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What is it? (Vauxhall) The Frontera nameplate hasn’t been used on a Vauxhall since the original car went out of production way back in 2004. Since then, the company has focused on its practical family MPVs and SUVs. Now that the demand for SUVs has risen even more, and the electric revolution is starting to take shape, Vauxhall has decided to bring back one of its household names and put it on its latest offering to rival the Peugeot 2008, Nissan Qashqai and new Citroen C3 Aircross – of which it shares its platform with. With prices starting at £23,495,…

South Korea’s parliament had voted to impeach four officials as a vote on impeaching president Yoon Suk Yeol over his martial law declaration looms. The main opposition Democratic Party and other small opposition parties submitted a joint motion to impeach Mr Yoon on Wednesday over his martial law declaration the previous night. On Friday, the Democrats and other opposition lawmakers voted to impeach Choi Jae-hae, chairman of the country’s board of audit and inspection, and three top public prosecutors, including Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ Office chief Lee Chang-soo. The four will be suspended from their duties until the Constitutional Court…

Why are girls struggling in math? This is the question on everyone’s mind when reading the French results of the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS), conducted in 2023, as it is every four years, in some 50 countries among pupils in fourth and eighth grade, and made public on Wednesday, December 4. Along with Australia and Italy, France is one of the countries with the biggest performance gap between genders in fourth grade. There is a 23-point difference (496 points for boys and 473 points for girls), compared with 13 in the 2019 edition, representing a several-month…

For five days now, Mathias Pogba, 34, has been waiting in his charcoal grey suit, twisting his shoulders and turning his neck as if to shake off tension. Sitting in the front row of the courtroom at the Paris Tribunal, where the trial for kidnapping and extortion against his brother Paul Pogba is taking place, he has had to listen through all the hearings of the other five defendants, trying, unconvincingly, to clear their name. When he finally spoke on Tuesday, December 3, it was to try and justify the videos he posted on social media in August 2022, in…

  The eyes of Víctor Ángel Torres, minister of the Government of Spain, light up when he hears the question. “Is the government afraid of a possible indictment of Pilar Sánchez Acera?” they asked her this Wednesday at an event honoring the Constitution. “Fear of justice, none,” responds the Canary Islands politician before it is known that the Supreme Court refuses “for now” to investigate the senior Moncloa official in the case opened against the State Attorney General for the alleged leak of an email of the case of Isabel Díaz Ayuso’s boyfriend. That exchange, however, reflects the problem facing…

The Chief of Staff of the Navy presents the ‘Armada 2050’ report, a document that has been worked on for two years. “The world’s economic centre of gravity is shifting towards the Indo-Pacific, where the sea will gain importance and it will be necessary to act within the framework of international coalitions.” This is one of the main conclusions of the Armada 2050 report presented yesterday by the Chief of Staff of the Navy, Admiral Piñeiro , at his headquarters. A document that has been worked on for two years to project what the Navy should be like in 2050. In this…

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos said on Wednesday that he was optimistic about the second term of US President-elect Donald Trump. “I’m really very optimistic this time,” Bezos said during an interview at a New York Times event in New York. For Bezos, the main focus is on reducing bureaucracy: “We have too many regulations in this country,” he said. Trump seems to be putting a lot of energy into dismantling regulations: “If I can help with that, then I will help him,” Bezos continued. In October, Bezos banned the Washington Post – which he owns – from supporting a presidential…

It’s actually clear now: In Germany, everyone is allowed to love whoever he or she wants. Is this too good to be true? Gay Marriage, Penis and Love at Christmas: How Far We Will Go for Love

The chief executive of one of the United States’s largest health insurance companies, UnitedHealthcare, was shot and killed outside a New York Hilton hotel in an apparently targeted hit Wednesday. Brian Thompson was shot just before 7 am outside the hotel in the Midtown district of Manhattan. Police are searching for the killer. Police hunt for US healthcare executive’s masked killer after New York attack

News that the civil war in Syria had flared up again came as no surprise to Turkish citizens. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his right-wing nationalist coalition partner Devlet Bahceli have talked about little else than the shift in power in the Middle East and what the possible negative consequences of that could be for Turkey for more than two months now. The suggestion has been that regional changes could be advantageous to Kurds in Syria who have controlled northeastern Rojava — also known as the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES) — since the civil war began…