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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 were confiscated by law enforcement – sang their last songs, shouted their last cries of support for Gisèle, then left with their placards. Read more…

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, has been hailed as a hero and feminist icon for her courage and dignity in the three-month trial that ended Thursday with all 51 defendants,…

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 and six two-wheeled vehicles pass together, on the way to the town of Avila. What those who greet them do not know is that, on…

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

Dead, injured, traumatized: the suffering is omnipresent after the Christmas market attack in Magdeburg. Likewise the anger – although the suspect’s motive seems more diffuse than many initially assumed. Shortly after the crime, people’s anger boiled over

“You chop veal lung nice and small”: The “Küchenmeisterei” is considered Germany’s oldest printed cookbook. It contains gold-plated dishes and sophisticated recipes. Some things have been preserved to this day. Feast at Christmas: Insights into the “Küchenmeisterei”, Germany’s oldest cookbook

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 characterise what happened in Syria as Turkey's doing': Turkish FM Fidan

The US Congress has passed a spending legislation has passed a funding bill  that will avert a midnight government shutdown. The Democratic-controlled Senate, in an 85-11 vote, passed the bill to continue government funding 38 minutes after it lapsed at 12 a.m. Saturday (0500 UTC/GMT).  Earlier Friday, night with a 366-34 vote, the House approved the last-minute plan from House Speaker Mike Johnson that would keep federal operations and disaster aid temporarily funded. Johnson had said Congress would “meet our obligations” and not allow federal operations to cease ahead of the winter holidays. There had been uncertainty about the outcome after President-elect Donald…

Rome — «We ​​cannot help but feel profound disappointment after this sentence. Five years have passed, but the memory of the unnecessary suffering to which the people on board were subjected is very vivid.” President of Emergency, Rossella Miccio, in August 2019 was on the ship of the Spanish NGO Open Arms, which was blocked for nineteen days awaiting authorization to disembark, repeatedly denied by the Interior Ministry at the time in the hands of Matteo Salvini, who was acquitted yesterday from the court of Palermo. Why were you on the Open Arms? «They asked us for a hand, I,…

At least two killed, 60 injured after car ploughs into Magdeburg Christmas market At least two killed, 60 injured after car ploughs into Magdeburg Christmas market