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Issued on: 02/04/2024 – 15:50Modified: 04/04/2024 – 14:20 07:37 Now that spring has sprung, so have our clocks! What are the long-term benefits and consequences of falling back and springing forward every six months? For a deeper perspective on Daylight saving, FRANCE 24’s William Hilderbrandt is joined by Laetitia Moreau-Gabarain, President & Engineer of the French Association for a Just and Sustainable Time (ACHED). Read more on related topics: Source link

Back to homepage / Shows / Science Issued on: 03/04/2024 – 16:30 04:22 SCIENCE © FRANCE 24 In this Science segment, we take a look at the alleged sabotage of undersea cables in the Red Sea by Yemen’s Houthi rebels, after an incident back in February. Washington says the cables were deliberately cut by the rebels to disrupt the global internet, but maritime experts believe it was an accident, and that the anchor of the sunken Rubymar cargo ship snagged the cables as it dragged along the seafloor. The Rubymar sank in early March after it was damaged by missiles…

French President Emmanuel Macron dismissed Thursday as “ridiculous” Russia’s defense minister’s remarks suggesting Ukraine and France could had a role in last month’s deadly Moscow concert hall attack. Issued on: 04/04/2024 – 13:57Modified: 04/04/2024 – 14:52 2 min Macron’s comments came a day after a rare phone call between the French and Russian defense ministers that led to diverging media statements afterward.A statement from the Russian Defense Ministry quoted Sergei Shoigu as telling his French counterpart in regard to the Moscow attack that “the Kyiv regime does nothing without approval of its Western handlers” and “we hope that the French…

Back to homepage / Shows / Perspective Issued on: 04/04/2024 – 14:28 08:42 PERSPECTIVE © FRANCE 24 A world-renowned political and social economist, who is in Paris to receive a new international award for his work, has told FRANCE 24 how economists have forgotten a vitally important fact. James K. Boyce says that what matters is “not simply the total size of the economic pie, but also how it’s distributed”. Boyce is now applying the problem of inequality to the environment and the economic issues surrounding it. He spoke to us in Perspective.  Read more on related topics: Source link

Among the victims of Monday’s air strike in Damascus against the Iranian consulate was Mohammad Reza Zahedi, a high-ranking member of the Revolutionary Guards, his deputy Mohammad Hadi Hajriahimi, and five other officers. While Iran has blamed Israel for the attack and vowed to retaliate, some analysts suspect that Iran remains unwilling to provoke a full-scale war. Iran has vowed to avenge the deaths of several high-ranking officers of the Quds Force, the elite unit of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), who were killed in an air strike that hit the Iranian consulate in the Syrian capital on Monday.Israel has not claimed responsibility for the attack, the…

Iran has turned its prisons into sites of mass killing with at least 853 people executed in the Islamic republic in 2023, over half of them on drug-related charges, Amnesty International said on Thursday. Issued on: 04/04/2024 – 13:24 2 min The London-based group said in a report that stronger international action was needed to halt the rise in executions, otherwise “thousands” risked being hanged in the coming years.The Iranian authorities have “persisted with their state-sanctioned killing spree which has turned prisons into killing fields”, Amnesty said.The figure for 2023 was up 48 percent on the previous year and 56…

Issued on: 04/04/2024 – 01:42Modified: 04/04/2024 – 09:39 02:14 Two Palestinian women told FRANCE 24 of detainees being beaten and sexually abused in Israeli prisons since the Hamas-led October 7 attacks. Rokaya Amr, who was held for 35 days without charge, said that prisoners were “stripped naked” and that prison staff “beat some of the girls” and “subjected others to sexual harassment”. Israel categorically denies the charges. Read more on related topics: Source link

Myanmar security services shot down seven drones over the military-built capital Naypyidaw on Thursday, the junta said, in what appeared to be a rare attack on the junta’s centre of power by its opponents. Issued on: 04/04/2024 – 11:49 2 min The military’s ouster of Aung San Suu Kyi’s government in 2021 sparked renewed fighting with ethnic minority armed groups, as well as with pro-democracy “People’s Defence Forces” (PDFs) in areas previously untouched by decades of conflict in Myanmar.Four drones approaching Naypyidaw airport and three drones approaching Zayarthiri township in the capital “were successfully shot down and destroyed”, the junta’s…

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…

The Cameroonian football federation on Wednesday criticised the “unilateral” decision by the country’s sports ministry to hire Belgian Marc Brys as the national team’s new coach. Issued on: 04/04/2024 – 08:28 1 min Brys, 61, takes over from Rigobert Song, whose contract was not renewed after Cameroon were knocked out in the last 16 of this year’s Africa Cup of Nations.”The Cameroonian football federation learned, at the same time as all Cameroonians, the appointment to positions of responsibility within the national men’s senior football team,” read a statement on Facebook.The federation, known as Fecafoot, expressed its “great surprise” at the…