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French President Emmanuel Macron’s Ukraine strategy will be put to a symbolic vote in parliament’s lower house on Tuesday as political tensions rage in the run-up to June’s European Parliament elections. Issued on: 12/03/2024 – 11:01 2 min Following a debate, the National Assembly lower house will hold a non-binding vote on the government’s Ukraine strategy including a bilateral security agreement signed by Macron and Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky last month.While the vote will be symbolic, it will give political parties an opportunity to publicly express their positions in relation to Macron’s strategy on the conflict as Russia’s invasion of…

Back to homepage / Shows / Business Issued on: 12/03/2024 – 11:01 05:20 BUSINESS DAILY © FRANCE 24 Brussels is working on a plan to send Ukraine the interest and profits generated from seized Russian assets according to the Financial Times. US lawmakers move towards a possible ban on TikTok, and Boeing fails 33 out of 89 tests in an FAA audit of its 737 Max production program. Read more on related topics: Source link

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has been selected to seek a third, successive term in July 28 elections, a senior ruling party official said Monday.  Issued on: 12/03/2024 – 02:57 2 min A vote by the PSUV party concluded that Maduro would be its presidential candidate, said Diosdado Cabello, considered the number 2 in the ruling movement which was founded by the late Hugo Chavez and has been in power for 25 years.Maduro, 61, has not made any announcement himself, but has been widely expected to seek reelection in a vote from which his main opposition challenger has been barred from running.”We will continue to…

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…

Airline watchdogs were on Tuesday investigating why a Boeing-made LATAM plane bound for New Zealand suddenly lost altitude mid-flight, dropping violently and injuring dozens of terrified travellers. Issued on: 12/03/2024 – 04:57 3 min Passengers said the Boeing 787 Dreamliner plunged earthward while en route from Sydney to Auckland on Monday evening, slinging unrestrained travellers out of their seats and smashing some into the roof of the cabin.Chile-based LATAM Airlines said Tuesday it was working with authorities to pinpoint the unspecified “technical event” that caused flight LA800 to experience “a strong movement”.It is the latest in a string of safety…

Donald Trump on Monday pledged to free people jailed for taking part in the 2021 attack on the US Capitol as one of his first actions if reelected, calling them “hostages.” Issued on: 12/03/2024 – 05:08 1 min The rioters — egged on by the then-president and fueled by his false claims of voter fraud — stormed the seat of US democracy on January 6, 2021, in a bid to halt the transfer of power to Joe Biden.Around 1,358 defendants have been charged in the 38 months since then, according to the latest figures from the Justice Department released last…

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Monday announced an additional $100 million to finance the deployment of a multinational force to Haiti following a meeting with Caribbean leaders in Jamaica to halt the country’s violent crisis. Issued on: 12/03/2024 – 03:15 4 min Blinken also announced another $33 million in humanitarian aid and the creation of a joint proposal agreed on by Caribbean leaders and “all of the Haitian stakeholders to expedite a political transition” and create a “presidential college.”He said the college would take “concrete steps” he did not identify to meet the needs of Haitian people and enable…

Portugal’s main centre-right party narrowly defeated the incumbent Socialists but fell well short of a majority in a general election that saw far-right Chega surge to become a potential kingmaker. Issued on: 10/03/2024 – 23:43 3 min The result marks another advance for the populist far right in Europe, where they already govern — often in coalition — in countries such as Italy, Hungary and Slovakia, or are steadily gaining, as in France and Germany.Near-complete official results showed early Monday that the centre-right Democratic Alliance (AD) captured 29.49 percent of the vote in Sunday’s poll, just ahead of the Socialists,…

Europe could suffer “catastrophic” consequences from climate change if it fails to take urgent and decisive action to adapt to risks, a new EU analysis warned Monday. Issued on: 11/03/2024 – 00:31 2 min Areas in southern Europe are most at risk, the European Environment Agency (EEA) said in its first report on the climate risks the continent faces.The dangers include fires, water shortages and their effects on agricultural production, while low-lying coastal regions face threats of flooding, erosion and saltwater intrusion.”Many of these risks have already reached critical levels and could become catastrophic without urgent and decisive action,” the…

“Oppenheimer,” a solemn three-hour biopic that became an unlikely billion-dollar box-office sensation, was crowned best picture at a 96th Academy Awards that doubled as a coronation for Christopher Nolan. After passing over arguably Hollywood’s foremost big-screen auteur for years, the Oscars made up for lost time by heaping seven awards on Nolan’s blockbuster biopic, including best actor for Cillian Murphy, best supporting actor for Robert Downey Jr. and best director for Nolan.In anointing “Oppenheimer,” the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences did something it hasn’t done for more than a decade: hand its top prize to a widely seen,…