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After five years of intense reconstruction efforts, a grand reopening ceremony will be held on Saturday to mark the return of the Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral before its doors open to the public once again on Sunday. The historic event comes after a devastating fire damaged the UNESCO world heritage site. Follow our liveblog to see how the day’s events unfold. Live: Follow the grand reopening of the Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral

A US federal appeals court on Friday upheld a law which requires TikTok to break ties with its China-based parent firm ByteDance, in a move that could lead to a ban on the popular short video platform as early as next month. The law — which was signed by US President Joe Biden in April — gave ByteDance one year to divest from TikTok or be banned from app stores in the US. For a long time, US officials had raised alarm over the app’s growing popularity among the country’s youth, claiming that it could allow China to spy on its nearly 170 million…

The execution lasted less than a minute. The gunmen opened fire in a restaurant in Plaza Miyana in Polanco, one of the most luxurious neighborhoods of Mexico City, and by the time emergency services arrived it was too late. The attack shook the capital, which has repeatedly taken refuge under the illusion that drug violence is a phenomenon that affects only the states in the interior of the country. But when the authorities confirmed the identity of the victim on Thursday, the case took on another dimension. It concerns 40-year-old music promoter Jesús Pérez Alvear, “Chucho,” known for representing and…

«I no longer exist – he says – if she meets me with someone give me life imprisonment. I don’t date anyone anymore.” At half past twelve, the mafia boss Franco Bonura returns home, to Via Ausonia, accompanied by a factotum. «Good morning, can I ask you some questions?», I ask him. Bonura, the free boss: “If I meet anyone, give me a life sentence”. And he says to the reporter: “Don’t write” https://palermo.repubblica.it/cronaca/2024/12/07/news/bonura_mafioso_libero_indagine-423836676/?rss

Closed circuit screenshots of a person of interest in the UnitedHealthcare CEO killing.Source: NYPDPolice believe the person of interest being sought in connection to the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson left New York City shortly after the slaying Wednesday, on a bus from upper Manhattan.New York Police Department Commissioner Jessica Tisch told CNN in an interview Friday that police on Thursday released photos showing the face of that person not wearing a mask because investigators want “a wider audience to see the picture outside of New York City.”Tisch said police have a “huge amount of evidence,” which includes “lots…

BRUSSELS — Few investment disputes have garnered as much global attention as the case of the Micula brothers, two Romanian  investors based in Sweden, who embarked on a decades-long legal battle against Romania. What began as an effort to enforce their rights under a bilateral treaty has spiralled into a legal odyssey, raising profound questions about the European Union’s handling of international arbitration and its respect for investor protections. The dispute, formally known as Micula and Others v. Romania, traces back to 1998, when Ioan and Viorel Micula invested in Romania under the Sweden-Romania Bilateral Investment Treaty (BIT). The treaty was designed…

South Korea’s president said he is “very sorry” for causing public anxiety and inconvenience with his declaration of martial law earlier this week, and promised not to make another attempt to impose it.President Yoon Suk Yeol made a public apology on Saturday, hours ahead of a parliamentary vote on a motion to impeach him.Mr Yoon said he will not shirk legal or political responsibility for the declaration, adding that he will follow the direction of his party to resolve the political crisis caused by his move.It was not immediately clear whether the motion submitted by opposition lawmakers would get the…

South Korea’s president said he is “very sorry” for causing public anxiety and inconvenience with his declaration of martial law earlier this week, and promised not to make another attempt to impose it.President Yoon Suk Yeol made a public apology on Saturday, hours ahead of a parliamentary vote on a motion to impeach him.Mr Yoon said he will not shirk legal or political responsibility for the declaration, adding that he will follow the direction of his party to resolve the political crisis caused by his move.It was not immediately clear whether the motion submitted by opposition lawmakers would get the…

An architectural masterpiece with religious, artistic, economic and political significance, the Parisian monument that will soon reopen is, above all, a fascinating repository of symbols, some dating back to the Middle Ages. Notre-Dame: How to decipher the cathedral’s old and new symbols

SEVERIN MILLET Hand-delivered cash envelopes and Bulgarian shell companies… For over a year, investigators have been working at a complex task to untangle the financial flows involved in the so-called “foreign interference” case. In the case, with its many ramifications, the shadows of Qatar and Israeli companies loom large. Two lobbyists were indicted in 2023, the mysterious Jean-Pierre Duthion and Qatar specialist and Islamologist Nabil Ennasri. They are suspected of bribing BFM-TV journalist Rachid M’Barki and now ex-Green MP Hubert Julien-Laferrière, who are also under investigation. Determining the sums paid and how they were channeled is crucial. Neither Ennasri’s lawyer,…