International News Reviews

Stabbed in August in the United States, the British writer Salman Rushdie has since lost the sight of one eye and the use of one hand, among other serious consequences. Salman Rushdie's agent gave sad news about the writer to Spanish daily El Pais . Stabbed in August in the United States, the Briton has since lost the sight of one eye and the use of one hand, among other serious consequences. "He has lost sight in one eye... He has had three serious neck injuries. He is disabled in one hand as the nerves in his arm were severed. And he has approximately 15 other injuries to his chest and to the torso ," Andrew Wylie said.  As a reminder, on August 12, Salman Rushdie  was about to speak at a conference  in upstate New York, when a man burst onto the stage and stabbed him several times, including in the neck and abdomen. Evacuated by helicopter to a hospital, the author of "Satanic Verses" had to be briefly placed on a ventilator before his condition improved. The

  He is 18 years old and he is all the rage in the United States: in franceinfo junior, we are talking about the French basketball prodigy,  Victor  Wembanyama . Victor  Wembanyama is 18 years old and 2.19 meters tall. A real phenomenon, he currently plays with the Metropolitans 92, who were  on tour in the United States.  And his talent is the dream of the NBA, the big American clubs. We talk about this basketball phenomenon with Bastien Fontanieu, editorial director of Trash Talk , a site specializing in American basketball.  The subject specialist answers questions from CM2 students at the Saint-Lambert school in Paris. "What are Victor Wembanyama's best qualities?"  Raphaël first asks in franceinfo junior . For his part, Rayan is interested in the career of the player and wonders when the young Frenchman started basketball. Another student asks about his diet to get in shape. “Is he planning to play the 2024 Olympics ?” Finally, questions Ihad.  On this page, listen t

Before the important Communist Party (CCP) congress which opens on Sunday, Chinese President Xi Jinping is carrying out a “final round of purges” via his anti-corruption campaign, in order to consolidate his power, according to analysts. He launched it when he came to power 10 years ago, promising to bring down the "tigers" (senior leaders) and the "flies" (small officials) eager for bribes and various embezzlements. Since then, at least 1.5 million people have been sanctioned according to official figures, and China has progressed in the right direction, according to the ranking of the NGO Transparency International on the perception of corruption. But for his critics, the campaign is also for Xi Jinping a political tool, intended to bring down rivals. And the approach of Congress has accelerated the trend. Since the beginning of 2022, sanctions have been imposed in some 1,110 cases. Among them are those of Sun Lijun, former deputy minister of public security, and

White House National Security Council spokesman Brian Hook said on Tuesday that Vice President Joe Biden was ready to "reassess the bilateral relationship with Saudi Arabia" after trying to make peace with Riyadh for a while. At first he sought to isolate Saudi Arabia, but in July he made an effort to mend fences... It has been reported that Vice President Joe Biden, scorched by Riyadh's oil decisions, is now prepared to "reassess" the longstanding strategic alliance between the United States and the kingdom. On Tuesday, October 11th, American Vice President Joe Biden pledged in an interview with the network CNN that Saudi Arabia would face "consequences" as a result of the decision of OPEC +, which last week lowered its production quotas. But he didn't say what kinds of choices were open to us. Saudi Arabia's National Security Council spokesman, John Kirby, previously said, "Given recent events and OPEC+ choices, the President believes we

Former US President Donald Trump filed a complaint against CNN on Monday, accusing it of defaming him because it fears he will run for president again in 2024 and demanding $ 475 million in damages and interests. The Republican, who is flirting more and more openly with the idea of ​​running for the White House, believes that CNN "sought to use its immense influence" to "defame him to his viewers and readers in order to defeat him politically,” according to the text of the lawsuit filed in Florida. "CNN's campaign of deterrence, in the form of defamation and slander against the plaintiff, has only escalated in recent months as CNN fears the plaintiff will run for president in 2024," according to the same source. Donald Trump accuses the channel of wanting to "tilt the political balance to the left" by trying to "dirty" it with "a series of ever more defamatory, false and scandalous qualifiers such as" racist", "lackey

During the Lake Erie Walleye Train contest in Ohio, a well-known sport fishing competition, two anglers weighted several of their catches to weigh them down when weighed. Walleye is a very popular dish with gourmets. Originally from North America, this fish from the large perch family known for its nutty aftertaste, which can reach a size of 75cm in adulthood, is also at the heart of a scandal that is shaking the world. sport fishing in the United States. Fish twice as heavy The facts take place last Friday on the shores of Lake Erie, one of the five Great Lakes of North America. It is here that the Lake Erie Walleye Trail is organized , an extremely famous fishing contest which attracts participants from many neighboring states and which promises the winner the tidy sum of 29,000 dollars. As CNN explains , things turned sour when event organizer Jason Fischer was surprised at the weight of one of the teams' catches at the final weigh-in. While the weight of the five fish was estim

NASA’s DART Mission Hits Asteroid in First-Ever Planetary Defense Test After 10 months flying in space, NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) – the world’s first planetary defense technology demonstration – successfully impacted its asteroid target on Monday, the agency’s first attempt to move an asteroid in space. Mission control at th Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, announced the successful impact at 7:14 p.m. EDT.  As a part of NASA’s overall planetary defense strategy, DART’s impact with the asteroid Dimorphos demonstrates a viable mitigation technique for protecting the planet from an Earth-bound asteroid or comet, if one were discovered. “At its core, DART represents an unprecedented success for planetary defense, but it is also a mission of unity with a real benefit for all humanity,” said NASA Administrator Bill Nelson. “As NASA studies the cosmos and our home planet, we’re also working to protect that home, and this international co