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French left calls Macron comments reported by Le Monde ‘racist’
French President Emmanuel Macron, in Mayotte, December 19, 2024. LUDOVIC MARIN / AFP The French presidency denied on Friday, December 20, the reported remarks by Emmanuel Macron in an investigation by Le Monde the day before. In 2023, in front of the then health minister, Aurélien Rousseau, Macron said: “The… Read Details ⇢
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‘Verdict shakes French society to its core: Shifting judicial focus on actions of perpetrators’
A French court has found Dominique Pelicot guilty of repeatedly drugging and raping his wife for almost a decade, and inviting dozens of strangers to rape her unconscious body. For in-depth analysis and a deeper perspective on a case that has horrified France and the world, FRANCE 24’s Yinka Oyetade… Read Details ⇢
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Biden admin announces another $4.28 billion in student loan handouts
The Biden administration announced another $4.28 billion in student loan handouts as President Biden and Vice President Harris prepare to leave the White House. The massive loan handout will give 54,900 public workers loan forgiveness. “Four years ago, the Biden-Harris Administration made a pledge to America’s teachers, service members, nurses,… Read Details ⇢
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Malaysia to resume search for missing Malaysian Airlines MH370 | Transport News
Flight MH370, a Boeing 777 carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew, vanished en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8, 2014. Malaysia’s government has agreed in principle to resume the search for the wreckage of missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, more than 10 years after it disappeared in one of… Read Details ⇢
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One of our favourite Ninja air fryers has fallen to its lowest price since Black Friday
With just a few days to go until Christmas, there’s very little time left to score a last-minute gift or end-of-year treat for yourself. One of the best air fryers you can currently buy would work for either of these, so don’t miss this chance to get the Ninja Double… Read Details ⇢
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Criminalised, cancelled, fired, censored – The Mail & Guardian
Artist Frieda Toranzo Jaeger’s work Rage is a Machine in Times of Senselessness, which appeared on this year’s Venice Biennale The artist Frieda Toranzo Jaeger’s Jewish grandfather fled Nazi Germany to escape the Holocaust and settled in Mexico. That is where she was born in 1988 and grew up. Toranzo… Read Details ⇢
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The challenge of counting the dead in Mayotte
Kawéni shantytown, Mayotte, December 19, 2024. MORGAN FACHE FOR LE MONDE How many people will France mourn on Monday, December 23, the day of national mourning decreed by the president on Thursday during his visit to the French archipelago? The authorities have refused to comment. A number is eagerly awaited, but… Read Details ⇢
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Top DOGE senator to demand lame-duck Biden agencies halt costly telework talks, citing voter mandate
The Senate’s top DOGE Republican will send 24 letters – one to each major federal agency head – demanding a halt to last-minute work-from-home negotiations before President Biden returns to Delaware. Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, chair of the Senate GOP Policy Committee, made the demand days after crafting legislation for… Read Details ⇢
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Sri Lanka Navy rescues over 100 Rohingya adrift in the Indian Ocean | Rohingya News
The 102 refugees, including 25 children, were taken to Sri Lanka’s eastern port of Trincomalee. More than 100 Rohingya refugees from war-torn Myanmar have been rescued while adrift on a fishing trawler off the Indian Ocean island nation by Sri Lanka’s navy, bringing them safely to port. The 102 people,… Read Details ⇢