Author: France 24

One of the world’s leading historians on the Palestinian people has told FRANCE 24 about how there is a future basis for peace in the region. Rashid Khalidi has spent years writing a series of books on the region and its conflicts, often through the eyes of his own family. He says that millions of people are not going to leave their land, so there’s a basis for the two peoples to figure something out. Khalidi is in Paris for several appearances, including at the Arab World Institute. He spoke to us in Perspective.

A French mayor’s attempt to bar a popular fast-food outlet from selling “junk food” has kicked off a bitter feud in the Paris suburb of Saint-Ouen, giving France’s fractious left yet another subject to wrangle over. 

FIFA announced on Tuesday that players who cover their mouths during confrontations with opponents could be sent off at this year’s World Cup under new anti-racism measures while walking off the pitch in protest at refereeing decisions may also result in red cards.

The United Arab Emirates has announced it will leave OPEC and OPEC+ on May 1, in a significant blow to the oil cartels.  In a statement, the Gulf country said it was doing so to focus on its national interest.  The country had often expressed frustration at production quotas set by the group, and its relationship with Saudi Arabia, OPEC’s de facto leader, had become increasingly tense. 

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.