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France's Léon Marchand smashed the 200m individual medley world record in Singapore on Wednesday, setting a new mark of 1 min 52.69 sec. Swimming in the semi-finals at the world championships, the 23-year-old took more than a second off the previous record of 1:54.00 set by Ryan Lochte in 2011. Marchand beat Michael Phelps's long-standing 400m medley record at the world championships in Japan two years ago. "Actually I can't believe it right now," said Marchand, who won four individual golds in front of his home fans at the Paris Olympics a year ago. "I knew I was going to be close to my PB [personal best] because I felt really good today and preparation has been pretty good. But 1:52 is unbelievable for me." Marchand took an extended break from swimming after his Paris Olympics heroics and only returned to competition in May. He is focusing on the medley events in Singapore and had said he was going for Lochte's record. Marchand got his world championship campaign under way on Wednesday morning, clocking a time of 1:57.63 in the heats. He said he would go all-out for the record in the semi-finals rather than conserve his energy for Thursday's final. "It was good, I swam well, I think I pretty much did what I wanted to do," Marchand said after his morning heat. "There are a few technical details that I'll go over with my coach, things I can improve on for tonight." Le Monde with AFP Reuse this content
Euronews
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- Euronews
Trump announces tariffs on India and penalty for Russian imports
US President Donald Trump announced on Wednesday in a post on Truth Social that he plans to impose a 25% tariff on goods from India and an additional import tax because of India's import of Russian crude oil. "Remember, while India is our friend, we have, over the years, done relatively little business with them because their tariffs are far too high, among the highest in the world," the post said. He then criticised what he described as India's 'strenuous and obnoxious' trade barriers. India relies on Russia for around 35% of its crude oil imports, reaching a two-year import peak in June of this year, according to the Times of India. The US has imposed sanctions on Russian oil producers and tankers due to the ongoing full-scale invasion of Ukraine. It also imports $80 billion or around €70 billion in Russian military equipment, such as fighter jets, missile systems, submarines and helicopters. Trump accused India of buying "a vast majority of their military equipment from Russia and are Russia's largest buyer of energy" at a time when "everyone wants to Russia to stop the killing in Ukraine." As a result, he intends to charge an additional unspecified 'penalty' starting on Friday as part of the launch of the administration's revised tariffs on multiple countries. India and Russia have close relations, and New Delhi has not supported Western sanctions on Moscow over its war in Ukraine. Earlier in July, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte warned that India, China and Brazil could face "secondary sanctions" for continuing to buy Russian oil during a meeting with Trump in the White House.
France 24
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- France 24
French govt prepares new law to return colonial-era art
If approved, the law would make it easier for the country to return cultural goods in France's national collection "originating from states that, due to illicit appropriation, were deprived of them" between 1815 and 1972, said the culture ministry. It will cover works obtained through "theft, looting, transfer or donation obtained through coercion or violence, or from a person who was not entitled to dispose of them", the ministry added. The bill was presented during a cabinet meeting on Wednesday, a government spokeswoman told reporters. The Senate is due to discuss it September. Former colonial powers in Europe have been slowly moving to send back some artworks obtained during their imperial conquests, but France is hindered by its current legislation. The return of every item in the national collection must be voted on individually. Wednesday's draft law is designed to simplify and streamline the process. France returned 26 formerly royal artefacts including a throne to Benin in 2021. They were part of the collection of the Quai Branly-Jacques Chirac museum in Paris, which holds the majority of the 90,000 African works estimated to be in French museums, according to an expert report commissioned by French President Emmanuel Macron in 2018. A "talking drum" that French colonial troops seized from the Ebrie tribe in 1916 was sent back to Ivory Coast earlier this year. In 2019, France's then prime minister Edouard Philippe handed over a sword to the Senegalese president that was believed to have belonged to the 19th-century West African Islamic scholar and leader, Omar Tall. Other European states, including Germany and the Netherlands, have handed back a limited number of artefacts in recent years Britain faces multiple high-profile claims but has refused to return the Parthenon Marbles to Greece and the Kohinoor diamond to India, two of the best-known examples. The French draft law is the third and final part of legislative efforts to speed up the removal and return of artworks held in France's national collection. Two other laws -- one to return property looted by the Nazis, and a second to return human remains -- were approved in 2023.
