Lindsey Johnstone

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A European Perspective (Arte/EBU)

As part of my digital editor role at Arte, I was the editor of the European Recommendation Box – an EBU-led, AI-based news-sharing project in partnership with public service broadcasters from across Europe, in which I selected and edited Arte content to share with partner broadcasters according to the day's news agenda and the editorial ideals of the project, as well as selecting content from these partners to share on the Arte site, as seen here, and in the French and German versions of the boxes.
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Watch: Iranian women attend first football match in 40 years

Thousands of Iranian women watched their first football match from inside a stadium in almost 40 years on Thursday. Women had been banned from stadiums when men's teams are playing since 1981, after the 1979 Islamic revolution. But 4,000 women's tickets were allocated for the 2022 World Cup qualifier between Iran and Cambodia, after a decades-long campaign by Iranian women and more recent pressure from international football governing body FIFA.
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Scotland becomes first country in UK to ban smacking

Scotland has become the first country in the UK to criminalise the smacking of children. Members of Scottish Parliament (MSPs) passed the Children (Equal Protection from Assault) (Scotland) Bill by 84 votes to 29 on Thursday. The bill, introduced by Scottish Greens MSP John Finnie in September 2018, makes it a crimimal offence to smack children and abolishes the legal defence of "reasonable chastisement" previously available to parents.
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Watch: FIFA tells Iran women must be allowed into stadiums

International football governing body FIFA has told Iran it should allow women into football stadiums. FIFA president Gianni Infantino said he expects to see "positive developments" on the issue, starting with Iran's next home game in October. While foreign women have been allowed limited access to matches, Iranian women have been banned from stadiums when men's teams have been playing since just after the 1979 Islamic revolution.
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Watch: Protestors mark 100 domestic violence deaths in France in 2019

A demonstration was held in Paris on Sunday to denounce the 100th femicide in France this year, at which people held signs showing the names of the women killed by their partner or ex-partner between January and September 2019. On Monday, a 92-year-old woman became victim number 101, when she died after being beaten by her husband with his cane. In 2018, 121 women were killed in France by their partner or ex-partner, according to the Ministry of Interior.
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Watch: Parade puts blackface in Belgium back in spotlight

Blackface makeup is back in the spotlight in Belgium, as anti-racism campaigners have criticised a folk festival held on Sunday in the Wallonian city of Ath for featuring a character called "the Savage" (le Sauvage). The character, played by a white actor in blackface makeup, is paraded through the town in chains, screaming and scaring children, before being shackled to a float made to look like a boat manned by sailors.
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Watch: 'Evitas' take to Buenos Aires streets to mark 100th birthday of their heroine

On what would have been her 100th birthday, 100 women took to the streets of the Argentine capital Buenos Aires on Monday dressed as the country's most enduring cultural icon Evita. Almost seven decades after she died of cervical cancer at the age of 33, the country's former first lady – wife of President General Juan Peron – Eva Peron is still adored by many Argentines for helping women get the vote, securing labour benefits for the working classes and founding hospitals and orphanages.
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European election 2019: What happened this week?

With the EU heading to the polls from tomorrow, here's what's been happening in the final days of campaigning. Fake news has been hard at work, according to NGO Avaaz. Tens of thousands of Europeans protested far-right politics, while others attended a nationalist rally in Milan. Meanwhile, we headed to the Democracy Alive festival to quiz Commission presidential candidates, and to Brussels to peek inside the Parliament.
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European Elections: What happened this week?

This time next week voting will be underway for the European elections – in some member states anyway. But where do the polls open first? And last? And farthest away from the Brussels bubble? What is the "powerful substance" that could sway results in Romania? And what is former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis up to in Germany? The answers to all these questions and more can be found in this week's round-up...
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European elections 2019: What happened this week?

Welcome to our weekly round-up of EU elections coverage. With two weeks until voters go to the polls, we'll tell you all you need to know about how the elections work and the role of the parliament, as well as sharing the latest stories. The home straight has been handily soudtracked by Spotify, who have released a political playlist, plus we hear from an activist who argues that Muslims feel dangerously excluded from EU politics.
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Watch: Iranians prepare for Ramadan amid US sanctions

Iranians are preparing for the holy month of Ramadan, in which Muslims fast from dawn to dusk. However, US sanctions have pushed up food prices, making the elaborate evening meals that break their fast an expensive business, when even staples have skyrocketed in price since last year. Iran's already ailing economy received yet another blow when the US announced last month that it would not renew waivers allowing several countries to continue to import Iranian oil.
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European Elections 2019: What happened this week?

Welcome to our weekly round-up of EU elections coverage. With six weeks until voters go to the polls, we'll tell you all you need to know about how the elections work and the role of the parliament, as well as sharing the latest stories. This week we take a look at some of those running for election, including a former tennis world No.1 and a great-grandson with a formidable political lineage, and examine a poll that shows an upward trend for both the parliament's largest groups.
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Watch: New Zealanders perform haka to honour mosque shooting victims

Video story produced for the London Underground and Euronews.com New Zealanders have been performing the haka in tribute to the victims of Friday's Christchurch mosque shootings. As the first burials commence for the 50 people killed at two mosques in a mass shooting during prayers, school pupils and biker gangs have been among those performing the Maori ceremonial dance in Christchurch. While commonly thought of as a battle dance, according to Maori mythology the haka is a celebration of life and is also performed as a mark of respect at funerals.
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Gilets Jaunes: Macron slams abuse of French philosopher Alain Finkielkraut

France's president Emmanuel Macron has condemned anti-Semitic abuse hurled at an eminent French philosopher in Paris. A small group of "yellow vest" ("gilets jaunes") demonstrators accosted Alain Finkielkraut during Saturday's protests in the French capital. They shouted: "Go back to Tel Aviv!", "We are France!", and "Zionist!". A senior member of the "yellow vest" movement said on Sunday he strongly denounced the remarks made to Finkielkraut.
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