Author: France 24

Issued on: 22/01/2024 – 15:33 The 2024 edition of the CES consumer tech trade show in Las Vegas was a huge success, with over 4,000 exhibitors and 130,000 visitors. One trend stood out: AI and Generative AI are now everywhere: from cars, to personal assistants and even refrigerators, but also in small devices that could soon replace our smartphones as we know them. FRANCE 24’s Julia Sieger tells us more. Source link

Back to homepage / Shows / arts24 Issued on: 22/01/2024 – 16:14 12:02 arts24 © FRANCE 24 In this edition of our arts24 music show, Jennifer Ben Brahim chats with one half of French duo Papooz, Ulysse Cottin, as the pair drop their fourth studio album “Resonate”. It’s a record full of euphoric sounds and melancholic lyrics, for which they enlisted the help of American songwriter Jesse Harris and superstar producer Patrick Wimberly. Ulysse and Armand first met after a chance encounter waiting in line at a Patti Smith concert. Unsurprisingly then, their music is steeped full of classic sounds,…

Back to homepage / Shows / Africa Cup of Nations 2024 Issued on: 22/01/2024 – 00:09Modified: 22/01/2024 – 00:14 16:23 AFRICA CUP OF NATIONS © FRANCE 24 Africa Cup of Nations favourites Morocco are held to a 1-1 draw by a spirited DR Congo display. South Africa get their campaign back on track, hammering Namibia 4-0. Tanzania are denied a historic first AFCON victory by a late Zambia goal. To discuss all the football action, Leo McGuinn is joined by sports journalist Thando Sibiya and regional correspondent Justice Baidoo in Ivory Coast. © Studio graphique France Médias Monde Justice BAIDOO,…

The Taliban are restricting Afghan women’s access to work, travel and healthcare if they are unmarried or don’t have a male guardian, according to a U.N report published Monday. Issued on: 22/01/2024 – 16:46 2 min In one incident, officials from the Vice and Virtue Ministry advised a woman to get married if she wanted to keep her job at a health care facility, saying it was inappropriate for an unwed woman to work, it said.The Taliban have barred women from most areas of public life and stopped girls from going to school beyond the sixth grade as part of…

Back to homepage / Middle East Gaza’s Hamas-run health ministry on Sunday said that a total of 25,105 Palestinians have been killed since October 7. Fighting raged across the Strip, with reports of especially heavy gunfire, air strikes and tank shelling focused on Khan Younis, Gaza’s main southern city, and Israeli bombardment of Gaza City and other areas in the north. Read our liveblog for all the latest developments.  Issued on: 21/01/2024 – 08:22 1 min A picture taken from Rafah shows smoke billowing over Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip during Israeli bombardments on January 21, 2024. © AFP…

About 1,000 people from Gaza have been treated in a French field hospital aboard a ship off the coast of Egypt, its captain said, providing care for some as health infrastructure in the war-devastated enclave collapses.  Issued on: 21/01/2024 – 16:41Modified: 21/01/2024 – 16:43 1 min The Dixmude, a French helicopter carrier, has been docked in the Egyptian port of al-Arish, 50 km (30 miles) west of the Gaza Strip, since November. The vessel is equipped with wards, operating theatres and 70 medical staff.Nearly 120 injured people have been hospitalised on board, while hundreds more have been seen for outpatient…

Issued on: 21/01/2024 – 00:12 Algeria had Baghdad Bounedjah to thank after his extra time header saved their blushes in a back and forth game against Burkina Faso. Elsewhere, Mauritania were edged out in a 3-2 thriller by Angola while Tunisia and Mali played out an edgy 1-1 stalemate in Group E. We go over the latest action with Sports Journalist Thando Sibiya and France 24’s Justice Baidoo Source link

Issued on: 20/01/2024 – 21:10Modified: 20/01/2024 – 21:18 03:12 Thousands of people demonstrated in central Tel Aviv on Saturday, calling for the return of hostages held in Gaza and early elections to oust Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. “This protest movement is growing”, said FRANCE 24 Senior Correspondent Catherine Norris Trent, reporting from Tel Aviv. “Protests have been happening regularly every Sunday in Israel [. . .] since October 7.” Read more on related topics: Source link

Gelson Dala struck twice as Angola defeated Mauritania 3-2 in an entertaining Africa Cup of Nations clash on Saturday to close in on a spot in the last 16.  Issued on: 20/01/2024 – 20:55 1 min Dala gave Angola the lead on the half hour in Bouake when a loose ball fell his way at a corner and his scruffy acrobatic effort bounced over two defenders on the line.Sidi Bouna Amar hauled Mauritania level as he weaved through the Angola defence before producing an unerring low finish, but Dala responded with a goal of similar brilliance early in the second…

French President Emmanuel Macron vowed this week to tackle the country’s growing infertility problem as part of efforts to revive the country’s sluggish birth rate, describing the subject of infertility as “the taboo of the century”. More than three million people in France are said to suffer from the condition, making it a major public health issue – but one that has never been treated as such. Macron promised steps to boost France’s declining birth rate during a televised press conference on Tuesday, calling for a “demographic rearmament” of the country. The call came after France recorded its lowest annual birth rate since World…