French oil refineries blockaded as 1 million protest against pension reforms – thebeachsideresident.com
Oil refineries across France were blockaded Tuesday by workers taking part in a 1-million-strong protest against government plans to raise the retirement age. Mass strikes also left thousands without electricity…
Fentanyl rises as top issue of concern
The powerful synthetic opioid has long been linked to a rise in overdose-related deaths. Federal officials are signaling a new push against abuse of the drug. Polling released Thursday found…
Paris 2024: dates, times, highlights… Discover the Paralympic Games calendar
The competition will start on August 29, until Sunday, September 8, 2024, for 549 events. The Paralympic Games take a little more shape. The organizing committee of Paris 2024 announced,…
‘I want to die’. Elderly woman waits for 33 hours in a hospital corridor
The story was told by Graeme Smith, who took his 92-year-old grandmother to Aintree Hospital on New Year’s Eve after she fell ill. An elderly woman who was ill waited,…
China: Beijing stops publishing daily figures on the Covid-19 epidemic
These daily official statistics no longer reflect the unprecedented wave of contaminations that has hit China since the strict sanitary measures of the “zero Covid” policy were abandoned on December…
Deborah Stratman’s ‘Last Things’ in the Berlin Festival program
The Portuguese co-production ‘Last Things’, directed and written by Deborah Stratman, will be part of the programming of the Berlin Film Festival, in February of next year, in the Expanded…
Deschamps puts possible hostile environment into perspective: “It’s part of it
The French coach praised the Moroccan team and said he expected a difficult game. Didier Dechamps, France coach, made this Tuesday the preview of the World Cup semi-final match against…
American actor Clarence Gilyard Jr., known for his role in the series “Walker Texas Ranger”, died at 66
Revealed in the movies in “Die Hard” or “Top Gun”, Clarence Gilyard Jr. was most famous for his role of Trivette in “Walker Texas Ranger” alongside Chuck Norris. The man…
Covid-19: the epidemic is back in France with “renewed circulation of the virus
The number of new hospitalisations has been rising steadily over the past few days. The Covid-19 epidemic, which experienced a brief lull in France after a wave at the beginning…
Why some battleground states could have us waiting past election night for races to be called
Story Summary Pennsylvania and Wisconsin don’t allow mail ballots to be processed until Election Day. Similar to 2020, Pennsylvania’s initial results could skew Republican and shift later toward Democrats. The…