French president Emmanuel Macron said he “for sure” shares the outrage over president Donald Trump's disparaging comments about African nations and Haiti.
The US president reportedly described them as “s***hole countries” earlier this month during talks about immigration. Mr Trump denied using that language.
Mr Macron told the BBC in an interview broadcast Sunday that it's "not a word you can use" when one wants respectful relations.
"I think a lot of our issues in both the Middle East and in Africa is due to a lot of frustrations, due to a lot of past humiliations," Mr Macron said. "And we have to understand that."
The French president described Mr Trump as “not a classical politician”. However, he said he has a “very good” and “very direct” relationship with him,
“He was elected by the American people,” he said. “I want to work with him.”
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When asked if he wakes up in the morning worrying about Mr Trump’s tweets, Mr Macron said: “I think we should not overplay the situation and these tweets.”
The French and US leaders have met on several occasions, and have expressed willingness to work together on matters ranging from security to counter-terrorism.
However, Mr Macron has criticised Mr Trump’s decision to declare Jerusalem the capital of Israel, and his plan to tear up the Iran nuclear deal.
He also disapproves of Mr Trump’s resolve to leave the Paris climate agreement. Speaking to the BBC, Mr Macron said the climate accord is “not renegotiable”.
On Brexit, Mr Macron said Britain would be able to have a bespoke deal with the European Union after Brexit, one of prime minister Theresa May's objectives.
But the French President said London's financial centre could not enjoy the same level of access to the EU under May's current Brexit plan, which envisages Britain leaving the EU's single market and customs union.
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Sheikh Zayed's poem
When it is unveiled at Abu Dhabi Art, the Standing Tall exhibition will appear as an interplay of poetry and art. The 100 scarves are 100 fragments surrounding five, figurative, female sculptures, and both sculptures and scarves are hand-embroidered by a group of refugee women artisans, who used the Palestinian cross-stitch embroidery art of tatreez. Fragments of Sheikh Zayed’s poem Your Love is Ruling My Heart, written in Arabic as a love poem to his nation, are embroidered onto both the sculptures and the scarves. Here is the English translation.
Your love is ruling over my heart
Your love is ruling over my heart, even a mountain can’t bear all of it
Woe for my heart of such a love, if it befell it and made it its home
You came on me like a gleaming sun, you are the cure for my soul of its sickness
Be lenient on me, oh tender one, and have mercy on who because of you is in ruins
You are like the Ajeed Al-reem [leader of the gazelle herd] for my country, the source of all of its knowledge
You waddle even when you stand still, with feet white like the blooming of the dates of the palm
Oh, who wishes to deprive me of sleep, the night has ended and I still have not seen you
You are the cure for my sickness and my support, you dried my throat up let me go and damp it
Help me, oh children of mine, for in his love my life will pass me by.
Banned items
Dubai Police has also issued a list of banned items at the ground on Sunday. These include:
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UPI facts
More than 2.2 million Indian tourists arrived in UAE in 2023
More than 3.5 million Indians reside in UAE
Indian tourists can make purchases in UAE using rupee accounts in India through QR-code-based UPI real-time payment systems
Indian residents in UAE can use their non-resident NRO and NRE accounts held in Indian banks linked to a UAE mobile number for UPI transactions
Top New Zealand cop on policing the virtual world
New Zealand police began closer scrutiny of social media and online communities after the attacks on two mosques in March, the country's top officer said.
The killing of 51 people in Christchurch and wounding of more than 40 others shocked the world. Brenton Tarrant, a suspected white supremacist, was accused of the killings. His trial is ongoing and he denies the charges.
Mike Bush, commissioner of New Zealand Police, said officers looked closely at how they monitored social media in the wake of the tragedy to see if lessons could be learned.
“We decided that it was fit for purpose but we need to deepen it in terms of community relationships, extending them not only with the traditional community but the virtual one as well," he told The National.
"We want to get ahead of attacks like we suffered in New Zealand so we have to challenge ourselves to be better."
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