Israel & Iran, Barnier Budget, Jupiler & Joker

Gavin LEE | Luis MIGUEL CABRERA | Juliette LAURAIN | Agnès Poirier | Dave CLARK | Leela JACINTO

Edité par France 24 - 2024

It has been a week that has seen a hurricane devastate the east coast of the US. Millions of people left without power, and rescuers searching through the floods waters for survivors in Florida. What started as a category 5 predicted storm, eased slightly – though fears were made clear.

And it has been a week where two works of art have been trashed by critics albeit the first, unwittingly. The repair man at a Dutch museum mistook these meticulously painted artistic recreations of the Belgian Beer, Jupiler, for the real thing, and he binned them! And similar sentiments expressed by cinema goers around the world this week after the release of Joker: Folie à Deux, the much-anticipated sequel to Joker, after laughing all the way to the bank after the Oscar-winning billion dollar box office success of the original...

Note
  • It has been a week that has seen the anniversary of the brutal Hamas October 7th attacks. A multi-fronted war now taking place, a year on, with Israel poised to carry out a “lethal, precise and above all, surprising” counter-strike on Iran at any time. Meanwhile, some UN peacekeepers have been injured by Israeli fire in southern Lebanon. World leaders are demanding answers.

Langue
anglais
Date de publication
11/10/2024
Collection
The world this week
Contributeurs
Agnès Poirier London correspondent, L'Express
Dave CLARK AFP International Correspondent
Leela JACINTO Senior Editor, France24.com

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