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Pakistan’s 2024 general elections were dubbed the “most rigged” in the country’s history, with the popular Imran Khan barred from running and the military seen as backing former prime minister Nawaz Sharif. That was before results showed Khan-backed independent candidates leading the race. The stage appears to be set for a turbulent period after an irate electorate reacted to the military’s perceived meddling in politics – again. Voters in the 2024 Pakistani general elections manoeuvred sheaves of ballot papers offering a profusion of symbols including tables, chairs, apples, airplanes, calculators and kitchen appliances. But there was no cricket bat on the ballot. With…

Issued on: 09/02/2024 – 19:43Modified: 09/02/2024 – 20:48 01:43 Catherine Norris Trent, February 9, 2024. © France 24 “The US has been trying to urge Netanyahu to exercise caution”, said Catherine Norris Trent, FRANCE 24’s correspondent in Jerusalem, Israel. “They are extremely worried about any ground offensive by the Israeli armed forces into Rafah, that border city into which well over a million Palestinians have fled and are now trying to eke out an existance there”, she added.  Read more on related topics: Source link

French film director Jacques Doillon, swept up in a storm of #MeToo allegations by several actors including Judith Godreche, denounced on Friday the “lies” and “false accusations” against him.  Issued on: 09/02/2024 – 21:45Modified: 09/02/2024 – 21:47 1 min In a statement sent to AFP, he said he was at the disposal of the courts.”That Judith Godreche and other women through her have the heart to denounce a system, an era, a society, is courageous, commendable and necessary,” said the director.”But the justness of the cause does not authorise arbitrary denunciations, false accusations and lies.”Godreche, 51, claimed Doillon, 79, took…

Senegalese security forces on Friday used tear gas to disperse people attempting to gather in the capital after being urged to mobilise against a last-minute delay of presidential elections. Issued on: 09/02/2024 – 19:16 3 min Anti-riot police kept back groups of people trying to get to the large Place de la Nation in central Dakar, where a rally had been planned.Some demonstrators responded by throwing stones and all access points to the square were closed off, AFP journalists saw.”The situation is deplorable. We came to pray and we got gassed. It’s intolerable,” Thierno Alassane Sall, one of the 20…

Back to homepage / Shows / The 51% Issued on: 09/02/2024 – 17:10 13:35 THE 51 PERCENT © FRANCE 24 As the war continues in Gaza, pregnant Palestinian women are facing dire conditions as they give birth due to damaged hospital facilities along with restricted access to medicines. Also Annette Young talks to journalist, Josie Cox, who has written a book entitled “Women, Money and Power” focusing on the battle for financial equality. Plus renowned cartoonist, Posy Simmonds, becomes the first British illustrator to win the Grand Prix at the Angouleme comics festival in France. Read more on related topics:…

Turkey’s pro-Kurdish party on Friday selected two low-profile candidates to run for mayor of Istanbul after the wife of the repressed community’s jailed elder statesman dropped out of the March 31 vote. Issued on: 09/02/2024 – 17:40 2 min Analysts believe the DEM Party’s decision not to field a more prominent name might peel fewer votes away from the current opposition mayor and hurt President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s chances of winning back control of Turkey’s biggest city.Erdogan’s Islamic-rooted AKP party enters the nationwide municipal polls buoyed by a strong showing in last year’s general election.The veteran leader secured victory to…

Issued on: 09/02/2024 – 16:00 After a week in the wild, the consensus is in: Apple’s new “spacial computing” headset, the Vision Pro, is impressive, expensive, and ludicrous to wear in public. The Vision Pro is another first-generation product from the company behind the Mac, iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch, so the industry is watching to see whether Apple will do it again, and transform augmented reality into a technology desired by the masses.The headset has been out for one week in the United States, and there has been no shortage of viral videos – staged or not – documenting…

Back to homepage / Shows / arts24 Issued on: 09/02/2024 – 15:39 13:26 ARTS24 © FRANCE 24 She is one of the most celebrated American authors of our time: Barbara Kingsolver speaks to “arts24” about her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel “Demon Copperhead”, which has just been published in French. The book is a reimagining of Charles Dickens’ “David Copperfield” set in modern-day Appalachia, one of the poorest regions in the United States and ground zero of the opioid epidemic. Kingsolver, who is from Appalachia herself, says she wanted to represent her region and her people, who for so long have been…

Issued on: 02/02/2024 – 17:33 After an extraordinary summit on Ukraine, the EU has voted unanimously for a €50 billion support package for Ukraine over the next four years. “It was a great result. If we look to the expectations, we were not even sure to reach [it] because of the possible veto from Hungary,” the European Commissioner for Economy told FRANCE 24. Paolo Gentiloni added: “It is also a strong message for our partners in the US, because they are also discussing how to continue their support to Ukraine and the fact that the EU took this decision will…

Former French justice minister Robert Badinter, who has died aged 95, saved many lives by dedicating his own to the fight against capital punishment, playing a pivotal role in banning the dreaded guillotine in 1981. Issued on: 09/02/2024 – 11:46Modified: 09/02/2024 – 12:32 3 min The soft-spoken attorney, who said he could not abide by a “killer justice system”, was widely vilified for pushing through legislation banning the death penalty at a time when most French people still supported the practice.He said later he had “never felt so lonely” in fighting capital punishment, which in France was carried out by…