Tesla CEO Elon Musk and other tech titans are warring with some of US President-elect Donald Trump’s staunchest supporters over immigration visas. Trump has backed Musk and praised the use of H-1B visas to bring skilled foreign workers to the United States, but the issue has become a flashpoint that is ruffling the feathers of … Read more
The world ushered in 2025 on Tuesday, with huge crowds waving goodbye to the old year that brought Olympic glory, a dramatic Donald Trump return and turmoil in the Middle East and Ukraine. Sydney – the self-proclaimed “New Year’s capital of the world” – sprayed nine tons of fireworks from its famous Opera House and … Read more
Donald Trump has vowed to undertake the largest domestic deportation operation in American history when his second presidential term starts, potentially affecting millions of undocumented migrants. This could be bad news for America’s agricultural industry, which depends heavily on migrant labor. Farmers are warning it could lead to skyrocketing prices and crippling the country’s food … Read more
Police in the German capital said Tuesday that two people were injured in a knife attack in West Berlin. The New Year’s Eve stabbing took place in the western district of Charlottenburg, a police spokesman said. Emergency services were alerted shortly before 12 noon local time (11:00 UTC/GMT), police said. The Berliner Morgenpost newspaper reported … Read more
A massive power outage hit nearly all of Puerto Rico early Tuesday as the US territory was preparing to celebrate New Year’s Eve. The local energy distribution company blamed the blackout on the failure of an underground power line, with officials saying that it could take up to two days to restore power. Source link
Auckland in New Zealand and Sydney in Australia have become the first major Western cities to welcome 2025, with hundreds of thousands of revellers marveling at spectacular fireworks and waving goodbye to a year marked by turmoil in the Middle East and Ukraine, as well as Donald Trump’s dramatic comeback in the US. Source link
As 2024 nears its end, FRANCE 24 takes a look at the events that marked the year including ongoing wars in Ukraine, Sudan and the Middle East, the US presidential election and the Paris Olympics. Source link
Georgia’s pro-Russia governing party Georgian Dream, backed by billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvili, is instrumentalizing conservative values to stay in power, former Georgian minister and professor at Science Po Tornike Gordadze told FRANCE 24, pointing to the party, which started out as a left- wing movement, embracement of far-right politics. “Mr. Ivanishvili personally has ties with Russia,” … Read more
Yaounde – An uneasy calm has descended on Chad, where the opposition is demanding the immediate end of the country’s transitional government and the cancellation of December. In the general elections of 2019, the opposition says that it was strongly boycotted. Chad’s election management body has promised to count the votes and announce the results, … Read more
The World Health Organization on Monday implored China to share data and access to help understand how Covid-19 began, five years on from the start of the pandemic that extended the planet. The origins of the pandemic, which killed millions, shredded economies and crippled health systems, remain unclear. Source link