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11 minutesImage source, Getty ImagesCaption, The words "here we drown the Algerians" were engraved on the embankment of the river Seine."It was a miracle that they did not throw me into the Seine," recalls the Algerian Hocine Hakem of an infamous but little-known massacre in the French capital 60 years ago.On October 17, 1961, 30,000 Algerians had taken to the streets of Paris to peacefully protest against a curfew imposed only by Algerians living in the city and claiming independence almost seven years after the start of the war against French rule. in the north of Africa.In response, the police killed hundreds of protesters and dozens of others were thrown into the river seine, which makes this fact one of the darkest pages in the checkered colonial history of France.Hocine Hakem was ...

Drafting BBC News World4 minutesImage source, AFP via Getty ImagesCaption, Gangs have recently spread their control throughout Port-au-Prince.A group of American missionaries and their relatives, including some minors, were kidnapped this weekend by an armed commando in Port-au-Prince, the capital of Haiti. According to the report given by Haitian officials to local media, at least 15 people were taken captive from a bus in which the missionaries and their families were transported after a visit to an orphanage.Although no further details are known, US government officials said they had received the reports of the kidnapping. Haiti has one of the highest kidnapping rates in the world, with powerful armed groups that exploit the country's fragile institutional framework to demand ransom...

Drafting BBC News WorldJune 13, 2020Updated 23 minutesCaption, Colombian lawyer Alex Saab was arrested this Friday.In November 2011, the then presidents of Venezuela and Colombia, Hugo Chávez and Juan Manuel Santos, held a meeting for history.Chavéz sang, Santos managed to open the door of a peace process with the guerrillas that would give him the Nobel Peace Prize and a Colombian businessman signed a social investment agreement that would be the origin of one of the most notorious alleged corruption schemes of the recent times in Venezuela. That businessman is called Alex Nain Saab Morán. And in June 2020 he became news again, after he was arrested in Cape Verde, an African archipelago where the private plane in which he was traveling made a stopover to refuel on its way to Caracas ...

A stock image of the covid-19 vaccination. EP The president of the Government, Pedro Sanchez, has promised this Sunday that before the end of the year 90% of the population over 12 years old is vaccinated in Spain. Sánchez has set that goal in his closing speech of the 40th Federal Congress of the PSOE that has been hel...

A bill for electricity consumption. EP The average daily price of electricity in the wholesale market will return to the upward path on Monday after the decreases registered at the weekend and will mark the most expensive Monday since there are records. Specifically, the price will rise 8.5% this Monday With respect to that registered on Sunday, up to 227.45 eu...

Gabriela PonteCONTINUEIsabel vegaCONTINUEMadrid Updated:17/10/2021 13:13h Keep Related newsThe former Venezuelan general Hugo 'The Chicken' Carvajal, detained in Madrid pending the resolution of his request for extradition to the United States, has created a web page hugocarvajal.com where he seeks to tell his own version of what happens behind the doors of the Audiencia Nacional. This will not be a place where the sensitive documentation that has been provided to the judge of the Third Criminal Chamber of the National High Court will be dumped in some proceedings that are followed under summary secrecy. What it will offer, according to the sources consulted by ABC, is information on his discharge supported by resolutions such as the one that denied delivery to the US at ...

Jewel Kiriungi BBC News, Ouagadougou25 minutesImage source, Getty ImagesAlmost precisely 34 years after the shocking death of the then president of Burkina Faso, Thomas Sankara, on Monday, October 11, the trial of 14 men accused of complicity in the murder of who is known as "Che Guevara of Africa" ​​began.The charismatic Pan-Africanist was shot dead at age 37 by soldiers during a coup on October 15, 1987, which brought his close friend, Blaise Compaoré, to power.Four years earlier, both had starred in the inauguration that made Sankara president.Compaoré is among the 14 defendants, but is currently in exile in neighboring Ivory Coast, where he fled after being forced to resign during mass protests in 2014. He has repeatedly denied his involvement in Sankara's death and is boycotting th...

The president of the Provincial Council, Carlos Mazón, in charge of closing the event, has indicated in his speech that when “you love the land you live in, an unbreakable bond is created that prompts us to defend it vehemently, whether or not we were born in she. To always safeguard it, loud and clear, but also to praise it, improve it, enrich it, appreciate it, share it and enjoy it ”. The institutional manager has praised this recognition as an "exaltation of equality, solidarity, the integration of customs and traditions of those host citizens, without ceasing to protect and pres...

16 minutesImage source, Stuttgart PoliceCaption, The photograph was printed in a Nazi propaganda newspaper.A blurred newspaper image may be the only record of the time the UK flag and the Nazi swastika flew together on British soil.The photograph, discovered recently, was taken during a visit of a German boxing team to the English city of Nottingham in October 1936.Despite increasing tension between the two countries, visits between groups and societies were common."It's pretty chilling to see the two flags side by side," says historian Tom Andrews.Flags flew together in front of the now demolished County Hotel to welcome Germany's Stuttgart Police Boxing Club.Image source, Getty ImagesCaption, The England team, dressed in white, doing the Nazi salute in Berlin in 1938 generated controv...