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Issued on: 26/01/2024 – 12:41 A judge in Brazil has ordered mining giants BHP and Vale, plus their joint iron ore venture project Samarco, to pay the equivalent of €8.9 billion in compensation over the collapse of a dam in 2015. The disaster killed 19 people and severely polluted the Rio Doce river. The ruling comes on the five-year anniversary of the collapse of another Vale-owned dam in the same Brazilian state, which killed 270 people. We take a closer look. Source link

Back to homepage / Shows / arts24 Issued on: 26/01/2024 – 16:56 12:22 arts24 © FRANCE 24 Since 1974, the international comics festival in the French town of Angoulême has welcomed the best of the world’s illustrators. This year the top prize was awarded to Britain’s Posy Simmonds, making her just the fifth woman in the festival’s history to receive the honour. She spoke to Alison Sargent about her work, her connection to Paris and her joy at being one of the first women to “infiltrate” the predominantly male world of comics. We also look at a new graphic novel…

Issued on: 26/01/2024 – 14:33 The Paris metro is one of the oldest underground railway networks in the world. Every day, 4 million people in the French capital rely on its services. But could Parisians be unknowingly exposing themselves to toxic levels of air pollution? The Down to Earth team takes a closer look. Living in a big city inevitably means exposure to pollution, but the dirtiest air that we breathe might not be on busy roads, but under the ground in metro stations.Tiny airborne particles known as particulate matter are the main culprits. They’re invisible to the naked eye,…

France – The Paris 2024 Olympic Games are just six months away and the countdown is on to get everything ready in time, from logistics and security to transport and construction. But will the French capital be ready? FRANCE 24’s Katrine Lyngsø went to find out. Issued on: 26/01/2024 – 17:11Modified: 26/01/2024 – 17:17 2 min Olympics organisers and French authorities have been sending mixed messages about the state of ongoing preparations for the 2024 Summer Olympic Games, sparking doubts and making headlines about whether Paris will successfully pull off hosting the Games.  French President Emmanuel Macron admitted in December that…

The United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) said on Friday it had opened an investigation into several employees suspected of involvement in the October 7 attacks in Israel by Hamas and that it had severed ties with those staff members. Issued on: 26/01/2024 – 20:04 3 min “The Israeli authorities have provided UNRWA with information about the alleged involvement of several UNRWA employees in the horrific attacks on Israel on October 7,” said Philippe Lazzarini, UNRWA Commissioner-General.“To protect the agency’s ability to deliver humanitarian assistance, I have taken the decision to immediately terminate the contracts of these staff members…

A late painting by Austrian artist Gustav Klimt has resurfaced in a private collection and will be sold in April, Viennese auction house Kinsky said Thursday.  Issued on: 26/01/2024 – 17:35 2 min “Bildnis Fraeulein Lieser” (Portrait of Miss Lieser) was commissioned by a wealthy Jewish industrialist’s family and painted by Klimt in 1917 shortly before he died.The well-preserved painting, which shows a dark-haired woman, was presented to the public in Vienna for the first time on Thursday.It is due to be auctioned off on April 24 on behalf of the current Austrian owners and the legal successors of the…

Issued on: 26/01/2024 – 16:20 The world’s first major regulation on artificial intelligence should almost be done and dusted – but France is causing trouble. FRANCE 24’s Tech Editor Peter O’Brien tells us more. On February 2, EU member state ambassadors are set to formally adopt the AI Act, a wide-ranging text that aims to rein in misuses of the powerful technology. France has a clutch of promising startups in the field, and some reports say it is trying to delay the vote – potentially even imperilling the text itself – in a bid to protect them from regulatory pressure.In…

Issued on: 25/01/2024 – 16:35 From striped tops, to berets, to ballerina flats, this week on French Connections we discuss which clothes are iconically French. We dive into the history of some of these sartorial splendours, as well as the French origins of the word fashion. We also look to the future and explore what the French school uniform could look like. Source link

Tunisia, ranked third in Africa, meekly bowed out of the Cup of Nations after drawing 0-0 with South Africa in a poor final round Group E match in Korhogo on Wednesday. Issued on: 24/01/2024 – 20:19Modified: 24/01/2024 – 20:18 1 min The North Africans had a late chance to snatch victory and survive, but substitute Haythem Jouini headed a cross well over the crossbar.Tunisia became the second top 10-ranked nation after Algeria to be eliminated after the opening round.Mali won Group E after a 0-0 draw with Namibia, and both qualified for the knockout stage along with second-placed South Africa.Read…

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…