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In the foreground, the baptistery of Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral, designed by French artist and designer Guillaume Bardet. Paris, November 29, 2024. CHRISTOPHE PETIT TESSON / AFP This weekend marks a new milestone in the thousand-year history of Notre-Dame de Paris. “This is it,” said an excited Emmanuel Macron, on November 29, when he visited the cathedral a week before its official reopening. “The shock of the reopening will be, I believe – and I want to believe – as strong as that of the fire, but it will be a shock of hope,” he said. These words look to…

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The Castro family—married couple and three children—enthusiastically walk down Gran Vía for the third time that day. From top to bottom again and again. From Plaza de España to Cibeles and start again, following the Christmas lights. The couple, born in Ecuador, and the children, in Torrejón, now snake along the right side, among a crowd that packed Spain’s main commercial avenue last week to see the Christmas lighting. When they get bored of the lights, the figure of a soccer player appears in the window of one store, a nougat tasting in another, or photos of a musical a…

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Paris-archbishop-Laurent-Ulrich-kn.jpg” />After five years of restoration, Notre-Dame was ceremoniously reopened on Saturday evening. Numerous heads of state and government gathered in Paris for the ceremony. In the run-up to the celebrations, there were talks between Trump, Macron and Zelensky.Notre-Dame was in flames in April 2019, and now the Paris cathedral has been ceremoniously reopened after five years of reconstruction: The doors of the newly restored Gothic building opened on Saturday evening after Paris Archbishop Laurent Ulrich passed the crosier three times according to the Catholic rite had knocked on the main portal. French President Emmanuel Macron welcomed numerous heads of…

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After five years of intense restoration works following a devastating fire, the iconic Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris reopened its doors on Saturday evening. With a symbolic three knocks from Archbishop Laurent Ulrich and a standing ovation for the heroes who saved it, the cathedral’s rebirth was marked by a moving ceremony of song, prayer, and celebration. Paris unveils famed Notre-Dame Cathedral after mammoth five-year reconstruction

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The head of Burkina Faso’s military junta named former communications minister Rimtalba Jean Emmanuel Ouedraogo as prime minister late on Saturday. The appointment comes one day after the country’s ruling military leader Captain Ibrahim Traore dismissed outgoing premier Apollinaire Joachim Kyelem de Tambela and dissolved the government. No reason was given for his removal. Tambela had headed three successive governments since Traore seized power in a 2022 coup. Who is Rimtalba Jean Emmanuel Ouedraogo? Ouedraogo, who served in Tambela’s cabinet, is a journalist by trade. He was formerly editor-in-chief and later director of the Sahel country’s state television network. Ouedraogo is…

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The small Mexican mountain town of La Rumorosa is at its most beautiful when the dying sun bathes it in a clean, soft, orange light. Or pink, depending on the day. Whatever color, the landscape seems more innocent. As if nothing disturbing could happen there.At that innocent hour, looking for Jaime Maussan Flota Avenue, I come across two ladies out for a walk. They can’t tell me exactly where this avenue is, but they tell me that at night the sky there is clear and star-lit. And that they have seen strange things that could be flying saucers. They say…

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Genoa — «We ​​did not expect such a stir, despite realizing the importance of the Festival in Italian society. But let me underline one thing: we are telling thousands of beach establishment managers that they have to compete and for a public good that is worth millions and millions, why should it be different?”. The president of the TAR: “The tender for the Sanremo Festival like the one for the beaches, Europe is asking for it” https://genova.repubblica.it/cronaca/2024/12/08/news/presidente_giuseppe_caruso_tar_liguria_gara_festival_sanremo_rai_come_quella_per_bagni_marini_europa-423843137/?rss

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