Author: France 24

Issued on: 07/04/2024 – 10:29Modified: 07/04/2024 – 11:01 01:47 Tens of thousands of Israelis protested against Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Saturday after the Israeli military recovered the body of 47-year-old Elad Katzir who was held hostage in Gaza. The discovery renewed pressure on Israel’s government for a deal to get the remaining hostages freed, and thousands gathered in Tel Aviv to call for a deal as well as early elections. Read more on related topics: Source link

The top court in Arizona on Tuesday ruled a 160-year-old near total ban on abortion is enforceable, thrusting the issue to the top of the agenda in a key US presidential election swing state. Issued on: 09/04/2024 – 21:27 3 min The ruling — allowing for doctors to be jailed for up to five years — is the latest in a series of state-level measures on the deeply divisive issue of reproductive rights, which is expected to play an outsize role in this November’s contest between President Joe Biden and his Republican challenger Donald Trump.In a statement issued almost immediately…

Issued on: 07/04/2024 – 11:32Modified: 07/04/2024 – 12:12 03:09 The bloodiest ever war in Gaza that broke out exactly six months ago has taken an appalling human toll.More than 30,000 people have been killed in the besieged Palestinian territory in Israel’s campaign of retaliation for the Hamas attack of October 7, according to Gaza’s Hamas-run health ministry. Read more on related topics: Source link

 A South African court on Tuesday allowed former president Jacob Zuma to run in May’s general elections, overturning a decision by electoral authorities barring him over a previous conviction.  Issued on: 09/04/2024 – 17:15 2 min The electoral court ruled in favour of Zuma, 81, who is fronting uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK), a new opposition party that has become a dark horse in the election race.”The decision of the Electoral Commission… is set aside,” the  court wrote in its ruling seen by AFP. It did not provide an explanation of how the verdict was reached.  South Africa is to hold general…

Issued on: 07/04/2024 – 11:47Modified: 07/04/2024 – 12:14 03:37 © FRANCE 24 The Israel-Hamas war that has devastated the Gaza Strip entered its seventh month on Sunday, with talks towards a truce and hostage release deal expected to resume in Cairo. As the bloodiest ever Gaza war passed the half-year mark, Israel’s government has faced a growing international backlash against its military campaign, and mass street protests at home. While most Israelis continue to support Israel’s fight against Hamas, they want to prioritise the release of hostages held in Gaza, FRANCE 24’s Rob Parsons said, reporting from Jerusalem. Read more…

British physicist Peter Higgs, whose theory of a mass-giving particle – the so-called Higgs boson – jointly earned him the Nobel Prize for Physics, has died aged 94, the University of Edinburgh announced on Tuesday. Issued on: 09/04/2024 – 19:34 1 min “He passed away peacefully at home on Monday 8 April following a short illness,” the Scottish university, where he had been a professor for nearly five decades, said in a statement.It called him “a great teacher and mentor, inspiring generations of young scientists”.”His family has asked that the media and public respect their privacy at this time,” the university added.Higgs…

Issued on: 07/04/2024 – 14:34Modified: 07/04/2024 – 14:44 04:35 © FRANCE 24 As the war in Gaza enters its seventh month, “Israel needs to change its strategy” on negotiations regarding the release of hostages held in the Strip, former hostage negotiator Gershon Baskin told FRANCE 24. The Israeli army on Saturday said it recovered the body of a 47-year-old farmer believed to be killed in January by militants with Islamic Jihad, one of the groups that entered southern Israel in the Oct. 7 attack, killed more than 1,200 people and took about 250 hostages. Read more on related topics: Source…

Lawmaker Simon Harris was elected Ireland’s prime minister by a vote in parliament Tuesday, becoming at 37 the country’s youngest-ever leader. Issued on: 09/04/2024 – 17:45 2 min Harris takes over as head of Ireland’s three-party coalition government from Leo Varadkar, who announced his surprise resignation last month. Harris, who served as higher education minister in Varadkar’s government, was the only candidate to replace him as head of the center-right Fine Gael party.Lawmakers in the Dáil, the lower house of Ireland’s parliament, confirmed Harris as taoiseach, or prime minister, by a 88-69 vote.He was formally appointed to the post by…

Issued on: 09/04/2024 – 15:18 02:08 French charity sounds alarm about Seine ahead of Olympics (2024) © AFP / France 24 A French water charity sounded the alarm Monday about pollution in the Seine just over 100 days before the start of the Olympics when the river is set to be used for swimming events. Surfrider Foundation said it had analysed six months of tests over winter undertaken by a laboratory and concluded that the river water remained polluted and potentially dangerous. Read more on related topics: Source link

Issued on: 09/04/2024 – 15:55Modified: 09/04/2024 – 16:54 03:03 Stunned Palestinians found their home city unrecognisable Monday as they return to southern Gaza’s Khan Younis after months of fighting and bombardment, with houses destroyed and bodies still trapped under the rubble, leaving the “stench of death everywhere”, says France 24’s Rob Parsons. Read more on related topics: Source link