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Back to homepage / Shows / arts24 Issued on: 25/03/2024 – 16:07 11:53 arts24 © FRANCE 24 This week on arts24 we welcome Tom McRae, an English Francophile who gained musical recognition in the early 2000s thanks to delicate songs like “You Cut Her Hair” or “End of the World News”. He’s just released his new album “Étrange Hiver”, in which he sings many tracks in French and invites a number of French artists to collaborate with him. We also welcome Liverpool-based rising duo King Hannah, who are set to release their second album “Big Swimmer” at the end of…

Back to homepage / Shows / Science Issued on: 25/03/2024 – 16:10 03:38 SCIENCE © FRANCE 24 March 24 marks World TB (Tuberculosis) Day. On that day in 1882, Dr Robert Koch announced the discovery of the bacteria responsible for this age-old infectious disease. Decades later, an antibiotic was developed to treat patients with tuberculosis. But even today, TB remains a major public health issue, especially multi-resistant strains of the disease. FRANCE 24’s Julia Sieger tells us more.  Read more on related topics: Source link

After Russian President Vladimir Putin was reelected on March 17, a photo went viral showing an explosion behind one of his campaign posters featuring the slogan “stability”. However, it turns out that this image was created by a Ukrainian designer. Issued on: 25/03/2024 – 16:10 3 min If you only have a minute… The photo of an explosion taking place right behind a billboard featuring a photo of Vladimir Putin and the slogan “stability” has gone viral on social media. The accounts sharing it say that it was taken during a bombing campaign led by the Ukrainian Army.  In reality,…

Less than 500 metres separate the Stade de France — the sparkling centrepiece of the Paris Olympics — and the crumbling Francs-Moisins estate plagued by poverty and crime. Samia Achoui, a secretary who lives in one of the grey blocks dogged by drug dealing, doesn’t have a ticket to see the Games.Instead she will listen from her window to the cheers and applause echoing over the canal.Despite its name, the Paris Olympics will take place mostly in Seine-Saint-Denis on the other side of the “peripherique” ring road that divides the French capital from some of its poorest and most notorious…

The Philippines said Monday it had summoned a Chinese envoy over “aggressive actions” by the China Coast Guard and other vessels near a reef off the Southeast Asian country’s coast, while Beijing lodged its own complaint. Issued on: 25/03/2024 – 11:06 3 min Beijing and Manila have a long history of maritime territorial disputes in the South China Sea and there have been repeated confrontations between their vessels near disputed reefs in recent months.The latest incident took place Saturday near Second Thomas Shoal in the Spratly Islands during a regular Philippine mission to resupply Filipino troops garrisoned on the BRP…

French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday said France has information that Islamic State (IS) carried out Friday’s attack in a Moscow concert hall, warning Russia against exploiting the attack by blaming it on Ukraine.  Issued on: 25/03/2024 – 12:16Modified: 25/03/2024 – 12:17 1 min France has intelligence that “it was an entity of Islamic State that planned the attack and carried it out,” Macron told reporters after arriving on a trip to the French South American region of French Guiana.He added that “this particular group made several attempts (at attacks) on our own soil.”Macron however warned Russia against any “exploitation”…

Issued on: 25/03/2024 – 10:53 New York’s attorney general could move to seize Donald Trump’s assets this Monday to cover the now $457 million fine from a civil fraud trial. Meanwhile, Trump’s Truth Social network is approved to start trading on stock markets, but he may not be able to sell shares in time to cover the penalty. We take a closer look. Source link

Several blasts rang out in central Kyiv on Monday, AFP journalists reported, as air raid sirens sounded in the Ukrainian capital and officials urged residents to take shelter. Issued on: 25/03/2024 – 10:39 1 min The explosions sounded at around 10:30am (0830 GMT) after almost a dozen people were wounded in a Russian drone strike on southern Ukraine overnight.”Explosions in Kyiv. Go to shelters immediately,” Kyiv mayor Vitali Klitschko wrote on social media, adding in a later post that emergency services had been dispatched to three districts of the capital.The head of Kyiv’s military administration said a Russian missile had…

Senegal’s anti-establishment candidate Bassirou Diomaye Faye appeared early Monday to be closing in on victory in a presidential poll that follows several years of unrest and a political crisis, while the governing coalition said it was certain of a second-round vote. Whoever comes out on top will be tasked with steering Senegal, viewed as a beacon of democracy in coup-hit West Africa, out of its recent troubles and managing revenues from oil and gas reserves that are shortly to start production.Uncertainty reigned over the outcome of the poll, with official results not expected before the end of the week and…

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s powerful sister said Monday that Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has requested a summit with her brother, adding a meeting was unlikely without a policy shift by Tokyo. Issued on: 25/03/2024 – 07:52 3 min Relations between the two countries are historically strained, including by a long-running kidnapping dispute and North Korea’s banned weapons programmes, but Kishida has recently expressed a desire to improve ties, which Pyongyang has hinted it is not opposed to.Last year, Kishida said he was willing to meet Kim “without any conditions”, saying Tokyo was willing to resolve all issues,…