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Issued on: 27/02/2024 – 10:39Modified: 27/02/2024 – 11:31 02:15 An Israeli flag hangs from a home in the northern Israeli kibbutz of Amir. © FRANCE 24 After months of delays, municipal elections are finally taking place across many parts of Israel on Tuesday. But in communities close to the Gaza Strip and the Lebanese border, the vote has been delayed for a third time, in a sign of the tension and upheaval many are still going through since the war with Hamas broke out on October 7. In northern Israel, where clashes have intensified over the past few months, many…

Back to homepage / Middle East Hamas has received a draft proposal from Gaza truce talks in Paris for a pause in military operations and the exchange of Palestinian prisoners for Israeli hostages, a senior source close to the talks said on Tuesday.  Issued on: 27/02/2024 – 11:23Modified: 27/02/2024 – 11:39 2 min File photo: Demonstrators in support of Palestine and Gaza participate in an evening protest along Steinway Street on October 18, 2023 in the Queens borough of New York City. © Spencer Platt, Getty Images via AFP U.S. President Joe Biden said Israel has agreed to halt military…

Back to homepage / Shows / Business Daily Issued on: 27/02/2024 – 11:23 07:03 BUSINESS DAILY © FRANCE 24 As Cuba’s week-long Habano festival kicks off, partly state-owned cigar manufacturer Habanos SA announced a 31 percent boost in revenue over the course of 2023. The record turnover is due to high demand for luxury products globally in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. Also in this edition, we take a look at the European Union’s plans to make its defense industry more self-reliant, as well as fresh data highlighting the gender pay gap in the Australian private sector. Read more…

Issued on: 25/02/2024 – 11:28Modified: 27/02/2024 – 09:15 01:47 Anti-government protesters were also out in Tel Aviv, blocking streets and calling for Netanyahu’s government to step down as authorities deployed water cannons and mounted officers in a bid to disperse them. Read more on related topics: Source link

The US state of Michigan votes Tuesday in a presidential primary that is expected to be another ticker-tape parade for Republican Donald Trump — but could deliver Democratic leader Joe Biden a bloody nose over the war in Gaza. Issued on: 27/02/2024 – 03:14 3 min Biden faces no serious opposition to being nominated to run for a second term in the White House.But as the civilian death toll mounts in the conflict between Israel and Hamas, he has seen support erode among Muslims and Arab Americans, a bloc crucial to his narrow 2020 victory over Trump in Michigan.Activists in…

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…

Senegal’s President Macky Sall has proposed a general amnesty bill for political protesters arrested since 2021, as he holds talks to end fresh turmoil over delayed elections. Issued on: 27/02/2024 – 05:38 3 min The West African nation is facing its worst political crisis in decades after Sall abruptly deferred the February 25 presidential vote just hours before campaigning was due to begin.The Constitutional Council overturned the delay and Sall, whose second term is scheduled to end on April 2, launched two days of talks to set a new poll date.He announced the amnesty bill at the start of what…

President Joe Biden and Donald Trump will both visit the US-Mexico border on Thursday in a high-profile clash of schedules as they vie to win over voters on immigration — one of the hottest issues in the 2024 election. Issued on: 27/02/2024 – 01:12 3 min With record numbers of migrants crossing into the United States, Biden has sought to defuse a major threat to his reelection campaign by blaming Congress for failing to back his reforms.For Trump, a hard anti-immigration stance has been central to his political identity for years, and he has repeatedly vowed to crack down on…

Issued on: 26/02/2024 – 22:19Modified: 26/02/2024 – 22:33 01:25 Andrew Hilliar © France 24 The Israeli military on Monday struck targets “deep inside Lebanon”. The strikes fit a pattern “of a slow and steady escalation along Israel’s northern border with Lebanon”, said FRANCE24 correspondent in Jerusalem Andrew Hilliar. There has also been a steady increase in military and civilian deaths on both sides, added Hilliar.  Read more on related topics: Source link

Hungary’s parliament voted Monday to ratify Sweden’s bid to join NATO, bringing an end to more than 18 months of delays that have frustrated the alliance as it seeks to expand in response to Russia’s war in Ukraine. Issued on: 26/02/2024 – 16:53 3 min The vote, which passed with 188 votes for and six against, came as a culmination of months of wrangling by Hungary’s allies to convince its nationalist government to lift its block on Sweden’s membership. The government of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán submitted the protocols for approving Sweden’s entry into NATO in July 2022, but the…