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Issued on: 16/03/2024 – 17:17Modified: 16/03/2024 – 17:20 01:36 US charity World Central Kitchen said Saturday its team in the war-ravaged Gaza Strip had finished unloading the first maritime aid shipment to reach the besieged territory. The group is preparing a second boat of 240 tonnes of food to set sail from Cyprus, the starting point of a new maritime aid route across the eastern Mediterranean. Read more on related topics: Source link

Lithuania’s Minister of Culture Simonas Kairys spoke to FRANCE 24 about Lithuania’s fight against Russian disinformation and why the Baltic nation feels so bound to Ukraine. Issued on: 16/03/2024 – 14:39 5 min In March 1990, Lithuania became the first nation to declare its independence as the Soviet Union collapsed, setting an example for other states that had been under the Kremlin’s influence for half a century. As a nascent democracy emerging from Soviet control, Lithuania was free to rediscover its own history and culture.But Vilnius has once again become a target for Moscow. Russian President Vladimir Putin has long…

Issued on: 16/03/2024 – 11:52Modified: 16/03/2024 – 12:13 01:42 A first aid ship plying a new maritime corridor from Cyprus began unloading its cargo of desperately needed food in Gaza Friday as Hamas proposed a new six-week truce in the war. Humanitarian organisations meanwhile have voiced concern over the distribution of the aid once it has finished unloading in Gaza, citing lack of infrastructure and transportation means. Read more on related topics: Source link

Thirteen years after the start of the Syrian civil war, citizens in the northwestern city of Idlib are continuing their protests through street art and monitoring the sky. And on the streets of Idlib, hundreds of people take to the streets every year to demand the end of President Bashar al-Assad’s authoritarian rule. For them, March 15 does not mark the anniversary of the start of the 2011 civil war, but the start of their revolution for a free Syria. Issued on: 16/03/2024 – 12:01 1 min Aziz, an artist, paints bombed-out buildings with drawings and messages to denounce the Syrian…

Back to homepage / Shows / Fashion Issued on: 15/03/2024 – 13:56 06:00 FASHION © Pascal Mourier By: Pascal MOURIER | Media TV Stella McCartney, Marine Serre and Lilia Litkovska are three designers united in their belief that fashion, a notoriously polluting industry that often encourages excessive consumption, can itself be part of the solution. Through their latest ready-to-wear collections for next autumn and winter they showcase more sustainable modes of production, and advocate for fashion that has both style and heart. FRANCE 24 went to check out their Paris shows. Read more on related topics: Source link

Russia began three days of voting Friday in a presidential election that is all but certain to extend President Vladimir Putin’s rule for six more years after he stifled dissent. At least half a dozen cases of vandalism at polling stations were reported, including a firebombing and several people pouring green liquid into ballot boxes — an apparent nod to the late opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who in 2017 was attacked by an assailant splashing green disinfectant in his face.Voting is taking place through Sunday at polling stations across the vast country’s 11 time zones, in illegally annexed regions of…

Rumours that French pop star Aya Nakamara may sing at the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics have triggered a flurry of attacks from the French far right, questioning the host country’s ability to appreciate the globally acclaimed talent emerging from its neglected suburbs with large immigrant populations. With the Paris Olympics still months away, the host country has already won gold in a category it truly owns: divisive racial controversy with “made in France” flair.  That’s how public broadcaster France Inter summed up a row over unconfirmed rumours that Aya Nakamura would perform an Édith Piaf song during the Games’…

A video of a Palestinian mother holding her dead baby twins in her arms after they were killed in Israeli airstrike began to circulate widely online after it was posted on March 3. Some accounts, however, have claimed that the scene was staged and the dead babies are, in fact, dolls. However, the two dead babies are real. News agencies AP and Reuters reported details about their identities and forensic doctors interviewed by our team confirmed that the video does indeed show human remains. Issued on: 15/03/2024 – 17:28 4 min If you only have a minute: The video of…

Issued on: 15/03/2024 – 15:44 French daily and website Le Monde has become the latest publisher to strike a deal with OpenAI, allowing the San Francisco company to use its journalists’ work to train artificial intelligence systems. To deal with claims that AI firms have plagiarised content scraped from the internet in order to build tools like ChatGPT, publishers have taken different approaches. Le Monde, the Associated Press and Axel Springer have all struck deals with OpenAI, while the New York Times and The Intercept are among those taking the company to court.Creators without the deep pockets of large publishers are…

Back to homepage / Shows / arts24 Issued on: 15/03/2024 – 15:22Modified: 15/03/2024 – 15:27 12:40 arts24 © FRANCE 24 From “The Regime”, a satirical comedy about a despotic leader played by Kate Winslet, to all the latest from Europe’s biggest TV festival, Séries Mania in northwestern France, plus reviews of “Palm Royale”, a 1960s high society dramedy starring Kristen Wiig, as well as Guy Ritchie’s series adaptation of his 2019 movie “The Gentlemen”, critic Dheepthika Laurent speaks to Eve Jackson about what’s hot on TV this month. Read more on related topics: Source link