Ligue 1: Lyon top standings after hard-fought win over OGC Nice
Olympique Lyonnais beat Nice 2-1 in Ligue 1. With this victory, Lyon have moved to the top of an extremely tight league table.
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World Food Programme to end aid for half a million in Gaza due to funding shortfall
The UN World Food Programme has warned that funding shortages will leave about 500,000 people in the Gaza Strip without critical food aid in a territory where two thirds of the population remains acutely food insecure. The WFP said it…
French student protests: ‘There’s been lack of investment in education for years now’
Eve Irvine is pleased to welcome Axel Berra-Vescio, French History-Geography and European section teacher in the Paris region. France’s student protests are exposing what educators describe as years of structural neglect, widening educational inequalities and the cumulative consequences of controversial…
‘Quite horrifying’: Afghan economic crisis leaves EU deportees with ‘very little’ to return to
Europe’s increasingly pragmatic engagement with Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers is exposing a fundamental contradiction between diplomatic non-recognition and political necessity. In an investigation for The New York Times, Pakistan and Afghanistan bureau chief Elian Peltier reveals how European governments are quietly…
Russia pounds Kyiv as Rubio urges Ukraine’s Zelensky to ‘focus’ on ending the war
Russia on Monday said it carried out a “massive strike” on targets in Kyiv and its region as US Secretary of State Marco Rubio denied that Washington had paused intelligence sharing with Ukraine and urged its president Volodymyr Zelensky to…
‘Not a problem of short-term solutions’: French students demand structural change, better conditions
Delano D’Souza is pleased to welcome Gökçe Tuncel, Sociologist and post-doctoral researcher associated with the Université Paris-Est Créteil (UPEC) and the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS) in Paris. What began as a protest over missing teachers…
Live: France’s Yellow Vest movement calls for new round of protests after weekend unrest
France’s Yellow Vest movement called for a new round of protests on Saturday, dubbed Act II, as the country reeled from two days of unrest that saw town halls burned down and hundreds of businesses looted or damaged. Interior Minister…
ISS mission: ‘It’s really exciting to see this renewal of French women in space’
More than six decades after thirteen pioneering women demonstrated they could meet the same demanding physical tests as America’s first male astronauts, gender equality in space exploration remains an unfinished journey, explains Laurène Delsupexhe, Chemical Propulsion Engineer at the European…
Brazil’s Lula, Bolsonaro clash in bitter debate ahead of election run-off
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and right-wing senator Flavio Bolsonaro traded personal attacks in a heated presidential debate on Sunday, a week before a closely contested run-off. The rivals accused each other of lying and corruption while clashing…
Louvre’s $100 million crown jewels still missing one year after daring heist
A year after thieves stole $100 million worth of crown jewels from Paris’s Louvre Museum, four suspects remain jailed awaiting trial, but the treasures are still missing. The October 19 heist saw theives disguised as workers steal eigt historic items,…