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Back to homepage / Shows / Focus Issued on: 06/03/2024 – 11:39 07:38 FOCUS © FRANCE 24 Sunday’s major prison break in the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince, in which gangs allowed thousands of inmates to escape, has plunged the country even deeper into chaos. Authorities declared a state of emergency and curfew in the capital, 80 percent of which is controlled by criminal gangs. Since the shock assassination of President Jovenel Moise in 2021, the country has been mired in a political crisis, which has in turn led to a security and humanitarian disaster. Amid a brutal turf war between gangs, more than…

The sound of a large explosion reverberated around the Ukrainian port of Odesa as President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Greece’s prime minister ended a tour of the war-ravaged southern city Wednesday. Issued on: 06/03/2024 – 19:30 1 min Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said the delegations were getting into their vehicles when they heard the blast, which he called a “vivid reminder” that Odesa is gripped by the war with Russia with Russia. It is one thing to hear about the war and “quite another to experience war firsthand,” Mitsotakis said.Zelenskyy said the explosion caused an unknown number of dead and…

Authorities in Iran are cracking down on small businesses that sell “un-Islamic” clothing and other products on social media, notably Instagram. Owners of Instagram businesses say they have been contacted by the Islamic Republic’s cyber police, who take control of their pages, replacing images of their products with messages saying the pages have been closed for reasons of “#IslamicHijab” or that, “According to a court order, this page has been shut down”. Issued on: 06/03/2024 – 17:40Modified: 06/03/2024 – 17:42 5 min While Iran’s notorious “morality police” have kept a low profile since the eruption of the “Woman Life, Freedom”…

The widow of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny said on Wednesday the scale of public support for him since his death was proof that his cause lived on, and called for a massive election day protest against President Vladimir Putin. Issued on: 06/03/2024 – 11:52 2 min In a YouTube video; Yulia Navalnaya said she had drawn hope from the huge crowds that turned out last week for the funeral of her husband, who died in an Arctic penal colony on Feb. 16.  Since his burial, supporters have submerged his grave in a sea of flowers.“Looking at you, I am…

Back to homepage / Shows / arts24 Issued on: 06/03/2024 – 14:47 12:45 arts24 © FRANCE 24 Amjad Al Rasheed’s directorial debut was also the first Jordanian film to be screened at the Cannes film festival last year. “Inshallah a Boy” focuses on a courageous mother and widow who’s constrained by the patriarchal society she lives in. Amjad joins us in the studio to talk about making a film that addresses sensitive topics like inheritance and abortion, and how securing regional funding for his feature was a win for the nascent Jordanian film industry. We also check out Terence Davies’…

A probe into Israel’s worst civilian disaster on Wednesday found Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “bears personal responsibility” for the deadly 2021 stampede which killed 45 Jewish pilgrims. Issued on: 06/03/2024 – 12:15Modified: 06/03/2024 – 12:13 1 min “The prime minister is responsible for identifying proactively, by himself or through mechanisms on his behalf, issues that require the attention of his office and, if necessary, his intervention, in particular those related to a risk of human lives,” said the commission of inquiry report into the stampede at the Mount Meron pilgrimage site.Tens of thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews had converged on Mount…

Nikki Haley is dropping out of the U.S. presidential race, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters on Wednesday, a decision that will ensure Donald Trump will win the Republican nomination and once again face Democratic President Joe Biden in November’s election. Haley will give a speech at 10 a.m. local time (1500 GMT) to address her future in the race, the source said, but she will not make an endorsement at that time. She will urge Trump to try to win the backing of her supporters, which include a significant chunk of moderate Republicans and independent voters, the…

Kylian Mbappe lethally fired Paris Saint-Germain into the Champions League quarter-finals with a brace in a 2-1 win at Real Sociedad on Tuesday, his team cruising through 4-1 on aggregate. Issued on: 05/03/2024 – 23:25Modified: 05/03/2024 – 23:49 3 min Coach Luis Enrique has slashed Mbappe’s minutes in recent weeks after the player told the club he would leave at the end of the season, but the France captain proved he will be vital if PSG are to finally win the competition for the first time.The electric Mbappe was impossible for Real Sociedad to shackle and his strikes after 15…

Super Tuesday yielded no surprises, with US President Joe Biden and former president Donald Trump emerging the biggest winners in the biggest single day of voting in the US primaries. But there were cautionary signals for both candidates as the 2024 campaign season heads for a battering phase in the leadup to November’s presidential election. Hours after the polls closed in California on Super Tuesday, the two candidates heading for a foreseen presidential rematch set the tone of their campaigns ahead of the November vote.It was predictable and dismaying for the electors who matter most in the 2024 US presidential…

Back to homepage / Shows / Business Issued on: 06/03/2024 – 10:29 05:22 BUSINESS DAILY © FRANCE 24 On Tuesday, the price of a single Bitcoin hit a new record at over $69,000, beating a previous peak set in November 2021. In this Business Daily, we look at what’s happened in the cryptocurrency sector in the past two years, explaining Bitcoin’s dramatic fall and subsequent rise. Also in this edition, FRANCE 24’s Bryan Quinn looks at the “technical issue” which deprived users of social media apps Instagram and Facebook for more than two hours on Tuesday. Read more on related…