from Amnesty, other rights groups and some states in its war in Gaza. The conflict erupted after the Palestinian militant group Hamas's deadly October 7, 2023 attacks inside Israel that resulted in the deaths of 1,218 people on the Israeli side, mostly civilians, according to an AFP tally based on official Israeli figures. Читать дальше...
Wednesday's daunting clash at Barcelona could hardly have come at a worst time for Inter who, since reaching the last four, have lost three games on the bounce without scoring a goal. Those three defeats handed Napoli a three-point lead at the top of Serie A with four matches remaining and left Inter out of the Italian Cup after a dismal 3-0 derby defeat at the hands of AC Milan last week. Simone Inzaghi's team look tired and bereft of ideas up front. Sunday's 1-0 home loss to Roma was played in... Читать дальше...
FRANCE 24 Correspondent Christopher Guly reports from Ottawa shortly after former banker Mark Carney and his Liberal Party won the Canadian election, fending off Pierre Poilièvre's Conservatives, who just a few months ago seemed poised to come into power following former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's resignation. Carney, who replaced Trudeau in March, galvanised Canadian pride and resistance with his tough anti-Trump stance, promising to stand firm against the US President's trade war and categorically... Читать дальше...
People were heard cheering across Spain and Portugal as power gradually returned following an unprecedented power cut that left many stranded on trains, while much of the Iberian Peninsula lost access to the internet, their money, or their loved ones. The cause of the outage is still unknown, with Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez insisting that all hypotheses are under consideration.
Dussart was one of more than 3,000 children part of Operation Babylift. Removed by the United States at the end of the Vietnam War, they were eventually adopted by families across North America, Europe and Australia. The stories of the evacuees and others involved illustrate the way the conflict still resonates 50 years later. The very first flight of the controversial mass evacuation -- with Dussart among 314 people on board -- crashed minutes after take-off from Saigon. One of the 176 survivors, she was adopted by a couple in France. Читать дальше...
In an email sent to contributors of the Sixth National Climate Assessment (NCA6), the administration said the report's "scope" was being "reevaluated" and informed participants they were being "released from their roles," with no timeline offered for potential reengagement. The decision follows mass firings earlier this month at the US Global Change Research Program (USGCRP), the federal body overseeing the congressionally required report, and marks the latest flashpoint in Trump's sweeping efforts to reshape the federal government... Читать дальше...
The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has said the girl was placed in foster care to protect her from her parents, who it claimed were members of Venezuela's Tren de Aragua drug gang. "This is a crime whichever way you see it, taking a two-year-old girl away from a migrant mother just because she is a migrant and a Venezuelan," Maduro said Monday during his weekly television program. "And accusing her without evidence of being a member of a criminal gang, and using it as an excuse to steal her child... Читать дальше...
The Lang Pacha ceremony is observed by Thais of Chinese descent to give a dignified funeral to the unclaimed dead. In Thailand, hospitals hand unidentified bodies and those with no-one to give them appropriate last rites to local foundations. These then bury the corpses in graveyards, sometimes for several years, before a weeks-long ritual when they are exhumed, cleaned and all cremated together. In Buddhist belief, the spirits of the uncremated remain trapped between worlds and cannot be reincarnated until monks perform the proper rites. Читать дальше...
Nigel Farage's hard-right upstarts are pushing to pick up scores of council and mayoral seats, as well as a parliamentary one, that they hope will help them organise a serious challenge at the next general election, likely in 2029. Their rise comes as polls show Britons are increasingly disenchanted with the country's two establishment parties: the traditionally centre-left Labour and the Conservatives on the right. At a UK parliamentary by-election on Thursday in Runcorn, an industrial town in northwest England... Читать дальше...
After pounding Miami 124-87 in game three on Saturday, No.1 Eastern Conference seeds Cleveland once again piled on the misery for their outclassed opponents with a crushing 138-83 victory to complete a 4-0 series win. The 55-point drubbing was the largest series-clinching victory in NBA playoff history and sets up a series against either the Indiana Pacers or Milwaukee Bucks in the next round. Donovan Mitchell led the Cavaliers scoring with 22 points on a night when six Cleveland players finished in double figures. Читать дальше...
Canadians headed to the voting booths on Monday to choose who will be the next leader of the US's largest trading partner, as the Trump administration's unpredictable waves of tariffs and overt musings of annexing its resource-rich neighbour overshadow an unexpectedly tight race between its two front-runners. The ruling Liberal Party's Mark Carney, a former banker who took over the party leadership in March after former Canadian leader Justin Trudeau announced his resignation, narrowly led Pierre Poilievre... Читать дальше...
Tourism has long been a cornerstone of the US economy, but global perceptions are shifting. Stories of detained tourists, threats to annex Canada and Greenland, and the Trump administration's strained relations with Europe are turning travelers away. FRANCE 24’s Wassim Cornet reports from Los Angeles. Yinka Oyetade speaks to Isaac Collazo, Vice President of Analytics for STR Inc.
