Six men linked to Juventus and France midfielder Paul Pogba face trial from Tuesday, November 26, accused of blackmail, attempted extorsion of millions of euros and holding the player at gunpoint. The case at the Paris criminal court has shocked the French football world – all the more so because the perpetrators include three childhood friends and Pogba’s own brother Mathias. In total, the group are accused of attempting to squeeze €13 million ($13.5 million)…
In line for a book signing by the far-right Rassemblement National party’s president, Jordan Bardella, in southern France, November 22, 2024. SANDRA MEHL FOR THE WORLD Amid a troubled period for the far-right Rassemblement National (RN), the annual barometer on its image, conducted by the Verian institute for The Worldin partnership with the periodical The Hemicyclepublished on Monday, November 25, comes as a piece of good news for the party. It confirms its ideas’ surge…
A US-France-brokered ceasefire agreement to the 14-month conflict between Israel and Lebanese militant group Hezbollah came into power on Wednesday morning, but Israel’s vow to double down on its war in Gaza and focus on its main enemy, Iran, could soon challenge the deal’s solidity. Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire begins after nearly 14 months of conflict
The needs of the Valencian municipalities flooded by the flood, far from disappearing, are evolving or becoming entrenched. At first, after the Dana tsunami that devastated a good part of the towns in the industrial belt of Valencia on October 29, the main need in ground zero of the disaster was bottled water, boots to walk through the mud, food basics and cleaning and hygiene products. However, in addition to all that, tons of unsorted…
On September 12, 2020, Jean-François Mayet, on call at the prosecutor’s office in the southeastern French town of Carpentras, was informed about the arrest of a man called Dominique Pelicot, who had been caught filming up supermarket customers’ skirts. At the time, Mayet had no idea that, four years later, alongside his colleague Laure Chabaud, he would be standing up in court to request sentences for 51 defendants an extraordinary rape trial, before the local,…
Hold me back or you’ll see! Despite being hampered by a trial for charges of embezzling EU Parliament funds in a fake jobs scheme – a case that could render her banned from running for public office – far-right leader Marine Le Pen put herself back at the center of the political game on Monday, November 25, amid the unfolding budget tragedy. She was the first to meet with officials to voice her grievances…
Mark Twain wrote that “a lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes.” A lie has gone around Spain several times, pushed by complicit media. This anomaly has triggered, with the invaluable collaboration of the Superior Court of Justice of Madrid and the Supreme Court, the accusation of the State Attorney General, Álvaro García Ortiz, investigated for an alleged crime of revealing secrets consisting of unmasking a…
Secretary-General of the Elysée Palace Alexis Kohler in Strasbourg, France, November 23, 2024. SARAH MEYSSONNIER / REUTERS French President Emmanuel Macron’s chief of staff Alexis Kohler can be prosecuted over an alleged conflict of interest in a previous job, a Paris court ruled on Tuesday, November 26. Kohler can be prosecuted on suspicion of illegally favoring a company to which he had family ties while working as a senior civil servant from 2009 to 2016,…
Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City remains winless in six consecutive games after blowing a three-goal lead to Feyenoord on Tuesday, while Arsenal, Atlético Madrid, and Atlanta piled on the goals, and Barcelona’s Robert Lewandowski became the third player to score 100 goals in the Champions League. Champions League: Manchester City’s woes continue as Lewandowski makes history
French prosecutors on Tuesday, November 26, demanded sentences of up to 15 years for the remaining co-defendants in the trial of a man charged with enlisting dozens of strangers to rape his wife while she was drugged and unconscious. On Monday, prosecutors requested a maximum 20-year jail term for Dominique Pelicot, 71, who has been on trial in the southern city of Avignon since September with 49 other men for organizing the repeated rape…
This Tuesday, the iconic El Molino venue in Barcelona hosted the first edition of La Nit d’Els40 to recognize Catalan music in 2024. Figa Flawas has been crowned best Catalan group of the year. The young urban music band has taken a giant step in their musical career thanks to what has been the success of the summer, their song Marina is brunetteselected as the best song or loop song.Miki Núñez was another of the…
French supermarket group Carrefour attempted on Tuesday, November 26, to end a supplier “boycott” of its stores in Brazil by apologizing for refusing to sell Mercosur-origin meat in its outlets in France. “We apologize” if the domestic French retail ban announced last week “created confusion,” Carrefour CEO Alexandre Bompard said in a letter to Brazil’s agriculture minister released to media including Agence France-Presse (AFP). Meat suppliers in Brazil have since last Friday halted deliveries…
Citing “concern” for his country’s farmers and food security, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said his government “will not accept” the prospective free trade deal between the European Union and the Mercosur block in its current form, joining its “primary ally”, France, in forming a blocking minority to against the agreement. Poland joins France in opposing EU-Mercosur free trade agreement
The French presidency on Tuesday, November 26, issued a categorical denial that President Emmanuel Macron had predicted that the government of Prime Minister Michel Barnier would soon fall due to a motion of no confidence backed by the far right. The presidency used its official account on X, @Elysée, to deny the story published in the The Parisian daily. The controversy comes a day after French far-right figurehead Marine Le Pen threatened to back a…
The only debate between the three candidates to lead Esquerra was reduced this Tuesday to practically an exchange of speeches, with white gloves, between the representatives of the two lists with the most options, Oriol Junqueras (Militància Decidim) and Xavier Godàs (Nova Esquerra Nacional). . Not even the frontal attacks of the other candidate, Helena Solà (Foc Nou), towards her two rivals managed to dynamite an obvious commitment to maintaining a contained tone. The controversy…
A key measure of France’s sovereign borrowing costs hit a 12-year high on Tuesday, November 26, indicating growing investor concern over the government’s stability following snap elections earlier this year. The “spread” which measures the gap between yields on French 10-year state bonds and the benchmark German ones hit 0.86 percentage points, up from 0.72 on November 18. Investors were demanding a yield of 3.05 percent to buy French sovereign debt because of the higher…
Fifty-one men of all ages, professions and origins have been on trial in Avignon, southern France, since September. All but one, who is on the run, took the stand to explain their background and their involvement in the rapes of Gisèle Pelicot as she was drugged by her husband Dominique Pelicot. Many of them denied any guilt, despite video evidence. Here are their profiles. 51 men are standing trial for the rapes of Gisèle Pelicot.…
At least two people died this Tuesday morning when an Alvia train ran over a van where the victims were, Adif workers at the high-speed works in Monzón de Campos (Palencia), at a level crossing. The Government subdelegation has reported the double death without ruling out that there are more deaths in the accident, as they are searching for more bodies of other workers who could travel in the vehicle hit by the railway. The…
A dozen entities in the book sector of the Valencian Community have denounced this Tuesday that the Generalitat has left them without ordinary aid “in the worst year in their history” and they have grouped together in a group of affected people to demand solutions. The subsidies that the Ministry of Culture calls for annually for the book sector are contemplated in the 2024 budgets, but only the line of aid for editorial production has…
Good morning. We start the live narration of the last hour of political news on this Tuesday, November 26. The judge of Koldo caseIsmael Moreno, today interrogates two partners of the commission agent Víctor de Aldama and his secretary for their relationship in the mask plot, the PCR tests at airports in the Canary Islands and the Balearic Islands, or the payments to the commander of the Civil Guard investigated in this case . Meanwhile,…
Actions against the touristification of mountain regions are gaining momentum in Catalonia. The anonymous collective Els Trinxats, born in Cerdanya, has been granted the cancellation of the Occident Winterfesta macro musical event scheduled for the Purísima bridge. Not even three days after the massive demonstration for the right to housing that flooded the Catalan capital, entities from the Pyrenees have organized a symbolic event in the Plaza de Sant Jaume in Barcelona to demand a…
Prosecutors on Monday sought the maximum 20-year prison sentence for Dominique Pelicot, accused of drugging and raping his then-wife, Gisele Pelicot, and arranging for others to assault her. 20 year sentence for ex husband in Pelicot mass rape case In court at Avignon, the prosecutor described the sentence as “both too much and too little given the severity of the crimes. Jump to section:
Ambassadors from Ukraine and NATO’s 32 members meet Tuesday in Brussels over Russia’s firing last week of an experimental hypersonic intermediate-range missile.
Russia on Thursday carried out a strike on the Ukrainian city of Dnipro which President Vladimir Putin said was a test of its new Oreshnik missile.
Putin said the missile attack was in response to Ukraine firing weapons supplied by the United States and Britain into Russia.
Trump said that on the first day of his presidency, he will charge Mexico and Canada a 25% tariff on all products coming into the U.S. He added in a separate social-media post that he would impose an additional 10% tariff on all products that come into the U.S. from China.
Thousands marched to Islamabad Tuesday, demanding ex-PM Imran Khan’s release, defying tear gas and roadblocks. Clashes left one officer dead and nine critically injured. Khan, barred from February elections amid rigging allegations, faces multiple legal cases he claims are politically motivated to block his return to power. The government said one police officer had been killed and nine were critically wounded in two days of clashes with demonstrators as they closed in on Islamabad.
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