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"Nottingham Forest can confirm that it has today lodged an appeal against the four point sanction imposed by the Commission in relation to the Club's breach of the Premier League's Profit & Sustainability Rules," the club said in a brief statement on its website. "The club will not be making any further statement at this time," added Forest. On March 18, the Premier League club were docked four points after admitting breaching their profitability and sustainability rules (PSR) threshold of... Читать дальше...

Harlequins' Care, 37, played his 101st and final England game in this month's Six Nations loss against France - 16 years after making his debut in 2008. "Playing for England has meant the world," Care said on social media. "It's meant an awful lot for me to represent this country. "I've never taken it for granted, I would never take it for granted," he added. Care became the sixth England men's player to reach the century during the narrow Six Nations victory over Ireland at Twickenham on March 9. Читать дальше...

Sharon Kalderon, whose brother-in-law Ofer Kalderon,53, was kidnapped from the Nir Oz kibbutz community near Gaza during the October 7 attack by Hamas, first opposed the celebrations. But then she and other relatives of the hostages agreed to lead it. "We tried to cancel it, it didn't succeed. So we are here for them, reminding them we are in the front," she told AFP. Purim celebrates the Jewish people's rescue from a Persian extermination plot recounted in the Bible's Book of Esther. It is traditionally marked with costumes... Читать дальше...

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Monday that the gunmen who carried out the concert hall attack that killed over 130 people in a Moscow suburb last week were “radical Islamists.”

"We need to be aware that if we play like that in the big matches that lie ahead of us, we are setting ourselves up for major disappointment," Mbappe said on Monday, following Saturday's 2-0 defeat against the European Championship hosts in Lyon. Germany took the lead through a Florian Wirtz strike after just eight seconds, with Kai Havertz scoring their second goal shortly after half-time. It was just France's second defeat since they lost the 2022 World Cup final on penalties to Argentina in... Читать дальше...

England, among the favourites to win the tournament in Germany, face Belgium at Wembley on Tuesday hampered by a long list of absentees including captain Harry Kane, Bukayo Saka, Kyle Walker and Harry Maguire. Southgate's men are smarting after a 1-0 defeat to Brazil on Saturday -- their first loss since their World Cup quarter-final exit to France in December 2022. They now face Belgium, fourth in the FIFA world rankings, in their final match before the June 7 deadline for the submission of squads, a week before the tournament starts. Читать дальше...

Steve Clarke's squad are smarting from a 4-0 friendly defeat against the Netherlands in Amsterdam on Friday, the first of four warm-up games ahead of Euro 2024 in Germany. After Michael O'Neill's side visit Glasgow, Scotland will take on Gibraltar and Finland in June before they face hosts Germany in the opening match of the European Championship. The Manchester United midfielder believes Clarke's men, 34th in the FIFA rankings -- 40 places above Northern Ireland -- are still in a good place, despite recent results. Читать дальше...

From a Dakar prison to the presidency, Senegal's anti-establishment Bassirou Diomaye Faye embodies the winning charisma of his mentor and opposition figurehead Ousmane Sonko, who endorsed him as his replacement.

The race for accommodation in Paris could be an Olympic sport in itself. The number of rentals available is plummeting while prices are soaring, yet real estate agents are overwhelmed with demand. From short-term rentals to efficiency upgrades, prospective tenants are paying the price for the ongoing crisis. We take a closer look.

Donald Trump was thrown a huge lifeline Monday when an appeals court slashed what could have been a crippling demand for a nearly half-billion-dollar bond payment and also gave him 10 more days to pay.

President Emmanuel Macron said on Monday that the gunmen who killed 137 people in a concert hall outside Moscow were part of an Islamic State branch that was behind foiled attempts to attack France over the past few months. This explains why the French government on Sunday increased the country's security alert to its highest level, Macron and Prime Minister Gabriel Attal said.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday said he will not send a delegation as planned to Washington after the United States refrained from vetoing a U.N. Security Council proposal calling for a ceasefire in Gaza.

Dozens of waiters and waitresses competed in the streets of Paris to win the "Course des garçons de café" and be crowned the fastest server in town. Pierre Rabadan, deputy city mayor in charge of sport, says the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games provide an "opportunity to relaunch a certain number of things", including this race to "highlight the DNA and culture of Paris".

Senegal’s ruling coalition candidate Amadou Ba has conceded defeat in the country’s delayed presidential election, calling his rival Bassirou Diomaye Faye to congratulate him on his victory after early results suggested he had built up a commanding lead. However, official results are not expected until Friday.

The UN Security Council on Monday demanded an immediate ceasefire in Gaza during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, its first demand to halt fighting in the Palestinian enclave. The US abstained from voting on the resolution, which also demanded the release of all hostages taken captive during the October 7 Hamas attack but did not link that demand to the ceasefire during Ramadan.

The announcement came as the US Department of Justice in Washington said it had charged seven Chinese nationals in connection with a 14-year campaign against critics of Beijing. In London, deputy prime minister Oliver Dowden told MPs the attacks in 2021 and 2022 compromised the Electoral Commission and UK parliamentary accounts, including those of lawmakers critical of China. "Chinese state affiliated actors were responsible for two malicious cyber campaigns targeting both our democratic institutions and parliamentarians," he said. Читать дальше...

Amid chaotic violence and grave food shortages, as Hatians anxiously await progress in their leaders' new attempt at forming a transitional unity government, FRANCE 24's Delano D'Souza is joined by Jean-Martin Bauer, Country Director for the United Nations' World Food Programme, Haiti.

"The election [in Senegal] went smoothly", said FRANCE 24's Marc Perelman. This was not a given, with all the incidents that have happened in the run-up to the election, he added. "[Opposition candidate Bassirou Diomaye Diakhar Faye] Bassirou was in jail just a couple of weeks ago".

Senegal opposition candidate Bassirou Diomaye Faye was set to be declared the country's next president after his rival from the ruling coalition called him on Monday to concede defeat.

This March 25 marks 100 years since a landmark decree in France that granted girls access to the same middle and high school education as boys in a legislative turning point for co-education in the country. France 24's Solange Mougin takes a look.

Voters flocked to the ballot boxes in Senegal on Sunday in a delayed presidential election many hope will bring change after a turbulent political period that triggered violent anti-government protests and boosted support for the opposition.

Russia has ordered four men accused of killing at least 137 people in a massacre at a Moscow concert hall to be held in custody on "terror" charges, with the attack being claimed by a regional branch of the Islamic State group. France 24's Angela Diffley takes a look at why the group would see Russia as a target.

Political chaos and street violence in Haiti are taking place against a backdrop of increasingly desperate hunger, with the situation quickly becoming a "humanitarian emergency", Jean-Marie Bauer, the World Food Programme representative in Haiti, tells France 24. The hunger crisis requires a long-term commitment from the international community from more donations if crisis is to be averted, he says.

Thousands of people have fled Haiti’s capital in recent weeks as gangs continue to run riot, with many coming to New York and the town of Spring Valley, home to around six thousand Haitians with more arriving every day. They with them the trauma from the violence back home and from what they experienced on the grueling journey to the US. Many also worry for their family still in Haiti.

Donald Trump faces a Monday deadline to post a bond to cover a $454 million civil fraud judgment or face the risk of New York state seizing some of his marquee properties. Trump, seeking to regain the presidency this year, must either pay the money out of his own pocket or post a bond while he appeals Justice Arthur Engoron's Feb. 16 judgment against him for manipulating his net worth and his family real estate company's property values to dupe lenders and insurers.