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Issued on: 27/01/2024 – 19:15Modified: 27/01/2024 – 21:09 02:33 FRANCE 24 Correspondent’s in Jerusalem, Irris Makler, on January 27 2024. © FRANCE 24 FRANCE 24’s correspondent in Jerusalem Irris Mackler said, “UNRWA is an interesting organisation — it’s funded independently, it has been running since 1950, and it functions in many ways as a second government in the Palestinian territories”. Read more on related topics: Source link

A group of survivors of Nazi death camps marked the 79th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp during World War II in a modest ceremony Saturday in southern Poland. Issued on: 27/01/2024 – 17:40 4 min About 20 survivors from various camps set up by Nazi Germany around Europe laid wreaths and flowers and lit candles at the Death Wall in Auschwitz.Later, the group will hold prayers at the monument in Birkenau. They were memorializing around 1.1 million camp victims, mostly Jews. The memorial site and museum are located near the city of Oswiecim. Nearly 6 million European Jews…

Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp announced in a shock decision on Friday that he will leave the club at the end of the season because he was “running out of energy”. Issued on: 26/01/2024 – 12:37Modified: 26/01/2024 – 12:35 3 min Klopp, who has returned Liverpool to one of European football’s powerhouses since taking over at Anfield in 2015, said the decision to leave was one “I have to take”.The German led Liverpool to their first league title for 30 years in 2020 and to Champions League glory in 2019.Liverpool are five points clear at the top of the Premier League…

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…

Gunmen in Iran’s southeast near the Pakistan border killed nine foreign nationals Saturday, Iranian media reported, more than a week after the neighbours exchanged deadly cross-border fire. Issued on: 27/01/2024 – 13:49 1 min “According to witnesses, this morning unknown armed men killed nine non-Iranians in a house in the Sirkan neighbourhood of Saravan city” in Sistan-Baluchistan province, the Mehr news agency reported.So far, no group or individuals had claimed responsibility, the agency added.The deadly attack follows rare military action in the porous border region of Baluchistan — split between the two nations — that had stoked regional tensions already…

Back to homepage / Shows / Focus Issued on: 26/01/2024 – 15:10 09:57 FOCUS © FRANCE 24 With just six months to go until the Paris Olympics, there’s increasing scrutiny of the value France places on physical education. Athletes like track and field star Stéphane Diagana have criticised the government for not “taking sport more seriously” in schools, while unions want more investment in infrastructure. President Emmanuel Macron has made a series of announcements aimed at making France a great sporting nation and helping young people be more active. Some have welcomed the initiatives, but others say they fall short.…

Issued on: 26/01/2024 – 21:10Modified: 26/01/2024 – 21:32 01:30 The UN agency for Palestinian refugees fired a number of its staffers in Gaza suspected of taking part in the October 7 attack by Hamas and other militants on southern Israel, its director said Friday. The move prompted the United States, the agency’s biggest donor, to temporarily halt its funding. By doing so, “the US threatens to jeopardise humanitarian aid coming into Gaza Strip,” says FRANCE 24 correspondent Fraser Jackson, reporting from Washington DC.  Read more on related topics: Source link

Donald Trump was ordered by a federal jury on Friday to pay $83.3 million in damages to E. Jean Carroll, who accused the former US president of destroying her reputation as a trustworthy journalist by denying he raped her nearly three decades ago. Issued on: 26/01/2024 – 22:45Modified: 26/01/2024 – 23:01 3 min The seven-man, two-woman jury needed less than three hours to reach the verdict. The payout far exceeded the minimum $10 million that Carroll had been seeking.The jury awarded her $18.3 million in compensatory damages and $65 million in punitive damages.Carroll, 80, sued Trump in November 2019 over…

Issued on: 26/01/2024 – 12:41 A judge in Brazil has ordered mining giants BHP and Vale, plus their joint iron ore venture project Samarco, to pay the equivalent of €8.9 billion in compensation over the collapse of a dam in 2015. The disaster killed 19 people and severely polluted the Rio Doce river. The ruling comes on the five-year anniversary of the collapse of another Vale-owned dam in the same Brazilian state, which killed 270 people. We take a closer look. Source link

Back to homepage / Shows / arts24 Issued on: 26/01/2024 – 16:56 12:22 arts24 © FRANCE 24 Since 1974, the international comics festival in the French town of Angoulême has welcomed the best of the world’s illustrators. This year the top prize was awarded to Britain’s Posy Simmonds, making her just the fifth woman in the festival’s history to receive the honour. She spoke to Alison Sargent about her work, her connection to Paris and her joy at being one of the first women to “infiltrate” the predominantly male world of comics. We also look at a new graphic novel…