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The first child, delivered by university student Chiara Petrolini in 2023, was also born alive. It took almost three months for the results of the tests on the bones found in the Traversetolo garden and the news is what was feared. “The first child that Chiara buried in the garden was also born alive”. The charge will be double murder https://www.repubblica.it/cronaca/2024/12/14/news/chiara_petrolini_neonati_sepolti_parma-423885887/?rss

Why did Macron pick Bayrou? A long-time centrist ally François Bayrou as the country’s new prime minister after MPs voted to oust the previous government under Michel Barnier last week. The 73-year-old is the founder of the centrist Democratic Movement party (MoDem) and mayor of the southwestern town of Pau. Just like his predecessor, François Bayrou does not have a majority in the National Assembly (the lower house of parliament). Passing France’s 2025 budget plan The mayor of the southwestern town of Pau and leader of the centrist MoDem party will have the difficult task of passing France’s 2025 budget…

Human rights situation in Ukraine deteriorates as attacks intensify amid ongoing persecution in Russian-occupied territories: OSCE human rights office OSCE // WARSAW, 13 December 2024 – The human rights situation in Ukraine has continued to worsen amid increased aerial attacks that include systematic strikes on the country’s energy infrastructure, as well as intensified hostilities on the front line, leading to a surge in civilian casualties. Meanwhile, arbitrary detention, torture and coercion continued in areas of the country under Russian occupation, the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) said in its latest report on violations of international law in Ukraine.…

British actress Jane Seymour said she got out of her Malibu home “just in time” with only the clothes on her back as the Californian wildfire came “right up to my house”.The James Bond star praised firefighters who did an “astounding” job saving her home from the blaze – dubbed the Franklin Fire – which ignited on Monday evening.Seymour said her “whole house smells of smoke” after returning on Thursday, having rushed to evacuate the property late on Monday evening.“I just literally had jeans and a sweater, which I’ve been wearing for four days and sleeping at different people’s houses,”…

The heartbroken sisters of Aoife Johnston, who died in University Hospital Limerick after contracting meningitis-related sepsis, feel no one has been held accountable.The Leaving Cert student from Shannon, Co Clare died on December 19, 2022, after presenting at the emergency department of UHL with symptoms of the deadly virus two days earlier.The 16-year-old was referred by her GP and should have been treated with the necessary medication within an hour.Instead, the teenager endured 13 agonising hours on a trolley with her terrified parents James and Carol pleading for antibiotics that could have saved her life.A report into the circumstances surrounding…

It was a fleeting moment. A rare sign of empathy. On January 11, 2015, after the terrorist attack on Charlie Hebdoa teacher from the northern French city of Arras, wearing a hat, pulled away from the body of the republican march that had been organized that day, to go and hug a CRS officer, a sturdy 32-year-old who hailed from the French overseas department of Martinique. It was a moment of communion and gratitude. The crowd applauded the police vans that had been sent to secure the march. Read more Subscribers only Ten years after the attack on Charlie Hebdo:…

François Bayrou arrives at the Elysée Palace in Paris on August 23, 2024. LAFARGUE RAPHAEL/ABACA In 2015, Nicolas Sarkozy won the prize for political humor attributed by the Press Club de France for a dig at the MoDem president: “To despair over François Bayrou, I would have to have once placed hope in him…” Nine years on, what hopes do Les Républicains (LR) have in the centrist’s appointment as prime minister, announced on Friday, December 13? Even before the motion of no confidence against Prime Minister Michel Barnier, a member of LR, reactions were cold on the right when Bayor’s…

An ERC activist exercises her right to vote, last November 30, at the party’s headquarters in Barcelona.Marta Perez (EFE)Republican Left of Catalonia (ERC) celebrates this Saturday the second round in the election to elect its leadership. Militància Decidim, the candidacy of the party’s former president and re-election candidate Oriol Junqueras, is the favorite against Nova Esquerra Nacional, headed by Xavier Godàs and which brings together supporters of the party’s until now general secretary, Marta Rovira. In a process where participation will be key, a little more than 8,000 militants are called to vote. The results will be known at eight…

The Second in the line of succession has presided over her first act in one more step to assume responsibilities Read Infanta Sofía makes her solo debut with the presentation of an award and institutional prominence

So far, only a fraction of TUI’s 430 hotels are in Asia. Now the global travel market leader wants to significantly expand its presence, as boss Sebastian Ebel announced to WELT. They want to become “more independent from Europe”. Ebel really raves about China.After more than a quarter of a century in the world of tourism, Sebastian Ebel has seen everything there is to see, one would think. But the CEO of global travel market leader TUI sounds genuinely enthusiastic when he reports on his recent trip to Vietnam and China.“When I think of Shanghai: it was green, it was…