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Issued on: 07/02/2024 – 07:42Modified: 07/02/2024 – 10:44 01:35 US Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived overnight in Israel after meeting the leaders of mediators Qatar and Egypt in the most serious diplomatic push of the war so far aimed at reaching an extended truce. Read more on related topics: Source link

Salah Abdeslam, sentenced to life in jail over the 2015 Paris jihadist attacks, was removed from his Belgian prison cell on Wednesday and transferred back to France. Issued on: 07/02/2024 – 15:52 2 min Abdeslam is the only surviving member of the Islamic State group cell that killed 130 people in the French capital in November 2015, the worst terror attack in the country’s history.Found guilty in Belgium last year of planning subsequent 2016 attacks in Brussels, his transfer back to continue serving out his French prison sentence had been blocked by an appeals court on human rights grounds.The Belgian…

Issued on: 07/02/2024 – 15:22 Since premiering in Venice in September, Polish director Agnieszka Holland’s refugee drama “Green Border” has been showered with prizes and praise. But it sparked outrage from Poland’s now former right-wing government, with politicians calling it “Nazi propaganda”. FRANCE 24 film critic Lisa Nesselson explains the backlash to what she calls an “excellent” film. We also look at French thriller “Roll of the Dice” from Yvan Attal, about two couples whose friendship is tested by lies, guilt and suspicion.Lisa also takes us to the Clos Lucé, the French chateau where Leonardo da Vinci spent the last three years of…

Issued on: 07/02/2024 – 08:24Modified: 07/02/2024 – 10:48 01:20 On the eve of the tribute in Paris paid to the victims of the attack by Hamas against Israel on October 7, families of French-Israeli hostages asked for help. “We don’t need people to have hope for us. I have hope. We need help to free citizens from the captivity of Hamas”, says Ayala Yahalomi Luzon, who has had no news of her brother Ohad, aged 49, for “123 days”. Read more on related topics: Source link

The vote to delay Senegal’s presidential election until December “cannot be considered legitimate”, the US state department said, after the move plunged the normally stable West African nation into its worst crisis in decades. Issued on: 07/02/2024 – 14:42 3 min The reaction is the most critical to date from one of Senegal’s major international allies, after the delay to the February 25 poll sparked growing concern both at home and abroad. Lawmakers voted almost unanimously in favour of the postponement on Monday night, but only after security forces stormed the chamber and removed some opposition deputies, who were unable to…

Issued on: 07/02/2024 – 12:49 For this final edition of Middle East Matters, we bring you a series of reports from our correspondents in the region. We begin in Israel, where as the war in Gaza drags on, divisions in Israeli society are growing more stark. Immediately after the attacks of October 7, the vast majority of people supported the government’s decision to pursue Hamas aggressively. But a growing, vocal minority argues the government’s strategy is not working – particularly when it comes to rescuing the Israeli hostages. Our correspondent Claire Duhamel reports. Over in south Lebanon, there have been near-daily exchanges of…

Back to homepage / Shows / Perspective Issued on: 07/02/2024 – 12:05 07:30 PERSPECTIVE © FRANCE 24 Exactly four months after the Hamas attacks on southern Israel, more than 100 Israelis remain in captivity, with very little known about their fate. The families of those held captive are continuing to urge their government, and the international community, not to give up on their loved ones. We spoke to Eyal Kalderon, whose cousin Ofer was kidnapped by Hamas from the Nir Oz kibbutz on October 7, and remains a hostage in Gaza. Ofer’s two children were kidnapped with him. Both Erez, who…

Back to homepage / Shows / Business Daily Issued on: 07/02/2024 – 11:19 06:19 BUSINESS DAILY © FRANCE 24 The preliminary results of a National Transportation Safety Board investigation into how a door flew off an Alaskan Airlines Boeing 737 MAX 9 in January have revealed that four key bolts appeared to be missing. The new setback for the Boeing 737, following fatal crashes in 2018 and 2019, has raised concerns over the effectiveness of the US aviation industry regulator, the FAA. Also in this edition: Argentina’s newly elected president, Javier Milei, sees his reform plans challenged in parliament. Read more on…

Issued on: 07/02/2024 – 10:11Modified: 07/02/2024 – 10:17 01:51 Displaced Palestinians are being squeezed into ever tighter areas of the Gaza Strip, prompting outbreaks of illness and disease, to which malnourished children are particularly vulnerable. Fears have mounted for those sheltering in the far southern city of Rafah, after Israeli warnings it was the next target of its campaign to eradicate Hamas. “We’re tired of this life,” said one Palestinian man. The UN says the population is at imminent risk of famine, with a quarter of people already starving. Read more on related topics: Source link

Rome’s most majestic forum has recovered some of its former glory with a partial reconstruction of the imposing columns of Trajan’s basilica – using funds from a now-sanctioned Russian oligarch. Issued on: 07/02/2024 – 07:11Modified: 07/02/2024 – 08:29 4 min The restoration of a portion of the Basilica Ulpia, which soared above the ancient Italian city for over a millennia, helps bring to life the grandeur and magnificence of the original marble monument.While most work on Rome’s ubiquitous ruins points downwards, the rebuilding of the basilica’s two-storey Corinthian colonnade has brought the focus up – over 23 metres to be exact.”If visitors…