Новости за 08.07.2022

The June 2022 French legislative elections have seen a new generation of young, mostly angry lawmakers angling for influence in the National Assembly. Does this spell a real break from the past or merely the rise of hung parliament theatrics for France?

They were among around 2,000 migrants, many from Sudan, who tried to break through the border fence last month, according to Moroccan authorities. It was by far the worst recorded death toll in years of attempted migrant crossings into Spain's Ceuta and Melilla enclaves, which have the EU's only land borders with Africa. Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez at the time blamed "human trafficking mafias" for "a well-organised violent assault". At a meeting Friday in Rabat, the EU and Morocco "agreed... Читать дальше...

British former finance minister Rishi Sunak said on Friday he was running to replace Boris Johnson, three days after helping to launch the cascade of resignations that brought the prime minister down.

Both Lewis Hamilton and George Russell crashed in the top-10 shoot-out at the Spielberg circuit, owned by Verstappen's Red Bull team. The world champion who has tens of thousands of Dutch fans supporting him is joined on the front row of Saturday's 100km sprint by the Ferrari of Charles Leclerc. On the second row are his teammate Carlos Sainz, fresh from his maiden win at Silverstone last weekend, and Sergio Perez in the other Red Bull. Hamilton made a rare mistake to smash into the barrier at... Читать дальше...

Six-time champion Djokovic reached his eighth final at the All England Club and a record 32nd at the Slams by seeing off Cameron Norrie 2-6, 6-3, 6-2, 6-4 in Friday's semi-final. "The job is not finished. One thing is for sure there are going to be a lot of fireworks emotionally from both sides," said the 35-year-old Djokovic. Despite playing in his first final at the majors, Kyrgios boasts a 2-0 edge over the former world number one. In the meetings in Acapulco and Indian Wells in 2017, Djokovic failed to win a set. Читать дальше...

The US, European and Canadian space agencies are gearing up for a big reveal on July 12 of early observations by the $10 billion observatory, the successor to Hubble that is set to reveal new insights into the origins of the universe. "I'm looking very much forward to not having to keep these secrets anymore, that will be a great relief," Klaus Pontoppidan, an astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute (STSI) that oversees Webb, told AFP last week. An international committee decided the... Читать дальше...

Rwandan President Paul Kagame sat down with our special correspondent Marc Perelman in Kigali to talk of the ceasefire agreement reached this week with the Democratic Republic of Congo to ease tensions between the two countries. Watch the interview on our website at 9:10pm Paris time tonight.

The researchers said the fossil found at an archaeological site on June 30 in northern Spain's Atapuerca mountain range is around 1.4 million years old. Until now, the oldest hominid fossil found in Europe was a jawbone found at the same site in 2007 which was determined to be 1.2 million years old. Atapuerca contains one of the richest records of prehistoric human occupation in Europe. Researchers will now have to "complete" their first estimate for the age of the jawbone fragment using scientific dating techniques... Читать дальше...

Tadej Pogacar extended his overall lead in the Tour de France when he won the seventh stage, a 176.3-km ride between Tomblaine and the top of the Super Planche des Belles Filles on Friday.

President Kais Saied proposed a new constitution this month that would limit the role of parliament and boost his own rule. The constitution will be put to a referendum on July 25 in a vote most political parties have already rejected. Our team on the ground reports.

What was shaping up to be a positive summer of travel after years of pandemic-related disruption now seems to be descending into chaos. Over the past week, numerous flights to Canada's major airports were canceled as FRANCE 24's François Rihouay reports.

The Planche des Belles Filles climb is significant for Pogacar, who won his first Tour de France stage here in 2020, a win that brought him the title. On Friday, Pogacar punished all his key rivals, except Vingegaard. Geraint Thomas lost 14sec and Adam Yates 29, as some riders dismounted and pushed up the punishing finale. Having taken the lead on Thursday, Pogacar had warned his adversaries of his intention to win what for him was an emblematic stage, and the 23-year-old led the peloton in the hunt to reel in the escapees. Читать дальше...

Pakistan is home to around 7,000 glaciers, more than can be found anywhere else on Earth outside of the pole. But as climate change heats up the planet, many of these glaciers are now melting, with devastating consequences for those who live nearby.

US President Joe Biden on Friday signed an executive order to help safeguard women's access to abortion and contraception after the Supreme Court last month overturned the Roe v. Wade decision that legalised abortion.

Many older people in Europe experience loneliness and isolation, due to declining health and discrimination against seniors.

Using guns, tasers or machetes, carjackers in Iran are using more and more brazen strategies to threaten drivers and steal their vehicles or valuables. With poverty and unemployment on the rise, the crime is fueled by desperation, as shown in the shocking videos taken on highways and streets around Iran.

Angola's former president Jose Eduardo dos Santos, who ruled Africa's second biggest oil producer for nearly four decades, has died aged 79, the Angolan presidency said Friday.

Biden has been criticized from within his own Democratic Party for his perceived inaction since the landmark Supreme Court ruling late last month that overturned the nationwide to abortion. Biden will sign an order that seeks to "protect patient privacy, including by addressing the transfer and sales of sensitive health-related data (and) combatting digital surveillance related to reproductive health care services," the White House said. The president's hands are largely tied on the hot button issue... Читать дальше...

Civil war On September 20, 1979, Dos Santos takes office as Angola's president after the death of the country's first post-independence leader Agostinho Neto. At the time, the pro-Soviet People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) is fighting a civil war against the pro-Western National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) and the National Front for the Liberation of Angola (FNLA) which erupted just before Angola won independence from Portugal in 1975. While apartheid South Africa backs UNITA... Читать дальше...

"Durham Constabulary will not be issuing any fixed penalty notices (fines) in respect of the gathering and no further action will be taken," the force said in a statement. Both politicians had said they would quit if they were fined over the event in Durham, northeast England, in April last year. The police investigation was launched after a video emerged of Starmer drinking beer and eating a takeaway meal inside a campaign office with party colleagues. "It has been concluded that there is no... Читать дальше...

From fishing and logging to the use of wild plants in medicines and perfumes, societies across the planet are deeply dependent on species that have not been tamed or cultivated in farming, with annual global legal and illegal trade in the hundreds of billions of dollars. But as humans drive alarming biodiversity loss -- and climate change threatens to accelerate the destruction -- the UN's science advisory panel for biodiversity, known as IPBES, called for "transformative changes" in our relationship with wild species. Читать дальше...

This month marks 80 years since the Vél d'Hiv roundup, when French police detained 13,000 Parisian Jews, including 4,000 children, acting on orders from occupying German forces and their French allies in the Vichy Regime. Many were first sent to the Vélodrome d'Hiver stadium, which gave its name to this sinister chapter of French history, before being deported to Auschwitz, never to return. FRANCE 24’s Claire Paccalin and Stéphanie Trouillard met with survivors who managed to escape.

Japan's former prime minister Shinzo Abe was pronounced dead on Friday afternoon, the hospital treating him confirmed, after he was shot at a campaign event. FRANCE 24's Yuka Royer reports from Tokyo.

Fungiculture, or the cultivation of edible mushrooms, is long-developed in the West, while China has become by far the world's largest producer. But it remains very rare in Africa, despite the advantages of being almost free and supplying "clean" food by recycling waste. Cameroonians are particularly fond of mushrooms but have to wait for the rainy season to identify and gather the edible fungi in the wilds of the west-central African country. In Bafoussam, capital of the Western region and fifth largest city... Читать дальше...

"This fire is far from being done, there are fronts in hard-to-reach areas that we haven't tackled and that are advancing freely," said Eric Agrinier, a senior member of the fire service. "It's going to be a feat of endurance." Working into the night after the blaze began late Thursday, firefighters set backfires to protect inhabited areas. "We burn some parts (of the forest) so when the fire spreads it reaches an already-burned zone and slows down, that makes it easier to stop its advance," said Jacques Pages... Читать дальше...