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The United States and China have agreed to hold “intensive exchanges on balanced growth”, the US Treasury Department said in a statement, after two days of talks between Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and her Chinese counterpart He Lifeng in Guangzhou. Issued on: 06/04/2024 – 10:01 3 min The planned talks mark the latest step forward in joint efforts to stabilise rocky ties between the world’s two leading economies since a meeting between presidents Joe Biden and Xi Jinping last November.”These exchanges will facilitate a discussion around macroeconomic imbalances, including their connection to overcapacity, and I intend to use this opportunity…

Issued on: 05/04/2024 – 14:17Modified: 05/04/2024 – 14:28 UNRWA, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, is on the brink of collapse. Since the October 7, 2023 attacks on Israel, the agency has come under suspicion, accused of being too close to the terrorist acts of Hamas. Many donor countries have suspended their financial contributions as a result. Philippe Lazzarini, the commissioner-general of UNRWA, is fighting body and soul for its survival. For one month, our reporters followed him across the United States, the Middle East and Europe in his race against time to find the funding for the activities…

A French schoolboy on Friday died from wounds sustained in a violent assault, as President Emmanuel Macron warned schools should be protected from “uninhibited violence” among some youths. Issued on: 05/04/2024 – 20:41 3 min The 15-year-old teenager was badly beaten Thursday near his school in a town south of Paris and rushed to hospital following a cardiac arrest. He died of his wounds early on Friday afternoon, a prosecutor said. It was the second such assault this week, after a 13-year-old girl was left temporarily comatose after being attacked outside her school in the southern city of Montpellier on Tuesday.Both incidents…

At the campus of the French Fashion Institute, 27 design students from 13 different countries are gearing up to present their year’s work before a highly influential audience. The stakes are high: these students are poised to compete with fellow graduates from the prestigious Central Saint Martins school in London. But there’s no denying that France still plays an outsized role on the international stage when it comes to fashion, as evidenced by the likes of designers Weinsanto, Pressiat and Alain Paul. FRANCE 24 went to check out their ready-to-wear shows. Source link

Issued on: 05/04/2024 – 15:01Modified: 05/04/2024 – 15:13 01:56 Israel says to up Gaza aid, admits ‘mistakes’ in aid worker deaths © Israel says to increase Gaza aid, admits ‘mistakes’ in aid worker deaths Israel came under mounting pressure Friday to step up aid to Gaza with its military admitting a series of “grave mistakes” when a drone killed seven aid workers in the embattled territory. The Israeli military said that it dismissed two officers and reprimanded three others for their roles in drone strikes in Gaza that killed seven aid workers on a food-delivery mission, saying they had mishandled critical information and violated the army’s rules of engagement. Read more on related topics: Source link

The United Nations said Friday it has begun distributing food in Sudan’s restive western Darfur region for the first time in months, following two successful cross-border deliveries in March, but the population still faces widespread hunger unless more help arrives.  Issued on: 05/04/2024 – 21:06 2 min The yearlong conflict between military and paramilitary forces in Sudan is causing one of the world’s worst hunger crisis. About a third of the country’s population, or 18 million people, face acute hunger, the U.N. food agency says, with the most desperate trapped behind the front lines. They include 5 million who face…

Back to homepage / Shows / arts24 Issued on: 05/04/2024 – 16:27 10:51 arts24 © FRANCE 24 In the third and final part of our Rwanda series, we head into Rwanda’s breathtaking countryside to discover a unique artist’s residence, created by cultural changemaker Cedric Mizero. He takes Eve Jackson and the arts24 crew on a trek through a eucalyptus forest for an immersive open-air theatre experience in which 150 artists take part. Also on the programme, we meet a champion of Rwanda’s female artists: Kakizi Jemima, whose exhibitions explore taboo social issues such as teen pregnancy, gender-based violence and mental…

Back to homepage / Shows / The 51% Issued on: 05/04/2024 – 15:42 11:53 THE 51 PERCENT © FRANCE 24 How the ban on skin-lightening products in Ivory Coast has not stopped thousands of women from buying these creams. This as health officials warn of risks such as diabetes and hypertension. Also we head to the Anbar region in Iraq which is undergoing massive reconstruction after the collapse of the Islamic State group and where local women are attempting to pursue interests outside of the family home. Plus a Paris photographic exhibition celebrates the work of famed author, Annie Ernaux,…

Issued on: 05/04/2024 – 15:08Modified: 05/04/2024 – 15:15 05:32 © FRANCE 24 Israel announced earlier Friday that it would allow “temporary” aid deliveries into famine-threatened northern Gaza, hours after Washington warned of a sharp shift in its policy over Israel’s war against Hamas. Israel’s promise would be a “game changer” and would make “huge differences” to the current humanitarian situation in the Strip, Media advisor for the Norwegian Refugee Council in the Middle East Ahmed Bayram told FRANCE 24. Read more on related topics: Source link

Russian forces have captured the village of Vodyane in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region, Russia’s defence ministry said on Friday.  Issued on: 05/04/2024 – 15:47 2 min “On the Avdiivka front, units of the Centre group of forces liberated the village of Vodiane,” the Russian defence ministry said in a briefing.The claim could not be independently verified.Ukrainian defenders in the Avdiivka region are trying to dig in amid Russian advanced in the Donetsk region, but they face shortages of artillery rounds, with US aid stuck in Congress for months.Earlier on Friday Russia’s state-run RIA news agency cited an official as saying…