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    The coffin of Ramses II on exclusive loan in Paris for the event exhibition “L’or des Pharaons”

    Exhibition on world tour at La Villette in Paris from April 7, “Ramses and the gold of the Pharaohs” will be enriched by the exclusive loan by Egypt of the coffin of Ramses II. A first in France for forty-five years.

    Ramesses II. (DR)

    It promises to be a flagship exhibition for the first half of 2023 in Paris: it will be doubly so thanks to the loan of the coffin of Ramses II, known as Ramses The Great, by the Egyptian

    Japan: Man suspected of killing former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has been charged

    Tetsuya Yamagami faces the death penalty if found guilty.

    Tetsuya Yamagami, suspected of killing former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, is carried to the police station, January 10, 2023, in Nara, Japan. (AFP)

    Japanese prosecutors on Friday (January 13th) charged the man suspected of the murder of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe last July, the suspect having been declared fit to stand trial

    In South Africa, for 2023 we wish to have electricity

    The energy crisis that the country is going through is likely to worsen after a record year: more than 200 days marked by power cuts. Years of corruption, sabotage and mismanagement have brought state-owned Eskom to the ground.

    A power station of Eskom, the public electricity company, in Standerton, South Africa, on December 18, 2022. (AFP)

    Should South Africans fear a candlelit 2023? It is indeed surely the right year to buy candles, generators, solar panels, or to resign oneself to great sobriety, since the first three months

    In the United States, an autistic boy reveals himself at the piano without any lessons and his talent propels him to all the TV channels

    A few months ago, Jude Kofie, 11, discovered a piano in the family cellar and since he put his hands on it, he plays by ear and improvises with disconcerting ease. A prodigy who is invited everywhere and who has even been offered a grand piano by a stranger.

    Jude Kofie, on his YouTube channel. (SCREENSHOT)

    He lives in the United States, in Colorado, the youngest son of two parents who left Ghana to come to work in the city of Aurora, and for the past week, his story has been told

    Dakar 2023: Sébastien Loeb takes a fifth victory on the 11th stage in a car, and is closing in on second place overall

    The nine-time WRC world champion signed a fourth consecutive victory on Thursday in the Empty Quarter.

    French driver Sebastien Loeb (BRX) during the 10th stage of the Dakar, between Haradh and Shaybah, on January 11, 2023. (GIGI SOLDANO / AFP)

    Sharing, he does not know. This is also what allowed him to enter the legend of motorsports, remaining world rally champion for nine years (2004 to 2012).

    Ukraine: NGO Human Rights Watch welcomes “an unprecedented international reaction” to the war, but regrets “a lack of attention” to other conflicts

    The various resolutions taken internationally against Russia in the face of the war in Ukraine were “rapid and simultaneous” greets Benedicte Jeannerod, France director of Human Rights Watch on France Inter. For her, other conflicts deserve the same attention.

    The United Nations Security Council gathered to discuss the conflict in Ukraine on September 22, 2022. (AFP)

    The war in Ukraine has triggered “an unprecedented international reaction”, welcomed on France Inter, Benedicte Jeannerod, France director of Human Rights Watch even if “it is not a miracle response”.

    Eurozapping: hundreds of police mobilized to dislodge environmental activists in Germany

    Hundreds of police are mobilized to dislodge environmental activists mobilized against the extension of a coal mine in Lutzerath.

    War in Ukraine: Valery Gerasimov named new commander of the Russian offensive in the country

    Russia has just named a new commander of the offensive in Ukraine, as journalist Lionel Feuerstein explains, live from Moscow, Thursday January 12. This is the second general appointed in three months.

    Russia has appointed a new offensive commander in Ukraine, Valery Gerasimov, as journalist Lionel Feuerstein explained, live from Moscow

    Brazil: several participants in the Brasilia attack have been released

    In Brazil, several of Jair Bolsonaro’s supporters who participated in the Brasilia attack were released by the police after interrogation. They remain determined to block the path of the new President Lula.

    “Revolution”, “Victory is ours” shout the supporters of Jair Bolsonaro, the ex-president of Brazil, leaving the police station by bus on Wednesday January 11.

    Environment: how to explain the reconstitution of the ozone layer?

    Finally, some good news for the environment: the ozone layer should fully recover within the next 40 years.

    A world map in the arms of a child. (MAXPPP)

    230 researchers updated the latest scientific knowledge. And their report published Monday, January 9 indicates that in 2040, the ozone layer should globally return to its pre-1980 state, and that in 2066, the hole located above Antarctica should therefore have disappeared.

    United States: confidential documents dating back to the vice-presidency of Joe Biden found in Washington

    They were discovered in a “locked cupboard” on the premises of a think tank, a legal adviser to Joe Biden reported Monday evening.

    US President Joe Biden on January 9, 2023, in Mexico City (Mexico). (AFP)

    There they were, in a “locked closet” somewhere in Washington.

    “All the windows were destroyed, the ground completely flooded”: after the ransacking, the long restoration of the presidential palace in Brazil

    It will take many weeks for the presidential palace in Brasilia, left as a battlefield after the intrusion of thousands of supporters of Jair Bolsonaro on Sunday, to regain its normal appearance. On site, the staff are busy, exhausted and traumatized.

    A broken window of the Brazilian Supreme Court, the day after the incidents in Brasilia, January 8, 2023. (AFP)

    The time, Tuesday, January 10, was for restoration: 186 people cleaned, all day long, the Planalto Palace, the presidential palace of Brasilia, the Brazilian capital, ransacked on Sunday by the Bolsonarists who wreaked havoc in the few hours Brazil’s democracy faltered.

    Brazil: wave of support for Lula to condemn the Bolsonarist rioters

    The Brazilian president met with the presidents of the Senate, the Chamber of Deputies and the Supreme Court to sign a declaration “in defense of democracy” on Monday evening.

    Brazilian President Lula, accompanied by his ministers and governors, on January 9, 2023, in Brasilia. (AFP)

    Lula obtained widespread support from the political and judicial power of his country on Monday, the day after the invasions and ransacking of three emblematic places of power in

    Political crisis in Peru: clashes between demonstrators and police leave at least 17 dead

    The country has been plunged into a serious institutional and political crisis for a month. These new deaths bring to 39 the number of people who died during the anti-government protests.

    Peruvian police officers try to contain demonstrators in Puno, January 9, 2023. ( AFP)

    Renewed tensions in Peru. At least 17 people died in the south of the country on Monday, January 10, during clashes between the police and demonstrators against the new president

    Climate: the reconstitution of the ozone layer is “good news which shows that we can do it”, according to a climatologist

    According to a UN scientific report, the ozone layer is “on track” to recover in four decades.

    An image of NASA from the International Space Station, September 2, 2014. (NASA / AFP)

    “This is good news which shows that we can manage to improve things”, the climatologist and research director at the CNRS Didier Hauglustaine, while the ozone layer, which protects

    Iran: two new executions in connection with the demonstrations

    Two men have been hanged after being found guilty of killing a paramilitary during the protests that recently rocked the country.

    A demonstration against the Iranian regime, on December 17, 2022 in Berlin (Germany). (AFP)

    Iranian justice announced the hanging, Saturday, January 7, of two men found guilty of having killed a paramilitary during the demonstrations triggered

    Two demonstrators hanged in Iran, a 6-year-old boy opens fire in his school in the United States… around the world of info

    In Iran, two more protesters have been hanged as demonstrations persist. In the United States, a 6-year-old schoolboy opened fire on his mistress, seriously injuring her.

    On Iranian television, a propaganda organ, the announcement of two new executions of demonstrators.

    Human rights and environmental abuses: revelations about the Total oil project in Uganda and Tanzania

    While justice will soon render its judgment in the case between six NGOs and Total, the Cellule investigation and the International editorial staff of Radio France investigated with the editorial staff of RFI the consequences of its oil project in Uganda and Tanzania.Mathieu Faget, the manager of the future oil storage site on the Tanzanian coast. (AFP)

    The majestic Nile undulates in the heart of a verdant forest…

    War in Ukraine: the Ukrainian border with Belarus stands on a war footing

    The Russians are threatening a new offensive in northern Ukraine from Belarus. On the spot, the Ukrainian soldiers are preparing for this scenario and monitoring the border.

    On images released by the Russian Ministry of Defense, we see Russian soldiers on maneuvers a few kilometers from Ukraine.

    The ex-head of the Russian space agency sends Emmanuel Macron the shell that injured him in Ukraine

    According to Dmitry Rogozin, the shrapnel that injured his back was fired from a French Caesar cannon supplied to kyiv.

    The head of the Russian space agency, Dmitry Rogozin, on December 8, 2021 at the Baikonur cosmodrome, in Russia. (AFP)

    France will receive a strange package. The former head of the Russian space agency

    Judge Drops Charges Against Trump

    Former US President Trump was charged in Georgia for attempted election interference. Judge Drops Charges Against Trump Former US President Trump was charged in Georgia for...