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Tadej Pogacar stormed to a stunning win in Saturday’s Strade Bianche after blowing away the competition with a solo attack a full 81 kilometres from the finish line. Issued on: 02/03/2024 – 16:55 2 min UAE rider Pogacar claimed a statement victory in his first race of the 2024 season in which he will attempt a Giro d’Italia-Tour de France double for the first time.Pogacar finished just under three minutes ahead of the chasing pack, smashing the previous record winning margin of 42 seconds set by Fabian Cancellara in 2012 to win the race for the second time.The 25-year-old started…

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…

FRANCE 24 will get a complete makeover on Monday, March 4, bringing its 100 million weekly viewers more live reporting from across the globe and in-depth analysis of world events. Issued on: 02/03/2024 – 10:29 “More live coverage doesn’t mean speeding things up. On the contrary, it means taking the time to explain and analyse the news with our expert journalists, reporters, and correspondents,” said the channel’s director Vanessa Burggraf.FRANCE 24’s 550 journalists based in Paris and around the world provide 24-hour news coverage in four different languages: French, English, Arabic and Spanish. 📣 #FRANCE24 is getting a new look!🌍…

Back to homepage / Shows / Talking Europe Issued on: 01/03/2024 – 13:08 12:37 TALKING EUROPE © FRANCE 24 The spectre of a second Donald Trump presidency is stalking America. Depending on whom you believe, the world’s biggest superpower is either sleepwalking into dictatorship, or everyone just needs to chill out. Eight months before the US presidential election, there are many unknowns. But America is rife with dystopian warnings that Trump’s return would spell the last rites of American democracy. Europeans, meanwhile, are bracing for the impact of a President Trump “2.0”. Trump’s hints that he might pull the US…

Issued on: 01/03/2024 – 16:24 Alarmed by a recent series of maritime emergencies involving migrants trying to reach European shores, Europe’s top ethics watchdog is calling on the EU’s authorities to open a public investigation into thousands of deaths in the Mediterranean Sea. European Ombudsman Emily O’Reilly demanded an independent commission of inquiry as part of a newly released report into the tragic capsizing and sinking of the Adriana migrant ship off the coast of Greece last June. She spoke to FRANCE 24’s Douglas Herbert in Talking Europe. More than 600 people were killed in the Adriana tragedy – a humanitarian…

At least 112 Palestinians were killed and more than 750 others were injured on Thursday after Israeli troops opened fire on civilians gathered at a convoy of food trucks southwest of Gaza City, Palestinian health officials said. Israel denied it was to blame, saying that many victims were run over by aid trucks in a rush to obtain food. The massacre comes as the UN warns of an “almost inevitable famine” in the besieged Palestinian enclave amid increasing reports of children dying of starvation. At dawn on Thursday morning in Gaza City, photographer Mohammed Hajjar got word that trucks carrying food…

The US Supreme Court on Wednesday agreed to decide Donald Trump’s claim of immunity from prosecution on charges brought by a special counsel involving his efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss, further delaying Trump’s criminal case as he seeks to regain the presidency. Issued on: 29/02/2024 – 00:13Modified: 29/02/2024 – 00:19 4 min The justices put on hold the criminal case being pursued by Special Counsel Jack Smith and will review a lower court’s rejection of Trump’s claim of immunity from prosecution because he was president when he took actions aimed at reversing President Joe Biden’s election victory over…

Pro-Russian rebel officials in Moldova’s breakaway region of Transnistria on Wednesday appealed to Russia for “protection”, amid fears the territory could become a new flashpoint in Moscow’s conflict with neighbouring Ukraine. Issued on: 29/02/2024 – 05:50Modified: 29/02/2024 – 08:36 3 min Russia said it was a priority to protect the sliver of land, which has been de facto controlled by pro-Russian forces since the collapse of the Soviet Union but is internationally recognised as part of Moldova.Moldova’s government rejected “propaganda statements” from pro-Russian separatists, adding that the region “benefits from the policies of peace, security and economic integration with the…

The organisers of the Paris Olympics took possession of the newly built athletes’ village on Thursday on schedule, reinforcing growing confidence that they will be ready for the Games. Issued on: 29/02/2024 – 11:41Modified: 29/02/2024 – 18:04 3 min At an inauguration ceremony in northern Paris, chief organiser Tony Estanguet received a symbolic key for the complex in front of VIPs including President Emmanuel Macron. The roughly 40 low-rise tower blocks will house around 14,000 people over the course of the Olympics, which kick off on July 26, and another 9,000 during the Paralympics afterwards.The handover target of March 1 for…

Kenya and Haiti signed a “reciprocal” agreement on Friday to deploy police from the East African country to lead a UN-backed law and order mission to the gang-plagued Caribbean nation, Kenyan President William Ruto said. Issued on: 01/03/2024 – 15:25 3 min Ruto said he and Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry had “discussed the next steps to enable the fast-tracking of the deployment”, but it was not immediately clear whether the agreement would counter a court ruling in January that branded the deployment “illegal”.Haiti’s government has pleaded for international help to confront violence that has cost thousands of lives, as…