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Paris aquarium offers safe harbour to abandoned goldfish

Added: 21.08.2018 13:56 | 137 views | 0 comments

Life can look pretty grim for a pet goldfish: a lifetime cooped up in a small glass bowl and, for the most unlucky, a final journey through filth-filled sewers.

Source: www.france24.com

Jailed filmmaker Oleg Sentsov on day 100 of Russia hunger strike

Added: 21.08.2018 8:18 | 130 views | 0 comments

Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov on Tuesday entered day 100 of his hunger strike, as he languishes in a Russian Arctic prison on terror charges with little hope of release.

Tags: Prison , Russia , Strikes , Ukraine

Source: www.france24.com

''All the hallmarks of summary Russian justice'': the Oleg Sentsov case

Added: 21.08.2018 7:26 | 144 views | 0 comments

FRANCE 24''s international affairs editor Douglas Herbert discusses the case of jailed Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov, who entered day 100 of his hunger strike on Tuesday in protest at his detention in a Russian arctic prison on terror charges.

Tags: France , Prison , Protests , Russia , Strikes , Ukraine

Source: www.france24.com

Italy lets migrant ship dock, but fate of passengers unclear

Added: 21.08.2018 3:13 | 124 views | 0 comments

Italy will let its coastguard ship carrying 177 migrants it rescued five days ago dock in Sicily, ending a standoff with Malta, its transport minister said on Monday, though it was not clear when and if the migrants would be allowed to disembark.

Tags: Italy , Malta

Source: www.france24.com

Flash flood kills hikers in Italy gorge

Added: 21.08.2018 1:24 | 122 views | 0 comments

At least 10 people were killed in southern Italy on Monday when they were hurled over rocks by a raging white-water creek in a deep mountain gorge that swelled suddenly after heavy rainfall upstream, officials said.

Tags: Italy , Mountains

Source: www.france24.com

Greeks see no cause for celebration as bailout ends

Added: 20.08.2018 16:01 | 114 views | 0 comments

As Greece officially emerged from an eight-year-long bailout programme on Monday few see reasons to celebrate, with one in five Greeks unemployed, incomes down by a third and taxes skyrocketing.

Tags: Greece , Taxes

Source: www.france24.com

French farms suffer worst anthrax outbreak in 20 years

Added: 20.08.2018 15:51 | 112 views | 0 comments

More than 50 cows, sheep and horses have died in France’s most serious outbreak of anthrax in two decades, according to officials who have warned of a vaccine shortage.

Tags: Horses

Source: www.france24.com

'We showed no care for the little ones,' Pope Francis tells Catholics on sex abuse

Added: 20.08.2018 15:18 | 120 views | 0 comments

Pope Francis issued a letter to Catholics around the world Monday condemning the crime of priestly sexual abuse and its cover-up and demanding accountability, in response to new revelations in the US of decades of misconduct by the Catholic Church.

Tags: Catholic church , Church , France , Pope , Pope Francis

Source: www.france24.com

From Prague Spring to Soviet winter: 50 years since the Warsaw Pact invasion

Added: 20.08.2018 13:28 | 106 views | 0 comments

Some 250,000 Soviet and Warsaw Pact troops invaded Czechoslovakia overnight from August 20 to 21, 1968, to halt a blossoming political and cultural liberalisation, bringing an abrupt end to the Prague Spring and tightening the Kremlin's grip.

Source: www.france24.com

Spanish police treat knife assault near Barcelona as ‘terrorist attack’

Added: 20.08.2018 12:48 | 109 views | 0 comments

A police officer shot dead a man armed with a knife as he tried to attack a police station in the northern Spanish region of Catalonia on Monday, in what authorities are treating as a "terrorist attack".

Tags: Army , Police

Source: www.france24.com

Italy threatens to send stranded migrants ‘back to Libya’

Added: 19.08.2018 16:57 | 121 views | 0 comments

Italy's far-right interior minister threatened Sunday to send "back to Libya" nearly 180 people stranded for three days on an Italian coastguard ship if the EU did not step in to resolve another migrant row with Malta.

Tags: Italy , Malta

Source: www.france24.com

Greek bailout ends, but fears remain for eurozone debt

Added: 19.08.2018 16:17 | 119 views | 0 comments

Greece officially emerges from its bailout program on Monday, after eight years of cutbacks enforced in return for massive loans and an economic collapse on the scale of the Great Depression.

Tags: Depression , Economy , Greece

Source: www.france24.com

Fresh controversy as Italy bans another migrant ship

Added: 19.08.2018 13:22 | 114 views | 0 comments

Italy's populist government has taken a hard line on immigration. In the latest controversy, its transport minister said that although the coast guard had partially aided a migrant ship to save lives, Malta still deserved sanctions for not helping.

Tags: Government , Italy , Malta

Source: www.france24.com

Venezuelan migrants attacked in Brazil border town

Added: 19.08.2018 12:11 | 113 views | 0 comments

Residents of the Brazilian border town of Pacaraima attacked Venezuelan immigrants on Saturday after a local storeowner was robbed, stabbed and beaten in an assault blamed on four migrants, authorities said.

Tags: Brazil , Immigrants

Source: www.france24.com

Police charge UK parliament attack suspect with attempted murder

Added: 19.08.2018 10:28 | 133 views | 0 comments

Sudanese-born British national Salih Khater was charged with two counts of attempted murder on Saturday and will appear in court on Monday after a car careered into people and a barrier at Britain's parliament earlier this week, police said.

Tags: Murder , Police

Source: www.france24.com

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