January 30, 2023Alan Cumming returns his British Order MedalAlan Cumming was made an officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in 2009, but the actor decided to return his medal. The reason ? He wishes to draw attention to the colonial history of the British Empire.“The death of the Queen and the conversations that followed about the role of the monarchy and especially how the British Empire profited from the deaths of indigenous peoples across the world...
The facts seem quite clearly established but need to be confirmed. In Saint-Brieuc (Côtes d'Armor), a man is suspected of having killed his wife and his three-and-a-half-year-old daughter in their apartment in the Waron city on Sunday January 22. He would then have turned the weapon against him, according to the first elements of the investigation. The mother of the young woman was also seriously injured by point-blank fire. Three days after the tragedy, relatives of the victims decided to...
Watch the video: Federal Cross of Merit for Margot Friedländer - "If you are human, you cannot be a Nazi".STORY: "Who should I thank? My mother, you, my friends. I'm incredibly touched. I don't even know what to say. What I do is an affair of the heart." That was the reaction of the 121st honorary citizen of Berlin on Monday when she was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class. Holocaust survivor Margot Friedländer has already received several...
Watch the video: Federal Cross of Merit for Margot Friedländer - "If you are human, you cannot be a Nazi".STORY: "Who should I thank? My mother, you, my friends. I'm incredibly touched. I don't even know what to say. What I do is an affair of the heart." That was the reaction of the 121st honorary citizen of Berlin on Monday when she was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class. Holocaust survivor Margot Friedländer has already received several...
It's a small event in the world of philately. Ten years after the death of Nelson Mandela, La Poste will release on Monday a tribute stamp bearing the image of the former South African head of state, famous for his fight against apartheid. The stamp, sold at the international rate of 1.80 euro, will be published in 600,000 copies. But without waiting, the precious sticker is available in preview Friday and Saturday in Nantes and Schiltigheim. A special postal office...
They are four. Among the thirteen accused in the Outreau affair, most imprisoned, then cleared in the context of the Outreau affair, four agreed to testify, more than twenty years after Myriam Badaoui's first confession. Identified in a documentary broadcast on France 2, these rare words report on the four years of investigation and trial that have upset the lives of its protagonists as well as public opinion, against the backdrop of a potential international pedophile network, between 2001 and...
The announcement yesterday of the death of Lisa Marie Presley, of a heart attack at the age of 54, shocked all of Hollywood. Especially since the daughter of Elvis Presley was present at the Golden Globes on Tuesday, where the film by Baz Luhrmann, Elvis, was rewarded. It is also Tom Hanks, who plays Colonel Parker in this biopic, who was one of the first to salute his memory.The comedian and his wife, actress Rita Wilson, wrote on Instagram that...
A tribute was paid Monday evening, in the presence of several members of the government and political leaders, to the four victims of the attack on the Hyper Cacher supermarket at the Porte de Vincennes in Paris, eight years to the day after the events. The Keeper of the Seals, Eric Dupond-Moretti, as well as the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin represented the government during this ceremony organized by the Representative Council of Jewish Institutions of France (Crif).Alongside them...
“Cabu, Wolinski, Charb, Tignous, Honoré, Bernard Maris, Elsa Cayat, Frédéric Boisseau, Franck Brinsolaro, Ahmed Merabet, Mustapha Ourrad, Michel Renaud, Clarissa Jean-Philippe, Philippe Braham, Yohan Cohen, Yoav Hattab, François-Michel Saada : we will never forget you, ”wrote President Emmanuel Macron on Saturday on Twitter, paying tribute to the victims, eight years ago, of the Charlie Hebdo, Montrouge and Hyper Cacher attacks.CabuWolinskyCharbTignousHonoredBernard MarisElsa CayatFrederic BoisseauFrank BrinsolaroAhmed MerabetMustapha OurradMichael RenaudClarissa Jean-PhilippePhilip BrahamYohan CohenYoav HattabFrancois-Michel SaadaWe will never forget you. pic.twitter.com/l2CnUgFnVf—Emmanuel Macron (@EmmanuelMacron) January...
Several thousand people from all over Europe marched in Paris on Saturday in tribute to three Kurdish activists murdered almost ten years ago to the day in the capital. This annual march, which has brought together the Kurdish community since 2013, comes a few days after the shock of the assassination, in the center of Paris, of three Kurds by a 69-year-old man, who confessed while in police custody to have acted by " hatred that has become pathological” of...
