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Riss, director of “Charlie Hebdo”, in Paris, March 2024. JOEL SAGET / AFP To mark the 10th anniversary of the attack on Charlie Hebdo on January 7, 2015, the satirical newspaper is publishing a book that pays tribute to the eight members of the team murdered that day. Charlie Liberty. A Journal of Their Lives (“Charlie Liberty: A Diary of Their Lives”) is a deeply moving book in its fragility and its very simplicity, as it mostly limits itself to showing images by cartoonists Cabu, Charb, Honoré, Tignous and Wolinski, and texts by psychoanalyst Elsa Cayat, proofreader Mustapha Ourrad and…

On January 14, Metro de Madrid interrupted the circulation of its trains between the San Blas and García Noblejas stations on line 7. There have been no accidents. There has also been no terrorist threat. What is happening is much more prosaic: a pigeon is hiding under the subway rails as it passes through the Simancas station. The incident, detailed in various internal documents accessed by EL PAÍS, forces the service to stop for just a few minutes. It is not an exceptional case.On June 21, 2023, circulation between the Acacias and Puerta de Toledo stations also had to be…

The man, with the virus since he was born, assured the Barcelona Provincial Court that he did not know he was a carrier and that he believed that the pills he was taking were vitamins. Read The man sentenced to two years in prison for infecting his partner with HIV and how not to tell it is not a crime

IG Metall is calling for nationwide warning strikes at Volkswagen this Monday. It’s about the pay of the around 120,000 employees in the VW factories. The group has so far rejected any increase. Watch this and other news on WELT TV.© Axel Springer Germany GmbH. All rights reserved. Now live: Industrial action begins – warning strikes in all VW plants – video

The United States, Germany, France and the United Kingdom have all called for de-escalation in Syria, where rebels have marched on government-controlled areas in the past few days, reigniting violence in the 13-year-long conflict.

In 2023, the total revenue of the world’s 100 largest weapons producers grew to $632 billion (€598 bio) a 4.2% increase from 2022. This is according to a new report from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute SIPRI, which analyzes the business figures of the 100 biggest arms makers.

Gregg Wallace’s comment that accusations of inappropriate behaviour against him came from “a handful of middle-class women of a certain age” has prompted an angry backlash. The MasterChef presenter faces various allegations of making “inappropriate sexual jokes”, asking for the phone numbers of female members of production staff, and undressing in front of and standing “too close” to women working on his shows. Ulrika Jonsson, who competed on Celebrity MasterChef in 2017, said she was “seething” while Kirstie Allsopp described his response as “unacceptable”. In a post on Instagram on Sunday, 60-year-old Wallace said: “I’ve been doing MasterChef for 20…

Canada’s ambassador to the United States said Sunday that prime minister Justin Trudeau was successful in getting president-elect Donald Trump and key US cabinet nominees to understand that lumping Canada in with Mexico over the flow of drugs and migrants into the US is unfair.Kirsten Hillman, Canada’s ambassador in Washington, told The Associated Press in an interview that Trudeau’s dinner with Mr Trump on Friday was a very important step in trying to get Mr Trump to back away from threatened tariffs on all products from the major American trading partner.Ms Hillman was at Mr Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club in Florida…

Photos of fentanyl users at an event organized by Facing Fentanyl, a non-profit awareness group made up of families impacted by this opioid, in New York City, August 21, 2023. SHANNON STAPLETON/REUTERS When Nabarun Dasgupta, a leading drug expert at the University of North Carolina, discovered the figures from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in May, he was “skeptical.” For the first time since 2018, they announced a 3% drop in the number of overdose deaths in the US in 2023, compared with the previous year. As the months went by, he had to admit it: the…

Andueza asks not to look at the “dark clouds” that the PP puts on them: “We must continue writing brilliant pages”The general secretary of the PSE-EE, Eneko Andueza, has asked his party colleagues to forget to look up at those “dark clouds” that the PP puts over them, in reference to the accusations of corruption, because the socialist perspective must be in “continuing writing brilliant pages of the history of Spain.”“I am going to ask the PSOE as a whole to forget to look up to observe those dark clouds that some want to put over us. The PP, the…