Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky held talks with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte and other European leaders on Wednesday, aiming to get immediate help to bolster Kyiv’s war effort and discuss longer-term security guarantees. The talks took place with Ukraine on the defensive on the battlefield and uncertainty hanging over future US support, as President-elect Donald Trump pushes for a quick end to the war.
Nicolas Sarkozy arrives at the Bygmalion appeal trial in Paris on November 24, 2023. GEOFFROY VAN DER HASSELT/AFP For the first time in the history of the Fifth Republic, a former French president has been definitively sentenced to prison for breaking the law. On Wednesday, December 18, the Cour de Cassation, France’s highest court of appeals, rejected Nicolas Sarkozy’s appeal in 2023 for corruption and influence peddling. He was sentenced to a three-year jail term,…
On November 16, 2016, a couple, she in sunglasses and leather pants, he in a slim-fitting black suit and thin matching tie, slipped incognito under the central gate and archways of the Basilica of Saint-Denis. Just after declaring his candidacy for the presidential election in the nearby Paris suburb of Bobigny, Emmanuel Macron, accompanied by his wife Brigitte, slipped away to secretly visit the tombs of the 43 kings of France. In the winter light…
Montero reproaches the PP for lowering taxes on the rich to “cut the welfare state for workers”The first vice president of the Government and Minister of Finance, María Jesús Montero, has reproached the PP for lowering taxes on the richest while “cutting the welfare state of workers”, in response to the accusation of the general secretary of the PP, Cuca Gamarra, that “no one has ever raised taxes so much and so many times” as…
Feijóo admits that the PP is “in the electoral ICU” in the Valencian Community Read The Government and the Generalitat are fighting over the delay in DANA aid and accuse each other of spreading "hoaxes"
French-Algerian novelist Boualem Sansal, imprisoned by Algerian authorities on national security charges, was again hospitalized on Monday, December 16, according to his French editor, raising fears about the 75-year-old’s health in detention. Sansal, a major figure in modern francophone literature, was arrested on November 16 at the Algiers airport at a time of growing tensions between France and its former colony. “We have just learned, this morning, that at his request he was today again…
Survivors wandered through streets littered with debris, searching for water and shelter, after Cyclone Chido leveled entire neighborhoods on December 14, 2024. AP France said it will impose a nighttime curfew on the Indian Ocean island of Mayotte starting on the evening of Tuesday, December 17, after the French overseas territory was devastated by a cyclone feared to have killed hundreds. The French military said it is sending four to five planes a day with…
The Prosecutor’s Office has decided to support an investigation into the management of the damage, which caused the death of 223 people and tens of thousands of victims in Valencia on October 29. This decision also represents his support for investigating the actions of the president of the Generalitat, Carlos Mazón, and his possible criminal responsibility.What is the origin of the investigation request?The actions of the Valencian Government, with its leader at the helm, reached…
Those responsible for the reconstruction of both governments still do not meet in the middle of the exchange of reproaches while the judicial investigation into the management of the catastrophe is cleared. Read The 50 days of incommunication between Sánchez and Mazón after the DANA: institutional tension at its highest and threat from the Prosecutor’s Office for possible criminal liability
Luigi Mangione was indicted on 11 counts, including first-degree murder and murder as a crime of terrorism, in the slaying of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. Manhattan District Attorney said Thompson’s death “was a killing that was intended to evoke terror”. Luigi Mangione charged with murder as ‘act of terrorism’ in US CEO slaying
Visiting French special envoy for Syria Jean-François Guillaume said Tuesday, December 17, his country was preparing to stand beside Syrians after Bashar al-Assad’s ouster by rebels this month. “France is preparing to be with Syrians for the long term” including the current transitional period, “which we hope will be peaceful,” Guillaume told journalists. His visit to Syria, at the head of a French diplomatic delegation, was also to “make contact with the de facto authorities in…
France’s new prime minister, François Bayrou, was on Tuesday, December 17, facing a torrent of criticism less than a week into the job after choosing to chair a provincial town hall meeting as the French Indian Ocean territory of Mayotte grappled with the devastation wreaked by a cyclone. Bayrou was named by President Emmanuel Macron on Monday as the sixth premier of his mandate, with the head of state giving his long-time ally the chance…
The London law firm Guernica 37 Chambers, founded by Almudena Bernabéu and Toby Cadman, works around the world in defense of International Humanitarian Law. When 25 years have passed since the resolution of the Pinochet case, The firm wanted to call the legal community of the British capital to a meeting with Baltasar Garzón (Jaén, 69 years old), the former magistrate who showed the world that it was possible to bring the principles of universal…
“Ábalos and Koldo are two purged people who do not bounce back. Perhaps because they have a promise to be pardoned by the command” Read judicial week
792 people have been arrested in Nigeria as part of a raid on a crypto romance ring. Many of those taken into custody from the site in Victoria Island were foreign nationals including 148 who were from China. The scam targeted victims around the world by developing romantic relationships with their marks via social media and then manipulating them into buying fake crypto investments. Nigeria: 792 arrested over crypto-romance scam
It was only a matter of time. One day after two old oil tankers sank in the Black Sea on Sunday, spilling a significant amount of the fuel they were carrying, that was the prevailing sentiment on Monday among industry insiders. Russia has responded to sanctions on its crude by deploying an aging fleet of ships — some flying Russia’s flag, some not — in an effort to keep its oil exports flowing on the…
On Monday, the prosecutor requested 10 and 12 years’ imprisonment for the two men behind the ‘hate campaign’ that targeted Samuel Paty, and 14 and 16 years for two friends who helped the killer. He also asked for the charges of four of the defendants to be downgraded. Trial for beheading of French teacher: Prosecution makes ‘uncompromising but not excessive’ sentence requests
Agnès Fichot will never forget that day in 1977 when, just a few years out of law school, she picked up the phone to call the office of Gisèle Halimi, France’s most renowned lawyer. The decision was a natural one: she wanted to work with her, it was as simple as that. She admired Halimi’s courage, talent and audacity. She respected her ability to ignite major social debates that changed culture, mindsets and even the…
This is being an atypical Christmas in Seville and not only because, in the middle of the Constitution Bridge, residents and visitors will gather in the center of the city to enjoy the multi-step procession of their Holy Week, instead of the Christmas lighting. . This year, many points in the Andalusian capital that had become landmarks for markets and attractions during these dates are empty. In some cases, such as the Muelle de las…
Updated Wednesday, December 18, 2024 – 00:12The flamenco singer’s relationship Diego The crayfishwith his ex-wife, the Jerez-born singer Kina Méndez, became a “hell” of constant attacks, insults and humiliation during the artist’s tours around the world. A sentence of Criminal Court number 3 of Jerez de la Frontera (Cádiz) known this Tuesday sentenced the artist to two years and one month in prison for three crimes of abuse committed on Become Premium from €1 the…
An international war crimes prosecutor said on Tuesday that evidence emerging from mass grave sites in Syria has exposed a state-run “machinery of death” under toppled leader Bashar al-Assad in which he estimated more than 100,000 people were tortured and murdered since 2013. FRANCE 24’s Morgan Ayre reports. Syrian mass graves expose “machinery of death” under Assad, top prosecutor says
A watch worn by French war-time hero and president Charles de Gaulle fetched more than half a million euros as part of an auction of his personal items in Paris, auction house Artcurial said. The €537,920 ($564,000) sale price on Monday evening set a worldwide record for a watch by 150-year-old French brand LIP. The manufacturer, based in Besançon in eastern France, still produces a “General de Gaulle” watch thanks to the patronage of the…
Since the start of the Pelicot mass rape trial, there has been talk of the defendants’ sexuality. In particular, the defense and experts invited to take the stand have pointed out that 50 men on trial fall outside the “norm” when it comes to their sexual tendencies – that which places sexuality within an affective, monogamous and heterosexual relationship. Libertarianism, swinging, pornography consumption, candaulism and, more generally, paraphilias – a psychiatric term for unusual sexual…
The Madrid College of Physicians (Icomem) has a new president. Doctor in General Medicine Tomás Merina was elected with 47% of the votes registered in the 39 polling stations located in different parts of the Community, beating Dr. Esther Rubio, who accounted for 27% of the vote, and the current president, the Dr. Manuel Martínez-Sellés, who was relegated to last place with 25%. Merina’s election is crucial for Madrid doctors, many of whom have distanced…
Some photos from Google Street View showing a person carrying a voluminous white plastic bag in the trunk of a maroon car could have been one of the keys to solving the crime. A woman and her current partner have been arrested by the National Police for allegedly killing and dismembering her husband , a man of Cuban origin who had been missing for months and whose remains were found on Tuesday in the cemetery of the…
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