Новости за 25.04.2022

The Republican leader said he would be using his own site, Truth Social, although he appears only to have posted once since its launch in February. "I am not going on Twitter, I am going to stay on TRUTH," Trump said, according to FoxNews.com, adding that Musk was a "good man" who would improve the service. "We're taking in millions of people, and what we're finding is that the response on TRUTH is much better than being on Twitter. Twitter has bots and fake accounts, and we are doing everything we can," he told the network. Читать дальше...

NBA league operations chief Byron Spruell confirmed the fine in a brief statement following Jenkins' rant against the officiating crew in game four on Saturday. Jenkins let rip after Minnesota tied the series with Memphis at 2-2 with a 119-118 victory. Grizzlies coach Jenkins described the game as "one of the most poorly officiated games I've ever seen in my NBA career." "I'm always going to look in the mirror and say: How do we play better, how do we coach better? But, I'm at a loss for words," Jenkins said after the defeat. Читать дальше...

While 90 percent of children in the region in 2015 had received the vaccine for diphtheria, tetanus and whooping cough (DTP3), by 2020 coverage had dropped to three-quarters, according to the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), a regional office of the WHO. This means some 2.5 million children were not fully protected -- and 1.5 million of them have not had even one dose in the three-shot regimen. Globally, according to the World Health Organization, 17.1... Читать дальше...

Several hundred people attended Anzac Day commemorations in France on Monday honouring Australian and New Zealand soldiers who died during World War I, marking the resumption of the annual gathering for the first time since 2019.

A Turkish court Monday sentenced leading intellectual and rights campaigner Osman Kavala to life in jail on highly controversial coup plot charges that had already seen him locked up without a conviction for more than four years. FRANCE 24's Jasper Mortimer reports from Ankara.

European leaders rushed to congratulate France's centrist President Emmanuel Macron on his re-election and defeat of far-right leader Marine Le Pen in elections Sunday. FRANCE 24's Dave Keating reports from Brussels.

The judge, Arthur Engoron, ruled in favor of New York state attorney general Letitia James who is pursuing a civil probe into the ex-president and the Trump Organization. James successfully argued that Trump was in violation of a court order to produce the accounting and tax documents to her investigators by March 31. "In a major victory, a court has ruled in our favor to hold Donald Trump in contempt of court," she wrote on Twitter. "Donald Trump must pay $10,000 per day for every day that he... Читать дальше...

Emmanuel Macron comfortably defeated far-right rival Marine Le Pen in the second round of France's presidential election. The abstention rate was 28.1% against 25.4% in 2017, marking the lowest turnout ever recorded in a French presidential election final since 1969.

Marine Le Pen was soundly beaten in Sunday’s presidential election as weary voters rallied once more to keep her Rassemblement National (National Rally) party from power. But the surge in support for far-right candidates begs the question of how long a creaking “republican front” of anti-Le Pen voters will hold in an increasingly polarised nation.

A Turkish court Monday sentenced leading intellectual and rights defender Osman Kavala to life in jail on highly controversial coup plot charges that had already seen him locked up without a conviction for more than four years.

After a dizzying descent, a SpaceX Dragon capsule carrying the Axiom-1 crew should hit the water at 1:06 pm (1706 GMT), with a ship close by to pick them up. It will mark the official end of the first fully-private mission to the orbiting outpost. Axiom Space paid SpaceX for transport services and NASA for use of the ISS, while charging the three tycoons a reported $55 million each for the privilege. American real estate mogul Larry Connor, Canadian financier Mark Pathy and Israeli impact investor... Читать дальше...

A French nun who recently celebrated her 118th birthday with her traditional port-and-chocolate cocktail is now the world's oldest known person, following the death announced Monday of a Japanese woman one year her senior.

FRANCE 24's Business Editor Cole Stangler explains why Emmanuel Macron's economic record is so contested.

Tucked into the foot of a hill, the entrance is barely visible. But beneath the sandy soils of southern Gaza, lies a complex system of tunnels complete with electric lights, a ventilation system and telecoms cables. With tensions once again escalating in the region, Palestinian militants say they are preparing to use these hidden underground passages in any upcoming conflict with Israel.

Beijing residents snapped up food and other supplies as the city's biggest district began mass COVID-19 testing of all residents on Monday, prompting fears of a Shanghai-style lockdown after dozens of cases in the capital in recent days.

French President Emmanuel Macron won re-election on Sunday despite challenger Marine Le Pen recording the best score ever for her far-right party. Macron's party now faces an uphill battle ahead of June parliamentary elections, with rivals on both left and right vowing to take the fight to him. FRANCE 24 takes a look at some of the main takeaways from France's presidential vote.

A jihadist group in Mali on Monday claimed to have captured a fighter from the Kremlin-linked Wagner mercenary group reportedly fighting Islamist militants in the West African country.

Le Pen recorded the best score ever for the French far right in Sunday's vote, prompting Macron in his victory speech to acknowledge a pressing need to unify the country. AFP looks at five reasons Monday's celebrations at the Elysee Palace need to be tempered by sobriety. A polarised country The post-vote map of France shows startling regional disparities, with Macron largely enjoying support in Paris, the west, southwest and centre of the country, and Le Pen receiving backing in the northern industrial heartlands and Mediterranean south. Читать дальше...

The 86-year-old writer "has beaten Covid. Now he's going home to continue his recovery," his son Alvaro Vargas Llosa tweeted, thanking the medical staff at the clinic. He went in for treatment last week following "complications caused by coronavirus", his son tweeted on Friday, saying he had entered the clinic "a few days ago" with his condition "progressing favourably". The tweet was also signed by the writer's two other children Gonzalo and Morgana. Born in Peru in 1936, Vargas Llosa took Spanish citizenship in 1993. Читать дальше...

The network will start airing at 7:00 pm (1800 GMT) and, after an opening hour of news and discussion, will feature outspoken journalist Piers Morgan interviewing Trump for the show "Uncensored". A promotional clip appeared to show the former US president storming off after being challenged about his claims the 2020 US election was "stolen" from him. Trump, in a statement, claimed Morgan had tried to "unlawfully and deceptively edit his long and tedious interview with me". But the journalist said "it will all be there" when broadcast. Читать дальше...

All 577 deputy seats in the lower-house National Assembly are up for grabs in the votes on June 12 and 19, and Macron's Republic on the Move (LREM) party, with 267 MPs currently, is likely to encounter stiff resistance, analysts say. "The parliament elections are going to be the true election, because getting a majority will be essential," said Dominique Reynie, a political analyst at the Fondapol institute. Yet two polls released just after Macron's victory over far-right challenger Marine Le... Читать дальше...

Boris Johnson was one of the first leaders to congratulate Emmanuel Macron. Friend or foe, he has to work with him. France 24 Hervé Amoric reports.

At least seven people died as a result of the tragedy, which occurred late Saturday just off the coast of the northern port city of Tripoli. It was Lebanon's worst such disaster in years, igniting widespread rage just three weeks before May 15 parliamentary elections. The latest body was retrieved on Monday morning. "The body of a woman from the Al-Nimr family was recovered today from the Tripoli beach," the director general of Tripoli Port Ahmed Tamer told AFP, adding that rescue efforts were ongoing. Читать дальше...

Since the race for a first Covid jab supercharged a new generation of vaccine technology, there have been numerous efforts to develop pan-coronavirus immunisation. Drew Weissman of the University of Pennsylvania, who was a pioneer of the mRNA technology used in Pfizer's Covid vaccine, is leading one such project. He said the problem with updating current vaccines to target all existing strains -- a plan announced by Pfizer earlier this month -- is that "new variants are going to appear every three or six months". Читать дальше...

President Emmanuel Macron beat far-right challenger Marine Le Pen with a solid margin, final results showed on Monday, but he showed no triumphalism as he acknowledged widespread discontent and all eyes turned to the June parliamentary ballot. FRANCE 24 is joined by Jean Beaman, Sociologist and Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara to discuss the surge in support of the far-right, attributing it to France's entire political landscape moving rightward. Marine... Читать дальше...