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More than 50 countries, 20 non-governmental and philanthropic organisations and a series of multinational companies are pledging this week to put children's rights at the heart of their policies and actions. A pact is being agreed upon at the Paris Peace Forum, where the rights of children are taking centre stage.
Within a decade, one of the largest glaciers in southern Europe will have disappeared. Aneto, the highest peak of the Spanish Pyrenees, is melting at a spectacular rate. Its demise is another sign of global warming and has much to teach glaciologists. FRANCE 24's Maude Petit-Jové, Mathilde Lopinski and Sarah Morris report.
Republicans in the US House of Representatives banded together on Tuesday to derail aneffort to impeach Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. Fraser Jackson, our correspondant in Washington DC, has more.
PRESS REVIEW – Wednesday, November 11: Spanish and French papers discuss protests in the two countries. An investigation by The Guardian and ITV accuses comedian David Walliams of "preying on young women for sex". Finally, a Doberman sensed something was wrong with a baby. It may have saved his life.
Eve Irvine is pleased to welcome Thierry Bros, energy & climate expert and Professor of Science and Economics at Sciences Po. As geopolitical conflicts unsettle global energy markets and governments struggle to reconcile climate commitments with economic and security imperatives, the answer lies in a fundamental reconsideration of the sequence of climate policy. "Electrification first," he argues, acknowledging…
This collection of 40 short stories from the International Booker winner is full of invention and warmth In the titular story of Georgi Gospodinov’s short-story collection The Man With Many Names, the narrator reveals: “Telling our personal stories is the only move we can make … that allows us to postpone for at least a little while this game’s foregone ending.” It’s as good a description as any of the Bulgarian…
Bessent, the driving force behind US push to cripple Iran’s economy, relocates reportedly over threat to his life The US Treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, has relocated from his home in the Washington area to a military base after an Iranian threat against his life, the New York Times reported on Tuesday . Bessent has spearheaded a US push to cripple Iran’s economy since the start of the Middle East war, vowing…
It’s not just backcombing, betrayals and bonking in this second part of series two. There are moments of real poignancy Tony Baddingham? Tony Worse-ingham, more like! For reasons best known, one suspects, to streaming giant Disney’s revenue-maximisers, the second series of Rivals has been split up into two parts of six episodes each. We left the rutting folk of Rutshire just after Rupert Campbell-Black (Alex…
Israeli ex-army chief Gadi Eisenkot and his allies launched a legislative onslaught against caretaker Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's legacy on Tuesday, as a new parliament convened in a heated first session.
Pope Leo will conclude his three-day visit to Argentina on Wednesday with an outdoor mass expected to draw millions, before traveling to his hometown of Peru. The pontiff plans to give a speech to Peruvian president Keiko Fujimori, whose election earlier this year was marred by fraud accusations and vote-counting delays.
As she releases a brutally honest memoir, the new wave icon opens up about industry sexism, living with bipolar disorder and becoming ‘the world’s first atheist ordained minister’ The first thing Jane Wiedlin tells me before our interview even begins is that, an hour or so earlier, she downed two beers. “It keeps me cheerful,” she says with a laugh. The disclosure dovetails with the reason we’re doing the…
ExxonMobil has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Venezuelan government and its state-owned oil company to explore opportunities in the country.
181GW of gas-fired capacity proposed for sites in US and Europe because of delays in connecting to national grids, says report Developers of AI datacentres plan to build on-site climate-destroying gas power stations on a huge scale to meet their energy demands, research reveals. Datacentres planned across the US, the UK and mainland Europe have proposals to build fossil fuel plants on-site to create 181GW of…
The EU said Tuesday it would look to provide a "swift and united response" after France blamed Iran for a cyberattack on hundreds of supermarket fridges.
NASA is expanding its astronaut corps for the first time in two years. As the US space agency grows its Artemis programme, recruitment is in progress for a brand-new class of space explorers who will train to "live and work beyond Earth".
Danny Baker pays tribute to the ‘funniest man I knew’ Kelly was former editor of the NME and Q magazines Danny Kelly, the renowned sport and music journalist, has died at the age of 69. A statement from TalkSport, who he joined in 2007 and for whom he broadcast regularly until stepping away in March after being diagnosed with throat cancer, read: “We are heartbroken to share that our much-loved friend and…
Portuguese authorities strongly advised organisers of the Web Summit to cancel events this Wednesday because of risks of tidal flooding and severe disruption to public transport. Storm Charles is expected to be at its most dangerous on Wednesday afternoon, with winds reaching up to 120 km/h and potentially very dangerous wind gusts as well.