Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories: legal hearings start today

As of Monday, the highest court of the United Nations is holding hearings on the legal consequences of Israel's occupation of Palestinian territories since 1967, with an unprecedented number of 52 countries called to testify. During a session spread over a week at the Peace Palace in The Hague, seat of the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the United States, Russia and even China will address the

Ramadan: the Muslim holy month should start around March 10

Yesterday, Israeli minister Benny Gantz, a member of Benjamin Netanyahu's war cabinet, warned that Israel would launch an offensive against the city of Rafah if the Israeli hostages held in Gaza were not released by Ramadan, which is due to start around the 10th. March. Benny Gantz said that an offensive would take place, in a coordinated manner and within the framework of a dialogue with Americans and Egyptians, “by facilitating the evacuation of civilians” to minimize “as much as possible” the number of victims in

Growth in France for 2024: drop in the forecast

Bruno Le Maire, Minister of Economy, Finance and Industrial and Digital Sovereignty announced that the French government has significantly reduced its growth estimate for 2024, from 1.4% to now 1%. He revealed “immediate” savings of 10 billion euros on state spending to meet budgetary ambitions. According to the Minister of the Economy, this growth forecast “takes into account the new geopolitical context”.

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This weekend, Russian justice sentenced at least 150 people arrested during tributes to the opponent Alexei Navalny, for violating the strict legislation governing protests, to prison.

Given the nature of Manouchian's fight, Emmanuel Macron considered that the National Rally should refrain from attending Wednesday's ceremony of entry into the Pantheon of foreign communist resistance fighter Missak Manouchian.

During a demonstration in Saïx (Tarn), which had been banned by the prefecture and which resulted in incidents with the police, six opponents of the Toulouse-Castres highway project were arrested.

Emma Stone won the Bafta for Best Actress in “Poor Things.” Christopher Nolan won his first Bafta for Best Director for his biopic on the father of the atomic bomb “Oppenheimer”, which won the Bafta for Best Picture.

At the end of a Bundesliga match that was still interrupted for a long time by the protests of German fans, Munich plunged into a historic crisis, conceding a third consecutive 3-2 defeat to Bochum.