Light & Shadow Across France, Ali Abdul Hamid Alarbash On 11 November 2026, “A Heartwarming World”, an exhibition by Huawei XMAGE and Paris Photo, opened at the Grand Palais in Paris. More than 150 photographers, imaging experts and media professionals from around the world attended the event, where the winners of the 2026 Huawei XMAGE…
New York — As delivered “President Macron, Excellencies, distinguished leaders, colleagues and many dear friends thank you for coming together around a very simple but urgent proposition: that this is a critical moment in history, and children must come first. “Across the globe, conflict, hunger, displacement, and climate shocks are converging and putting children’s lives…
What? Presentation of the African Development Bank Group’s ‘Diaspora Initiative’ Who? The African Development Bank Group When? Monday, 9 November 2026; 5.30 pm-7.30 pm (GMT+1) Where? Les Salons Hoche, 9 Avenue Hoche, Paris (8th arrondissement) On 9 November 2026 in Paris, the African Development Bank Group will present its ‘Diaspora Initiative’ at a high-level meeting…
Former Icasa chairman Paris Mashile Paris Mashile, who chaired communications regulator Icasa from 2005 to 2010 and served it again for much of the 16 years that followed, has died. Icasa announced his death in a statement on Monday. It did not say when or how he died. Mashile was chairman from 1 July 2005…
ICASA chairperson Mothibi Ramusi. (Image source: ICASA) The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA) and Parliament’s Portfolio Committee on Communications and Digital Technologies are mourning the passing of former chairperson Paris Mashile. Mashile passed away last week, following “a long illness and hospitalisation,” according to a brief statement on social media. He held various…
A gunman shooting from his car killed one person and wounded several others in the Paris suburb of Trappes on Friday, in what authorities described as a racially motivated act of terrorism. President Emmanuel Macron called it “a racist terror attack” and said the suspect’s statements suggested it was premeditated. The alleged shooter was “firing…
In France, some public schools have been closed since Monday and won’t reopen until next week amid nationwide student and labor protests that have been raging for three weeks. Aiden Stretch reports from Paris.
On Monday the Pope will be in Metz, in northeast France, where he will pay tribute to Robert Schuman (1886-1963), a founding father of the European Union and a fervent Catholic who is today a candidate for beatification. The Pope will also meet a group of migrants in Paris, and in Lourdes some victims of…
Tuesday marks the 70th anniversary of the landmark 1956 Congress of Black Writers and Artists, held at the Sorbonne university in Paris and aimed at strengthening the Pan-African movement and giving voices to black writers and intellectuals from across Africa, Europe and the United States. The congress took place from 19 to 22 September 1956…
stc group, a leading digital enabler, concluded its third consecutive year as a Founding and Elite Partner of the Esports World Cup (EWC), supporting the tournament as it staged its first edition outside Saudi Arabia in Paris.
