Bruges tourist authorities are encouraging tourists to see beyond the center of the city, and visit at offpeak times (AFP/Archives/EMMANUEL DUNAND) Congested terraces along the canals, crowds thronging the cobbled streets, noria of cruise ships… the small Flemish town of Bruges is looking for a way out of the mass attendance that exasperates its inhabitants,…
Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune in Algiers in December 2019. RYAD KRAMDI / AFP After Russia in mid-June, where he obtained Moscow’s support for his country’s membership of the BRICS, the Algerian president is continuing his diplomatic offensive in China, where he began a five-day visit on Monday July 17. Abdelmadjid Tebboune is counting on this…
Le Coq sportif is in a complicated situation. The French sports brand which, in 2020, under the nose and beard of Lacoste, won the sports equipment supplier contract for the French delegation of athletes at the Olympic and Paralympic Games (JOP) in Paris in 2024, needs “thirty million euros this year” capital, specified in World…
Reserved for subscribers REPORTING. Faced with the obstruction of Hezbollah, the country of the Cedars has not been able to obtain a head of state for 8 months. A case that goes beyond the Lebanese borders. From our special envoy to Lebanon, Armin Arefi In the Maronite cemetery of Ras el-Nabeh, a district of Beirut,…
GTA 6: Rockstar seeks perfection, and something that has never been seen Rockstar is known for the quality of its games, which must be perfect, according to Strauss Zelnick, CEO of Take-Two, but also of innovate, as the GTA license has very often done. Source link -116
Alibaba Cloud is looking for partners to help it build custom artificial intelligence (AI) generative models for businesses in various verticals, including finance and petrochemicals. The Chinese cloud service provider has launched a partnership program that it hopes will accelerate the development of such applications, powered by its great language model, Tongyi Qianwen. Launched earlier…
The centrist group Liot, already at the initiative of a cross-party government censure motion which had failed by 9 votes, “is seriously considering” putting on the agenda of the National Assembly a bill to repeal the reform pensions, a group source told AFP on Tuesday. This bill would only need a simple majority to be…
Only bicycles and two-wheelers manage to navigate their way nimbly through the human anthill of Mahidharpura Road, the beating heart of the diamond trade in Surat (Gujarat), in western India. Every day, thousands of men in shirts flock to this artery to sell and buy precious stones. The crowd overflows into the adjacent streets. Read…
The centrist group Liot, already at the initiative of a cross-party government censure motion which had failed by 9 votes, “is seriously considering” putting on the agenda of the National Assembly a bill to repeal the reform pensions, a group source told AFP on Tuesday. This bill would only need a simple majority to be…
ATGod the endless videoconferences: in diplomacy, nothing beats direct contact. The aerial activity of political leaders and their ministers has resumed its rights in the post-Covid world with a frenzy of travel to get the carbon footprint counters racing. Circuits, however, have changed. A new hub is emerging around which much of this frenzy revolves:…
An electric car without a license in the Ligier factory in Boufféré, western France, on April 11, 2023 (AFP/LOIC VENANCE) In a niche market but in full expansion, the French manufacturer of cars without a license Ligier presented its first electric vehicle which aims to conquer new targets, starting with young people who can afford…
Carlos Tavares, CEO of Stellantis, at the New York International Auto Show in New York on April 5, 2023. DAVID DEE DELGADO / REUTERS This year again, Carlos Tavares, the general manager of Stellantis, will be one of the best paid bosses of the CAC 40, competing with two regulars on the podium: Bernard Charlès,…
