Notices by Vittoria Pirone 🇪🇺 (vittoria@mastodon.social)

French prosecutors demanded Wednesday that far-right leader Marine Le Pen receive a jail sentence and be banned from public office for five years over charges she embezzled European Parliament funds. FRANCE 24's Shirli Sitbon reports.
#France #LePen #FarRight

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K89tMWfFIR4

One of the stark realities highlighted at the latest UN General Assembly was the underrepresentation of women leaders. Out of 193 countries, only 20 women addressed the General Assembly, an unsettling statistic in an era where gender parity is a global priority. FRANCE 24's Jennie Shin speaks to Susana Malcorra, President & co-Founder of GWL Voices
#equality #women
https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/a-propos/20241111-after-80-years-things-can-be-done-differently-female-un-leadership-advocate-says

via Reuters
The U.S. Supreme Court denied on Tuesday a bid by former independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has endorsed Republican Donald #Trump , to be removed from the ballot in #Wisconsin and #Michigan for the Nov. 5 #election . Kennedy has said he wants voters who would have backed him to cast ballots for Trump.
#SCOTUS

North Korea's foreign minister arrived in Russia on Tuesday for talks as the Russia-Ukraine war appeared to take a dangerous new turn, with NATO and South Korea expressing alarm that North Korean troops could soon be joining in on Moscow's side. FRANCE 24's Mark Owen speaks to Dr Samuel Ramani from the Royal United Services Institute. He says that the vast majority of North Korean troops will become 'cannon fodder' on the Ukrainian front.
#Ukraine #Russia #NorthKorea

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2g3fbdo4yI

Israel's parliament has passed two laws that could prevent the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees, a main provider of aid to Gaza, from being able to continue its work. The laws ban the agency, UNRWA, from operating in Israel, designate it a terror organization, and cut all ties between the agency and the Israeli government. FRANCE 24's James Vasina reports
#Israel #Gaza #UNRWA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qmOFX6ZdW8

Who is the shadowy billionaire, Bidzina Ivanishvili, behind the ruling Georgian Dream party - which claimed victory in Saturday's contested election? Emerald Maxwell takes a look at Georgia's richest man and one-time pro-Western Prime Minister, whose party has drifted towards Russia since the war in Ukraine, while becoming increasingly authoritarian.
#Georgia #election #Russia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4LPRyLFbdA

A new investigation by the NGO Disclose has found that the port of Brest in Brittany here in France, is being used as a crucial stop for tankers delivering gas valuable to president Vladimir Putin. FRANCE 24's Jennie Shin speaks to the author of the investigation, Alexander Abdelilah.
#Russia #Ukraine #sanctions #gas #energy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QbAj1OLMtc

#Ukraine 's #forests have become another serious casualty in the war with #Russia . Shelling and fires have devastated vast areas, predominantly in the East of the country. This destruction is part of a larger environmental crisis affecting Ukraine's 10 million hectares of forest, with #wildlife suffering habitat loss and areas riddled with mines. FRANCE 24's Sharon Gaffney speaks to Dr Eoghan Darbyshire, from the Conflict and Environment Observatory.
#environment
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ok0KXC4FaFE&t=2s

French authorities have ordered Omar bin Laden, a son of slain #AlQaeda leader Osama bin Laden, to leave the country over posts on social media, France's interior minister announced on Tuesday. Born in Saudi Arabia, where he spent his early years, Omar bin Laden, 43, has also lived in Sudan and Afghanistan. He left his father at the age of 19 and eventually settled in Normandy in northern France in 2016, taking up painting. FRANCE 24's Vedika Bahl reports.
#France
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5KOi0D-fSI

Iran's foreign ministry called on the United Nations Security Council to take "meaningful action" to prevent threats against regional peace and security, after Tehran launched a salvo of #missiles against Israel on Tuesday. FRANCE 24's Sharon Gaffney speaks to Randa Slim, Director of Conflict Resolution at the Middle East Insititute. She says that most countries in the region would not mind if Iranian influence were reduced.
#Iran #Israel #Hezbollah
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZqIg5TxBUE

The former wife of a Frenchman accused of enlisting strangers to rape her while she was drugged said Wednesday she felt humiliated during his trial, accusing some defence lawyers of claiming she was complicit in the abuse. "Since setting foot in this courtroom I have felt humiliated," Gisele Pelicot, 71, said at the trial of her former husband and 50 other men for rape. FRANCE 24's Eliza Herbert takes a look at the other defendants accused of raping her.
#France #rape
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97yd-vOESD0

Hand-held radios used by Lebanese armed group #Hezbollah detonated on Wednesday across Lebanon's south, in #Beirut suburbs and the Bekaa Valley, further stoking tensions with Israel a day after similar explosions by the group's pagers. #Lebanon's health ministry said 14 people had been killed and 450 injured on Wednesday, while the death toll from Tuesday's #explosions rose to 12, including two children, with nearly 3,000 injured. FRANCE 24's Emerald Maxwell reports.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dpz1Nlz9dJw

Russia on Thursday claimed to have recaptured a swath of territory in its western Kursk region, where Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky conceded Moscow's troops were mounting a counter-offensive. Russian President Vladimir Putin warned the West that letting Ukraine use longer-range weapons to strike targets inside his country would put NATO "at war" with Russia. FRANCE24's Nick Rushworth reports.
#Russia #Ukraine #Kursk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aK3CDn1FWG8

Five mixed-race women demanding reparations from #Belgium after being taken from their mothers in #Congo 70 years ago took their fight to a Brussels appeals court Monday. The women, now in their 70s, accuse the country of crimes against humanity over a colonial-era practice that saw them forcibly placed in an orphanage. FRANCE 24's Dave Keating reports from Brussels.
#justice #colonialism #Africa

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTOVnf7tIQU

@Zestryon time to invest in corn futures

So, the head of the conservative Les Républicains party Eric Ciotti, who yesterday broke the taboo of an alliance with Marine Le Pen's far-right Rassemblement National, has decided to shut down party HQ and ordered everyone to leave. This after his move drew the ire of most members.
"He's lost his mind" one HQ employee says, adding "I'm staying put."

#France #politics #elections

https://www.leparisien.fr/elections/legislatives/direct-legislatives-emmanuel-macron-va-sexprimer-en-fin-de-matinee-lors-dune-conference-de-presse-12-06-2024-74ZQ4R77YRCNZNO7B3BUVTGMI4.php#5b7a5b47-0faa-4e72-b409-c533856f071c

A U.S. Navy submarine has arrived in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in a show of force as a fleet of Russian warships gather for planned military exercises in the Caribbean. Ed Augustin reports from Havana. Jeffrey Hawn, researcher at the London School of Economics and Political Science, tells FRANCE24's Mark Owen that the small size of the Russian fleet involved in the naval drills in the Caribbean is indicative that the naval drills are largely symbolic.
#Russia #Cuba #Ukraine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ON8JZCjmd3k

A tumultous few days in French politics as parties scramble to team up ahead of the elections on June 30. The leader of the country's mainstream conservative party, Les Républicains, announced an agreement with the Marine Le Pen's RN. No mainstream party has ever aligned itself with the far-right and it's seen as a historic break for Les Républicans, with the party's ties to former President Charles de Gaulle.
#France #Ciotti #LePen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D54yVE0y_po

Via AP

#Interpol and FBI break up a #cyber scheme in #Moldova to get #asylum for wanted criminals

A multinational operation by Interpol and the FBI cracked down on attempts in Moldova to sabotage one of the international police agency's key tools, the Red Notice system, officials said Tuesday. Four people were detained in the eastern European country.

https://apnews.com/article/interpol-fbi-moldova-red-notice-08755a95baae8edac2f9ccc9c4ad1775

Prime Minister Narendra Modi claimed victory for his alliance on Tuesday in India’s general election, despite a lacklustre performance from his own party as it faced a stronger than expected challenge from the opposition, which pushed back against the leader’s mixed economic record and polarising politics. FRANCE 24's Leela Jacinto tells us more.
#India #Modi #vote

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwXd0C_HvUA