French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday attended a solemn ceremony in Nice to mark the tenth anniversary of the July 14, 2016, terror attack on the city’s Promenade des Anglais, which killed 86 people and injured more than 400. FRANCE 24’s Mark Owen reports from Nice. Source link
That was the evening of 15 July 2016. A hot summer day was coming to an end. Many people were spending their Friday evenings with friends or family in anticipation of the weekend. There was nothing to suggest that Türkiye was about to change fundamentally. Then, just a few hours later, tanks were rolling through … Read more
In Dallas, football fans are gearing up for one of the World Cup’s most eagerly anticipated fixtures. The semifinal between France and Spain will see two of the tournament’s best teams clash on Tuesday, with French stars such as Kylian Mbappé and Ousmane Dembélé contending with a Spanish defense that has only conceded one goal … Read more
A serious escalation is occurring in the fighting between the US and Iran. Overnight and into this morning, the American military targeted sites across the Islamic Republic – while Iran fired ballistic missiles at US airbases in Jordan and Bahrain. There has been an escalation in the war of words too: President Donald Trump vowed … Read more
Nadia Massih is pleased to welcome Dr Leon Moosavi, Sociologist of race and religion, and Reader in the Department of Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology at the University of Liverpool. Racism directed at the French national football team is often framed as a problem of sport, yet Dr. Moosavi argues that football merely provides a … Read more
Who needs nuclear weapons when you’ve got the Strait of Hormuz? Sure, ordinary Iranians are far worse off than on February 28th when the US and Israel launched a war that killed the Supreme Leader on Day One but the Islamic Republic’s since discovered it’s got leverage beyond its wildest dream and betting that Donald … Read more
The skeleton of a Tyrannosaurus rex, known as “Gus”, sold for $50.1 million (about €44 million) at Sotheby’s in New York on Tuesday, setting a new record for a dinosaur fossil at auction. The sale was followed by a tense 10-minute bidding war that involved seven bidders and ended with an anonymous buyer. Before Tuesday’s … Read more
Two fires that have burned just over 2,000 hectares since Sunday in the Fontainebleau Forest south of Paris, have been “contained”, even though they are not extinguished, the local prefect said Tuesday evening. “Contained means they are confined within their perimeter,” explained Prefect Pierre Ory, noting that firefighters will still need to remain on the … Read more
California is leading the legal charge against one of the world’s biggest media mergers ever. Twelve US states have filed a lawsuit seeking to block Paramount Skydance from acquiring Warner Brothers Discovery – saying the deal would create a company with too much market power and end up harming consumers and workers. The legal challenge … Read more
Since coming into effect in December, an Australian law has barred children under 16 from having accounts on platforms like Snapchat, Instagram and YouTube. Yet, studies show that most children are still able to access and create accounts on the networks. The government has doubled the maximum fine for non-compliance by tech firms, and is … Read more