Author: Frank Deux

  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 and sexual abuse of Gisèle Pelicot, now his former wife. One man is being tried in absentia. As in all previous hearings, Gisèle Pelicot was…

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 stars of the night, having been awarded as Artista CAN40a podcast dedicated exclusively to music in Catalan that has evolved naturally to become established on…

  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 to Carrefour stores, in a campaign termed a “boycott” by Brazilian media that on Monday earned vocal support from the agriculture minister, Carlos Favaro. Responding…

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 no-confidence motion that could topple the government of Barnier in a standoff over the budget. She said after crunch talks both sides were “entrenched” in…

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 over the Maragall posters and the pacts with the PSC dominated the meeting in which Junqueras once again avoided revealing what he voted for in…

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 risk, compared to only 2.18 percent for German government-issued bonds. The peak came with the government facing the threat of a no-confidence vote next month…

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. Here’s who they are and what they said in court

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 workers were of Portuguese nationality (37 years old) and Indian nationality (40 years old) and were hired for the works in the southern section of…

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 been called, according to a joint statement. However, “as of today it has not been resolved” and aid for the Diffusion of Books and Reading,…

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, the first vice president of the Government, María Jesús Montero, appears at the investigation commission of the Koldo case in the Senate.The traditional Tuesday meeting…

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 change of course in the territorial model. “The demonstration on November 23 took place in Barcelona, ​​but it was a country act. “Young people from…

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.

Roy Keane told an Ipswich fan, “I’ll wait for you in the car park,” during a heated confrontation after Ruben Amorim’s debut match as Manchester United manager. Roy Keane tells fan I will wait for you in the car park, after Ipswich vs Man Utd The incident occurred at Portman Road following Sunday’s 1-1 draw, where Marcus Rashford’s opener was canceled out by Omari Hutchinson’s stunning equalizer. Tensions flared at full-time as Keane, 53, clashed with a home supporter. The Irishman, who managed Ipswich from 2009 to 2011, didn’t hold back during the exchange. Jump to section:

FRANCE 24 correspondent Rawad Taha reports on the EU’s top diplomat Josep Borrell’s visit to the Lebanese capital of Beirut on Sunday, as world leaders push for a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah. EU's top diplomat Borrell in Beirut as Israel and Hezbollah trade strikes

In the first round of Romania’s presidential election on Sunday, far-right leader George Simion is campaigning to replace President Klaus Iohannis, a liberal and staunch Ukraine ally. The election is being held amid a surge in inflation and fears over the war in neighbouring Ukraine. PM Marcel Ciolacu leads first round of Romanian presidential vote, show exit polls

More than one year after October 7, Zaka volunteers, who collect the remains of the dead, including terror victims, are trying to find resilience in therapy sessions. These orthodox Jews were not accustomed to these methods, but some were surprised by their positive effects. Israel: healing the traumas of volunteers who collect the remains of corpses through therapy

Italian Jannik Sinner completed a remarkable season on Sunday by sealing his country a second successive Davis Cup title with a 2-0 victory over Netherlands in the final at the southern Spanish city of Malaga. Matteo Berrettini laid the foundations with a 6-4, 6-2 victory over Botic Van de Zandschulp, before Jannik Sinner defeated Tallon Griekspoor 7-6(2), 6-2. Italy retains Davis Cup after Sinner and Berrettini defeat the Netherlands

The UAE’s interior ministry said Sunday that it had arrested three people in connection with the murder of an Israeli-Moldovan rabbi who was living and working in the Gulf state. Israel condemned the killing as a ‘terrorist attack’.

The body of an Israeli-Moldovan rabbi who went missing in the United Arab Emirates has been found after he was killed in what Israel described as a heinous ‘anti-Semitic’ attack. “If the Israeli suspicions are proven correct, and the UAE announces this was in fact an Iranian-backed targeted terror attack aimed at this particular rabbi, [. . .] we should expect reprecussions”, said FRANCE 24’s correspondent in Jerusalem Noga Tarnopolsky. Tzvi Kogan not ‘a well-known figure, he [wasone of thousands of emissaries’

With violence surging across Haiti, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said on Sunday that almost half of the gangs which control the vast majority of the capital are made up of children, and the recruitment of children has seen a 70% increase over the past year.

As US president-elect Donald Trump continues to nominate personalities to his cabinet, we take a look behind the scenes at how the US Secret Service is using the most up-to-date technology to protect the president-elect and ease the burden on agents. This report from France 24’s Jack Colmer Gale and our colleagues at France 2. Trump”>US Secret Service puts robot patrol dog to work guarding Donald Trump