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LeBron James became the first NBA player to reach 40,000 career regular-season points on Saturday, the 39-year-old superstar scoring nine against defending champion Denver to achieve the milestone. Issued on: 03/03/2024 – 03:29Modified: 03/03/2024 – 05:13 3 min But the historic effort came in a losing cause as Nikola Jokic scored 35 points to rally the Nuggets late for a 124-114 victory over the Lakers, stretching their win streak to six games.”I’m glad we’re playing good,” Jokic said. “We’re doing the things we want to do. We don’t have too many breakdowns. I just like how we’re playing the game…

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…

Several hundred people rallied in the Senegalese capital Dakar on Saturday calling for the country’s postponed presidential elections to be held before April 2, the date when incumbent Macky Sall’s term is set to end.  Issued on: 02/03/2024 – 21:54 1 min The protesters gathered at a sandy lot in a working-class neighbourhood for the protest, called by the “Resistance Front”, an alliance of opposition parties and campaigning groups.Many brandished Senegalese flags and portraits of the opposition leader Ousmane Sonko, jailed since July for “incitement to insurrection” and barred from running in the presidential vote. Sonko has endorsed Bassirou Diomaye…

Issued on: 02/03/2024 – 18:16Modified: 02/03/2024 – 22:55 01:54 Palestinian journalist Rami Abou Jammous, who lives in the Gaza Strip, talks to FRANCE 24 about daily life in the Palestinian enclave. © France 24 Palestinian journalist Rami Abou Jammous, who lives in the Gaza Strip, has been reporting for FRANCE 24 on daily life in the Palestinian enclave since the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war. Today he takes us to a market in Rafah, where more than one and a half million people are crammed together amid the threat of an imminent Israeli ground invasion.  Read more on related topics: Source link

Donald Trump on Saturday easily won the Republican caucuses in Michigan, where the party has been riven by infighting that some Republicans fear could hurt his campaign in the key battleground state as he gears up for the election in November.  Issued on: 02/03/2024 – 22:27 3 min The former U.S. president also won the Missouri Republican caucus on Saturday, according to a projection by the Associated Press.In both states Trump trounced Nikki Haley, his last remaining rival for the Republican presidential nomination, moving him closer to becoming his party’s White House standard-bearer and a likely general election rematch with…

Tadej Pogacar stormed to a stunning win in Saturday’s Strade Bianche after blowing away the competition with a solo attack a full 81 kilometres from the finish line. Issued on: 02/03/2024 – 16:55 2 min UAE rider Pogacar claimed a statement victory in his first race of the 2024 season in which he will attempt a Giro d’Italia-Tour de France double for the first time.Pogacar finished just under three minutes ahead of the chasing pack, smashing the previous record winning margin of 42 seconds set by Fabian Cancellara in 2012 to win the race for the second time.The 25-year-old started…

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…

FRANCE 24 will get a complete makeover on Monday, March 4, bringing its 100 million weekly viewers more live reporting from across the globe and in-depth analysis of world events. Issued on: 02/03/2024 – 10:29 “More live coverage doesn’t mean speeding things up. On the contrary, it means taking the time to explain and analyse the news with our expert journalists, reporters, and correspondents,” said the channel’s director Vanessa Burggraf.FRANCE 24’s 550 journalists based in Paris and around the world provide 24-hour news coverage in four different languages: French, English, Arabic and Spanish. 📣 #FRANCE24 is getting a new look!🌍…

Back to homepage / Shows / Talking Europe Issued on: 01/03/2024 – 13:08 12:37 TALKING EUROPE © FRANCE 24 The spectre of a second Donald Trump presidency is stalking America. Depending on whom you believe, the world’s biggest superpower is either sleepwalking into dictatorship, or everyone just needs to chill out. Eight months before the US presidential election, there are many unknowns. But America is rife with dystopian warnings that Trump’s return would spell the last rites of American democracy. Europeans, meanwhile, are bracing for the impact of a President Trump “2.0”. Trump’s hints that he might pull the US…

Issued on: 01/03/2024 – 16:24 Alarmed by a recent series of maritime emergencies involving migrants trying to reach European shores, Europe’s top ethics watchdog is calling on the EU’s authorities to open a public investigation into thousands of deaths in the Mediterranean Sea. European Ombudsman Emily O’Reilly demanded an independent commission of inquiry as part of a newly released report into the tragic capsizing and sinking of the Adriana migrant ship off the coast of Greece last June. She spoke to FRANCE 24’s Douglas Herbert in Talking Europe. More than 600 people were killed in the Adriana tragedy – a humanitarian…