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Israel-Gaza war: The Red Cross's delicate role in hostage crises

Israel-Gaza war: The Red Cross's delicate role in hostage crises
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... It s a fascinating collection: one card confirms that Charles De Gaulle, France s World War Two leader and later its president, had been taken prisoner at the battle of Verdun in 1916...

Laurence Fox: The actor who became a political activist

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... The audience saw Fox step out of character - that of French statesman Charles De Gaulle - and chastise the heckler with robust language...

Macron looks on as France's Africa policy crumbles

Macron looks on as France's Africa policy crumbles
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... " So to return to the original question: if French influence is on the wane in Africa, how come it is now that we are seeing the fiercest backlash against it? Surely it would have been more appropriate when former President Charles De Gaulle s Jacques Foccart, really was arranging coups d état in the 1960s and beyond, and when bags of dirty money really were transiting to Le Bourget airport near Paris...

Foreign Office warns Britons over travel to France during riots

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Jul 1,2023 12:30 am

... Paris Aeroport, which manages Orly and Charles De Gaulle airports, reported road and rail disruptions from the capital to its airports from 21:00 local time...

France riots: Nanterre rocked by killing and unrest

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Jun 30,2023 7:20 pm

... There is a theatre, a university, the national opera dance school, and a large park named after former President Charles De Gaulle s culture minister André Malraux...

Easter travel: Millions set for getaway with delays likely

Easter travel: Millions set for getaway with delays likely
Apr 6,2023 12:30 pm

... Protesters also caused disruption at Paris s Charles De Gaulle Airport on Thursday, blocking a main road to one of its main terminals, forcing passengers to walk...

French protests: No risk for King after Bordeaux violence, says mayor

French protests: No risk for King after Bordeaux violence, says mayor
Mar 24,2023 6:30 am

... " The unrest also disrupted train travel and saw teachers and workers at Paris s Charles De Gaulle Airport walk out of work...

Bordeaux town hall set on fire in France pension protests

Bordeaux town hall set on fire in France pension protests
Mar 23,2023 5:20 pm

... The protests, now on their ninth day, also disrupted train travel, oil refineries and saw teachers and workers at Paris s Charles De Gaulle Airport walk out of work...

Coronavirus: 668 infected on the French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle

Feb 8,2023 9:21 pm

Charles De Gaulle is now docked at the French port of Toulon

A third of The Sailors serve with French Aircraft Carrier " Charles De Gaulle - 668 from the almost 2000 - Are infected with the coronavirus.

Almost all of them Are on The Carrier itself, the navy. An escort of the frigate and carrier pilots Are also in quarantine.

The Carrier returned to the French port of Toulon early from the Atlantic exercises. Twenty sailors in the hospital, in intensive care.

is likely to increase The infection in the total than 30% of the test results Are not in yet.

The Navy is investigating how so many sailors The Virus is caught. Last week, the Aircraft Carrier was brought home showed, 10 days early from his Atlantic deployment after some sailors symptoms.

Earlier this month, nearly 600 coronavirus cases were, one of two U.S. Aircraft Carrier in the Western Pacific ocean.

A sailor died later from Covid-19 in Guam, according to The Ship - this is a total team of 4,800 - had docked.

the captain of The Ship Board Crozier was fired after the letter to ask for help with the outbreak leaked to the media was to US. A public outcry over the termination of the trigger for the resignation of the acting Navy Secretary Thomas Modly.

The US military has expanded, the medical facilities on Guam for The Emergency

Meanwhile, a Dutch Marine, U-Boot, MS Dolfijn, back to Den Helder base Two Weeks early because of a coronavirus outbreak on Board.

Eight of the 58 crew tested positive, and the U-boat that was sailing in the vicinity of Scotland, is now in quarantine.

pandemic strikes, naval deployments

the proximity and contagion make for dangerous Ship -mates. We have already seen how deadly The Virus can be guests in the narrow confines of the civilian cruise ships, although many older. Now France is only a carrier and its Navy flagship, the Charles De Gaulle , was hit.

after the outbreak of the US carrier USS Theodore of the U.S. Roosevelt, Navy is trying to quarantine The Crew of the Uss Nimitz on Board, before a future use. The problems of maternity can be increased to such large ships.

A typical US nuclear-powered carrier has a crew of more than 5,000, including The Ship and sailors and air wing. Aircraft carriers Are the Central tool of the global military presence, and this pandemic is proving to be highly problematic for the US Navy.

The Number of carriers available is limited and there Are never enough. The U.S. Navy is the most Drastic Measures . The Carrier USS Harry S. Truman, at The End of a seven-month mission, taking place in offshore, to ensure that at least one carrier is ready for a short-term increase in deployment, if necessary.

France and China diplomatic row,

France is Covid-19 deaths is 17,167 during 10,643 of these died in the hospital. Health authorities said on Wednesday 6,457 Covid-19 patients were in the ICU, 273 less than on Tuesday

The country has extended, has a very strict lockdown-President Emmanuel Macron to 11. May. It has the third-highest death numbers in Europe, after Italy and Spain, but some European countries seem to be in the reporting of nursing home deaths.

A diplomatic row erupted between France and China This Week after an unnamed Chinese diplomats claim that in some Western nursing homes staff sick pensioner had to be abandoned. The author uses the French term "Ehpad" for nursing homes, and the article is still on the Chinese Embassy website.

Now the Chinese Embassy has reacted to the French in trouble, by his Ministry of foreign Affairs spokesman, Zhao Lijian, the stresses that Beijing's close cooperation with France and other countries in the fight against the pandemic.

"We hope that it cited no misunderstanding: the Chinese side has never had a negative comment on French management of the epidemic, and has no intention of doing this," he said.

Given the shortage of medical kit, like in many other countries, in France, about 600 million face masks from China is not ordered, although you still arrived, the Reuters news Agency reported.



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Source of news: bbc.com

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