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Benzema retires from international football after French World Cup exit

adminDecember 20, 2022

December 20, 2022

Karim Benzema announced his retirement from international football on his 35th birthday on Monday, a day after Les Bleus lost their World Cup final to Argentina on penalties. France’s Ballon d’Or winner Benzema missed the World Cup after suffering a thigh injury in training the day before the tournament began.......

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French cement company Lafarge admits making payments to the Daesh group

EditorOctober 19, 2022

October 19, 2022

Lafarge, a French cement company, admitted Tuesday it paid millions of dollars to Daesh to keep a plant operational in Syria. This was during a time when the militant group enslaved and tortured Westerners. The company agreed to pay approximately $778 million in penalties. According to the Justice Department, it......

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MoU between Iraqi and French Judicial Councils discussed

adminJune 1, 2022June 1, 2022

June 1, 2022June 1, 2022

During a meeting on Wednesday with the French Ambassador to Iraq, Eric Chevalier, the head of the Iraqi Supreme Judicial Council, Faiq Zeidan, discussed the steps leading up to the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between the two countries’ Judicial Councils. This is according to a statement released by......