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French authorities have uncovered a website containing a fake recruitment drive for French volunteers to join the war in Ukraine, the defence ministry said on Thursday. Issued on: 28/03/2024 – 15:14 1 min The site has now been taken down by French services, a government source, who asked not to be named, told AFP without giving further details on the nature of the operation.The site, which is now inaccessible, said 200,000 French people were invited to “enlist in Ukraine”, with immigrants given priority.A link to the site – that resembled the French army’s genuine recruitment portal – had been posted…

Back to homepage / Shows / arts24 Issued on: 28/03/2024 – 14:37 12:50 arts24 © FRANCE 24 She emerged in the mid-90s as one half of Moloko, the duo she formed with then-boyfriend Mark Brydon, creating iconic dance hits like “Sing It Back” and “The Time Is Now”. After 30 years of pop, Irish artist Róisín Murphy is touring with her sixth solo album “Hit Parade” – said to be her best yet. Eve Jackson caught up with her at the end of the European leg of the tour to reminisce about gigs in Paris, going clubbing and to talk about…

The French parliament’s lower house on Thursday approved a resolution condemning as “bloody and murderous repression” the killing by Paris police of dozens of Algerians in a crackdown on a 1961 protest to support Algerian independence. Issued on: 28/03/2024 – 14:18 2 min In recent years France has made a series of efforts to come to terms with its colonial past in Algeria.Dozens of peaceful demonstrators died during a crackdown by Paris police on a protest by Algerians in 1961. The scale of the massacre was covered up for decades by French authorities before President Emmanuel Macron condemned it as…

Athenians are choking in clouds of thick dust blown in from the Sahara along with unseasonably warm weather, weather forecasters and doctors warned on Thursday. Issued on: 28/03/2024 – 11:29Modified: 28/03/2024 – 11:59 1 min The haze covering the Greek capital comes from southerly winds that blow dust from North Africa across the eastern Mediterranean from March to April, the head of the Greek meteorological service Theodoros Kolydas said on X, formerly Twitter.”A typical sandstorm with a range of 200 kilometres (about 120 miles) carries 20 to 30 million tonnes of dust and sometimes as much as 100 million,” he…

Issued on: 28/03/2024 – 12:05Modified: 28/03/2024 – 12:08 French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal signals a further tightening of unemployment benefits as France seeks to reduce an unexpectedly large budget deficit. Meanwhile, the government rules out new taxes, despite calls from French lawmakers to tax corporate windfalls and share buybacks. We take a closer look in this edition. Source link

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…

Ukraine downed 26 drones overnight as Russia launched its latest salvo of aerial attacks, a senior Ukrainian military official said on Thursday. Issued on: 28/03/2024 – 09:00 1 min “On the night of March 28, 2024, the enemy launched a missile air strike against Ukraine using three Kh-22 cruise missiles and an Kh-31P anti-radar missile (from the Black Sea), an S-300 anti-aircraft guided missile (Donetsk) and 28 attack UAVs of the ‘Shahed-136/131’ type”, Mykola Oleshchuk, the head of Ukraine’s air force, wrote on Telegram.”Twenty-six attack UAVs of the ‘Shahed-136/131’ type were destroyed within Odesa, Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk and Zaporizhzhia regions”, he…

The bodies of two construction workers were found in the cold waters of Baltimore harbor Wednesday, trapped in their red pick-up truck after a giant cargo ship slammed into the bridge they had been filling potholes on, causing a thunderous collapse. Maryland police announced the grim discovery at a press conference, adding that sonar shows what they believe are more vehicles trapped within the concrete and twisted steel debris of the Francis Scott Key Bridge.Six of the eight-man construction crew are believed to have been killed, with four bodies yet to be found.Warning that it was not safe for divers…

Anti-establishment figure Bassirou Diomaye Faye has comfortably won the Senegalese presidential election with 54.28 percent of votes in the first round, official provisional results showed Wednesday. Issued on: 28/03/2024 – 02:02 2 min He placed well ahead of the governing coalition’s candidate, former prime minister Amadou Ba, who garnered 35.79 percent.The victory for Faye, who was only freed from prison 10 days before the election, still has to be validated by Senegal’s top constitutional body, which could happen in a few days.Faye, 44, who has said he wants a “break” with the current political system, is set to become the…

A French court on Wednesday handed former Liberian rebel commander Kunti Kamara a 30-year prison sentence for violence against civilians and complicity in crimes against humanity during Liberia’s first civil war. Issued on: 28/03/2024 – 00:09 1 min Kamara, now 49, had been sentenced to life in prison during a first trial in Paris in 2022.The Paris criminal court, after an appeals trial that lasted three weeks, upheld a guilty verdict against Kamara for “acts of torture and inhuman barbarity” against civilians between 1993 and 1994, including a teacher whose heart he reportedly ate.He was again found guilty of complicity…