Новости за 22.04.2022

The three-time world champ told the Brazilian TV program Esporte Espetacular that he was "better" and would resume competition next month, according to excerpts of an interview released Friday. "I learned a lot during the time I walked away from the competition, and I feel like I’m 100 percent. That’s why I’m announcing my return," the 28-year-old said. In January, Medina announced he was taking a break, joining gymnast Simone Biles and tennis player Naomi Osaka on a list of sports stars who have said they are battling psychological stress. Читать дальше...

A French appeals court on Friday overturned the convictions of two police officers accused of raping a Canadian woman at their Paris headquarters eight years ago.

A blast ripped through a mosque during Friday prayers in northern Afghanistan, killing 33 people and wounding 43 more, a Taliban spokesman said, just a day after the Islamic State group claimed two separate deadly attacks. Since Taliban fighters seized control of Afghanistan last year after ousting the US-backed government, the number of bombings has fallen but the jihadist and Sunni IS has continued with attacks against targets they see as heretical.

The iconic species -- revered in Aboriginal culture but the bane of modern ranchers -- has been Australia's top predator since the extinction of Tasmanian tigers last century. However, "the evolutionary position of the dingo has been divided for a substantial period of time," co-author Bill Ballard of La Trobe University and the University of Melbourne told AFP. Some hold that the lean, tan-colored canines brought to the continent 5,000 to 8,500 years ago are simply another form of domestic dog. Читать дальше...

Israeli police clashed with Palestinian protesters on Friday in the latest violence at Jerusalem's flashpoint Al-Aqsa mosque compound, as the United Nations voiced deep concern at spiralling unrest. The Palestinian Red Crescent said that 57 people were wounded, including 14 Palestinians taken to hospital, one of them in a serious condition, after police stormed the compound in Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem's Old City.

The 21-year-old Toyota driver led after the day's eight stages with the Hyundai pair of Thierry Neuville of Belgium and 2019 world champion Ott Tanak of Estonia just behind. Rovanpera, who won last time out in Sweden, opened the day's action and swept to victory in six stages. "Really tough conditions. Even more foggy than during the morning and there was a few kms of full fog," he tweeted. "I just tried keep my pace and make no mistakes. We had to have the heater on for mist so it's quite hot... Читать дальше...

The 24-year-old Dutchman drove his Red Bull with care and aplomb to avoid problems on a day of frequent crashes and five red flags that left Ferrari's championship leader frustrated. It was Verstappen's first pole this season and the 12th of his career. The 100km sprint race will set the grid for Sunday's Grand Prix. Lando Norris was third for McLaren ahead of Kevin Magnussen of Haas, Fernando Alonso of Alpine and Daniel Ricciardo, who was sixth in the second McLaren. "It was tricky out there with the rain ... Читать дальше...

After three years of upgrades and maintenance, scientists are finally getting ready to restart the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), a nervous moment as they wait to see if the vastly complex machine will work as intended. A decade after confirming the existence of the Higgs boson, researchers will this time be looking for evidence of elusive dark matter.

One of Turkey's most famous prisoners made his final appeal for freedom on Friday, at the culmination of a years-long trial that has come to define Ankara's tense ties with Western allies in the wake of a failed 2016 coup. Paris-born activist and philanthropist Osman Kavala was a relative unknown when he was detained on his arrival at Istanbul's airport from a trip to a cultural centre in the Turkish city of Gaziantep in October 2017.

The previous record for persistent infection -- rather than repeated bouts of Covid -- is thought to be 335 days, the team from King's College London and Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust said. One of the study's co-authors, consultant virologist Gaia Nebbia, said the unnamed individual was diagnosed in mid-2020 with respiratory symptoms that later improved. But they then tested positive about 45 times before attending hospital up to their death. Nebbia said persistent infection with SARS-CoV-2... Читать дальше...

A fuel tanker that sank in waters off Tunisia last weekend was empty, the government said on Friday, ruling out the risk of pollution.

Former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernandez was extradited to the United States Thursday to stand trial for allegedly aiding the smuggling of hundreds of tons of cocaine to America.

Pakistan's ousted prime minister, Imran Khan, on Thursday demanded fresh elections amid political turmoil after a new government took over and warned it faces an enormous challenge to revive a battered economy. Khan asked his supporters to be ready for his call to march toward Islamabad if his demand to call fresh elections was delayed, as our team on the ground reports.

The Austrian boss of the defending constructors' champions, who reeled off eight consecutive team titles between 2014 and last year, admitted his frustration after opening practice at the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix on Friday. "Obviously, it is really painful while you are in the moment and certainly when I see our car pounding around five seconds off the pace you want to strangle yourself." He said he was trying to take a positive attitude to the problem. "But, as a matter of fact, I enjoy the challenge and I enjoy it being bad because... Читать дальше...

The Springboks will also be based in Paris for a week leading into the third pool match against Ireland at the Stade de France. South Africa had a selection of three potential bases in the south of France, but after inspections by head coach Jacques Nienaber and the team’s head of operations Charles Wessels, Toulon was the preferred venue. The Springboks will launch their title defence against Scotland on September 10 in Marseille, before taking on Spain a week later in Bordeaux, Ireland on September... Читать дальше...

The Democrat has campaigned heavily for environmental protections and US leadership in the response to global warming, but has regularly run up against lack of support in Congress. His executive order, signed in the heavily wooded and often spectacularly wild Washington state, will recognize the importance of America's old-growth forests in regulating climate change -- but also their vulnerability in an era of ever more intense wildfires. In the order, Biden requires officials overseeing federal... Читать дальше...

Betis have won three trophies in their 115-year history, the last of them coming in the Copa del Rey in 2005, when a 12-year-old Fekir was just joining the youth academy at Lyon, the club that released him two years later for not being strong enough. In the Copa del Rey final between Betis and Valencia on Saturday, Fekir will be perhaps the toughest player on the pitch, a brooding, muscular attacking midfielder, who has suffered more fouls per game this season than any other player in La Liga. He has been a driving force for Betis too. Читать дальше...

Britain and India signed a new defence cooperation agreement on Friday and will look to complete a free trade deal by the end of the year, their leaders said after a meeting in New Delhi. FRANCE 24's Edward Haywood reports from New Delhi.

Two years after Senegal banned single-use plastic on April 20, 2020, environmental activists say the law isn’t being upheld. One of these activists is a man named Modou Fall who is trying to raise awareness for the anti-plastic movement by walking around Senegal in a colourful, eye-catching costume made of plastic bags.

The French military has said it has videos of Russian mercenaries burying bodies near an army base in northern Mali, which it says is part of a smear campaign against the French, who handed the Gossi base over to Malian forces earlier this week.

Test strips that can detect the presence of fentanyl are becoming increasingly common in bars and restaurants across the San Francisco Bay Area as a way for drug users accidentally overdosing on the potentially fatal opioid, which has contributed to nearly 500,000 deaths in the US over the past two decades.

Tight border restrictions helped the kingdom limit infections and deaths in 2020 but brought the tourism sector -- which had accounted for about a fifth of the country's economy -- to its knees. Thailand's Covid-19 taskforce said that from May 1, fully vaccinated visitors would no longer have to take a test on arrival and wait in a hotel room for the result. Taskforce spokesperson Taweesin Visanuyothin said authorities will now only require arrivals to show proof of vaccination and health insurance coverage of at least $10,000. Читать дальше...

Baseball is the most popular spectator sport in South Korea and the games are a chance for fans to let loose, fuelled by liberal supplies of alcohol and fried chicken. Since the pandemic however spectators were supposed to watch the games in relative quiet and wear a face mask -- if they were allowed to attend at all -- and chicken and beer were available only for consumption out of sight of the field. The Korea Baseball Organization later started allowing eating at most stadiums and on Friday announced the lifting of the ban on cheering... Читать дальше...

Days before Osman Kavala’s appearance in a Turkish court on Friday, his wife, Ayse Bugra, gave an exclusive interview to FRANCE 24. She spoke about the accusations faced by the so-called "red billionaire", a prominent member of Turkish civil society who has been behind bars without a sentence since October 2017. He risks life in prison if he is found guilty of "attempting to overthrow the government".

These are no ordinary headaches -- they are cluster headaches, which cause such extreme pain, normally behind one eye, that doctors compare it to having a limb amputated without anaesthetic. Also called "suicide headaches" because the pain provokes suicidal thoughts, this severe neurological condition is suffered by around 1 in 1,000 people worldwide, according to the Migraine Trust. For some it strikes only occasionally, but Wattrelos has spent nearly a decade crippled by near constant attacks. Читать дальше...