Issued on: 21/05/2022 – 21:24 Kylian Mbappe has signed a contract extension with Paris St Germain that will keep the France forward tied with the Ligue 1 side until 2025, the French champions said on Saturday. “I wanted to announce that I have chosen to extend my contract at Paris St Germain, and I am
Issued on: 19/05/2022 – 09:50 Conflicts and natural disasters forced tens of millions to flee within their own country last year, pushing the number of internally displaced people to a record high, monitors said Thursday. Some 59.1 million people were registered as internally displaced worldwide in 2021 — an all-time record expected to be broken
Issued on: 17/05/2022 – 17:27 Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has expressed strong views against Sweden and Finland’s entry into NATO. He has accused the two Nordic countries, in particular Sweden, of serving as a refuge for the “terrorists” of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, Ankara’s bête noire. However, will Turkey go all way and block the
Issued on: 13/05/2022 – 15:34 Since March, migrants have again begun to ask NGOs for aid after being stranded in the forest at the Polish-Belarusian border. In 2021, tens of thousands of migrants had attempted this new migration route in the hope of reaching the European Union. According to our Observer, a member of the Grupa Granica
Burkinis have been a long-standing catalyst for dispute in France, calling societal attitudes towards Islam and feminism into question. Rule changes in Grenoble’s swimming pools suggest that opposition to the garment could be receding. With summer opening times for municipal swimming pools soon to come, Grenoble’s town hall will vote on May 16 on potential
Issued on: 15/05/2022 – 01:42 Ukraine’s Kalush Orchestra won the Eurovision Song Contest in Italy on Saturday with their entry “Stefania”, riding a wave of public support to claim an emotional victory that was welcomed by the country’s president. Sung in Ukrainian, the winning song fused rap with traditional folk music and was a tribute to band
Italy will host the final of the 66th Eurovision Song Contest on Saturday evening with one country notably absent: Russia was excluded from the competition in February following its invasion of Ukraine. Despite the competition organisers’ insistence that the contest is a non-political event, the conflict in Europe looks set to dominate the public vote. Bets are already
Issued on: 13/05/2022 – 22:07 The leader of Georgia’s breakaway region of South Ossetia on Friday set July 17 as a date for a referendum on joining Russia. “Anatoly Bibilov signed a decree on holding a referendum in the Republic of South Ossetia,” his office said in a statement, citing his people’s “historic aspiration” to
The Ukrainian military demonstrated its prowess once again on Wednesday, when satellite images showed dozens of Russian tanks and armoured vehicles destroyed after failing to cross the Donets River. The episode cost the Russian military an entire battalion – the latest sign that Russia’s pivot to eastern Ukraine is not working as planned. “Recently, I
Issued on: 12/05/2022 – 22:48 French far-right TV pundit-turned-politician Eric Zemmour said Thursday he would seek a seat in parliament standing in the glitzy constituency around Saint-Tropez, three weeks after failing with a presidential bid. The Paris-born 63-year-old is seeking to establish his new party, Reconquest, as a national political force in parliamentary elections next
