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Issued on: 31/01/2024 – 10:45 As farmers across Europe continue their protests against rising costs and cheap food imports, we look at one trade deal that’s causing particular concern. The planned agreement between the European Union and the Mercosur trade bloc in South America could lead to billions in savings on export tariffs, but would also open up the EU market to goods that protesting farmers say don’t meet strict EU standards. Also in this edition, we look at Italy’s plan to bring in foreign workers to help fill labour shortages. Source link

Back to homepage / Shows / arts24 Issued on: 30/01/2024 – 16:28 10:16 arts24 © FRANCE 24 After showing his work internationally, including in London, Lagos, Cape Town and New York, Nigerian-born artist Chibuike Uzoma is in Paris for his first solo exhibition at the Mitterrand Gallery. Entitled “Twelve Tickets”, his exhibition engages issues such as contemporary politics, post-colonialism, migration, popular culture and themes related to religious and ethnic conflicts. He spoke to Eve Jackson. Read more on related topics: Source link

Issued on: 30/01/2024 – 16:11 The WHO is sounding the alarm. The UN health agency is warning of a massive resurgence of measles cases in the Europe region, extending to Central Asia. Elsewhere too, the numbers of cases are skyrocketing. The primary cause is a decline in vaccination rates since the Covid-19 pandemic. FRANCE 24’s Julia Sieger tells us more. Source link

Issued on: 30/01/2024 – 20:23Modified: 30/01/2024 – 20:49 02:13 UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres prepared to meet donors to UNRWA on Tuesday after several countries including the US, UK, Germany and Japan, suspended funding to the Palestinian aid agency. “It is a lifeline for civilians in Gaza,” says France 24 correspondent Jessica Le Masurier. “And it employs 13,000 people in the Palestinian enclave.”  Read more on related topics: Source link

Almost one in three mineral water brands in France undergoes purification treatment supposed to be used only on tap water, media reported on Tuesday, citing a government probe. Issued on: 30/01/2024 – 21:36 1 min The revelations from daily Le Monde and broadcaster Radio France follow Nestlé’s admission that it treated water for its major brands, including Perrier and Vittel, with ultraviolet light and active carbon filters.A July 2022 report by the IGAS authority found that “close to 30 percent of brands undergo treatment not in line” with French regulation on mineral water, the outlets wrote.The report “was clear that…

Back to homepage / Shows / Africa Cup of Nations 2024 Issued on: 30/01/2024 – 00:51 16:30 AFRICA CUP OF NATIONS © FRANCE 24 Hosts Ivory Coast have reached the quarter-finals of the Africa Cup of Nations after knocking out defending champions Senegal on penalties. The Lions of Teranga opened the score with Habib Diallo thrashing in the top corner. Franck Kessie equalised for the Elephants from the spot late in the second half. With nothing to break the deadlock, Moussa Niakhaté missed the crucial kick as Kessie scored to send Ivory Coast through.  Earlier in the day, Cape Verde secured their spot…

Issued on: 30/01/2024 – 10:37Modified: 30/01/2024 – 10:56 01:55 The US military on Monday released the names of the three Army Reserve soldiers killed in Sunday’s drone attack by Iran-backed militants in Jordan, with the youngest victim just 23 years ol Read more on related topics: Source link

A Pakistani court on Tuesday sentenced former Prime Minister Imran Khan and one of his party deputies to 10 years in prison each, after finding them guilty of revealing official secrets. Issued on: 30/01/2024 – 09:11 1 min According to Zulfiqar Bukhari, spokesman for Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party, the court announced the verdict at a prison in the garrison city of Rawalpindi.Khan, who was ousted through a no-confidence vote in Parliament in April 2022, is currently serving a three-year prison sentence in a graft case.The latest development comes ahead of the Feb. 8 parliamentary elections in Pakistan – a vote…

Hosts Ivory Coast stunned Senegal at the Africa Cup of Nations on Monday, knocking out the reigning champions on penalties in the last 16 to keep their hopes of winning the title on home soil alive. Issued on: 30/01/2024 – 01:15Modified: 30/01/2024 – 03:52 3 min A week ago it looked as if the Ivorians were set for a humiliating group-stage exit from their own AFCON, but now they are into the quarter-finals after beating Senegal 5-4 on penalties following a tie that finished 1-1 at the end of extra time.The Elephants scraped into the knockout phase with the worst…

Issued on: 29/01/2024 – 20:29 What is Washington to do about Mideast mission creep? What response from the United States after the weekend attack in Jordan that’s killed three of its troops? It has already hit back at Iran-backed militias in Iraq and Syria but to what effect? And with air strikes so far failing to deter Houthis from targeting commercial shipping in the Red Sea, how to stop Iran from testing the West’s resolve?We will ask how much Tehran’s had a hand in Hamas’ October 7th attack and its aftermath, and what went down in Paris this past weekend as Israel…