Six people, suspected of having projected from removing the Stofxtag Youtuber or one of his relatives to obtain a ransom, were placed in police custody on Tuesday, we learned Thursday from the file and from the prosecution of Versailles. The six people were placed in police custody for attempting to theft in a band organized … Read more
This Monday, January 6, farmers who are members of Rural Coordination, the second largest agricultural union in France, are trying to go to Paris to make their discontent heard. They denounce the recent trade agreement between the EU and Mercosur countries.
Thousands of South Koreans are expected to take to the streets of Seoul on Saturday in an increasingly chaotic political context following a failed attempt to arrest ousted President Yoon Suk Yeol, accused of “rebellion” for attempting to impose martial law in early December. Gatherings of detractors and supporters are planned in the city center … Read more
“When my grandson was four years old, he told me ‘Grandpa, don’t hurt the geese’”. Since then, Marcel Metzler, producer of foie gras for nearly 40 years, has been experimenting with an alternative to mechanical force-feeding. The 71-year-old Alsatian looked for a way to encourage the goose to fatten itself, without resorting to embuc, this … Read more
South Korea’s conservative President Yoon Suk Yeol clings to power Thursday, with his party announcing it will defeat an impeachment motion tabled in Parliament by the opposition after his failed attempt to impose martial law. Mr. Yoon sowed astonishment in South Korea on Tuesday evening by declaring martial law and ordering the army to invade … Read more
The rumor grew and was confirmed on Thursday: American ski star Lindsey Vonn, Olympic champion in 2010, will try at 40 “to get back into competition”more than five years after ending his career. 15 months before the Italian Olympic Games in Milan Cortina, the white circus will thus find another of its legends, after the … Read more
Nearly 240 million American voters will go to the polls on Tuesday, November 5, to elect the next tenant of the White House. While waiting to know who, Democrat Kamala Harris or Republican Donald Trump, will win, we look back at the notable moments of the 2024 presidential campaign. ► November 15, 2022: Trump announces … Read more
A migrant died on Wednesday in an attempt to cross the Channel, bringing to at least 57 the number of deaths in this type of crossing in 2024, we learned from the maritime prefecture. This migrant, a “adult man”was in cardio-respiratory arrest in the sea off Hardelot (Pas-de-Calais), where around ten people were also in … Read more
Former president Evo Morales claims to have been targeted on Sunday by around fifteen shots fired at his vehicle which injured his driver, denouncing an assassination attempt by “agents of the Bolivian state”. “I denounce urgently” before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) “that elite agents of the Bolivian state attempted to assassinate me … Read more
A migrant of Indian nationality died on Sunday during an attempt to cross the Channel from the beach of Tardinghen (Pas-de-Calais), a death which comes in addition to two deadly shipwrecks in the last ten days, announced the prefecture. The attempted departure took place from this beach around 5:30 a.m., explains the prefecture in a … Read more