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the public prosecutor’s office asks the PNF to open a preliminary investigation
The president of the French Tennis Federation, Gilles Moretton, presents a special trophy to Serbian Novak Djokovic (right) at Roland-Garros, June 11, 2023. THOMAS SAMSON / AFP The Roland-Garros ticketing affair is experiencing a spectacular rebound. On June 14, after three months of analysis, the N...
From segregation to Black Lives Matter, the NBA on the front line of American racial tensions
Boston Celtics players Bob Cousy (left) and Bill Russell in Boston, 1957. RICHARD MEEK/SPORTS ILLUSTRATED VIA GETTY IMAGES The house, sheltered behind a low wall, would be discreet if it weren’t for this American flag which flies on top of a mast, proudly planted in front of the entrance. Worceste...
in England, despite its progress, women’s football “remains in a start-up phase”
Chelsea team captain and goalkeeper Emily Orman lifts the Premier League trophy alongside her teammates on May 27, 2023 in London. JUSTIN TALLIS / AFP Certain signs do not deceive: the DailyMirror, a popular British tabloid, has published a 48-page special featuring the Women’s World Cup, which ki...
In the face of inflation, strikes continue in the UK in hospitals and in the rail
‘Junior doctors’ hold signs outside St Thomas’ Hospital in London on July 13, 2023. HENRY NICHOLLS / AFP For months, the United Kingdom has been affected by strikes in the sectors of health, transport, education, post… This Thursday, July 20, the country is facing new strikes, affecting both...
In the UK, a difficult and potentially ominous by-election for the Conservatives
A polling station in West London, July 20, 2023. JORDAN PETTITT / AP The British Conservatives kept the seat of former Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Friday, July 21, but largely lost another in difficult and potentially ominous by-elections before the legislative elections in 2024 while a last cha...
More than fifty pilot whales have died following a mass stranding in Scotland
In North Tolsta, on the Isle of Lewis, Scotland, on July 16, 2023. MAIRI ROBERTSON-CARREY/AP This is the largest cetacean shipwreck recorded by Scotland since 2011: fifty-five pilot whales were stranded in the north of the country, on the coast of the Isle of Lewis, on Sunday July 16. Fifteen of the...
asylum seekers soon to be accommodated in a “floating social hotel”
A barge intended to receive asylum seekers docked in Portland on Tuesday July 18. Bibby Stockholm is a boat over 93 meters with 222 cabins on three levels, according to the presentation of its operator Bibby Marine, which the British authorities intend to accommodate some five hundred single adult m...
UK installs ‘Bibby Stockholm’, barge for asylum seekers, in Portland harbor
A barge intended to receive asylum seekers docked in Portland on Tuesday July 18, on a Dorset peninsula in the south of the United Kingdom, sparking criticism from residents and outraged human rights defenders. Bibby Stockholm is a boat over 93 meters with 222 cabins on three levels, according to th...
Libor-Euribor financial affair: chronicle of a legal fiasco
On the night of July 5 to 6, Tom Hayes had a nightmare, in which he was sent back to prison. After spending five and a half years behind bars in the United Kingdom, two and a half years after his release, the former trader, who claims his innocence, remains deeply traumatized. But the next […]
the new British law is contrary to international law, according to the UN
Migrants on a British Border Police boat, in Dover, in the south-east of the United Kingdom, on June 16, 2022. BEN STANSALL / AFP The new British immigration law, which plans to prevent migrants who have arrived illegally from seeking asylum in the country, is contrary to international law, denounce...
Charges against ex-Manchester United star Ryan Giggs dropped
Ryan Giggs leaves Manchester Court on August 31, 2022. OLI SCARFF / AFP After nearly three years of proceedings, the British justice announced on Tuesday July 18 the end of the prosecution for domestic violence against the former star footballer of Manchester United Ryan Giggs, 49 years old. A first...
more than a hundred McDonald’s employees denounce sexual assaults and racist acts
More than a hundred employees of McDonald’s in the United Kingdom say they have been victims of assault, sexual harassment or racism within the American fast food chain, according to revelations made on Tuesday July 18 by the BBC. This case adds to a wave of revelations about toxic sexual assault ...
suspended for three games, the Irishman Johnny Sexton will be able to play the World Cup
Irish fly-half Johnny Sexton during the Six Nations Tournament in Dublin on February 5, 2022. PAUL FAITH / AFP The cleaver fell, but it’s not that sharp. Irishman Johnny Sexton has been suspended for three games for ” misbehavior “ during the Champions Cup final lost at the end of May by Leins...
Carlos Alcaraz overthrows Novak Djokovic to win Wimbledon for the first time
Carlos Alcaraz, during the Wimbledon final, against Novak Djokovic, Sunday July 16, 2023, in London. KIRSTY WIGGLESWORTH / AP Under the watchful eye of Prince William, on Sunday July 16 on Center Court at Wimbledon, a new tennis master made himself king, in five sets. After a failed start to the mat...
UK signs membership in Trans-Pacific Free Trade Partnership
Singapore’s Trade and Industry Minister Gan Kim Yong, Vietnam’s Trade and Industry Minister Nguyen Hong Dien and British Secretary of State for Business and Trade Kemi Badenoch on the day where Britain signs the Treaty of Accession to the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for the Trans-Pac...
In Durham, the British workers’ militant gala
It’s 8:30 a.m. this Saturday, July 8, and the air already smells of fried bacon. After strolling through the alleys of the old town, the first marching bands and banners arrive on the racetrack of Durham, the capital of the black British country, in the northeast of England. Impeccably dressed, th...
Marketa Vondrousova becomes the first female tennis player to win Wimbledon without being seeded
Marketa Vondrousova at the time of her victory in the Wimbledon final, against Ons Jabeur, in London, Saturday July 15, 2023. GLYN KIRK / AFP Czech player Marketa Vondrousova won the Wimbledon tennis tournament in London on Saturday July 15 by winning the final of the competition (6-4, 6-4) against....
the France under-20 team aims for a third world title against Ireland
Les Bleuets have the opportunity to make July 14 a real national holiday. The French under-20 rugby team, reigning double world champions, has the opportunity to win a third title in a row, Friday at 7 p.m., against Ireland, in Cape Town, South Africa . The Tricolores had triumphed in 2018 and 2019....
The NBA, a basketball star machine
New York, June 22. The curtain has not yet risen on the Barclays Center, a modern basketball hall whose patinated steel facade symbolizes the renewal of the Brooklyn district. The eye never rests in this arena saturated with lights and giant screens. Neither does the ear. The crowd of 17,000 spectat...
Ukraine’s Elina Svitolina leaves Wimbledon with honors
Ukraine’s Elina Svitolina greets the Wimbledon crowd after her semi-final loss to Czech Marketa Vondrousova, Thursday, July 13, 2023, in London. ADRIAN DENNIS / AFP Revenge will wait. Swept away in the semi-finals (6-3, 6-3) by Marketa Vondrousova, Elina Svitolina could not resist the 42nd in the ...
In England, doctors begin a new strike of unprecedented duration
‘Junior doctors’ hold signs outside St Thomas’ Hospital, London on July 13, 2023. HENRY NICHOLLS / AFP An unprecedented length. Thousands of doctors began a five-day strike in England on Thursday July 13 to demand pay rises in the midst of a cost-of-living crisis. This mobilization does not co...
Novak Djokovic joins Jannik Sinner in the semi-finals, after beating Andrey Rublev
Serbian Novak Djokovic celebrates his victory against Russian Andrey Rublev, for the ninth day of the Wimbledon tennis tournament in London, Tuesday July 11, 2023. KIRSTY WIGGLESWORTH / AP Novak Djokovic can match Margaret Court’s all-time record of 24 Grand Slam titles. He qualified on Tuesday, J...
how did london become a bourgeois city?
In the Broadway Market area of east London on June 25, 2020. JUSTIN TALLIS / AFP When did Broadway Market in east London go under? When did the Bad Boys hot dog stand at 10 pounds (12 euros) a piece arrive? When the old stall selling jellied eel, an old popular neighborhood tradition, was tran...
Sébastien Grosjean ceases to be coach of the Blues due to conflicts of interest, but remains captain
Sébastien Grosjean, during the Davis Cup match between France and Ecuador, March 5, 2022 in Pau. GAIZKA IROZ / AFP Sébastien Grosjean is wearing many hats: tournament director, shareholder, captain of the French team and television consultant… Requested by its ethics committee, the French Tennis...
In the United Kingdom, the government of Rishi Sunak accused of neglecting the climate emergency
The site of the former Woodhouse Colliery mine, where West Cumbria Mining received government permission to extract coal, in Whitehaven, UK, December 8, 2022. OLI SCARFF / AFP Monday July 10, Joe Biden made a short stop in the United Kingdom, before going to the NATO summit in Lithuania. In the morn...
French basketball player Victor Wembanyama convincing for his second game with Spurs
The French of the San Antonio Spurs, Victor Wembanyama, in Las Vegas (Nevada), July 9, 2023. JOHN LOCHER / AP His season ends on a good individual note before his real big debut in the prestigious NBA championship in October. Despite his team’s defeat (85-80), French basketball player Victor Wenba...
mixed performance of the French Victor Wembanyama for his debut with San Antonio
Victor Wembanyama, white jersey, performs a block on Charlotte Hornets player Tre Scott during the Summer League, in Las Vegas, Nevada, July 7, 2023. ETHAN MILLER/AFP History will remember – and many predict it unique and glorious – that Victor Wembanyama suffered in his first game for the San A...
the French next to their tennis from the third round
Disappointed, Caroline Garcia leaves the court after her defeat against the Czech Marie Bouzkova, in the Wimbledon tournament, in London, on July 7, 2023. ADRIAN DENNIS / AFP They were twenty in the first round – sixteen for men, four for women – but no one will see the round of 16. France lost,...
London rejects Scottish government plan
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in Glasgow (Scotland) on April 28, 2023. (Photo Neil Hanna / AFP) NEIL HANNA / AFP London, in charge of drugs legislation for the whole of the United Kingdom, has rejected the Scottish independence government’s plan to decriminalize the possession of drugs used f...
In the United Kingdom, a year of strikes in the public service and still no way out of the crisis in sight
Nurses during the Health Service’s 75th anniversary celebrations, at Westminster Abbey, in London, on July 5, 2023. JORDAN PETTITT / AP Rishi Sunak’s government has a curious way of honoring public services: Wednesday, July 5, in Westminster Cathedral, the Conservative Prime Minister reads an ex...
in the United Kingdom, the extension of the “low emissions” zone in Greater London contested
Demonstrators during a rally to protest against the extension of the Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) in London, at Marble Arch in central London on June 25, 2023. HENRY NICHOLLS / AFP About fifty demonstrators, many middle-aged men, yellow vests on their backs and banners in their hands, gathered on....
swept away by Carlos Alcaraz, the Frenchman Jérémy Chardy puts his rackets back
Jérémy Chardy leaves the court after losing to Carlos Alcaraz in the first round of the Wimbledon tournament in London on Tuesday July 4, 2023. KIRSTY WIGGLESWORTH / AP Chardy, it’s over. The French did not last long against world number 1, Carlos Alcaraz, Tuesday, July 4, for his entry into the...
the great premiere of Varvara Gracheva in Grand Slam under the French colors
Varvara Gracheva during a match at Roland-Garros, in Paris, on May 31, 2023. GEOFFROY VAN DER HASSELT / AFP In her last appearance of 2021 at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, which hosts Wimbledon, the third Grand Slam tournament of the season, Varvara Gracheva represented Russia. Two y...
The UK had its hottest June on record
Bough Beech Reservoir, during the summer of 2022. 2022 was the hottest year on record for the UK. BEN STANSALL / AFP Temperature record or concern for water supply: summer is off to a hot start in the United Kingdom, which broke temperature records in June, the British meteorological services report...
Andrey Rublev, back on the London lawn, wants to play the spoilsport
Andrey Rublev during his lost final against Kazakh Alexander Bublik, in Halle (Germany), on June 25. CARMEN JASPERSEN / AFP This year, the doors of the sacrosanct All England Lawn Tennis Club are reopening to the banished. In 2022, sticking to the government line, the leaders of Wimbledon (tournamen...
after the Roland-Garros controversies, the Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka will no longer talk about politics
Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka during her pre-Wimbledon press conference on July 1, 2023. FLORIAN EISELE / AFP Two days before the start of Wimbledon (July 3-16), Belarusian tennis player and world number 2 Aryna Sabalenka warned in her pre-tournament press conference that she would refuse to answer any...
in Lille, Florian Grill opens the post-Laporte era to the French Rugby Federation
Florian Grill, during the general meeting of the FFR, July 1, 2023 in Lille. DENIS CHARLET / AFP Some predicted a “cohabitation presidency”after his election, but Florian Grill launched, Saturday 1er July, a new era for the French Rugby Federation (FFR), and felt that it “is and will be govern...
A new rugby competition between nations of the North and the South will see the light of day in 2026
A new international rugby competition between the nations of the southern hemisphere and those of the north will see the light of day in 2026, announced on Saturday 1er July the Six Nations committee and the Sanzaar, which manages competitions in the southern hemisphere. It will take place in July a...
In England, hospitals present their plan to deal with the shortage of caregivers
Faced with the lack of doctors and nurses in England, the authorities announced on Friday an ambitious fifteen-year recruitment plan, to try to get the public health service out of a deep crisis, notably marked by unprecedented strikes in recent months. . A few days before the 75e anniversary of the...
In the United Kingdom, the Court of Appeal rules illegal the sending of asylum seekers to Rwanda
Rishi Sunak, the British Prime Minister, in the House of Commons, in London, June 28, 2023 JESSICA TAYLOR / AFP The British government’s “anti-migrant” policy suffered a major setback on Thursday 29 June. The centerpiece of this policy, the “Rwanda” agreement, signed in April 2022 by the J...
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