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Car production in Britain last year hit the highest level since 2019, or before the Covid pandemic, an industry body said Thursday as it warned of bumps in the road. Issued on: 25/01/2024 – 01:21Modified: 25/01/2024 – 01:25 1 min Output by the country’s mainly foreign-owned car producers, including Nissan and Jaguar Land Rover, reached just over 905,000 units in 2023, up nearly 17 percent from a year earlier, the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) said in a statement.”The easing of pandemic-related challenges, from chip shortages to lockdowns, and increasing electrified model production, combined to drive annual output,”…

The protests sweeping across France have cast a renewed focus on the plight of farmers, a shrinking and ageing category at the mercy of volatile prices and grappling with a bleak economic outlook. FRANCE 24 talks to an economist and a unionist about the key figures behind France’s farming crisis. French farmers expanded their roadblocks on Wednesday in protest at plunging food prices, soaring costs and crippling regulations they say are killing their livelihoods.The protests, part of a rising tide of anger among agricultural producers across the European Union, pose a major challenge to President Emmanuel Macron’s government, coming just months…

Issued on: 24/01/2024 – 17:27Modified: 24/01/2024 – 17:29 01:26 Overnight US strikes on Iraqi militant groups that are part of the country’s formal security forces showed “clear determination to harm security and stability in Iraq,” a spokesperson for Iraq’s Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani said on Wednesday. Read more on related topics: Source link

Saudi Arabia plans to allow alcohol sales to non-Muslim diplomats for the first time, two sources familiar with the plan told AFP on Wednesday, modifying strict rules governing liquor in the conservative country. Issued on: 24/01/2024 – 16:51 2 min Alcohol “will be sold to non-Muslim diplomats” who previously had to import alcohol via a diplomatic pouch, or sealed official package, one of the sources said.Prohibition has been the law of the land in Saudi Arabia since 1952, shortly after one of King Abdulaziz’s sons got drunk and, in a rage, shot dead a British diplomat.Rumours have swirled for years…

Issued on: 24/01/2024 – 15:34 FRANCE 24 film critic Lisa Nesselson gives us her take on both the Oscar nominations and France’s Lumière awards, for which she is the academy president. France has been reacting with both pride and astonishment to the success of Justine Triet’s courtroom drama “Anatomy of a Fall”, which got five Oscar nods despite not being submitted by France for Best International Film. We also look at “May December”, starring Julianne Moore and Natalie Portman. The film from director Todd Haynes is inspired by the real-life story of a teacher who had an affair with a…

Issued on: 24/01/2024 – 15:25Modified: 24/01/2024 – 16:08 04:41 Israeli forces battled Palestinian militants on Wednesday near the main hospital in Gaza’s second-largest city where medics said hundreds of patients and thousands of displaced people were trapped by the fighting. France 24’s Catherine Norris Trent has the latest. Read more on related topics: Source link

Oscar hopeful “Anatomy of a Fall” was narrowly bested by a beastly sci-fi thriller in the nominations race for France’s answer to the Academy Awards Wednesday. Issued on: 24/01/2024 – 15:31 1 min “The Animal Kingdom”, about a wave of mutations turning humans into hybrid creatures, picked up 12 Cesar nominations, including for best film.Justine Triet’s “Anatomy of a Fall”, — one of France’s biggest international arthouse hits of recent years—took one less.The thriller about a wife accused of murdering her husband won two Golden Globes this month and has clocked up five Oscar nominations including for best picture.It was…

Back to homepage / Shows / Truth or Fake Issued on: 23/01/2024 – 22:43 05:30 TRUTH OR FAKE © FRANCE 24 Overnight on January 16, Iran conducted ballistic missile attacks on what the regime claimed to be Israeli spy headquarters in Iraq. A key victim in this attack was Iraqi businessman Peshraw Dizayee, who Iran claims is associated with Israel’s Mossad. However, the “proof” used by Iranian media and propaganda to prove these ties is all fake. We tell you more in this edition of Truth or Fake. Read moreIraq recalls ambassador from Tehran after Iranian missiles strike Kurdish region…

More than 70 people were killed after a tunnel collapsed at a Malian gold mining site last week, a local gold mining group leader and a local official told AFP on Wednesday. Issued on: 24/01/2024 – 14:40Modified: 24/01/2024 – 14:42 1 min “It started with a noise. The earth started to shake. There were over 200 gold miners in the field. The search is over now. We’ve found 73 bodies,” Oumar Sidibe, an official for gold miners in the southwestern town of Kangaba, told AFP, of the incident on Friday.The same toll was confirmed by a local councillor.Mali’s ministry of…

Issued on: 24/01/2024 – 10:37Modified: 24/01/2024 – 10:48 01:40 Israeli forces battled Palestinian militants Wednesday in Gaza’s second-largest city of Khan Younis, including outside the city’s two main hospitals, as the UN raised concern for those seeking treatment with no way in or out. Read more on related topics: Source link