Author: Gaston Babineaux

Star: Europe will go down in history as the losing side in the conflict in Ukraine The Ukrainian trump card did not help the West, Star writes. Meanwhile, China and Russia are expanding cooperation, and not only bilateral. While Washington and Brussels struggle to maintain hegemony, Beijing and Moscow are making unexpected moves on the chessboard of international relations. The Chinese leader’s visit to Moscow seems to have worried the United States the most.Of course, we are entering a new period. Before us is the Western alliance, which has not yet managed to close the Ukrainian issue. A revolt is…

It doesn’t feel like we have quite as many “pic facs” or “photo ops” as we once did around Parliament House. They are those staged moments set up for TV cameras that capture some formal moment in the nation’s life or politics. Greeting a foreign dignitary, a meeting of the national cabinet — that sort of thing. It’s all smiles and shaking hands and a few jolly japes exchanged but no formal media questions. Just something to ensure the event is captured for the evening news. On Tuesday afternoon in the prime minister’s office, after Question Time, there was a “Pic-Fac Only”…

IHF Handball World Championship – Final – France v Denmark – Tele2 Arena, Stockholm, Sweden – January 29, 2023 Denmark players celebrate after winning the IHF Handball World Championship REUTERS/Kacper Pempel STOCKHOLM, Jan 29 (Reuters) – Denmark outclassed France to become the first country to win three straight men’s IHF World Handball Championship titles after prevailing in an electrifying final by a score of 34-29 at the Tele2 Arena in Stockholm on Sunday. The Danes led by a single goal at the break before pulling away in the second half, with Rasmus Lauge netting 10 goals from 11 shots for…

World Championship gold medallist Bruno Martini has resigned as President of France’s Ligue Nationale de Handball (LNH) after being handed a one-year suspended prison sentence for corruption of a minor and recording of child pornography images. The former goalkeeper, part of the French team that won the International Handball Federation World Championships in 1995 and 2001, reached a plea deal with prosecutors with prosecutors approved by a court in Paris, receiving a 12-month suspended prison sentence, a five-year ban from professions that included contact with children and a €2,500 (£2,200/$2,700) fine. Martini’s lawyer Elie Dottelonde told Reuters that he had…

We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest French politics news every morning. Nationwide strikes disrupted France’s transport network and schools on Thursday as labour unions demonstrated their opposition to President Emmanuel Macron’s plan to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64. In Paris, metro and commuter trains were hit by sharply reduced services, while about 20 per cent of flights had been cancelled at Orly airport. The SNCF national rail service was running one-third of trains on most high-speed lines, while some Eurostar trains to and from London were cancelled. Ferry links out of…

(ANSAmed) – PARIS, JANUARY 09 – The leader of France’s far-right Rassemblement National (National Rally, RN), Jordan Bardella, has distanced himself from the words used by writer Michel Houellebecq on Muslims of France, describing them as “excessive”. In an interview with the magazine Front Populaire, the author described Muslims as a threat to the non-Muslim French, while partially backtracking later. He said that he did not wish for the French population “Muslims be assimilated, but for them to stop stealing and attacking. Otherwise, another solution is for them to go”, said the best-selling author whose books include Submission, going as…

Football fans in the southern Indian state of Kerala have always distinguished themselves for their love for football in a cricket-crazy country. Sunday was no different as the state geared up to watch the final between Argentina and France. Makeshift screens were set up across the state as Argentinian and French flags fluttered in the streets as fans gathered in their thousands to watch the match. But a couple stood out in their devotion for the beautiful game. Sachin R and R Athira’s wedding date coincided with the final on Sunday. While they agreed on most things about their wedding,…