France

Pilot saved from power line after Belgian F-16 crashes in France

8:41 pm September 19, 2019

Rennes (France): An F-16 jet of the Belgian air force crashed Thursday in western France, with both pilots successfully ejecting but one spending two hours hanging from a power line before being cut down, officials said. Parts from the stricken plane, which was not carrying weapons and was flying from Belgium to a French base […]

Rights group says Bolsonaro gives ‘green light’ to Amazon illegal loggers

9:15 am September 18, 2019

Sao Paulo: Human Rights Watch has accused Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro of giving a “green light” to illegal loggers to destroy the Amazon and failing to protect those defending the world’s largest rain forest. Bolsonaro, whose anti-environment rhetoric and policies have been widely blamed for a spike in fires and land clearing in the Amazon this […]

Sao Paulo state stops professional sports as COVID-19 rages

FIFA bans Russian fans organizer for social media posts

8:43 pm September 13, 2019

Zurich: Russian fans organizer Alexander Shprygin has been banned from soccer for two years by FIFA for posting far-right content online. FIFA said Friday its ethics committee judges found Shprygin, a former member of the Russian Football Union executive committee, guilty of discrimination. He was fined 10,000 Swiss francs ($10,125). Shprygin achieved notoriety at the […]

Paris, Rome, Berlin preparing to block Facebook's Libra in Europe: French minister

France will block development of Facebook Libra cryptocurrency

2:55 pm September 12, 2019

Paris: France warned Thursday it will block development of Facebook’s planned Libra cryptocurrency in Europe because it threatens the “monetary sovereignty” of governments. “I want to be absolutely clear: in these conditions, we cannot authorise the development of Libra on European soil,” Le Maire said at the opening of an OECD conference on virtual, crypto […]

Brazil's Bolsonaro rejects COVID-19 shot, calls masks taboo

Defiant Bolsonaro vows to defend Amazon policy ‘in wheelchair’ at UN

1:25 am September 3, 2019

Sao Paulo: Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro vowed Monday to defend his controversial Amazon policy at this month’s UN General Assembly even if he had to do so “in a wheelchair.” “I will appear before the UN even in a wheelchair, on a stretcher. I will appear because I want to talk about the Amazon,” Bolsonaro […]