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Rare Michelangelo drawing could fetch €30mn in Paris sale

PARIS: A drawing by Michelangelo, discovered in 2019, will be offered for sale next month by Christie's and could fetch €30 million (US$33 million), the British auction house said on Tuesday.

Bangkok Post · Apr 5, 2022

South African rapper Dope Saint Jude on her new EP 'Higher Self'

Dope Saint Jude grew up in Cape Town, South Africa in a religious household. But in no way did that stop her from becoming one of the country's leading queer feminist rappers, bringing messages of hope and empowerment to the world. Her background in music production and brief stint as…

France 24 · Apr 5, 2022

Champions League Quarterfinal Power Rankings: Who Has the Best Shot to Win It?

The Champions League bracket from here on out is balanced and rich with intrigue, but which power is most likely to lift the trophy in Paris?

Sports Illustrated · Apr 5, 2022

Zelensky tells UN that Russia must be expelled from Security Council

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky urged the UN Security Council to expel Russia “so it cannot block decisions about its own war” during a video address to a meeting of the council on Tuesday. Zelensky also said that Russian forces have committed “the most terrible war crimes” since World War II…

France 24 · Apr 5, 2022

The Guardian view on the latest IPCC report: a fast track to climate disaster

Editorial: Governments have hitherto been far too hesitant to take on vested interests and are all too ready to protect historic investments in fossil fuels

The Guardian - UK · Apr 4, 2022

World Hurtling to Climate Danger Zone, Brakes Half-Pulled

Temperatures on Earth will shoot past a key danger point unless greenhouse gas emissions fall faster than countries have committed, the world’s top body of climate scientists said Monday, warning of the consequences of inaction but also noting hopeful signs of progress. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said the report by…

Asharq Al-Awsat · Apr 4, 2022

Ben Franklin was the most famous American of his era. Ken Burns' new doc shows why

If we are reckoning by money, Benjamin Franklin — the man on the $100 bill — is 20 times as important as Abraham Lincoln, 100 times as important as George Washington and 10 times as important as Alexander Hamilton, notwithstanding "Hamilton." This is bad math, of course, because there is…

Los Angeles Times · Apr 4, 2022

'Macron looks right through you!': Socialist Hidalgo calls on progressives to return to the fold

With a week to go before the first round of France's presidential election, Anne Hidalgo is languishing at under 2 percent in the polls. If those voter surveys bear out at the ballot box on April 10, the performance would mark a historic low for the embattled Socialist Party. And…

France 24 · Apr 4, 2022

Paris Perspective #27: Fear and loathing on the campaign trail 2022 - Gérald Olivier

With only a few days to go before approximately 48 million registered voters are invited to cast their ballot in France’s first round of presidential elections, Paris Perspective looks at the polemics that have shaped the campaign trails to date and the probabilities of the outcome of round one on…

Radio France Internationale · Apr 4, 2022

Burning bus sends clouds of black smoke into Paris sky - Reuters witness

Thick black smoke billowed above central Paris on Monday after a bus caught fire on the upmarket Saint-Germain boulevard, a Reuters witness said.

Reuters · Apr 4, 2022