( Sybil) to be our partners in progress to realise our development agenda for the benefit of Sabah and her

PARIS( Reuters)-France's ambassador has been ordered out of Belarus and has already left the country, the French news agency AFP reported on Sunday, citing the French embassy in Minsk.It did not say why the ambassador, Nicolas de Bouillane de Lacoste, had been expelled....

Only females, future egg-laying hens, are kept alive." France is the first country in the world, along with Germany, to end the crushing and gassing of male chicks," Denormandie added. The two countries will try to convince their European Union partners to outlaw the practice at a council of EU agriculture ministers on Monday, he said. From 2022, breeders in France will instead need to equip themselves with machines to detect the sex of chicks before they hatch." The dynamic is well underway and

The princess fought for years to be publicly acknowledged by her family following her father's, King Albert II, long standing affair with her mother. The now-princess was embroiled in a long running paternity battle with her father, former King Albert II. Princess Delphine fought a seven-year legal battle to prove that she was the estranged love child of the former king, something which he denied for years. Her father had privately acknowledged the existence of his daughter, but had not recognis

PARIS( Reuters)-Emmanuel Macron on Saturday denounced as an" unforgivable crime" a bloody crackdown on Algerian protesters by police in Paris 60 years ago, the strongest recognition by a French president of a massacre in which many bodies were thrown into the River Seine.On Oct.... 17, 1961, under the orders of then Paris police chief Maurice Papon, police attacked a demonstration by 25, 000 pro-National Liberation Front( FLN) Algerians protesting against a curfew imposed on Algerians. The marc

The actions happened in late 2010 and early 2011, they said. One of the women filed a complaint to the police against Abad in 2017 which was closed without further action, Abad and Mediapart said." I contest with the greatest force these accusations of sexual violence," he said in a statement sent to Reuters.... " The sexual relations that I have had throughout my life have always been by mutual consent." Abad said his disability, a disorder called arthrogryposis that affects all four of his li

PARIS( Reuters)-Thousands marched across France on Saturday to protest against President Emmanuel Macron's plans to force vaccination of health workers and require a COVID-19 free certificate to enter places such as bars, restaurants and cinemas.... Macron this week announced sweeping measures to fight a rapid surge in coronavirus infections, which protesters say infringe the freedom of choice of those who do not want the vaccination. The measures had already prompted demonstrations earlier thi

Everywhere you looked revolution was afoot, from multiculturalism to feminism, and the England Basil lives in is no longer the country it was." I sometimes feel this about England, too.... When I look at our country today I yearn for a return to what seemed to be a happier, friendlier, calmer, more ironic culture.... But he will still be repressed and trapped....

THOUSANDS of cats and dogs are stuck in shelters because of would-be owners' misconceptions about pet adoption.A survey of 2, 000 adults revealed 41 per cent have doubts about adopting a pet for the first time.... 2 41 per cent of adults are put off adopting pets Credit: Getty Top concerns include believing you will have to deal with a pet’s behavioural issues( 54 per cent), will not know the medical history( 40 per cent) and they will be constantly ill( 22 per cent). Other concerns raised by p

Ducournau, 37, became only the second woman to win the top award at Cannes.... “ It’s also impossible to predict where it’s going to go next.” Ducournau had previously found critical success with “ Raw ” in 2016.... The only previous female winner of Cannes’ top award was Jane Campion who shared the prize in 1993 for “ The Piano ”....