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      28 March

      French diners enjoy glass of wine as city burns in background during Macron protests

      French diners were filmed sipping from glasses of wine and using their phones as a fire raged in the background during protests against Emmanuel Macron’s retirement age plans. In a viral video posted on TikTok, diners at Place de la Victoire, in the southern wine-growing region of Bordeaux, appeared unphased as they glanced at the flames, scrolled on their phones and drank wine. A number of fires have been started by demonstrators in recent days, as people protested against the president pushing through a bill to increase the retirement age from 62 to 64 last week. It is reported that more than a million people took to the streets across France on Thursday after Mr Macron made the change using controversial executive powers, meaning he did not permit a…

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    • 27 March

      France’s Borne to meet opposition, unions amid pension crisis

      Prime minister says her objective is to ‘bring calm to’ France after violent protests against pension reform plans. French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne has said she plans to meet with opposition leaders and trade unions after weeks of protests against pension reforms. Borne’s statement on Sunday came as demonstrations against the pension plan deteriorated into violence after the government pushed the legislation through without a final parliamentary vote. President Emmanuel Macron has ruled out scrapping or delaying the legislation, which will raise the retirement age by two years, and has tasked his prime minister with finding new support in parliament after the government failed to find enough votes for the bill. Borne will meet with political party leaders and also aims to restart dialogue…

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    • 27 March

      Israel-UAE free trade deal takes effect

      Officials from both countries signed a customs agreement on Sunday Jerusalem: A free trade agreement between Israel and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has come into effect, the first such economic deal the Jewish state reached with an Arab country. Officials from both countries signed a customs agreement on Sunday, enabling the free trade agreement signed in May 2022 to come into effect, an official statement said. The customs agreement was signed by Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen and UAE Ambassador to Israel Mohamed Al Khaja in the presence of Netanyahu, reports Xinhua news agency. According to the statement, the free trade deal is expected to reduce customs duties and lower the cost of living while increasing business between the two…

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    • 27 March

      Elon Musk attacking us as he is stressed about AI safety: OpenAI CEO

      During the ‘On With Kara Swisher’ podcast OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said “I think Elon Musk does really care, and he is feeling very stressed about what the future’s going to look like for humanity.” San Francisco: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has hit back at Twitter CEO Elon Musk for criticising his for-profit company which is now owned by Microsoft. During the ‘On With Kara Swisher’ podcast, Altman said OpenAI is “independent” from Microsoft. Altman said Musk has been critical of OpenAI on Twitter. “Elon Musk is obviously attacking us,” he noted. “To say a positive thing about Elon, I think he really does care about a good future with artificial general intelligence (AGI). I mean, he’s a jerk, whatever else you want to say…

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    • 27 March

      Paris and Washington have condemned the attack on the Yemeni government convoy in Taiz

      The US and France have condemned Saturday’s attack on a convoy of Yemeni authorities in the southern governorate of Taiz and called for an end to what could be a new escalation of violence in the country in light of a recent upsurge in fighting after weeks of low-intensity skirmishes between the army and the Huthi insurgency. Yesterday’s attack, carried out by a drone, left at least one dead and two wounded, both bodyguards of a convoy carrying at least the governor of Taiz, Nabil Shamsan, as confirmed by the Yemeni government. However, multiple sources have confirmed to Arab News and the Yemeni news portal South24 that the convoy also included the Minister of Defense, Mohsen al Daari, and the…

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    • 27 March

      France’s Macron Labelled ‘President of the Rich’ over Watch Controversy

      French President Emmanuel Macron has faced criticism after a video surfaced where he is seen removing his luxury watch during a television interview. France has been rattled by protests over pensions reforms and cities like Paris, Lille and Marseilles among others have turned into battlegrounds as protesters clashed with riot police. Hawk-eyed netizens on social media pointed out that Macron put his hands beneath the table, to apparently take off his watch during a prime-time national television broadcast. Petit jeu (facile).Qu'est-ce qui disparaît entre ces 2 extraits ? pic.twitter.com/kkn0U8p1Gj— Caisses de grève (@caissesdegreve) March 23, 2023 During the interview, Macron remained adamant that he will press on with the pension reforms, , according to the Independent. The moment allowed Macron’s detractors…

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    • 27 March

      Death toll at 26 after powerful tornado tears across Mississippi

      Rescuers combed through rubble on Saturday after a powerful storm tore across Mississippi late on Friday, killing at least 25 people there and one person in Alabama as it leveled hundreds of buildings and spawned at least one devastating tornado. © Thomson Reuters The tornado stayed on the ground for about an hour and cut a path of destruction some 170 miles (274 km) long, according to Nicholas Price, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Jackson, Mississippi. In Rolling Fork, a town of around 1,900 in western Mississippi that was hit the hardest, homes were reduced to rubble, tree trunks snapped like twigs and cars were tossed aside like toys. The town’s water tower lay twisted on the ground.…

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    • 27 March

      “You can put us in jail!” Russians soldiers fed up with war filmed threatening rebellion

      A group of mobilized Russian soldiers sent to fight in Ukraine have threatened to rebel and turn their guns on their commanders according to videos released by the men. In the first three-minute video released on March 7th, a group of Russian soldiers appealed to Vladimir Putin for assistance, describing their situation after being unwillingly turned into frontline assault troops.  ©Provided by The Daily Digest “People are dying for nothing,” one soldier said according to a translation from the independent news agency Ostorozhno Novosti, which published the video of the Russian servicemen’s plea to Putin on their Telegram channel. The men in the video were mobilized from Kaliningrad, Murmansk, and Arkhangelsk and originally trained as territorial defense officers according to Ostorozhno…

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    • 27 March

      Tunisian coast guard recovers 29 bodies after migrant shipwreck

      The Tunisian Coast Guard has reported the rescue of eleven migrants and the recovery of 29 bodies following the sinking of a boat near Mahdia in Mediterranean waters. The survivors are sub-Saharan migrants, a spokesman for the Coast Guard, Hossameldin el Gabali, said in an official statement, according to the Tunisian radio station Mosaique FM. At first the survivors and up to eight bodies were rescued. Another 19 bodies were recovered by a fishing boat and two more were recovered by two other fishing boats near Sfax. The boat reportedly departed from the town of Yebniana in the governorate of Sfax. The Public Prosecutor’s Office is already investigating the incident in coordination with Civil Protection and the hospitals that received…

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    • 27 March

      Kwasi Kwarteng tells fake firm he could help arrange meeting with ‘great guy’ Boris Johnson

      Kwasi Kwarteng told a fake South Korean firm set up by campaign group Led by Donkeys that he might be able to set up a meeting with “great guy” Boris Johnson. The former chancellor and ex-health secretary Matt Hancock were by both drawn in by the ruse and were caught on camera offering to work for the firm for thousands of pounds per day. Mr Kwarteng told the fake company that he would be able to put them in touch with other MPs, and suggested he could arrange a potential meeting with former prime minister Boris Johnson. He said: “Let’s talk. I’m sure we could try and arrange that. I’m not promising anything, but he’s someone I know. He’s a great guy.” Mr Kwarteng added that…

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