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The UN’s cultural organization on Wednesday, December 4, added the skills of Parisian zinc roofers and ornamentalists to its list of intangible cultural heritage, calling the French capital a “living archive” of their work. Zinc roofers and ornamentalists — those who install and restore the decorations topping the city’s buildings – began honing their craft in the 19th century as the use of grey metal in construction exploded. The skills needed to install the zinc covering some 80 percent of the city’s iconic rooftops “shape the unique identity of its urban landscape,” said UNESCO. And now these craftsmen are adapting…

The French navy rescued 85 migrants trying to cross the Channel from France to England on Wednesday, December 4, maritime authorities said, the latest in a deadly series of dangerous crossings. One of “numerous” migrant boats that set out to sea called for help after hitting a sandbank off the Pas-de-Calais region, France’s Channel and North Sea maritime prefecture said in a statement. A navy tugboat saved 80 passengers from that boat and five more from a second migrant vessel at another location, it said. The migrants were brought back to land at Boulogne-sur-Mer and attended to by emergency services…

The president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, despised this Wednesday the landing of Óscar López as general secretary of the PSOE of Madrid, replacing the resigned Juan Lobato. During a television interview, the conservative baroness ruled out that the minister would be a candidate in the 2027 regional elections, recalled his electoral defeat in the 2011 regional elections of Castilla y León, and accused him of being “an errand boy” for the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, with the mission, he has said, of doing the greatest possible damage to Madrid. This Thursday, López will present…

“We must put an end to the rubbish of socialism once and for all,” he later stated before hundreds of Argentine and foreign supporters gathered at CPAC Argentina 2024. Read “Tortures suffered by the poor Spaniards”: Milei attacks Zapatero and Sánchez and compares them with Maduro

France is once again without a government: Michel Barnier fails as prime minister after just three months. The left-wing coalition’s no-confidence vote received crucial support from right-wing populists and conservative defectors. President Macron is coming under increasing pressure. Vote of no confidence: France without a government – ​​the rapid fall of Michel Barnier

Amnesty evaluated 15 Israeli air strikes in the Gaza Strip. And no evidence was found that they were directed against military targets. For human rights activists, this only allows one conclusion. In a new report, the human rights organization Amnesty International accuses Israel of committing genocide against the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. “Our research shows that the State of Israel has committed genocide for months and continues to do so,” said the Secretary General of Amnesty International in Germany, Julia Duchrow, on Thursday. This was done “in the full knowledge” that the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip “have been inflicted irreparable harm.” The…

Kew Gardens intends to build new glasshouses will provide temporary homes for plants and move some highly endangered plant species into temporary glasshouses. in order to renovate its iconic Palm House and Waterlily House. The renovation project at the world-famous botanical site has hit a major milestone with the construction of two cutting-edge glasshouses. New glasshouses will provide temporary homes for plants Palm House was built in 1844 and is home to a variety of tropical plants, some of which are endangered or even extinct in the wild. Waterlily House was completed in 1852 to showcase the giant Amazon waterlily,…

France’s Prime Minister Michel Barnier faces a vote of no confidence this afternoon which could bring down his minority government.

“Perhaps, if one is permitted to draw a lesson at such a dramatic moment, his excess of programmatic Europeanism, coupled with a lack of pragmatic Europeanism, has ultimately turned against him. If he had succeeded in realising at least some of the projects he announced, if he had really dared to share with his allies the military and nuclear supremacy he wields in Europe, France and Europe themselves would not be reduced to this pitiful state today.”

“Interest rates would rise. The financial markets are worried about France. They don’t know which way our country is headed. … France’s attractiveness would decline. In recent years, since 2015, France has become more attractive to foreign investors. … But since the dissolution of parliament, investors have been asking themselves: should they invest elsewhere? Should they wait and see if France remains hospitable? Some projects have already been cancelled, others have been scaled back or postponed. The fall of the Barnier government would only fuel this spiral of mistrust.”