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France 24
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- France 24
E.Guinea launches ICJ case against France over Paris mansion
The west African nation asked the International Court of Justice to issue emergency orders against France over a building seized after the conviction of Vice President Teodorin Obiang for corruption. It asked the court to order France not to sell the mansion, located on the upscale Avenue Foch near the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, which the two countries have been squabbling over for several years. French authorities seized the property, which boasts a cinema, hammam and marble and gold water taps, after convicting Obiang under a law targeting fortunes fraudulently amassed by foreign leaders. In 2021, France's top appeals court gave Obiang -- the eldest son of the long-standing president of Equatorial Guinea, Teodoro Obiang -- a three-year suspended sentence and 30 million euros in fines. France also confiscated assets, including the luxurious Avenue Foch building with an estimated value well above 100 million euros. In its latest complaint to the ICJ, dated July 3 but published by the court on Friday, Equatorial Guinea says French police entered the property last month and changed the locks on several of the doors. Equatorial Guinea called on the court to order France to give it "immediate, complete and unhindered access" to the building. Embassy or residence? The mansion was also at the centre of an earlier case filed by Equatorial Guinea in 2016 at the ICJ, which rules on disputes between UN member states. Equatorial Guinea argued the building served as the country's embassy in France and that France had broken the Vienna Convention, which safeguards diplomats from interference by host countries. But the UN court sided with France, which said the building was merely Teodorin Obiang's residence and served no diplomatic purpose. The ICJ upheld France's objections that Equatorial Guinea had only tried to designate it as such after the investigation began into Obiang, and that the country already had an embassy in Paris. A request for emergency orders -- provisional measures, in the court's jargon -- takes precedence over all other court business. The ICJ is currently wrestling with a busy caseload, including a high-profile case brought by South Africa against Israel alleging breaches of the UN Genocide Convention in Gaza. It is also expected to deliver a key ruling on countries' climate change obligations within months. While the ICJ is the top United Nations court, whose rulings are binding, it has no way of enforcing its decisions.
LeMonde
5 hours ago
- LeMonde
'The ideological fusion between the American right and the media did not start with Trump, but he accelerated it'
The American radical right has always been ahead of its European counterparts when it comes to developing media ecosystems. What is happening today in the United States often signals, a little in advance, the major trends that will also emerge in Europe. It didn't all start with Donald Trump's arrival on the political scene, far from it. The right's conquest of the media can be traced back to radio: In the 1970s and 1980s, the AM band, which was then largely underused and faced few content restrictions, became the preferred platform for American conservatives. Rush Limbaugh embodied this trend with The Rush Limbaugh Show, which had an impressive run: Launched in 1984, the talk show continued until his death in 2021. Such programs were a success with the public and helped secure the victories of Ronald Reagan in 1980 and 1984, and later George W. Bush in 2000 and 2004. At the same time, there was a boom in televangelists – preachers hosting religious television programs – who came to dominate many local radio and television stations. It was also during this period that Reagan, in 1985, granted American citizenship to media magnate Rupert Murdoch, originally from Australia – allowing him to enter the US media market with the goal of shifting it to the right. Murdoch replicated in the US the successful strategies he had already employed in Australia and the United Kingdom. In 1996, he launched Fox News, which would revolutionize the American right and its communication methods. Murdoch was not alone. Other right-wing magnates also set out to conquer the media market: John Dickey bought a small Atlanta radio station and, in 1997, turned it into Cumulus Media – a conglomerate that is now the second-largest owner and operator of AM and FM radio stations in the US (nearly 500). During the Bush era, another competitor, Sinclair Broadcast Group, owned the most television stations in America, and Steve Bannon launched the website Breitbart, which became the spearhead for the nationalist and populist far right.
France 24
5 hours ago
- France 24
Telegram boss Durov speaks out before French hearing, hopes to get charges lifted
Since then, he's been under travel restrictions as French authorities investigate whether his app adequately complied with police requests, but he has been able to visit his country of residence, Dubai. He recently gave a rare interview, his longest-ever, to Guillaume Grallet, Technology Reporter for Le Point magazine and the face of Tech 24 on FRANCE 24's French channel. In the interview, Durov reveals his plan to bequeath his wealth equally among his more than 100 sperm-donor children and his six other children. He praises Meredith Whittaker of rival messaging app Signal, who's been critical of Telegram 's own encryption policy. Durov also details his turbulent relationship with French President Emmanuel Macron, saying they used to text regularly, but that now he would not even agree to meet the French president – and has, in fact, left him on read. He accuses France 's spy agency, the DGSE, of trying to pressure Telegram to remove accounts belonging to supporters of conservative candidates in the Romanian election. The DGSE has responded by denying this, saying that Durov has a "curious relationship with the truth." Durov also shared that he would have his third audience with the French investigating magistrate overseeing his case later this month, as he hopes to get the charges lifted, avoiding a trial and possible long prison sentence. Grallet spoke to Tech 24 in this edition, sharing his insights from a decade's work on Durov.
