Author: France 24

Issued on: 28/02/2024 – 15:38 Broken childhoods is the summary of this week’s film show: those of young film stars, at the heart of French actress Judith Godrèche’s speech at France’s César awards ceremony; and that of the young heroine in the film “When it Melts”, which is out in France this week. It’s the directorial debut of Belgian actress Veerle Baetens, who joins Eve Jackson and Lisa Nesselson in the studio. (In France, the film is banned for under-12s and comes with a warning). Join them for a roundup of the week’s French film news. Source link

Issued on: 28/02/2024 – 17:23Modified: 28/02/2024 – 17:37 02:54 The families of hostages held in Gaza and their supporters are launching a four-day march from southern Israel to Jerusalem to demand their loved ones be set free. The march comes as negotiations are underway in Qatar to bring about a deal between Hamas and Israel that would lead to a ceasefire in exchange for the release of hostages. But there are “major sticking points” hindering a mutual agreement, says FRANCE 24 correspondent Andrew Hilliar.  Read more on related topics: Source link

Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny’s funeral service and burial will take place in Moscow on Friday, his spokesperson said, but his allies accused the Kremlin of thwarting their attempts to organise a bigger event a day earlier.  Issued on: 28/02/2024 – 11:21Modified: 28/02/2024 – 13:32 3 min Kira Yarmysh, his spokesperson, posted on X that a service for Navalny would be held on Friday at 2 p.m. (1100 GMT) in the Church of the Icon of the Mother of God in the Moscow district of Maryino where Navalny used to live.Navalny would then be buried at the Borisovskoye cemetery, which…

Issued on: 28/02/2024 – 14:41 08:14 A French government plan to enshrine the “freedom” to have an abortion in the constitution is to be tested Wednesday in a crucial vote in the right-dominated Senate. President Emmanuel Macron last year pledged to inscribe the right to terminate a pregnancy — which has been legal in France since 1974 — in the constitution after the US Supreme Court in 2022 overturned the half-century-old right to the procedure, allowing states to ban or curtail abortion. France’s lower-house National Assembly overwhelmingly voted in favour of making abortion a “guaranteed freedom” in late January, with…

France’s Senate is to vote on Wednesday on a bill meant to enshrine a woman’s right to an abortion in the constitution, a measure promised by President Emmanuel Macron following a rollback on rulings in the United States.  Issued on: 28/02/2024 – 11:59 1 min Wednesday’s vote comes after the lower house, the National Assembly, overwhelmingly approved the proposal in January. A majority of senators appear to be in favor of the constitutional change, but some conservatives have criticized its wording, casting doubt over the outcome of the vote.Macron’s government wants Article 34 of the constitution amended to specify that “the…

Issued on: 28/02/2024 – 10:44 Media reports on Tuesday said that tech giant Apple was pulling the plug on its “special projects group”, which was developing the brand’s own electric vehicle. In today’s Business Daily, we look at what we know about the secretive project launched by Tim Cook a decade ago, why it didn’t succeed and where Apple will focus its efforts now. Source link

Issued on: 28/02/2024 – 10:28Modified: 28/02/2024 – 11:05 01:51 Egypt, Jordan, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar and France conducted an airdrop of food, medical supplies and other aid into Gaza on Tuesday amid warnings by aid agencies that the humanitarian situation on the ground is growing increasingly desperate. The UN says that just a trickle of the aid delivered by truck across the Rafah border crossing with Egypt is getting through, with inspections by the Israeli military holding up deliveries. Read more on related topics: Source link

An attack on the office of Chad’s ANSE internal security agency in the capital N’Djamena has killed several people, the government said Wednesday. Issued on: 28/02/2024 – 09:32 1 min Blaming the overnight assault on activists from the opposition Socialist Party Without Borders (PSF), headed by Yaya Dillo, the government said that “the situation is now completely under control” and “the perpetrators of this act have been arrested or are being sought and will be prosecuted”.The attack came after a party member was arrested and accused of an “assassination attempt against the president of the supreme court”, it said.Dillo is…

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is due to meet with leaders from southeast Europe in Albania on Wednesday, seeking to keep support and weapons flowing to Kyiv as Russia makes gains on the battlefield two years after invading its neighbour. Issued on: 28/02/2024 – 05:48Modified: 28/02/2024 – 08:09 2 min Zelensky has been crisscrossing the globe in recent weeks to rally support for his beleaguered country, as Ukraine’s armed forces face a critical shortage of ammunition and struggle to hold back Russia’s military advances on the ground. He arrived in Albania late Tuesday and on Wednesday was due to meet in Tirana…

He may not be a household name, but Ilya Gambashidze appears to be involved in almost all of the latest Russian disinformation operations across the world. His disruptive cyber actions earned him a spot last year on the European sanctions list. But a FRANCE 24-RFI profile of Russia’s mystery man of manipulation reveals an operative with a far smaller disinformation stature than the Kremlin’s previous troll czar, the late Wagner boss, Yevgeny Prigozhin. He emerged from anonymity in the West in the summer of 2023. Ilya Gambashidze’s name first appeared on the July 2023 Council of the European Union’s list…