Seeking shelter in a tent of sticks and rags after floods devastated her village in northeastern Senegal, Khardiatou Sy says she feels abandoned by the government days ahead of snap parliamentary elections. The 28-year-old is one of tens of thousands to have been displaced when torrential rains caused the Senegal River to burst its banks … Read more
1. Carnival begins The 11th day of the 11th month is a magical date for Carnival lovers. In German Carnival strongholds, which include the Rhineland, and especially Cologne, Bonn, Düsseldorf, Aachen and Mainz, the season officially begins at precisely 11:11 am on November 11. A jester called “Hoppeditz” awakes in Düsseldorf. Cologne greets its triumvirate … Read more
This year’s Booker Prize winner Samantha Harvey speaks to FRANCE 24’s Culture Editor Eve Jackson about her wonder-filled space novel “Orbital”. They discuss climate change, fiction’s role in politics and Elon Musk’s space endeavors. Source link
The Paris prosecutor on Wednesday requested a five-year prison sentence and a five-year ban from public office against far-right leader Marine Le Pen, at a trial where she and 24 others are accused of embezzling European Union funds. The trial, which comes almost a decade after initial investigations started, threatens to undermine her party’s efforts … Read more
Human Rights Watch said in a report released Thursday that Israel’s repeated evacuation orders in Gaza amount to the “war crime of forcible transfer”, and to “ethnic cleansing” in parts of the Palestinian territory. “Human Rights Watch has amassed evidence that Israeli officials are… committing the war crime of forcible transfer,” the report said. Source … Read more
Bybit, the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, is deeply shocked by the catastrophic floods that have devastated Valencia and other regions of Spain. The magnitude of the damage is immense, with more than 200 people dead, thousands displaced from their homes, and widespread damage to infrastructure. The economic cost of flooding is estimated … Read more
France, home of the “City of Love”, burlesque, and sex symbols such as Bridgitte Bardot. But what are the sex lives of everyday French people like today? That’s what a new study published Wednesday aimed to decipher. The study by the French Institute of Health takes a deep dive into the sexual habits of French … Read more
Donald Trump has had few defenders in Congress as reliable as Matt Gaetz, who has thundered at one prosecutor after another for perceived bias against the president-elect and emphatically amplified the Republican’s rallying cry that the criminal investigations into him are “witch hunts.” That kinship was rewarded Wednesday when Trump named Gaetz as his pick … Read more
UPPSC PCS Exam Date 2024: Uttar Pradesh Public Service Commission (UPPSC) has released the revised schedule of PCS preliminary exam. On Friday (November 15), the next day after the announcement of conducting the PCS (Pre) exam on a single day, UPPSC announced a new date for this exam. The Commission will now hold it in … Read more
In the midst of very turbulent times, around 800 delegates of Germany’s Green Party are meeting in Wiesbaden on the weekend of November 15-17 for a party conference where they hope to reinvent themselves. Robert Habeck, the vice-chancellor and economy minister in Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s minority government, is expected to be elected to be the … Read more