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Germany’s Euro 2024 dream ended on Friday after Spain secured a place in the semi-finals with a 2-1 win over the tournament host thanks to a last-gasp Mikel Merino winner at the end of extra time. Source link

Israel on Friday said it would send a delegation to Doha next week to negotiate a Gaza ceasefire and hostage release deal. “There are still gaps between the parties,” Israel’s Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s spokesman said after a first round of talks that were held earlier in the day. Source link

A French AI lab has released a demo of a voice chatbot with practically immediate response times. OpenAI, the world’s third most valuable start-up, has been teasing a similar feature for its own voice bot since mid-May.  Source link

At least five people were killed on Friday during an Israeli military raid in a Jenin refugee camp, according to the Palestinian Authority health ministry. The clashes in Jenin came a day after the Israeli monitoring group Peace Now said the Israeli government plans to build nearly 5,300 new homes in settlements across the occupied West Bank. Source link

Back to homepage / Shows / People & Profit Issued on: 05/07/2024 – 10:00 14:25 To display this content from , you must enable advertisement tracking and audience measurement. Accept Manage my choices PEOPLE & PROFIT © FRANCE 24 Scene on Radio, the Peabody-nominated podcast series produced by The Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University, has dedicated its latest season to exploring the history, failures and future of capitalism over the course of 13 episodes. John Biewen, co-host of the podcast, joins us from North Carolina for a big picture conversation about the system that governs the lives of a large…

Germany is going head-to-head with Spain in the first of two quarter-final matches at Euro 2024 on Friday, with France set to take on Portugal in the late match. On Saturday, England will face Switzerland while Turkey square off against the Netherlands. Source link

Iranians began voting Friday in a runoff election to replace the late president Ebrahim Raisi, killed in a helicopter crash last month. Reformist candidate Masoud Pezeshkian, a 69-year-old heart surgeon, faces ultraconservative Saeed Jalili, a former nuclear negotiator, after a first round marred by a record-low turnout. Source link

In this week’s edition of Destination Paris, there’s good news for organisers as new data shows that pollution levels in the Seine have improved. We take a look at several stars to look out for in Paris including pole vaulter Armand Duplantis who is tipped to defend his Olympic gold and Croatian brothers Martin and Valent Sinkovic who are aiming for a fourth medal in rowing. We also bring you the final episode following Indian wrestler Anshu Malik as she clinches her ticket to Paris.  Source link

Dylan Groenewegen of the Netherlands won stage six of the Tour de France on Thursday in a mass dash for the Dijon finish line in which Belgian Jasper Philipsen was relegated for a swerve. Source link

Israel’s Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has informed US President Joe Biden that he is sending a delegation to negotiate a hostage release with Hamas. But there is still no indication where the delegation will go or when it will leave.   Source link