Turkey’s foreign ministry summoned Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to Ankara over the disappearance of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, a Turkish official revealed Thursday. Khashoggi, a prominent Saudi journalist and commentator, went missing Tuesday after he entered the Saudi consulate in Istanbul to pick up a document.Turkish and Saudi authorities have offered conflicting accounts about his whereabouts. While Saudi officials say Khashoggi… Read more »
After heroically delivering a message in World War I, French pigeon Le Vaillant died of gas poisoning. A century later, it looks as though he and the thousands of other animals killed in the conflict will now be remembered with a monument in Paris. An estimated 11 million horses, donkeys and mules were requisitioned during World War I, as well as… Read more »
French far-right leader Marine Le Pen expressed outrage Thursday after being ordered to undergo psychiatric tests for tweeting pictures of atrocities committed by the Islamic State group. Le Pen shared the gruesome images in December 2015, a few weeks after IS jihadists killed 130 people in attacks in Paris, sparking widespread condemnation in France. The 50-year-old leader of the National Rally (formerly… Read more »
French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday unveiled plans to make France‘s health caresystem, considered one of the best in the world, more efficient and sustainable for the next 50 years. Macron announced organizational changes at hospitals, in the recruitment of doctors, and a better use of digital technologies to provide health care to patients across the country, regardless of where they live…. Read more »
