Tag: France

“We hope to make the government back down”

For the first time in almost 12 years, all the French trade union organizations (CGT, CFDT, FO, UNSA, CFE-CGC, Solidaires, FSU, CFTC) will come together to protest against this reform which they consider “unfair” and “cruel”. Many businesses and public services will be idling. But then what do the unions and a majority of French […]

Need to supply weapons to Ukraine for peaceful solution = NATO Secretary General | Reuters

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said Ukraine needs a large supply of weapons and that such support is the only way to a negotiated and peaceful settlement with Russia. REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann [ダボス（スイス） １８日 ロイター] – NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said on Monday that Ukraine needs a large supply of weapons and that such support […]

World’s oldest person dies at age 118

AFP NOS News•today, 01:18 She was born in 1904, three days after the Russo-Japanese War, the first major war of the twentieth century, broke out. And a few months later, the second Tour de France was held in her native France. It is a fragment of what the French nun Lucile Randon went through in […]

World’s oldest woman dies in France at 118

The world’s oldest woman, 118-year-old French nun Lucile Randon, has died in her sleep at a nursing home. It is reported by AFP. She became Earth’s oldest person after the death of Japanese woman Kane Tanaka in April 2022. “It’s a great sadness, but… it was her desire to join her beloved brother. For her, […]

The doyenne of humanity, the French sister André, died at 118

By Le Figaro with AFP Published yesterday at 9:34 p.m., Update yesterday at 11:18 p.m. Sister André, born Lucile Randon in a Protestant family, died on Tuesday in her retirement home in Toulon, where she had lived for more than thirteen years. Heaven couldn’t wait any longer: the doyenne of humanity, the French sister Andrédied […]

Passenger plane crashes in Nepal, 72 people boarded, at least 68 dead | Reuters

[カトマンズ １５日 ロイター] -At least 68 people were killed when a Yeti Airlines plane en route to the second largest city of Pokhara from the capital Kathmandu crashed in Nepal on the 15th. There were 72 people on board. The crash site, located in a hilly area, was searched by hundreds of rescue workers. Local […]