The rooms are comfortable, the view is magnificent, the food is delicious. Wrapped in wool blankets, the well-heeled guests of a sanatorium spend their days resting on the balconies. Welcome to the Berghof, a remote luxury medical center in the Swiss Alps where tuberculosis patients hope to be cured by the fresh air. This is … Read more
President-elect Donald Trump on Monday pledged big tariffs on the United States’ three largest trading partners – Canada, Mexico and China – detailing how he will implement campaign promises that could trigger trade wars. Trump, who takes office on Jan. 20, 2025, said he would impose a 25% tariff on imports from Canada and Mexico … Read more
France will launch reforms to help women who fear they have been drugged and then raped, including state-funded test kits, Prime Minister Michel Barnier said on Monday, in the midst of a mass rape trial that has shocked the country. The kits, that could tell a woman if she had been given such drugs, will … Read more
British director Elizabeth Sankey bravely recounts her story of frightening isolation and unwanted thoughts after childbirth in her spellbinding documentary “Witches”, which is out on Mubi. The film features interviews with medical professionals, historians and fellow patients, and uses old film footage showing pop cultural representation of witches. The director speaks to Eve Jackson about … Read more
A Russian court has ordered the arrest of FRANCE 24’s senior reporter Catherine Norris Trent on charges of crossing illegally into its western Kursk region to file a report on the Ukrainian army’s summer incursion. Source link
We continue our series on France’s love affair with advent calendars with Claire Pichon, the editor-in-chief of Fou de Patisserie magazine. She’s written an article on high-end delicious advent calendars and she shares her favorites with us. Source link
US President-elect Donald Trump has announced that he will slap a 25 percent across-the-board tariffs on all imports from Mexico and Canada unless they stop the flow of illegal drugs and migrants into the United States. Separately, he also vowed to impose a 10 percent duty on Chinese imports, in addition to other tariffs. Also … Read more
Special Counsel Jack Smith on Monday moved to drop the federal election subversion and the mishandling of classified documents cases against President-elect Donald Trump. In his filings Smith said the cases should be dropped because of the long-standing US justice department policy of not indicting or prosecuting a sitting president. Source link
Ambassadors from Ukraine and NATO’s 32 members meet Tuesday in Brussels following Russia’s strike on the Ukrainian city of Dnipro with a new hypersonic missile. Russian President Putin said the new missile strike responded to Ukraine’s use of US and UK weapons and warned that Moscow may target military facilities in states supporting Ukraine. Source … Read more
Russia on Tuesday accused Ukraine of launching two more attacks on its territory using US-supplied ATACMS missiles in recent days, adding that it was preparing “retaliatory actions”. Source link