🌟 World Cup 2022 kick-off ✳ November 20 ⚽ Qatar vs Ecuador 7pm ✳ November 21 ⚽ Senegal vs Netherlands 7pm Doha, Qatar | Xinhua | French striker Karim Benzema has been ruled out of the FIFA World Cup in Qatar with a muscle injury, the French Football Federation (FFF) said on Sunday. “Due to an injury …
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Doha, Qatar | Xinhua | Brazil, France and England will be the biggest obstacles to Argentina’s hopes of ending a 36-year FIFA World Cup title drought in Qatar, according to Albiceleste captain Lionel Messi. “Whenever we talk about candidates, we always talk about the same teams,” Messi said in an interview …
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Paris, France | Xinhua | Titleholders France look to have been placed in an easy group at the FIFA World Cup in Qatar. Denmark, Australia and Tunisia will compete with the defending champions for two tickets into the last 16. It is not hard to predict the favorites and underdogs in the …
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Paris, France | Xinhua | Strikes in France’s major refineries continued on Monday, leading to fuel-related panics in the country. The strikes at TotalEnergies and ExxonMobil refineries will extend to Tuesday, the General Confederation of Labour (CGT) said. According to the Ministry for Energy Transition, 29.4 percent of service stations …
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Algiers, Algeria | Xinhua | French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne arrived on Sunday in Algiers for a two-day visit to boost cooperation with Algeria. Leading a delegation of 16 senior officials, she held talks with her Algerian counterpart Ayman Benabderrahmane and laid a wreath of flowers before the Martyrs’ Memorial …
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Paris, France | Xinhua | The strike continued in TotalEnergies and ExxonMobil refineries, the General Confederation of Labour (CGT) said on Saturday, leading to fuel-related panics in the country. According to the Ministry for Energy Transition, 20.7 percent of service stations were experiencing difficulties with at least one product on Saturday, compared to …
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Algiers, Algeria | Xinhua | Algeria and France on Saturday signed a joint declaration for a “renewed partnership” at the end of the three-day visit of French President Emmanuel Macron. The document was signed by Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune and Macron during a ceremony at the International Airport of …
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Paris, France | Xinhua | The 2022 French legislative elections are redefining France’s political class, enabling candidates of different political parties to become deputies in the National Assembly. The French legislative elections were held on June 12 and 19, when voters elected, out of 6,293 candidates, the National Assembly’s 577 members …
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Lessons for Uganda’s opposition from the repositioning of the National Front, France’s far-right party THE LAST WORD | ANDREW M MWENDA | On February 8, 2022, BBC’s Steven Sucker hosted Marine Le Pen on the Hardtalk program. Le Pen is the leader of the National Front (FN), a right-wing …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | France has not shied away from the human rights abuses in Uganda, the French Ambassador to Uganda, Jules-Armand Aniambossou has told Opposition Members of Parliament. He disclosed this while meeting the Leader of Opposition, Mathias Mpuuga and a section of opposition legislators at parliament …
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