Saudi forces were ‘licensed to kill’ to evict villagers for NEOM - the futuristic, eco-city - an ex-intelligence officer told us.

We spoke to former execs who called it a climate disaster and a UK company who pulled out of a £100m contract in The Line.

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the horses have followed the route every relative visiting me wants to take on a Saturday

Every line in this piece on a boy who won a European seagull screeching competition is better than the previous one bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan…

je vous donne rendez-vous le 22 mars pour un grand rassemblement avec les Français les plus top délire de Londres

A 'start-up' is 'recruiting' unpaid 'correspondents' with previous journalistic experience in Ukraine. This kind of job ad is so irritating

I’m not a fan of ageposting but an 18yo girl just asked me if I knew what 'furries' were and when I said that of course I did she KOed me with 'I don’t know, my parents didn’t know'

I was reading French one star reviews of Poor Things that were all saying stuff like 'I felt bad for the children in the row behind me' and I found out that France has no age restriction for this film. I am howling. How on Earth is this tous publics?

NEW: an ideological divide is emerging between young men and women in many countries around the world.

I think this one of the most important social trends unfolding today, and provides the answer to several puzzles.

pensées émues et ondes positives pour mes vaillants soldats nocturnes Elisa Bertholomey Anthony Lattier et bien sûr Zoé Courtois … pas pour Pauline de Saint Remy parce qu’elle doit kiffer ça

OpenAI paid a lot of money to use a trove of the worst puns my 5AM brain was able to muster ft.com/content/7cd439…

In 1960, 90 percent of French speakers lived in Western countries. By 2060, up to 85 percent of them will live in Africa. A look at how artists, standup comedians and writers are creating new expressions and changing French
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Our investigation into the Oct. 13 strike that killed our beloved Issam Abdallah, & wounded 6 other journalists, has found an Israeli tank fired 2x at them, with munition produced by Israel, from within Israel. The Israeli military killed Issam Abdallah.

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Learning QWERTY to work in the UK: dull, conformist and to some extent, debasing

Changing language settings on every workplace desktop to type in AZERTY on QWERTY keyboards: elegant, mysterious, mischievous in a French way