Author: Frank Deux

A march is organized in tribute to the 27 migrants who died in the Channel on November 24, 2021, in Dunkirk, on November 23, 2024 PASCAL BONNIERE / PHOTOPQR/VOIX DU NORD/MAXPPP Thirty-one white roses were thrown into the port of Dunkirk, northern France, on Saturday, November 23. Thirty-one, the number of people who died or went missing at sea on the night of November 23, 2021, off the coast of Calais. More than 200 people gathered in Dunkirk to mark the third anniversary of the worst migrant shipwreck in the English Channel since the explosion, at the end of 2018,…

French far-right leader Marine Le Pen talks to journalists after a meeting with the French prime minister to discuss the 2025 budget at the Hotel Matignon in Paris, France, November 25, 2024. CHRISTIAN HARTMANN / REUTERS French far-right leader Marine Le Pen on Monday, November 25, threatened to back a no-confidence motion that could topple the government of Prime Minister Michel Barnier in a standoff over the budget, saying after talks that both sides were entrenched in their positions. Months of political tensions since right-winger Barnier became prime minister at the helm of a minority government appointed by President Emmanuel…

When this Wednesday, after two-thirty in the afternoon, Juan Lobato announced his resignation, few were those who loudly showed any support. Those who thought he would resign in his message on Tuesday only had to wait one day to find a response to the clamor: Lobato is a political corpse who would not even be well received in the Congress that the PSOE will hold this weekend. “You have to be flat to appear in Seville,” a Madrid mayor told this newspaper hours before learning of her resignation.More information“He doesn’t respond to messages or answer calls. “He is absent,” explained…

The ruling of the Seville Court that condemns five former senior UGT officials in Andalusia constitutes an endorsement of the journalistic investigation that EL MUNDO began in July 2013. Read Briefcases, parties at the April fair, ‘boat management’: this is how the UGT fraud was deciphered, cover by cover

London’s Metropolitan Police has opened a new investigation into the late Harrods owner Mohamed Al-Fayed, identifying 90 alleged sexual assault victims. Triggered by a BBC documentary in September, over 400 women and witnesses have come forward, prompting scrutiny of the police’s handling of decades-old complaints. Al-Fayed died in August 2023, aged 94. UK police identify 90 women in Al Fayed sexual assault case

A lawyer for the chief defendant in a French mass rape trial on Wednesday, November 27, urged the court to recall his good side after prosecutors demanded lengthy jail terms for the dozens of suspects. The main defendant, Dominique Pelicot, has admitted enlisting dozens of strangers to rape his then-wife while she was drugged and unconscious.

Provisions for immunity from prosecution at the International Criminal Court (ICC) apply to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the French foreign ministry said on Wednesday, November 27. In a statement the ministry reaffirmed its commitment to international justice after the ICC issued an arrest warrant for Netanyahu, but also said that the Israeli leader was covered by immunity rules that apply to states which are not a party to the ICC. Israeli is not an ICC member.

Juan Lobato made the decision to resign as general secretary of the Madrid PSOE on Tuesday night. State Treasury Technician, if he knows anything, it is figures, and the numbers had stopped proving him right. “He had practically no support left in the party,” summarize his trusted sources. The shock of his most faithful organic supports and the pressure that came to him from many of the general secretaries of key groups in his victory in the 2021 primaries, in which he obtained 61% support, a discreet percentage despite being the candidate official party, that is, the one indicated by…

In recent times, disagreement with the leadership of the PSOE was not limited to Page and Lambán. Read With Lobato’s lesson, Ferraz tries to stop the rebellion of the critics of the "I will not die in silence"

US President-elect Donald Trump named retired general Keith Kellogg as Ukraine envoy, tasked with ending Russia’s invasion. Trump, pledging a swift resolution to the war, aims to mediate a ceasefire between Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky and Russia’s Vladimir Putin.

A new page was turned in the Pelicot rape trial on Wednesday, November 27, with the end of three days of the prosecutions’ closing arguments against the 51 defendants, one of whom is still at large. Taking the floor one last time, the lead prosecutor, Laure Chabaud, attempted to “look to the future.” Calling on the defendants to stop hiding behind their “magic formula” – “I recognize the facts, not the intention” – she expressed the wish for a “real awareness” of what they are accused of and of “the notion of consent.” Read more Subscribers only 51 men are…

She sees everything. Hitler’s too-black mustache, the missing centimeters on a barricade, an actor’s stumble. She hears everything. The creak of a pulley, the music starting too early, fatigue in the voices. From her seat in the middle of the stands, microphone in one hand and pen in the other, Ariane Mnouchkine observes every tiny detail that appears and happens on the stage of the Théâtre du Soleil. Nothing escapes her, neither in the detail nor the wider view. Does she have a perfect ear and eye? “I watch, listen and believe what the actors do. If I stop believing…

The Administration has defeated the illusion. In Motril, the pro-Three Kings parade association, organizer of the arrival of their majesties to the town since 1971, has taken a step back. After 53 rides, she is leaving tired of “the increasing technical requirements and the associated administrative burden,” as she wrote in a statement. As Manuel Martín Muñoz, president of the entity for the last two decades, explains, they step aside due to the demands of the City Council, which makes them ultimately responsible for any incident that occurs. They say this is too much for them, even taking out insurance.…

The Madrid federation, seasoned in crisis, has among its members Sánchez, three ministers -López, Bolaños and Albares- and the Government-Congress nexus Read The great paradox of the PSM: maximum power in Moncloa and chronic convulsion, from Tamayazo to Lobato’s ‘whatsapps’

Several of Donald Trump’s cabinet picks, including Elise Stefanik and Lee Zeldin, faced bomb threats and “swatting” this week, the transition team said Wednesday. Threats occurred Tuesday night and Wednesday morning. Law enforcement ensured safety swiftly, according to spokesperson Karoline Leavitt. Both Stefanik and Zeldin confirmed being targeted.

The Palestinian cause lost one of its most active defenders before international judicial bodies. Gilles Devers, a lawyer from Lyon who helped bring this issue before the International Criminal Court (ICC), died on November 26 at the age of 68, after a long battle with illness. His death came five days after the ICC issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former defense minister, Yoav Gallant, for war crimes and crimes against humanity. Since 2009, Devers had filed dozens of reports with the Court’s prosecutor’s office on behalf of Palestinian victims. His son, Manuel Devers, made…

The first time The World met him, he was wearing a Roman collar and a small silver cross pinned to his jacket pocket, and went by the name “Father Matthieu.” A year later, he was dressed in a hoodie, gray jeans and sneakers, his hair lightly tousled with gel and sporting stubble. At 39, he reclaimed his birth name, Matthieu Jasseron, after leaving the priesthood last summer. Just before our mid-November meeting at a Parisian café, he lit up a cigarette on the sidewalk, a little nervously. France’s best-known priest, with a million and a half followers on various social…

David Sánchez in Badajoz on November 5.José Luis Real. (EFE)The defense of David Sánchez, brother of the President of the Government investigated for alleged irregularities in his hiring by the Badajoz Provincial Council, interprets the recent UCO report on the case as an opportunity to settle it. Emilio Cortés pointed out tonight in Hour 25 from the SER that the investigation by the Civil Guard, on which the judge has relied to charge Sánchez, clears up some of the accusations directed at his client, such as that he had enriched himself and owned 1.4 million shares of BBVA. “Confusing nothing…

The Ethics and Guarantees Commission took just 24 hours to suspend the primaries in Castilla y León Read A PSOE activist denounces that he has been waiting for 17 months for a response from Ferraz to a complaint about the "insults" from a fellow member of the ranks: "It is unworthy"

“Between going to Congress to listen to Pedro Sánchez or going to Cope to attend Carlos Herrera’s interview with Víctor de Aldama, I chose the one who deserves the most credibility” Read Rosa Nostra’s petals fall off

Israel and Lebanon-based Hezbollah militants have begun a ceasefire in a major step toward ending nearly 14 months of fighting. As a region on edge wonders whether it would hold, FRANCE 24’s Mark Owen welcomes Yossi Mekelberg, Associate Fellow in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Programme at Chatham House in London. 'At a certain point, a war must end with some political arrangement'

It’s hard to believe she’s only been out of power for three years. While no one expects Angela Merkel’s supporters to rally behind calls to “make Germany great again”, the excitement surrounding the release of her memoirs highlights a sense of nostalgia for a leader whose record-breaking tenure came to embody stability in a changing world. But what is Merkel’s true legacy?  What's left of the German model? The Merkel years revisited

Displaced people living in Sudan’s North Darfur state cheer at the arrival of the first convoy of food and supplies in months, but the glimmer of hope is still vastly short of what’s needed. Also, Namibia heads into general elections, with the ruling party SWAPO facing stiffer than ever competition amid popular frustration over disparities. Plus we head to the Gambia, which plans to reduce plastic waste by 86 percent over the next 10 years. But some fear economic fallout for the poorest. World Food Programme scales up operations to deliver aid in famine-hit Sudan

Rumours about the US returning nuclear weapons to Ukraine have been circulating since November 21, when The New York Times published an article citing several unnamed US officials who “suggested that Mr. Biden could return nuclear weapons to Ukraine that were taken from it after the fall of the Soviet Union”. At this stage, these are baseless claims since Washington does not even have these nuclear weapons to begin with. We explain in this edition of Truth or Fake.

They had become a real threat. The six arrested last Friday in Ceuta, Ibiza and Madrid as alleged members of a terrorist cell linked to the Sahel branch of the Islamic State (ISIS) had an increasing determination to commit an action and had sought potential targets in their environment, according to sources close to the investigation. It was a “cohesive group” that had collected knives and cartridges, in addition to handling “very explicit” Islamic State material, in which reference was made to how to carry out attacks or how to manufacture devices. The arrest of the group, aged between 30…