Новости за 05.04.2022

The assailant and four suspected accomplices were arrested after the bloody attack in the Imam Reza shrine's courtyard, said Mohammad-Hossein Doroudi, chief prosecutor of the northeastern city. "The attacker is a foreign national," he told the Fars news agency, without specifying the country. Amateur video footage showed a man lying in a pool of blood in the courtyard of the site with golden domes and minarets. "A man stabbed three Shiite clerics with knives, killing one and wounding two others,"... Читать дальше...

The EU executive on Tuesday launched a never-used procedure against Hungary that could see the Hungarian government stripped of EU funding for falling short on anticorruption and flouting democratic standards.

For the first time in its more than 20 years of operation the International Space Station (ISS) is getting ready to welcome its first-ever all-private astronaut team. A four-man crew assembled by Houston-based start-up Axiom are set to blast off for the ISS on Friday in what the company and NASA have hailed as a major milestone in the growing commercialisation of spaceflight.

Five days before the French presidential election's first round, far-left candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon is multiplying his efforts – and, in a sense, himself – in a spectacular bid to rally hesitant lefists onside with one final high-tech rally before Sunday's crucial vote. Mélenchon will take the stage on Tuesday night in Lille – while across the country the 70-year-old's hologram addresses crowds in 11 other cities.

The internationally recognised government, supported by a Saudi-led military coalition, and the Iran-backed Huthi rebels have been locked in a violent power struggle since 2014, when the insurgents seized the capital Sanaa. But a two-month truce that started on Saturday -- the first day of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan -- has offered a glimmer of hope in the conflict considered the world's worst humanitarian crisis. Yemen's foreign minister, Ahmed bin Mubarak, in a Twitter post accused the Huthis of ceasefire violations. Читать дальше...

With the arrival of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan in war-scarred Libya, a group of volunteers work around the clock to restore old or damaged copies of the Koran.

The Gabonese professional football federation is on strike, refusing to resume the country's national championship. The government is accused of owing the players more than one and a half million euros. Our team reports.

Venice launched a new program to attract young professionals and digital nomads to repopulate the historic city, as FRANCE 24's Natalia Mendoza reports.

In 2016, Matthieu Aikins was a journalist living in the Afghan capital Kabul. When the war finally pushed his Afghan friend Omar to flee his homeland and leave everything he knew in a bid to reach Europe, Aikins decided to join him. "The Naked Don’t Fear the Water" is the book that came out of the friends' journey, one that is both extraordinary but also painfully commonplace for the millions of Syrian, Iraqi and Afghan refugees who have made similar gut-wrenching decisions to seek out a better life. Читать дальше...

The major Chinese financial centre of Shanghai extended restrictions on transportation on Tuesday after a day of intensive city-wide testing saw new cases surge to more than 13,000, with no end to the lockdown yet in sight.

Sri Lanka's president lost his parliamentary majority Tuesday as former allies urged his resignation, following days of street protests over the island nation's crippling economic crisis. FRANCE 24's Navodita Kumari reports.

Pakistan's top court resumed deliberations on Tuesday about the legality of Prime Minister Imran Khan's attempt to block an opposition bid to oust him, a dispute that has led to political turmoil in the nuclear-armed country.

The Central American country declared the emergency measures -- allowing the arrest of gang members without a warrant -- last week after 87 reported killings from March 25 to 27. And on Monday the president said the 6,000 detained in a little over a week added to the 16,000 gang members already incarcerated in El Salvador's prisons. Speaking at a police barracks in the capital San Salvador, Bukele addressed public concerns of gangs "taking revenge" on the population due to the massive arrest operations. Читать дальше...

The pioneering event has a purse of $750,000 and kicks off Thursday at Waterside Course at Siam Country Club in Pattaya. Golfing action will wrap up Sunday and features 60 Ladies European Tour (LET) and 60 Asian Tour golfers. The line-up includes the Asian Tour number one, American Sihwan Kim, as well as past LET merit list winner Becky Brewerton of Wales. Ahead of tee-off, Kim said he was focused on keeping on the fairway and staying hydrated. "I don't know how long this cool Pattaya weather... Читать дальше...

The court must decide if the deputy speaker of the assembly violated the constitution by refusing to allow a no-confidence vote against Khan at the weekend. The move allowed Khan to get the presidency -- a largely ceremonial role taken by a loyalist -- to dissolve parliament and order an election, which must be held within 90 days. Had the vote taken place, Khan was certain to have been booted from office. President Arif Alvi upped the ante Tuesday by issuing a letter to the opposition saying... Читать дальше...

France said Monday that it was concerned by information that hundreds of civilians had been killed in the Malian village of Moura in an operation by elements of the armed forces joined by Russian mercenary allies.

A former Sudanese militia leader becomes the first person to go on trial at the International Criminal Court (ICC) for war crimes in Darfur, a region ravaged by conflict, on Tuesday. The trial at the Hague-based tribunal opens as some 45 people were killed last week in Darfur in fresh clashes between rival ethnic groups.

Egyptian activist Alaa Abdel Fattah, a key figure in the country’s 2011 revolution, began a hunger strike in prison over the weekend, his mother Laila Soueif said Monday.

Cheryl Brown, the principal at Wilkins Elementary -- where 98 percent of the 400 students are African American and most come from underprivileged backgrounds -- doesn't hide her frustration. "It's hard. It's very hard," she told AFP. "It's taxing on the boys and girls," who spend much of the day at the other school before heading back to Wilkins in the afternoon. "It's taxing on the staff members," she said. Jackson is undergoing a severe water crisis -- despite its status as a state capital in one of the richest countries in the world. Читать дальше...

U.S. Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson secured the support of two more Senate Republicans on Monday, as she cleared a procedural hurdle toward becoming the first Black woman to serve on the nation’s top judicial body.