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Haiti’s gangs have made advances in Port-au-Prince, a UN official reported Thursday, with political parties inching toward forming a transition government and new bloodshed roiling the troubled Caribbean nation. Issued on: 22/03/2024 – 02:56 3 min Police in Port-au-Prince confirmed that a major gang leader, Ernst Julme, known as Ti Greg, was slain in a clash with security forces. Julme led the Delmas 95 gang. Addressing a news conference from Haiti via videolink, Ulrika Richardson, the UN humanitarian coordinator for the country, said daily life had become defined by roadblocks and the sound of gunshots, describing “enormous” amounts of people displaced…

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…

Carles Puigdemont, the former leader of the Spanish region of Catalonia who fled the country after a failed secession attempt six years ago, said Thursday that he will return to Spain if he has a viable chance to be restored as regional president following upcoming elections. Issued on: 21/03/2024 – 23:06 3 min Puigdemont, 61, ran to Belgium after leading a 2017 breakaway bid that quickly collapsed and is still a wanted man in Spain. A contentious amnesty bill, crafted by Spain’s left-wing government to clear him and hundreds of other supporters of Catalan independence, is slowly making its way…

Back to homepage / Shows / arts24 Issued on: 21/03/2024 – 16:09 11:41 arts24 © FRANCE 24 They’re among the hottest young couples in world opera. Australian soprano Nicole Car and Canadian baritone Etienne Dupuis have performed together on iconic stages in famous roles around the world. They speak to Eve Jackson about their latest show, Verdi’s “Simon Boccanegra”, at Paris Bastille. Nicole sings the title character’s long-lost daughter Amelia Grimaldi and Etienne plays the baddie Paolo Albiani. They also explain why they can rarely play lovers on stage. Read more on related topics: Source link

Israel’s army was on Thursday four days into a raid at Gaza’s largest hospital, where the military says Hamas was operating from among patients and displaced civilians.  Issued on: 21/03/2024 – 17:41Modified: 21/03/2024 – 18:13 3 min Here is what we know about the fighting at and around Al-Shifa medical centre that the Israeli army says has killed more than 140 Palestinian militants.The raid The Israeli army announced at 0100 GMT on Monday that it had launched an operation on the Gaza City hospital targeting senior Hamas militants. Witnesses reported air strikes and tanks near the sprawling complex crowded with Palestinian patients…

In Latvia, the war in Ukraine has rekindled fears of being attacked by Moscow’s forces. The youngest citizens of this little-known Baltic country, which shares a nearly 300km-long border with Russia, now fear becoming a collateral victim of Moscow’s war. Issued on: 21/03/2024 – 18:19Modified: 21/03/2024 – 18:26 2 min “To be honest, I wasn’t thinking about all this. And I keep telling myself that I won’t be drawn.” Janis is 24, lives in Riga, Latvia’s capital, and like all young Latvian men aged between 18 and 27, he can now be drafted for the mandatory 11-month military service. The Latvian…

Back to homepage / Shows / People & Profit Issued on: 21/03/2024 – 13:19Modified: 21/03/2024 – 13:21 13:00 PEOPLE & PROFIT © FRANCE 24 Geologists around the world are calling it the “new gold rush”. We ask why companies are rushing to capitalise on white or natural hydrogen, with our guest Minh Khoi Le. He is the head of hydrogen research at business intelligence company Rystad Energy. According to the firm, 40 companies were searching for this “white gold” across the globe at the end of 2023, including in the US, Canada, France, Albania, South Korea and Colombia. Back in…

Issued on: 20/03/2024 – 17:59 02:44 A burnt out car on a street in Metula, Israel on March 19, 2024. © Reuters In Metula, an Israeli village on the border with Lebanon, rubble fills the streets and damaged houses lie empty and abandoned. It is one of a number of border towns to have been evacuated amid fighting between Israel and Lebanon-based Hezbollah, which has been firing rockets across the border since the outbreak of the war in Gaza. As the exchanges intensify, some fear the outbreak of full-scale war, though others think that might be the only way they…

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi often draws crowds of supporters from the Indian diaspora on his foreign visits. But back home, his administration has been revoking visas and residency permits of foreign nationals of Indian origin as well as spouses of Indian citizens. For those denied access or kicked out of India, the experience can be traumatic.  Vanessa Dougnac was at home in her New Delhi apartment on January 18, when she received a hand-delivered envelope that raised her spirits.The French journalist glanced at the letterhead bearing the insignia of the Indian interior ministry’s Foreigners Regional Registration Office (FRRO) and…

The population of almost every country will be shrinking by the end of the century, a major study said Wednesday, warning that baby booms in developing nations and busts in rich ones will drive massive social change. Issued on: 21/03/2024 – 01:30 2 min The fertility rate in half of all nations is already too low to maintain their population size, an international team of hundreds of researchers reported in The Lancet.Using a huge amount of global data on births, deaths and what drives fertility, the researchers tried to forecast the future for the world’s population.By 2050, the population of…