This week, Marjorie Hache welcomes Eloïse Bella Kohn, a French pianist based in Vienna, as well as British-French-Korean artist Min-Jung Kym. Both have released new records. In “Sounds For The Soul 2”, Kym continues to explore how music can be a therapeutic tool in the fight against cancer. She tells us how her own experience … Read more
On the US West Coast, conservationists on the world’s largest dam removal project are celebrating early successes and also confronting short-term setbacks. VOA’s Matt Dibble has our story from the Klamath River on the border of California and Oregon. Source link
France was rushing help by ship and military aircraft to its poor overseas territory of Mayotte in the Indian Ocean on Monday (December 16) after the island was shattered by its worst storm in nearly a century. FRANCE 24’s Douglas Herbert gives us his analysis. Source link
Rescuers raced against time Monday (December 16) to reach survivors and supply urgent aid after a devastating cyclone ripped through the French Indian Ocean territory of Mayotte. FRANCE 24’s Valerie Dekimpe tells us more about the intensity of the cyclone. Source link
Marco Dippe, most recently Managing Director Central Region/EMEA and Managing Director of Gant DACH GmbH, is leaving the company with immediate effect. The post Gant: Germany boss leaves appeared first on schuhkurier. Source link
While Iran says Assad’s fall will not weaken the country, some people in the country are suffering. With every US dollar currently exchanged at 725,000 Iranian rials, the Iranian people are getting poorer. Here is the story of an ordinary Iranian struggling to survive. Source link
A slight interest cut is expected, compared to the current rate. Santiment makes bullish projections for bitcoin. The economic calendar set for this week suggests a period of high volatility for markets, including bitcoin (BTC) and cryptocurrencies. Above all, the interest rate decision of the Federal Reserve (Fed), Central Bank in the United States, scheduled … Read more
The Cinémathèque Française in Paris says it has canceled a screening of Bernardo Bertolucci’s controversial classic, citing “potential security risks”, after women’s rights activists accused the cinema of failing to provide context about an infamous rape scene filmed without the consent of actress Maria Schneider. Source link
Following the fall of dictator Bashar Assad on December 8, Germany immediately announced a freeze on asylum applications from Syrian citizens. Just 36 hours after Syrian rebels announced they had liberated the capital, Damascus, the German government suspended decisions on more than 47,000 pending asylum claims from Syrians. Within hours, France, Britain, Italy and many … Read more
Turkey will never ease up in the fight against Islamic State (IS) group jihadists in Syria, despite its operations against Kurdish fighters seen as key to containing the extremists, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told US Secretary of State Antony Blinken. For in-depth analysis on an emboldened Erdogan since the fall of Assad, FRANCE 24’s François … Read more