Europe

Lionel Messi won his 8th Ballon d’Or at the Ballon d’Or 2023 awards ceremony held at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris. At the age of 36, Lionel Messi won the prestigious award for the 8th time. The Argentine star is ahead of Norway’s Erling Haaland (2nd) and France’s Kylian …

More than 440,000 minors could have been victims of sexual assault by religious figures in Spain, according to an estimate published this Friday by an independent commission of inquiry into child crime in the Catholic Church. The report does not provide precise figures, but contains a survey carried out at …

According to the Italian Statistics Institute (Istat), 5.6 million people living in Italy, or 9.6% of the population have fallen into extreme poverty. 1.27 million are minors, unable to afford the essentials for a decent life. This Istat report on poverty in Italy concerns 2022, the first year of the …

French President Emmanuel Macron will travel to Cairo, the Egyptian capital, to meet President Abdel Fattah al-Sissi, after his visit to Jordan this Wednesday. Egypt, from where humanitarian aid passes to the Gaza Strip, is a key player in the conflict between Israel and Hamas. Its president, General al-Sissi, who …

Nearly 200 French soldiers have left Niger’s south-western Ouallam town amid ongoing withdrawals from the Sahel nation, state-owned Tele Sahel TV station reports. It said that 193 French soldiers based in Ouallam left their camp for Chad on Sunday. The troops reportedly left with 28 lorries as well as 24 …

A 39-year-old woman was arrested overnight from Tuesday to Wednesday in Milan, Italy, suspected of having sexually assaulted an octogenarian in order to divert his attention and steal money and objects from his house, local media reported. It was the children of this 84-year-old man who alerted the authorities and …

Italian authorities signed on Friday an agreement to welcome some 4,000 Tunisian workers, in line with commitments made to help the North African state stem migrant pressure at its borders. “The deal was signed during a visit by Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani to Tunis, where he was scheduled to meet …

The European Union announced on Thursday the opening of an investigation targeting the social networks Meta (Facebook, Instagram) and Tiktok. The institution demands details on the measures they are implementing against the dissemination of “false information” and “illegal content”, after Hamas attacks against Israel. It explained that it had sent …

Italian police announced on Tuesday the arrest in Milan of two men suspected of financing the Islamic State (IS) organization and disseminating jihadist propaganda. The two men, an Egyptian and an Italian of Egyptian origin, are suspected of “participation, association and incitement to commit a crime for the purposes of …

Seven people were killed and several others injured overnight from Thursday to Friday in Bavaria, Germany, during the accident of a minibus suspected of transporting migrants and which wanted to flee a road check, according to local police. The minibus, a Mercedes Vito carrying more than 20 people and registered …