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Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi was sworn in Tuesday for his third term as leader of the Arab world’s most populous nation. Issued on: 02/04/2024 – 12:57Modified: 02/04/2024 – 14:00 3 min In power for the past decade, the 69-year-old former army chief is set to remain president until 2030.Speaking before parliament, Sisi vowed to “remain faithful to my work, my eyes seeing only your interests and this country’s”.As Egypt has battled a deep economic crisis with the help of billions in overseas loans and investments, he pledged “to realise the aspirations of the Egyptian nation to build a modern,…

Iran warned arch foe Israel on Tuesday that it will punish an air strike that killed seven Revolutionary Guards, two of them generals, at its consular annex in Damascus. Issued on: 02/04/2024 – 12:19Modified: 02/04/2024 – 12:18 3 min Four other people were also reported killed in Monday’s strike which levelled the five-storey building adjacent to the Iranian embassy and further stoked tensions already running high as the Gaza war nears the end of its sixth month.Israel declined to comment on the strike, which fuelled Middle East tensions already enflamed by the war in Gaza between Israel and Iran ally…

French writer Maryse Conde, who died on Tuesday at the age of 90, became one of the greatest chroniclers of the struggles and triumphs of the descendants of Africans taken as slaves to the Caribbean.  Issued on: 02/04/2024 – 12:07 3 min But the writer born in the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe did not pen her first book until she was nearly 40, and it triggered a controversy that saw authorities in several countries order the copies destroyed.The mother of four, who once said she “did not have the confidence to present her writing to the outside world”, was in…

Gaza’s health ministry collects data from the enclave’s hospitals and 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 agencies have cited the Hamas-run health ministry’s death tolls in regular reports. The International Committee of the Red Cross and Palestinian Red Crescent also use the numbers.In the aftermath of war, the UN humanitarian office has published…

Activists welcomed the Thai senate passing the first reading of a bill to legalise same-sex marriage Tuesday, bringing the kingdom another step closer to becoming the first Southeast Asian country to recognise marriage equality.  Issued on: 02/04/2024 – 10:46Modified: 02/04/2024 – 10:58 3 min Thailand has long enjoyed an international reputation for tolerance of the LGBTQ community, but campaigners have struggled for decades against conservative attitudes and values.The vote sailed through the unelected upper house — stacked with conservative appointees named by the last junta — with 147 votes in favour, building on the momentum from last week’s landslide vote…

Back to homepage / Shows / Business Issued on: 02/04/2024 – 11:22 04:57 BUSINESS © FRANCE 24 As Senegal’s President-elect Bassirou Diomaye Faye is sworn in this Tuesday, we focus on the major economic challenges facing the country. In a bid to lower Senegal’s 20 percent unemployment rate, the anti-establishment leader is pushing for measures that will boost job creation and lower the cost of living. Among other things, he’s pinned his hopes on the country’s oil and gas reserves. Also in this edition, California’s fast food workers are now among the best paid in the US, earning $20 per…

Issued on: 02/04/2024 – 07:14Modified: 02/04/2024 – 07:48 03:37 Rawad Taha, FRANCE 24 Correspondent in Beirut Lebanon © France 24 Suspected Israeli warplanes bombed Iran’s embassy in Syria on Monday in a strike that Iran said killed seven of its military advisers, including three senior commanders, marking a major escalation in Israel’s war with its regional adversaries. This is probably the most significant escalation since October 7″, said FRANCE 24’s correspondent in Beirut, Lebanon Rawad Taha.  Read more on related topics: Source link

Peruvian President Dina Boluarte replaced six ministers after they resigned as her government is rocked by a political crisis fueled by an alleged illicit enrichment scandal involving luxury watches. Issued on: 02/04/2024 – 03:21Modified: 02/04/2024 – 08:06 2 min The Cabinet shakeup Monday came as lawmakers submitted to Parliament a request to remove her from office for “permanent moral incapacity” three days after police broke down the front door of her residence to search for the watches as part of an investigation.The request was submitted by lawmakers from various parties including Peru Libre to which Boluarte once belonged. To remove…

Issued on: 02/04/2024 – 07:49Modified: 02/04/2024 – 07:57 01:43 By an overwhelming vote, Israel’s parliament has empowered the prime minister to ban news networks, including the Qatar-based network Al Jazeera from operating in Israel. The legislation targets media which “harms the state’s national security”. Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu gave his opinion on X, calling Al Jazeera “the terror channel”. Monte Francis has more in this video report.  Read more on related topics: Source link

Embattled former US president Donald Trump posted a $175 million bond in his New York civil fraud case Monday, a court document showed, avoiding asset seizures while his case winds through the appeals process.  Issued on: 02/04/2024 – 08:39 2 min Last week, a New York appeals court cut a $454 million bond payment he was originally required to make, reducing the sum to $175 million and giving him 10 days to pay a bond in that amount. The nearly half billion sum he originally owed had raised the possibility that New York authorities would move to seize Trump assets if…