Two leading figures from Hong Kong’s Democratic Party,
@cheuktinglam
and
#TedHui
, were among 16 arrested in the latest police swoop against the pro-democracy movement.
President Emmanuel Macron on Monday was faced with trying to salvage a ruling majority and with it his economic reform agenda after voters punished his centrist 'Ensemble' alliance in France's parliamentary election.
#legislatives2022
Afghan taekwondo athlete
@MarziehHamidi
, who now lives in France as a refugee, has been placed under police protection after protesting against the Taliban's treatment of women.
She tells
@RFI
: "It's very hard. But I'm a fighter, so I can't give up."
Where are Yellow Vest protest banned for today's Act 20?
-Paris: Champs Elysées, National Assembly and surrounding areas
-Toulouse: La place du Capitole
-Avignon: city-wide ban
-Rouen: city centre
-Bordeaux, Epinal, Saint Etienne: city centre
Ghana's opposition candidate John Mahama held a press conference on Sunday to reiterate his rejection of what he deemed "fraudulent" results of the country's presidential elections in which President Nana Akufo-Addo won a second term.
#Ghana
41 countries, including
#France
, have urged
#China
to allow “unfettered access” for independent observers to visit the
#Xinjiang
region amid human
#rights
concerns. Meanwhile, Beijing has arrested staff at
#HongKong
's last pro-democracy newspaper.
Seven of
#HongKong
's top pro-democracy advocates, including an 82-year-old veteran of the movement, were convicted Thursday for their roles in organising and participating in anti-government
#protests
in 2019. Does this spell the death of local
#democracy
?
Hackers from Russia and China targeted France's homeschooling platform, which crashed at the start of the lockdown last week. The cyberattacks originated in Russia and China. Its not clear if the attackers were from either country.
#CNED
@jmblanquer
13 people who claim to be “victims of forced confessions broadcast on Chinese television” are asking Eutelsat, to review company policy of broadcasting Chinese channels CGTN and CCTV-4 in Europe.
@Eutelsat_SA
@CGTNOfficial
The possibility that France's top-selling music artist Aya Nakamura might sing an Edith Piaf song during the Paris Olympics opening ceremony has upset far-right groups.
#Italy
summoned the
#Chinese
ambassador over China’s response to
#EU
sanctions on Chinese officials accused of being involved in human rights abuses on the
#Uyghur
minority in
#Zinjiang
. France and Germany did the same on Tuesday
In its yearly parliamentary session,
#China
has announced massive economic growth, strict rules on
#HongKong
and an increase in military spending. Beijing wants to show the world it is in charge, in spite of the ravages of the
#Covid19
pandemic.
Workers have started cleaning fine lead particles from streets around Paris's Notre-Dame Cathedral. Environmental groups welcome the clean-up but say more has to be done to prevent the risk of lead poisoning linked to this year’s fire
Zimbabwe's "biggest hospital does not, as we speak, have intravenous paracetamol" and "only one maternity theatre is working". And yet funding isn't the problem. Investigative journalist
@daddyhope
talks to RFI's
@LA_Bagnetto
about 🇿🇼
#graft
scandal.
China 🇨🇭 on Friday condemned a visit by a group of French 🇫🇷 senators to
#Taiwan
, accusing the delegation of undermining relations between Paris and Beijing after they said the Chinese territory should be called "a country".
📻Nigeria’s Sultan of
#Sokoto
bans
#ArewaMeToo
campaign rallies, while hundreds turnout for
#NorthNormal
demonstrations in other northern states to denounce violence against women. Listen & read more 👇
@Sani_Scholar
At an appeals court hearing taking place in
#London
, lawyers have argued that the
#British
government’s plan to deport
#AsylumSeekers
to
#Rwanda
undermines the “basic dignity” of people who are escaping war and oppression.
#Migration
Without a parliamentary majority since elections on Sunday,
#French
President Emmanuel Macron faces tough
#energy
policy decisions, caught between the
#gas
crisis caused by
#Russia
's invasion of
#Ukraine
and increasingly vocal environmental groups.
A French court has begun hearing the case of Tran To Nga, a 78-year-old French-Vietnamese woman, against a dozen chemical multinationals for supplying "Agent Orange" to the US military during the
#VietnamWar
, which she says made thousands ill, decades on.
#UK
travellers have rushed home from summer holidays in
#France
to get home before a 14-day
#quarantine
came into force this morning at 4am in response to rising
#covid19
infections –
'Many feel that migrants come to
#Europe
because of extreme deprivation (...) what our report picks out is the power of dreams" says
@yahyamalindi
, author of UN study "Scaling Fences" that dispels panic and myths on irregular
#migration
@UNDPAfrica
#Africa
Paris’s Eiffel Tower marks 130 years since it was opened to the public today. The monument is celebrating by welcoming 1,300 children before hosting a concert and an unprecedented sound and light show in the evening
@LaTourEiffel
#EiffelTower
#Eiffel130
The United States, Germany and the United Nations have expressed concern after Indian police arrested Delhi’s chief minister on corruption charges just weeks ahead of national elections. via
@RFI_En
#Women
in
#politics
:
#RFI
met with
#Istanbul
's CHP leader Canan Kaftancioglu, the mastermind behind Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's biggest electoral defeat. She's preparing to take a stand yet again for
#democracy
and women's rights.
#Turkey
Three Paris police officers suspended for brutally beating a black man apparently for not wearing a mask. It comes as the French government is pushing through a bill that criminalises publishing images of police "with intent to harm" –
#S
écuritéGlobale
#France
's Citizenship Minister, Marlène
#Schiappa
, has promised to help
#parents
deal with on-line
#bullying
in schools. A special task force involving parents, police, teachers and youth associations is to be established to counter a growing menace.
Elton John, Alanis Morissette, Billie Eilish, Annie Lennox and Chris Rock were among the celebrities supporting the
#EU
hosted
#StandUpforUkraine
event which raised €10.1 billion ($11 billion) for Ukrainian
#refugees
on Saturday.
Macron to pay homage to soldiers killed in a hostage rescue in Burkina Faso. A special service will be held at Les Invalides on Tuesday, amid a row over the welcome given to the two French hostages freed during the operation.
A two and a half year investigation into sexual abuse within the French
#CatholicChurch
has found that 216,000 minors were victims of abuse by clergy from 1950 to 2020: a massive phenomenon covered up for decades by a "veil of silence".
French aircraft manufacturer
#DassaultAviation
has offered to equip
#India
’s homemade aircraft carrier with
#Rafale
jets.But the French firm faces stiff competition from America's Boeing,which is pitching F-18 fighter planes for the new vessel.
#armssales
#French
Grand Master
#chess
player Maxime Vachier-Lagrave came in just half a point behind the winner
#Russian
GM Ian Nepomniachtchi in the
#Candidates
tournament - a competition spanning a period of more than one year due to the
#Covid
pandemic.
🇮🇶 Mosul's first book festival📚since the fall of IS in
#Iraq
drew large crowds, poets & writers ushering in what many hope will be a literary renaissance in the ancient city. Hear & read more from Paolo Fontani w/
@UNESCOIraq
👉
The
#kimono
is not just a traditional costume but a dynamic piece of fashion. A new exhibition at Paris’
#QuaiBranlyMuseum
highlights how the iconic Japanese garment has transcended categories and cultures.
France's interior minister says that he will seek to overturn a rule change in the city of Grenoble that would allow women to wear burkinis in state-run swimming pools. via
@RFI_En
The
#French
-operated
#migrant
#rescue
ship Ocean Viking has been cleared to leave the
#Italian
port where it has been stuck for ten days due to red tape.
A Paris court has found guilty all 14 suspects accused of helping to plan deadly attacks on
#CharlieHebdo
magazine, police officers and a kosher store in January 2015. The court dropped
#terrorism
charges against six accused.
France's
#Macron
says Russia 'must answer for crimes' as hundreds of what appear to be civilian corpses were found on streets near Kyiv following pullout of Russian troops.
#BuchaMassacre
#Ukraine
The German theologian and philosopher Joseph
#Ratzinger
, who was head of the Roman
#CatholicChurch
for eight years as
#PopeBenedictXVI
, has died at the age of 95. He had been seriously ill for some time.
Three French figures – including a theologian – have launched an appeal for all of France’s bishops to resign in the wake of a report last week which found 'systemic' child sex abuse within the Catholic Church.
Association of
#Oromos
in France protesting at RFI's offices in Paris against
#Ethiopian
Prime Minister
#AbyiAhmed
's "policy of repression". The longstanding accusation against the government came to a head with the recent murder of protest singer
#HachaluHundessa
in Addis Ababa.
Ukrainian President
#VolodymyrZelensky
urged French firms – including carmaker Renault, supermarket group Auchan and DIY retailer Leroy Merlin – to leave Russia during an address to the French parliament on Wednesday.
Just a cemetary?
#PereLachaise
in Paris is world-famous as the resting place of artists. But Benoît Gallot, curator of the place, found out that wildlife that thrives among the tombs gives a glimpse of another side to the Parisian landmark.
#Cameroon
separatists in self-declared
#Ambazonia
launch the AmbaCoin
#cryptocurrency
, with the hope of raising up to 250 million US dollars to provide humanitarian relief to those affected by the conflict in the
#Anglophone
regions.
A new study in Rwanda has revealed that young gorillas over the age of two that lose their mothers are still able to survive as group members step in. In this video by the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund, Kubaha, an 18-year-old male watches over his young charges
@EmmanuelMacron
addressing supporters after the first round of the French presidential elections. The results are not official yet but he will be facing Marine Le Pen in the second round on 24 April.
Emmanuel Macron and his legions of supporters enjoying themselves at his campaign headquarters Sunday night following news of his first round election victory.
#Presidentielle2022
#FrenchElection
Two rights groups have accused
#Ethiopian
security forces and their allies of waging a campaign of ethnic cleansing in
#Tigray
, a long-contested part of northern Ethiopia. via
@RFI_En
Murder, rape, arson, immolating children and mutilating corpses are among some of the rights abuses allegedly being carried out against indigenous people by military and forest rangers at Kahuzi Biega National Park, in the eastern DRC.
Oceans reached the highest temperatures on record in 2019, according to new research. "We must put a lot more pressure on our politicians to act now before it is too late," says climatologist
@MichaelEMann
, one the report's authors.