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Nidal Hasan, the perpetrator of the shooting at the Fort Hood military base in 2009, is due to be killed by firing squad on 3 December. A Pentagon official said on Thursday night that the execution would be broadcast live, while Defence Minister Pete Hegseth assured earlier that it would be public.
Less than a month before the mid-term elections in the United States, several democratic candidates have multiplied the campaign videos suggesting links between their Republican rivals and sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein. A pan that never ends haunting President Trump's camp as the election approaches.
The National Committee of the Democratic Party (DNC) filed a complaint on Wednesday against US President Donald Trump. It accuses her of " flagrant violation" of the ban on the appropriation of public funds for advertisements to her glory, especially during an election period.
With stickers proclaiming, for example, "No to the father, no to the son", thousands of Brazilians took part on Wednesday in the demonstration convened in Rio de Janeiro by student organizations. They call for a halt to Conservative Senator Flavio Bolsonaro, who came in the lead in the first round against outgoing President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
Faced with the violence of criminal gangs throughout the territory, Haiti's electoral authorities announced Tuesday reporter sine die the presidential and legislative elections that should have taken place in December.
Nearly a week after surviving two lethal injections into Tennessee, the condemned to death Christa Pike "has regained consciousness and can speak", her lawyers announced Tuesday. However, they were not allowed to visit him at the hospital.
The Parti québécois de Paul St-Pierre Plamondon won the Quebec elections on Monday night, with about 28% of the vote but without an absolute majority, complicating the implementation of its program. The new Prime Minister of this Canadian province said he would wait until Donald Trump's term of office ended to hold a referendum on independence.
US President Donald Trump, whose popularity rating suffers from pump prices, signed a decree on Monday to allow all Americans to buy "tax-free red diesel". The text is in fact limited to deferring the payment of the tax on this diesel oil normally reserved for agricultural machinery.
Donald Trump agreed on Monday that Nidal Malik Hasan, a former US military psychiatrist who had killed 13 people on the Texas base in Fort Hood in 2009 to protest the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, should be killed by firing squad.
ultra-conservative Senator Flavio Bolsonaro thwarted the prognosis on Sunday by ahead of the outgoing left-wing president Lula in the first round of the presidential election. A Bolsonaro clan that also made a big deal in the parliamentary elections.
Beyond Flavio Bolsonaro, who led the first round of the Brazilian presidential election on Sunday, the whole family came out victorious in the general elections, especially during the legislative elections.
Flavio Bolsonaro, the ultraconservative and son of former President Jair Bolsonaro, came out ahead of the first round of the presidential elections in Brazil on Sunday, with 47% of the vote against 45% for outgoing President Lula. In an ultra-polarized country, the senator could benefit from the votes of the small candidates for the second round.
Far right-wing candidate Flavio Bolsonaro, appointed by his father to represent the Conservative camp in Brazil's presidency, created the surprise when he came to the lead of the first round on Sunday. In the second round, he will face outgoing President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who is running for a fourth term. Relive the election night.
The president of the U.S. university Cornell announced Saturday that an independent external investigation would examine the management of a student's alleged rape in 2024. This case is currently causing a wave of outrage in the United States.
Suspended for rape in the United States, the influencer Clavicular became one of the figures of the "looksmaxxing", this quest for the perfect physical appearance of masculinists. The mediatization of this new phenomenon has contributed to the normalization and transfer of codes from the radical incel milieu into mainstream culture.
Voters began to go to the polls on Sunday for the first round of the presidential election in Brazil. Left-wing president Lula said after voting that the choice was between democracy and "barbarism". His conservative rival said he wanted to "free the Brazilian people". The two candidates are in a row in the last polls.
The head of Tennessee's prison administration left his post following the failed execution of a convicted person, the governor of Tennessee announced on Saturday. Christa Pike, 50, survived two lethal injections on Wednesday night and is currently hospitalized in critical condition.
The last straight line of the Midterm campaign has begun! Strategy, candidates, polls... Every week, France 24 takes stock of what to remember. On Thursday, Donald Trump began a major round of meetings to support Republican candidates. But not everyone in his party is happy. Polls are increasingly in favour of Democrats, who are trying to remain moderate in response to accusations of extremism by their rivals.
At 80, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is a candidate for his re-election as head of Brazil on Sunday. And to run for a fourth term, the former metal worker relied on his popularity and a solid balance sheet with a revitalized economy. But in the face of Donald Trump's pressure, he struggles to mobilize. To the point of being at the elbow-to-neck in the polls with his far right rival, Flavio Bolsonaro.
In Paris from Wednesday for an economic forum, Javier Milei is looking for new investors for Argentina, while growth remains fragile and poverty is rising again. For researcher Jean-Jacques Kurliandsky, the president of the extreme right of Argentina comes mainly "to push doors that remain open to him in Europe".
