www.iranintl.com/en
In addition to BBC Persian, Iran International (Saudi funded and London based) is a useful source of news on Iran.
Today’s live page on BBC Persian. To read open in Chrome browser and use English translation tool.
www.bbc.com/persian/live...
Carols and Midnight Mass from Notre Dame de Paris now.
youtube.com/live/ZumbNxV...
Le musée du Louvre cible d’un braquage ce dimanche, des bijoux dérobés
There’s been a theft at the Louvre and it is closed for the day. No news of what may have been stolen.
I am very sad to hear of Conor Gearty’s death. An enormous loss. He was a distinguished human rights lawyer and academic and a man of deep faith. He was a vital part of the Catholic conversation in Britain. At dheis Dé go raibh a anam dílis. This is his diary from Bayreuth in this week’s Tablet.
www.lemonde.fr/disparitions...
Like countless Catholics I am deeply sad to hear the news and I have shed a tear for him. He was a good and flawed man who renewed us as Catholics and made the message of Christ ring vibrantly in today’s world. We were lucky to have him. May he rest in peace.
Smash, based on the superb NBC series, opens on Broadway in a few weeks. This concert performance, with the original cast, makes an excellent case for it.
youtube.com/watch?v=Ws5X...
It is *very* unusual for a pope to do this. Magisterial in tone and form (numbered paragraphs, quoting papal teachings) and targeted (referring to Trump policies and Vance’s justifications), this letter means to leave *no doubt* about where the Catholic Church stands. www.vatican.va/content/fran...
Pope Francis doesnt mince his words on Trump’s deportations or on JD Vance’ warped notion of Christian love. The Pope writes “Christian love is not a concentric expansion of interests that little by little extend to other persons and groups”. www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news...
Me too. I’ve mostly stopped listening to Today.
This is the only proper report in English since Donald Trump Jnr's visit to Greenland. An antidote to some of the fatuities of other coverage.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
This is one of the best things BBC Verify has done.
Excellent from @gibsonwrites.bsky.social:“Catholic votes made Trump the next president. The outcome of the presidential balloting also made sexual predation a feature of the nation’s preferred leadership model rather than a disqualification.” sacredheartuniversity.typepad.com/go_rebuild_m...
www.dr.dk/nyheder/udla... It turns out that the single Greenlander appearing in a Trump Truth Social video, who supports a U.S takeover, is a convicted drugs smuggler. Timmy Zeeb was sentenced to 4 years in jail.
Bravo, @anntelnaes.bsky.social.
I guess the new slogan for the Washington Post ought to be:
“Newspapers die in cowardice.”
anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...
Donald Trump’s obsession with Greenland gives new resonance to this documentary by Danish TV on the Sirius Patrol, whose purpose is to assert Danish sovereignty in the most remote corners of Greenland.
youtube.com/watch?v=yVfu...
Carols and Midnight Mass from Notre Dame de Paris for the first time since 2018 (vision missing from first minute or so)
www.youtube.com/live/ib4FQNg...
This is exquisite. A carol in Old Irish from this year’s Maynooth Carol Service. Rétglu etir rind (A Star Among Constellations) is a contemporary carol, with text by David Stifter Maynooth’s professor of Old Irish, and music by Ryan Molloy.
youtu.be/RjyOXyCRB4Q?...
The Vatican refused the agrément to Laurent Stefanini, France's proposed ambassador in 1985. Pope Francis felt he was being used by the then president, Francois Hollande. So there is recent precedent for saying 'no'.
I envy Daniel Harding the ability to combine being a conductor with his other life as a pilot with Air France. Something of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. Here’s a charming video from the Orchestra of the Academy of Saint Cecilia.
youtu.be/RI7iIocCMYU?...
Chrystia Freeland, staring down KGB and pissing off the Kremlin since she was a student. If Trump tries to invade Canada, this is Canada’s Zelensky. Putin knows it. Trump knows it.
France 24 in English carrying live coverage of Notre Dame’s reopening
www.france24.com/en/live
TV5 Monde now carrying live France 2’s coverage both of Notre Dame and of political arrivals at the Élysée Palace.
www.tv5monde.com/tv/direct/9/...
A link to live coverage on KTO and TV5MONDE of the reopening of Notre Dame. A change from the earlier expected time. Now 1755 GMT
www.ktotv.com/page/vivez-l...
Also on TV5Monde from 1730 GMT
www.tv5monde.com/tv/video/937...
My feature for The Tablet on the reopening of Notre Dame and its 'double vocation', sacred and secular. Free to read after registration.
www.thetablet.co.uk/features/out...
For live coverage of the reopening of Notre Dame de Paris, free of news channel inanities, the French Catholic channel KTO may be best. Live on Saturday from 1600 (UK), 1700 (Paris)
www.youtube.com/live/qS_Uojj...
"Macron may not have the Pope at Notre Dame, but to have Trump there is politically more important "
Former French ambassador to Washington tells Le Parisien
www.leparisien.fr/internationa...
Suggestions from RTÉ Radio that Ireland’s two centre parties, Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael will come close to being able to form a government without a third coalition partner. Micheál Martin now likely to be the next Taoiseach (PM)
