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Issued on: 22/01/2024 – 23:44Modified: 22/01/2024 – 23:51 Ivory Coast will have to rely on other results to avoid crashing out of the group stages at their home AFCON tournament, after a ruthless Equatorial Guinea thrashed them 4-0 in a huge upset that saw the winners top Group A. Meanwhile, Nigeria edge past Guinea-Bissau 1-0 to secure a spot in the last 16. In Group B, Egypt are through to the last 16 after a dramatic 2-2 draw against Cape Verde, who had already booked their spot in the knockouts. Ghana will have to wait to see if they secure a best…

Issued on: 23/01/2024 – 14:02Modified: 23/01/2024 – 14:38 03:27 Israel said Tuesday 24 soldiers were killed in the biggest single-day losses since the start of its ground war in Gaza amid growing pressure on the government to find a way to end the conflict. Catherine Norris Trent, reporting from Jerusalem, says anger over the direction the war is taking is growing among civilians. Read more on related topics: Source link

After a tumultuous movie year marred by strikes and work stoppages, the Academy Awards showered nominations Tuesday on Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster biopic, “Oppenheimer,” which came away with a leading 13 nominations. Issued on: 23/01/2024 – 15:36 2 min Nolan’s three-hour opus, viewed as the best picture frontrunner, received nods for best picture; Nolan’s direction; acting nominations for Cillian Murphy, Robert Downey Jr. and Emily Blunt; and multiple honors for the craft of the J. Robert Oppenheimer drama.But the year’s biggest hit, “Barbie,” came away with a nominations haul notably less than its partner in Barbenheimer mania. Greta Gerwig’s feminist comedy,…

Back to homepage / Shows / France in focus Issued on: 23/01/2024 – 12:20 11:58 FRANCE IN FOCUS © FRANCE 24 Paris is preparing to hold the Olympics this summer, but did you know that the last time the French capital hosted the Games was exactly 100 years ago? Much has been forgotten about the 1924 Olympics, but records were broken, champions were made and more women athletes took part than ever before. FRANCE 24’s Stéphanie Trouillard and Claire Paccalin went to see what’s left of the 1924 Olympic stadiums and find out which ones will be used again in…

Issued on: 23/01/2024 – 13:00 At least 8 million weapons of all types are believed to be in circulation in Iraq. With no real state control to oversee them, illegal firearms are responsible for hundreds of deaths each year, sometimes involving celebratory shootings at weddings or funerals that end in tragedy. To tackle the scale of this problem, the Iraqi government launched a campaign at the end of 2023 to retrieve unregistered firearms. But will it be successful? Our correspondent reports.  Source link

France’s data protection agency said Tuesday that it had fined Amazon’s French warehouses unit 32 million euros ($34.9 million) for an “excessively intrusive” surveillance system to keep track of staff performance. Issued on: 23/01/2024 – 11:44 2 min Amazon France Logistique monitored the work of employees in particular through data from scanners used by the staff to process packages, according to the agency, known by its initials CNIL.Scanners alerted management of inactivity exceeding 10 minutes or the handling of packages and parcels “right up to the second”, the CNIL said in a statement.One surveillance method targeted by CNIL was the…

Issued on: 22/01/2024 – 15:33 The 2024 edition of the CES consumer tech trade show in Las Vegas was a huge success, with over 4,000 exhibitors and 130,000 visitors. One trend stood out: AI and Generative AI are now everywhere: from cars, to personal assistants and even refrigerators, but also in small devices that could soon replace our smartphones as we know them. FRANCE 24’s Julia Sieger tells us more. Source link

Back to homepage / Shows / arts24 Issued on: 22/01/2024 – 16:14 12:02 arts24 © FRANCE 24 In this edition of our arts24 music show, Jennifer Ben Brahim chats with one half of French duo Papooz, Ulysse Cottin, as the pair drop their fourth studio album “Resonate”. It’s a record full of euphoric sounds and melancholic lyrics, for which they enlisted the help of American songwriter Jesse Harris and superstar producer Patrick Wimberly. Ulysse and Armand first met after a chance encounter waiting in line at a Patti Smith concert. Unsurprisingly then, their music is steeped full of classic sounds,…

Back to homepage / Shows / Africa Cup of Nations 2024 Issued on: 22/01/2024 – 00:09Modified: 22/01/2024 – 00:14 16:23 AFRICA CUP OF NATIONS © FRANCE 24 Africa Cup of Nations favourites Morocco are held to a 1-1 draw by a spirited DR Congo display. South Africa get their campaign back on track, hammering Namibia 4-0. Tanzania are denied a historic first AFCON victory by a late Zambia goal. To discuss all the football action, Leo McGuinn is joined by sports journalist Thando Sibiya and regional correspondent Justice Baidoo in Ivory Coast. © Studio graphique France Médias Monde Justice BAIDOO,…

The Taliban are restricting Afghan women’s access to work, travel and healthcare if they are unmarried or don’t have a male guardian, according to a U.N report published Monday. Issued on: 22/01/2024 – 16:46 2 min In one incident, officials from the Vice and Virtue Ministry advised a woman to get married if she wanted to keep her job at a health care facility, saying it was inappropriate for an unwed woman to work, it said.The Taliban have barred women from most areas of public life and stopped girls from going to school beyond the sixth grade as part of…