Новости за 05.04.2023

The investigative report about the Archdiocese of Baltimore, which outlined abuse from the 1940s through 2002, comes amid an ongoing reckoning with widespread abuse and coverups by Church leaders around the world. The Maryland Attorney General's Office said it had identified 156 abusers, including priests, deacons, teachers and seminarians, who "engaged in horrific and repeated abuse," noting how the abusers often took advantage of parents' or a community's trust. "The sheer number of abusers and victims... Читать дальше...

Britain on Wednesday announced plans to house around 500 asylum seekers on a barge, as the government seeks cost-cutting measures and deterrents for arrivals crossing the Channel.

The US House of Representatives has voted to strip China of its status as a developing country. China has condemned the move and refuses to join the ranks of developed or "wealthy" nations. At stake are critical economic and geopolitical issues for the world’s second-largest economy.

US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy greeted Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen in California on Wednesday at the start of a meeting that has already infuriated China, which claims self-ruled Taiwan as its own.

In his annual pre-Masters news conference, Ridley praised the "tone" taken by golfers from both side's of the sport's split during the build-up to the tournament, which gets under way on Thursday, but there was no disguising where his and Augusta's loyalties lie. "We did not extend an invitation to Mr. Norman," Ridley said. "The primary issue and the driver there is that I want the focus this week to be on the Masters competition, on the great players that are participating, the greatest players in the world. Читать дальше...

John Lyndon, Executive Director of Alliance for Middle East Peace spoke to FRANCE 24’s François Picard after clashes erupted inside Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa mosque, talking more broadly about tensions in the region, with concerns being expressed in the international community over the ‘inflamed rhetoric coming out of Israel’.

The 15-time major champion and five-time Masters champion will draw huge galleries at Augusta National, especially after saying Tuesday that he wasn't sure how much longer he will able to compete after severe leg injuries in a 2021 car crash. "I don't know how many more I have in me," Woods said, admitting it crosses his mind sometimes that he might not play in many more Masters. "So much of my life has been here at Augusta National," he said. "Just so excited to be back here again and compete." Woods... Читать дальше...

Indigenous Wayuu communities in the far north of Colombia are particularly affected by the massive construction of wind turbines. In 2016, the Portuguese company EDPR and the Italian company ENEL asked the Jusayu family for permission to build a wind farm and access road on their land in the department of La Guajira. The Jusayu family, goat farmers, refused. But that prompted a campaign of harassment that left one person dead, several injured and 34 displaced, they say.

The item was on the agenda of an executive committee meeting of European football's governing body but for now Belarus has only been stripped of the hosting rights of the 2025 Women's Under-19 European Championship. That means its clubs can still compete in European competitions, and the country's senior men's national team can continue to take part in Euro 2024 qualifying. "I said the matter would be discussed and I also said that only the executive committee could make a decision and nobody else," said UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin. Читать дальше...

Prosecutors in Paris have opened a criminal investigation into allegations that pollution in the capital's metro system is putting travellers' lives at risk, an NGO and authorities said on Wednesday.

A 25-year-old man burst into a preschool in southern Brazil and killed four children with a hatchet-like weapon Wednesday before turning himself in to police, an attack President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva condemned as "monstrous".

Muhoozi Kainerugaba, the son of Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni, has attracted international attention with a range of striking tweets in recent months – starting with a veiled threat to invade Kenya in October and most recently last week, when he offered to deploy Ugandan troops to defend Moscow from “imperialists”. But the running theme in his tweets is the suggestion that he will soon take over from his father.

Salah Abdeslam, a 33-year-old Frenchman already jailed over his role in the Paris terror attacks of November 2015, was facing his first day of cross-examination in the Brussels trial. On March 22, 2016, two suicide bombers blew themselves up at the Belgian capital's airport and another one targeted a metro station, killing 32 people and wounding many more. Investigators believe the Islamic State group cell behind the attacks was linked to the group that carried out the Paris attacks, which left 130 dead. Читать дальше...

A French coastguard ship, "Jacques Oudart Fourmentin", approached the maritime boundary with Britain before turning around and heading back. Minutes later, just over three kilometres (two miles) into British waters, a UK lifeboat arrived, took the migrants aboard and set course for the southeast English port of Dover. For many in Britain, the scene unfolding in the soft dawn light is a source of frustration and anger: France appearing to escort migrants into UK waters, and a charity then picking them up. Читать дальше...

Tilapia is the most consumed fish in West Africa and in Togo local fish farms help to meet the region's insatiable demand. But they must also fight competition from cheaper foreign imports and even fish smuggled in from China.

Ugandan and South Soudanese troops have joined a regional force battling M23 rebels in eastern DR Congo, while aid groups have warned not enough is being done to help those fleeing the violence.

Gunmen in Nigeria's northern Kaduna state kidnapped at least eight students from a government secondary school, authorities said on Tuesday, in the latest in a wave of such abductions in the region.

A falling local currency, salary arrears payments and war spending have pushed up prices in impoverished Democratic Republic of Congo, leaving locals struggling to afford basics.

Schiappa, whose ministerial brief covers the social economy and associations, spearheaded the creation of a 2.5-million-euro ($2.7 million) fund in her previous job at the interior ministry. It is meant to finance the fight "separatism" after the 2020 killing of history teacher Samuel Paty by an Islamic extremist. But journalists from broadcaster France 2 and weekly Marianne cast doubt last week on the work carried out by a Paris-based charity that was one of the biggest recipients of the public cash. Читать дальше...

A meeting with France's prime minister Elisabeth Borne to discuss the government's controversial pension reform plans was a "failure", union bosses said Wednesday, after walking out of the talks less than hour after they started. Unions have called for another day of strikes and protests over the reforms on Thursday.

Prosecutors had filed a lawsuit in April against We Will Stop Femicide Platform, one of the country's leading feminist organisations. If convicted, it could be shut down. The group has been campaigning against the murder and abuse of women since its foundation in 2010. Protesters gathered alongside the families of murdered women outside Istanbul's main court ahead of the third hearing in the case, unfurling a large banner: "The platform will not stop. Women's murders will stop". "We will defend... Читать дальше...

A new exhibit at the Louis Vuitton Foundation in Paris opened Wednesday, looking at one of the greatest collaborations in modern art – that of Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat. The exhibition brings together some 70 paintings the two produced together in the 1980s.

Lukaku scored a stoppage-time penalty which secured Inter a 1-1 draw in Tuesday's first leg of the semi-final between Italy's most widely supported clubs, a game that ended with three players sent off and the two teams at each other's throats. One of those red cards was for an incredulous Lukaku, who was dismissed for a second booking for his celebrations following his dramatic equaliser, before which he was abused by a small number of home supporters. The Belgium striker held his finger to his... Читать дальше...

In an interview with FRANCE 24 in New York, former US counterterrorism czar Richard Alan Clarke described the main threats facing the United States' cyberspace and warned that Russia's cyber weapons could potentially "do a lot of damage" in the US. To explain why this hasn't happened so far, he cited an "unwritten rule" he believes the US and Russia are both following: "[if] you don't attack me, I won't attack you".

Former President Donald Trump was charged on Tuesday with 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in a historic case over allegations he orchestrated hush-money payments to two women before the 2016 U.S. election to suppress publication of their sexual encounters with him.