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Antoine Griezmann was on Monday ruled out of France’s friendlies against Germany and Chile with an ankle sprain ending his record run of playing 84 consecutive games for Les Bleus. Issued on: 18/03/2024 – 20:59 2 min The Atletico Madrid star will be absent from the French squad for the first time since November 2016 as France play their final friendlies before the Euro 2024 tournament from June 14-July 14.Griezmann has appeared on the pitch for France in every match since a friendly against England in June 2017, when the forward was an unused sub.Lazio’s Matteo Guendouzi has been called…

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 Bank of Japan ended eight years of negative interest rates and other remnants of its unorthodox policy on Tuesday, making a historic shift away from a focus of reflating growth with decades of massive monetary stimulus. Issued on: 19/03/2024 – 05:07 2 min While the move will be Japan’s first interest rate hike in 17 years, it still keeps rates stuck around zero as a fragile economic recovery forces the central bank to go slow in any further rise in borrowing costs, analysts say.The shift makes Japan the last central bank to exit negative rates and ends an era in which policymakers around the…

Issued on: 18/03/2024 – 17:32Modified: 18/03/2024 – 18:06 04:53 Gambian lawmakers on Monday debated a highly controversial bill seeking to lift the ban on female genital mutilation (FGM) in force since 2015, before suspending the vote for at least three months. FRANCE 24’s Annette Young explains the context and stakes of the vote for women’s rights across the world, particularly in Africa.  Read more on related topics: Source link

Issued on: 17/03/2024 – 16:54Modified: 17/03/2024 – 17:06 01:34 Airplanes flew other southern Gaza Sunday morning, leaving a trail of aid crates falling to the ground in their wake. Actively participating for the first time since the Israel-Hamas war broke out in the air drops taking off from Jordan, Germany said its air force on Saturday dropped pallets with four tons of relief goods by air into the Gaza Strip. Read more on related topics: Source link

Cubans staged rare street protests Sunday over food and electricity shortages as the country suffered long outages that left parts of the island without power for up to 14 hours a day. Issued on: 18/03/2024 – 07:57 2 min “People were shouting ‘food and electricity’,” a 65-year-old resident, who asked not to be named, told AFP by phone from the island’s second-largest city of Santiago de Cuba, 800 kilometers (500 miles) east of the capital Havana.Electricity was restored to the city later in the day and “two truckloads of rice” were delivered, the witness said.Social media platforms were filled with…

Back to homepage / Shows / arts24 Issued on: 18/03/2024 – 15:30 11:44 arts24 © FRANCE 24 On this week’s music show, Jennifer Ben Brahim welcomes back Thomas and Mustapha from the French five-piece Bagarre. They are not just a band, a crew or a collective. What unifies them is a love of music. The members go by the nicknames Emmaï Dee, La Bête, Majnoun, Maître Clap and Mus. They’re back after a four-year hiatus with the album “Le Club C’est Vous”, or “The Club is You”. It’s a celebration of club culture; of making a safe space for those…

Issued on: 17/03/2024 – 18:35Modified: 17/03/2024 – 18:53 01:39 © FRANCE 24 German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Sunday called for a deal to free hostages held in war-ravaged Gaza accompanied by a “longer-lasting ceasefire” during a joint press appearance in Jerusalem with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. “Those are messages that Binyamin Netanyahu doesn’t want to hear”, FRANCE 24’s Catherine Norris Trent said. Read more on related topics: Source link

Back to homepage / Shows / Focus Issued on: 18/03/2024 – 10:18Modified: 18/03/2024 – 10:20 05:32 FOCUS © FRANCE 24 Thailand is one of the biggest plastic polluters in the world: Some 2 million tonnes of plastic waste are produced each year in the country, and only 25 percent of it is recycled. It’s estimated that at least 50,000 tonnes of plastic end up in the ocean annually. But Thailand’s underdeveloped recycling industry is just one of the problems. Thailand also imports plastic waste, with 372,000 tonnes imported in 2023 alone. Overwhelmed by the problem, the Thai government has announced measures to…

The European Union announced a €7.4 billion funding package and an upgraded relationship with Egypt on Sunday, part of a push to stem migrant flows to Europe criticised by rights groups. Issued on: 17/03/2024 – 20:07 3 min The agreement lifts the EU’s relationship with Egypt to a “strategic partnership” and was unveiled as a delegation of leaders visited Cairo. It is designed to boost cooperation in areas including renewable energy, trade and security, while delivering grants, loans and other funding over the next three years to support Egypt’s faltering economy.The proposed funding includes €5 billion in concessional loans and …