Articles from www.france24.com

Articles from www.france24.com

Paris stinks as uncollected trash mounts to 10,000 tonnes due to strikes (www.france24.com)
2023-3-19 Paris

A dog day afternoon in French politics as Macron uses 'nuclear option' to raise retirement age - 16/03/2023 (www.france24.com)
2023-3-18 France

Ten million children in west Africa's central Sahel region are now in "extreme jeopardy" and desperately need humanitarian help due to worsening violence, the United Nations warned. The number of children in dire need of aid in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger is twice as many as in 2020 (www.france24.com)
2023-3-18 Africa

Russia's forced transfer and deportation of Ukrainian children to areas under its control amounts to a war crime, UN investigators said Thursday, adding that they are probing allegations of genocide in the Ukraine conflict (www.france24.com)
2023-3-17 Russia Ukraine

A Brazilian court ruled Wednesday ex-president Jair Bolsonaro has five days to hand over pricey jewelry he received as a present from Saudi Arabia, and ordered an audit of all official gifts during his presidency (www.france24.com)
2023-3-16 Arabia Brazil Saudi Arabia

Environmental campaigners scored a rare victory in Albania on Wednesday after authorities announced the creation of a national park to protect the Vjosa River, one of Europe's largest undammed waterways (www.france24.com)
2023-3-16 Europe

Crowds gather in Paris for eighth day of strikes against government pension reform (www.france24.com)
2023-3-16 Paris

Bankrupt Sri Lanka's hospitals were crippled and transport disrupted on Wednesday as trade unions protested against the doubling of taxes to qualify for a crucial IMF bailout. More than 40 labor unions walked off the job. (www.france24.com)
2023-3-15 Tax IMF Sri Lanka

Fires in heat wave- and drought-stricken Argentina have devoured some 6,000 hectares (14,800 acres) of forests in the northern Corrientes province in just days, officials reported Tuesday (www.france24.com)
2023-3-15 Argentina

The European Parliament is pushing to stop former members from lobbying legislators for six months after leaving office, in response to a bribery scandal that has rocked the EU (www.france24.com)
2023-3-15 Europe

Diplomats from nearly 200 nations and top climate scientists began a week-long huddle in Switzerland on Monday to distil nearly a decade of published science into a 20-odd-page warning about the existential danger of global warming and what to do about it (www.france24.com)
2023-3-14 Switzerland Climate

British tech sector 'at serious risk' after SVB collapse: govt (www.france24.com)
2023-3-13 U.K.

Tens of thousands of Israelis demonstrated across the country Saturday in the 10th consecutive week of protests against government judicial reform plans critics view as a threat to democracy (www.france24.com)
2023-3-12

Corsican leaders decry a court ruling that bans the use of the local language in island's parliament (www.france24.com)
2023-3-12

Turkish opposition unites against 'weaker than ever' Erdogan ahead of elections: Kemal Kiliçdaroglu, the leader of Turkey's Republican People's Party (CHP), has emerged as the main challenger (www.france24.com)
2023-3-11 Turkey Republican

Plastic pollution in oceans has reached 'unprecedented' levels in 15 years (www.france24.com)
2023-3-11

Russia casts Georgia protests as coup attempt, accuses West of fomenting unrest (www.france24.com)
2023-3-11 Russia

The United Nations has bought a ship to remove oil and avoid a potentially catastrophic spill from a tanker decaying for years off the coast of war-ravaged Yemen, officials said Thursday (www.france24.com)
2023-3-10

Thousands of people staged a second straight day of protests in the Georgian capital Tbilisi on Wednesday, rallying outside parliament against a "foreign agents" law which critics say signals an authoritarian shift (www.france24.com)
2023-3-9

Thousands protest in Tbilisi against controversial Georgian 'foreign agents' law (www.france24.com)
2023-3-8

Women were beginning to hit the streets en masse across the globe on Wednesday to defend rights that are coming under increasing attack (www.france24.com)
2023-3-8

Demonstrators set to paralyse France in massive pension reform protests (www.france24.com)
2023-3-7 France

Pope John Paul II covered up child abuse as cardinal in Poland, says report (www.france24.com)
2023-3-7 Poland Child Abuse

Antarctic sea ice likely shrunk to a record low last week, US researchers said Monday, its lowest extent in the 45 years of satellite record-keeping (www.france24.com)
2023-2-28

Banks in Switzerland are holding a substantial amount of the millions of dollars Lebanese central bank chief Riad Salameh is accused of embezzling. ]Twelve Swiss banks have received a large part of the money, estimated at up to $500 million (www.france24.com)
2023-2-27 Central Bank Switzerland Lebanon

EU imposes additional sanctions on Wagner Group for 'rights abuses' in Africa (www.france24.com)
2023-2-27 Europe Africa

Brazilian authorities this week intensified their fight against illegal mining on the land of the Indigenous Yanomami people, sending helicopters over the Amazon jungle in search of clandestine dig sites (www.france24.com)
2023-2-26 Amazon Brazil

Tens of thousands of Israelis on Saturday protested their far-right government's plans to overhaul the legal system, three days after parliament advanced a bill that would enable lawmakers to overturn a Supreme Court decision with a simple majority. (www.france24.com)
2023-2-26 Far-right

The death toll from the earthquakes in Turkey and Syria that struck on Feb. 6 surpassed 50,000 on Friday after Turkey declared more than 44,000 people died (www.france24.com)
2023-2-25 Turkey Syria

Why is the Russian economy holding up against Western sanctions? (www.france24.com)
2023-2-24 Russia

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