People standing in front of the Paris special criminal court, on December 20, 2024, ahead of the verdict against eight people linked to the murder of Samuel Paty in 2020. STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN / AFP Rarely was the verdict of a terrorist trial so eagerly awaited and scrutinized. Perhaps more than any other terrorist attack, the murder of Samuel Paty, who was decapitated on October 16, 2020, just a few meters from his school, has…
Infant sleep is multiphasic, with many naps over 24 hours, before gradually becoming predominantly nocturnal from 4 to 6 months. JOHNÉR/PHOTONONSTOP With circles under their eyes and nerves on edge, parents of young children are flooded with sometimes contradictory advice on how to get their child to sleep. Clueless, some turn to a third party, such as sleep coaches, in order to find nocturnal respite. On Parents magazine’s Instagram account, one mother recounted her experience:…
“Dizziness, vomiting and in the worst cases, cardiac arrest, stroke and even death,” is the first thing Google responds when you type “alcohol and Diazepam.” However, Carla (not her real name), 15, and her friends don’t seem to give it any importance: “On special occasions, like New Year’s or the end of the school year, we mix alcohol with Diazepam so that we get high sooner,” she commented. this Thursday in the vicinity of Almansa…
Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama on Saturday announced the shutdown of TikTok for at least one year from 2025. The decision comes after a 14-year-old student was stabbed to death by a classmate last month in a fight that had started on social media. Albania to shut down TikTok for one year after fatal school stabbing
The Flamanville nuclear power plant in the Cotentin region of northern France. EDF hopes to connect France’s first EPR reactor, whose dome can be seen in the photo, to the grid before the end of 2024. ED ALCOCK / MYOP FOR THE WORLD France connected its most powerful nuclear power reactor to the national electricity grid on Saturday, December 21, in what leaders hailed as a landmark moment despite years of delays, budget overruns and…
Gisèle Pelicot addresses the world’s press after the verdict is announced in Avignon on December 19, 2024. MANON CRUZ / REUTERS Four hundred and twenty years in prison… and now what? The world’s press unanimously hailed Gisèle Pelicot’s courage and the conviction of the 51 defendants on trial for the rapes under sedation that she endured for almost a decade. But beyond the judgment and the facts, what most foreign commentators underlined is that it…
There will be no cleaning strike on the next holidays in Barcelona. Unions and concessionaire companies have reached an agreement this Saturday that suspends a three-day cleaning strike in Barcelona during the Christmas holidays in Barcelona, UGT sources have confirmed to EFE.The agreement, which both parties are drafting after a marathon negotiation, will allow the cleaning service in the city not to be suspended until December 25, as the unions had announced.In the last few…
There have been so many horrors since September 2. And now peace. “The criminal hearing is adjourned,” Roger Arata, the presiding judge at the criminal court in Avignon, said on Thursday, December 19. After three months and 17 days, the courtroom emptied. The area around the courthouse was cleared for traffic. The feared outbursts did not occur. The few hundred feminist activists who had come with oranges to throw them at the defendants – they…
Gisèle Pelicot leaves the courthouse with her lawyer Stéphane Babonneau after the verdict in the trial for Dominique Pelicot and 50 co-accused, in Avignon, France, December 19, 2024. ALEXANDRE DIMOU / REUTERS Gisèle Pelicot, the French woman whose ex-husband was jailed for 20 years for orchestrating and committing mass rapes against her with dozens of strangers, has no fear of a new trial if defendants appeal, her lawyer said Friday, December 20. Gisèle Pelicot, 72,…
Plainclothes agents of the Civil Guard, patrolling along AV-562, in Cebreros (Ávila), on Sunday, December 15.JUAN BARBOSATwo large-displacement motorcycles circulate a short distance away on the AV-562 highway, in the municipality of Cebreros (Ávila). They do it at a calm speed, enjoying the landscape and the dense forest on both sides of the road. They pass other bikers on their way, who wave to them to greet them. In the opposite direction, up to five…
Households will save between 4,700 and 5,900 million and energy companies will save between 1,100 and 1,500 Read The accounts, item by item, of savings for companies and families after the pact of the right against the Government
In an interview with FRANCE 24 in Ankara, Turkey’s Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan discussed his country’s position in the wake of the ouster of Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad. Fidan claimed that Turkey played no role in the Syrian rebel group HTS’s ouster of the Assad regime. He also said Turkey’s interests are with the Syrian people, and that Ankara does not support foreign troops remaining in Syria, be they Russian or American soldiers. 'We cannot…
Paty was killed near Paris on October 16, 2020, days after showing his class cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad during a debate on free expression. The assailant, an 18-year-old Russian of Chechen origin, was shot to death by police.
The French Police had to pander to public opinion, and echoes of the French revolution still ring through Court in Paris. In a case of such global media exposure, the French had to deliver prosecutions. The killer was already dead, so they had to find some other perpetrators.
Gisèle Pelicot, Avignon, December 19, 2024. MANON CRUZ/REUTERS These are just four moments in one woman’s life. Four moments in just four years. The shock of the first day, the long, lonely journey, the decision to face the worst publicly, and the final verdict, after which Gisèle Pelicot’s soothed, confident voice spoke publicly outside the courtroom. Four moments that marked the journey of a woman who has now become a feminist hero around the world.…
“What did he say? What did he say? [¿Qué ha dicho?]”, PP deputy Guillermo Mariscal asked this Thursday insistently to the journalists who were still surrounding the Junts spokesperson, Miriam Nogueras, just when she had finished speaking in the Congress hallway. “That they are going to defend investments in Tarragona,” they responded, because that was the only thing Nogueras had said, but from which it was clear that Junts was going to vote that same…
The judicial gateway does not stop any investigation and the evidence against those investigated is growing. Read The black week of the PSOE pushes it to months of bleeding
In tonight’s edition, more than 700 people have been killed in El-Fasher in Sudan’s North Darfur state since May, according to the UN. Also, France began withdrawing soldiers from Chad. And we’re just a few days away before Christmas, Chef Sonia Marty Sokouri is the most Parisian of the African cooks, and she will share with us her gourmet tips. Over 700 killed in siege of Sudan's El-Fasher
Hours to go before a midnight government shutdown, the House approved a new plan late Friday from Speaker Mike Johnson that would temporarily fund federal operations and disaster aid, but drops president-elect Donald Trump’s demands for a debt limit increase into the new year. The bill was approved 366-34, and now goes to the Senate, for expected quick passage. “We’re excited about this outcome,” Johnson said afterward, adding he had spoken with Trump and the…
France began withdrawing soldiers from Chad on Friday, Chad’s ministry of the armed forces said, after N’Djamena last month abruptly ended military cooperation with the former colonial power. A contingent of 120 soldiers departed for France from a military airport in the capital, the ministry said in a statement on Facebook, 10 days after French fighter aircraft left the Sahelian country for good. Chad had been a key link in France’s military presence in Africa…
In profile, he looks a bit like Emmanuel Macron. Same antique straight nose, same height, same look. His official title: “Special envoy for Libya.” Hardly anyone knows his name. Paul Soler, 45, a former special forces soldier, is one of the most secretive advisors at the Elysée, where he is hardly ever present, busy traveling as he is. In truth, he is much more than that: a sort of personal diplomat to the president. His…
The constant pilgrimage to the Soria Lottery administrations means queues in front of the counter and, with them, extracts of delicious conversations for Christmas gossips. “I had a feeling!” exclaims one. “Sweet blood sausage is typical from here!” comments another, more concerned with things to eat than things to dream. The line moves forward and the lotteries send out endings, ugly and handsome numbers, the bar or company ticket, the anniversary of I don’t know…
García Ortiz claims that he complied with a data protection instruction, but prosecutors deny that the rule was designed for cases like this. Read The attorney general deleted his mobile phone in person and without regulatory approval
A driver rammed a car into a large crowd of revellers at a Christmas market in the central German city of Magdeburg on Friday evening, killing at least two people, including a toddler, and injuring more than 60 before he was arrested. Car ploughs into German Christmas market in deadly holiday season attack
Maria Schneider and Marlon Brando, in Bernardo Bertolucci’s “Last Tango in Paris.” CINEMATHEQUE On Friday, December 20, as part of the 100th anniversary of Marlon Brando’s birth, New York’s Film Forum screened Last Tango in Paris (1972). On its website, prominently displayed, the cinema warned that the film contained a “sexually humiliating” scene for actress Maria Schneider, which she had not been informed about before shooting it. The site encouraged viewers to learn more about…
France’s anti-terrorism court on Friday convicted eight people of involvement in the beheading of teacher Samuel Paty four years ago. Paty was killed outside his school near Paris on October 16, 2020, days after showing his class cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad during a debate on free expression. The assailant, an 18-year-old Russian of Chechen origin, was shot to death by police. Those who have been on trial on terrorism charges at a special court…
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