Author: France 24

French IT services and consulting firm Atos unveiled a refinancing plan on Tuesday that failed to fully reassure investors. In this edition, we take a look at how the company, which provides cybersecurity services to the Olympic Games and supercomputers for France’s nuclear arsenal, accumulated close to €5 billion in debt. Source link

A prominent Iraqi jihadist leader in Syria’s rebel-held northwest was killed in a suicide bombing, the group he was in and a war monitor said on Friday. Issued on: 05/04/2024 – 00:07Modified: 05/04/2024 – 00:09 1 min “Abu Maria al-Qahtani was martyred after a treacherous attack by an Islamic State group member using an explosive belt,” said former al-Qaeda affiliate Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), which rules Syria’s last main rebel bastion, on its affiliated Amjad media outlet.Qahtani, whose real name is Maysar Ali Musa Abdallah al-Juburi, “was killed and two of his companions seriously injured after a suicide bomber blew…

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol faces a crucial test Wednesday, as voters go to the polls for a parliamentary election that could determine whether he becomes a lame duck for his remaining three years in office. Issued on: 10/04/2024 – 08:44 4 min In the months ahead of the election, the conservatives supporting Yoon and their liberal rivals exchanged toxic rhetoric and mudslinging. Regardless of the results, Yoon will stay in power, but if his People Power Party fails to regain a parliamentary majority it could set back Yoon’s agenda and further intensify conservative-liberal fighting.Since taking office in 2022…

Issued on: 05/04/2024 – 10:29Modified: 05/04/2024 – 15:19 01:55 Israel announced on Friday that it would allow “temporary” aid deliveries into famine-threatened northern Gaza, hours after the United States warned of a sharp shift in its policy over Israel’s war against Hamas militants. In a tense, 30-minute phone call on Thursday, US President Joe Biden told Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu that United States policy on Israel was dependent on the protection of civilians and aid workers in Gaza, the first hint of possible conditions to Washington’s military support. Read more on related topics: Source link

Haitian leaders have finalised a deal for a temporary government to steer their Caribbean nation out of gang-fueled chaos, but the details must first be approved by the outgoing authorities, AFP confirmed Monday. Issued on: 09/04/2024 – 01:51 2 min Members of the transition council sent their plan to the regional Caribbean body CARICOM late Sunday.The accord establishes a nine-member council — seven voting members and two observers — representing political parties, the private sector and civil society, that will pave the way for presidential elections by early 2026.It’s mandate “will end on February 7, 2026,” according to the agreement…

Issued on: 05/04/2024 – 10:43Modified: 05/04/2024 – 10:52 03:28 Israel says to reopen border crossing with hard-hit northern Gaza © FRANCE 24 Israel says it’s taking steps to increase the flow of humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip, including reopening a key border crossing into northern Gaza, hours after President Joe Biden told Israeli PM Binyamin Netanyahu that future US support for the war in Gaza depends on Israel taking more action to protect civilians and aid workers. Israel has decided to reopen the Port of Ashdod, some 40 kilometres to the north of the Gaza Strip, FRANCE 24’s Rob…

Russia and Kazakhstan ordered more than 100,000 people to evacuate after swiftly melting snow swelled mighty rivers beyond bursting point in the worst flooding in the area for at least 70 years. Issued on: 10/04/2024 – 04:07 3 min The deluge of melt water overwhelmed scores of settlements in the Ural Mountains, Siberia and areas of Kazakhstan close to rivers such as the Ural and Tobol, which local officials said had risen by metres (yards) in a matter of hours to the highest levels ever recorded.Late on Tuesday, levels of the Ural River in Orenburg, a city of around 550,000, reached…

Thousands of people chanted against Israel and the United States at Friday’s funeral for seven Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps members killed in a strike in Syria, which Iran blamed on Israel. Issued on: 05/04/2024 – 11:53Modified: 05/04/2024 – 13:52 4 min The IRGC members, including two generals, were killed in the air strike on Monday which levelled the Iranian embassy’s consular annex in Damascus.IRGC chief General Hossein Salami in a speech said that Israel “cannot escape the consequences”.Israel has not commented on the strike, but analysts saw it as an escalation of its campaign against Iran and its regional proxies…

Back to homepage / Middle East Israel-Hamas war US President Joe Biden said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Gaza policy was a “mistake” and urged Israel to call for a ceasefire, in an interview aired Tuesday. Biden’s comments were some of his strongest criticism yet of Netanyahu amid growing tensions over the civilian death toll from Israel’s war on Hamas and dire conditions inside Gaza. Follow our liveblog for all the latest developments. Issued on: 10/04/2024 – 04:26 2 min Palestinians shop as they prepare for the upcoming holiday of Eid al-Fitr in the northern Gaza Strip, April 9, 2024. © Mahmoud Issa, Reuters…

Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, the largest in the enclave, receives data from every hospital in the strip. Hospital administrators say they keep records of every wounded person occupying a bed and every body arriving at a morgue. The ministry also collects from other sources including the Palestinian Red Crescent.The health ministry does not report how Palestinians were killed, whether from Israeli airstrikes and artillery barrages or errant Palestinian rocket fire. It describes all casualties as victims of “Israeli aggression”. The ministry also does not distinguish between civilians and combatants. Throughout four wars and numerous skirmishes between Israel and Hamas, UN…