[ad_1] French rail company SNCF has warned that disruption from Friday's sabotage against the country's train network could last until the end of the weekend and affect hundreds of thousands more passengers.Coordinated arson attacks on three lines of the high-speed TGV network on Friday caused chaos for travellers, hours before the opening ceremony for the Paris Olympics. A fourth attack was thwarted by rail workers. Prime Minister Gabriel Attal described
[ad_1] Olympic organisers have issued a "deep apology" after South Korea's athletes were mistakenly introduced as North Korea at the opening ceremony in Paris.As the excited, flag-waving team floated down the River Seine, both French and English announcers introduced them as the "Democratic People's Republic of Korea" - the official name of North Korea.The same name was then used - correctly - when North Korea's delegation sailed past.The two Koreas
[ad_1] The presidential debate between Joe Biden and Donald Trump in June set off a wild month in US politics. From Mr Biden's re-election campaign falling apart to former President Trump surviving an assassination attempt, the last few weeks have been unprecedented. Relive the last month in a little over two minutes. Video edited by Angélica M Casas and produced by Ottilie Mitchell [ad_2] Source link
[ad_1] Getty ImagesLhakpa Sherpa says: "I want to show my two girls how to be brave, how not to give up"This article contains descriptions of domestic violence which some readers may find distressing.Lhakpa Sherpa has a startling life story - to the outside world she holds the record for climbing Mount Everest a staggering 10 times, the most of any woman.But behind the scenes, her personal life has been dangerous
[ad_1] Family handoutEmirlendris Benítez (centre) was sentenced to a 30-year jail term in 2018“She’s going to rot in jail. No one is going to get her out.”That was what prison guards told the family of Emirlendris Benítez. She disappeared in Venezuela in August 2018 after she and her partner - a taxi driver - were arrested while giving somebody a lift to the city centre.She was arbitrarily accused of organising
[ad_1] Getty ImagesThe city of Hiroshima was left in ruinsIt was early in the day, but already hot. As she wiped sweat from her brow, Chieko Kiriake searched for some shade. As she did so, there was a blinding light - it was like nothing the 15-year-old had ever experienced. It was 08:15 on 6 August 1945.“It felt like the sun had fallen - and I grew dizzy,” she recalls.The
[ad_1] Amensisa Ifa/BBCMeselesh Gosaye, a mother of six, was in her hilltop home in southern Ethiopia’s Gofa district caring for her children when she heard the landslide that left many trapped in the mud.“There were sounds of people screaming and we rushed down the hill,” she said struggling to contain her tears as she remembered what happened on Sunday.The locality of Kencho Satcha Gozdi, where Ms Meselech lives, has a
[ad_1] ATN BelarusRico Krieger appeared in a heavily choreographed interview on Belarusian state televisionA German man who has been sentenced to death in Belarus for terrorism has been shown in a heavily choreographed interview on state-controlled television, apparently confessing to planting explosives near a railway line.There is no direct evidence of that in the 16-minute video for which Rico Krieger was filmed, handcuffed, through the metal bars of an oddly
[ad_1] Ismael ‘El Mayo’ Zambada is one of most notorious names in drug war history, synonymous with the fearsome power and corrosive influence of the most important drug cartel in the world.The last of an original generation of drug cartel leaders, he created the Sinaloa Cartel alongside Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman from the remnants of the Guadalajara Cartel after it collapsed in 1989.But unlike his infamous partner who was twice
[ad_1] François-Xavier Marit/AFPThe Olympic opening ceremony presents the host country with the opportunity to wow the world with a uniquely spectacular show. The opening of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games was just that - the organisers ditched the traditional ceremony, and became the first Games to hold the opening event within a city as a whole rather than in a stadium.Thousands of athletes and performers paraded along the River Seine
