Sampaoli keeping emphasis on attack
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OM coach Jorge Sampaoli was a happy man after his side marked his first match in charge with a late 1-0 win at home to Rennes, vowing to keep his side playing on the front foot.
It was a tense affair as Sampaoli s men, in desperate need of a win, faced off a Rennes side also with a new coach. - Bruno Genesio - and looking to snap a winless run, but in the end it was Marseille who came out on top, Michaël Cuisance heading home two minutes from time to clinch a dramatic result.
After some hints to the contrary, it turns out French troops in the Sahel aren’t going anywhere anytime soon. So said President Emmanuel Macron in Paris on Feb. 16, even before his virtual summit with France’s former-colonial “partners” – Burkina Faso, Niger, Mali, Mauritania and Chad – comprising the G5 Sahel Joint Force.
Two French Air Force fighter jets operating over Mali after refueling with a KC-135 Stratotanker. (U.S. Air Force, Christopher Mesnard)
Formed in 2014, it’s described in bureaucratic Paris-speak as “an intergovernmental cooperation framework, in order to put forward a regional response to the various challenges.”
In reality, the G5 are little more than a misfit crew of problematic proxies doing the bidding of the French generals leading a seven years-running Operation Barkhane – and that of America’s AFRICOM proconsuls propping-up Paris’s pet forever war in the Sahel.
Servers affected include those used by ESA, Villarreal football club, and some misused by malware miscreants
Jude Karabus Wed 10 Mar 2021 // 17:31 UTC Share
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Updated Customers of European cloud hosting provider OVH have been told it plans to restart three data centres on its French campus in Strasbourg next week, following a massive fire on site this morning that destroyed one bit barn.
The SBG1 and SBG4 data centres are scheduled to reopen by Monday 15 March and the SBG3 DC by Friday next week. SBG2 was wiped out by the blaze but fortunately no one was hurt in the incident.
The fire caused serious disruption across European websites, with, according to Netcraft, 3.6 million websites across 464,000 distinct domains. taken offline.
Roberta Sabban
Special to the Daily News
Waves of French gastronomy, in the form of La Goulue and Le Bilboquet, recently arrived on our shores, rekindling nostalgia for Escoffier’s greatest hits.
If your memories of Paris recall visits to Fauchon, Hediard and Bon Marche’s food court, a visit to Blue Provence will take you back to those days. This island épicerie is celebrating its 20th season, and business is booming.
The shop is a family affair, run by Martine and Thierry Miroir and their daughter, Charlotte. Chef-in-residence Loic Thomas prepares daily selections of baked goods croissants, pain au chocolate, fruit tarts, macarons, scones soups, quiche, entrees to-go and caters private events. His style is traditional fare with a modern, artistic touch.