Author: France 24

Before he became one of the leading voices of Nordic Noir, Ragnar Jónasson was a teenager who translated novels by Agatha Christie into Icelandic. That early immersion in the mechanics of crime fiction helped shape a writer now published in around 40 countries, with millions of copies sold worldwide and a particularly devoted readership in France.

The United Arab Emirates announced on Tuesday it will quit the global oil cartel OPEC and OPEC+ to focus on “national interests” as energy prices continue to climb amid the ongoing Iran conflict.

Paris Saint-Germain host Bayern Munich in the first leg of the Champions League semifinal. Bayern are aiming for their first final since 2020.

Two of Silicon Valley’s best known tech moguls, Elon Musk and Sam Altman, are going to face off each other in court with the trial getting underway with jury selection on Monday.  The lawsuit is brought by Musk, who accuses Altman of fraud and is seeking more than $130 billion in damages, for ‘betraying’ the AI startup’s founding mission of being non-profit. Plus, labelling rules on honey jars are set to toughen from mid-June in France, taking a new EU indication of origin rule into effect. 

On today’s Arts24 music show, Jennifer Ben Brahim chats with Alexandre Diani and Nicolas Paoletti from Corsican indie electro band Casablanca Drivers. 

Palestinians living in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and the Gazan community of Deir al-Balah this weekend headed to the ballots to elect their local leaders. For the Gazans who participated, it was their first local vote in more than two decades. Palestinian authorities hailed the vote a success and said it paves the way for more elections being held in war-torn enclave in the near future.

Kenyan athlete Sabastian Sawe entered the history books by becoming the first man to run a marathon in under two hours. He won the London race in 1 hour, 59 minutes, and 30 seconds.

It could end white-collar work. It could end poverty. It could end humanity. From AI’s boosters and doomers alike, bumptious predictions abound. But in workplaces, the technology, like so many before it, is becoming mundane. Are things really different this time?

In this edition of Entre Nous we’re talking to Renata Portasio, the private chef to the Brazilian ambassador to France. She tells us how being a private chef is different from being a traditional one, and the advice she would give to a young chef.

Lebanese state media reported a series of new Israeli strikes in at least four different locations in the country’s south late Saturday, after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered his military to attack Hezbollah following alleged ceasefire breaches. Attacks earlier in the day reportedly killed six people, despite a recently extended ceasefire.