Articles from www.france24.com

Articles from www.france24.com

Leftist challenger Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's lead over far-right incumbent Jair Bolsonaro has widened slightly three days from Brazil's polarizing presidential runoff election, according to a poll published Thursday. Lula has 53 percent voter support to 47 percent for Bolsonaro (www.france24.com)
2022-10-28 Far-right Brazil

A climate activist glued his head to the glass protecting Johannes Vermeer's world-famous painting "Girl with a Pearl Earring" at the Mauritshuis museum in The Hague on Thursday while a second glued his hand to the panel holding the work (www.france24.com)
2022-10-28 Climate

AstraZeneca's Covid vaccine has been linked to a 30-percent higher risk of getting a very rare blood clotting condition compared to the Pfizer jab, a large international study said Thursday (www.france24.com)
2022-10-27

Across virtually every sector, the greening of the global economy is unfolding far too slowly to stave off climate catastrophe, according to a sobering report Wednesday from a consortium of research organisations (www.france24.com)
2022-10-27 Climate

The United Nations is using before-and-after satellite imagery to monitor the cultural destruction inflicted by Russia's war in Ukraine, announcing Wednesday it will launch its tracking platform publicly within days (www.france24.com)
2022-10-27 Russia Ukraine

Hackers accessed millions of medical records at one of Australia's largest private health insurers, the company said Wednesday, prompting the government to admit the nation's cyber safeguards were "inadequate" (www.france24.com)
2022-10-26 Australia

Russia insisted before the UN Security Council Tuesday that Ukraine planned to detonate a "dirty bomb" in the war zone, but Western diplomats said Moscow provided no evidence to support the claim (www.france24.com)
2022-10-26 Russia Ukraine

Iranian students protested Tuesday at multiple universities, defying a bloody crackdown as tensions mount on the eve of planned ceremonies marking 40 days since Mahsa Amini's death (www.france24.com)
2022-10-26 Iran

Ukraine - Zelensky asks the international community for $38 bn for budget deficit (www.france24.com)
2022-10-26 Ukraine Budget

Police in Qatar have arbitrarily detained and abused members of the LGBTQ community ahead of the World Cup next month, Human Rights Watch said in a new report (www.france24.com)
2022-10-24 Qatar

Author Salman Rushdie lost vision in one eye and was left "incapacitated" in a hand after he was stabbed in the United States in August, his agent said (www.france24.com)
2022-10-24

Russian, US troops in Syria share 'rare moment' of congeniality (www.france24.com)
2022-10-22 Russia Syria

Iran schoolgirl dies after being beaten by security forces, teachers' union says (www.france24.com)
2022-10-21 Iran

Hong Kong to ban CBD, put it in same category as heroin, cocaine (www.france24.com)
2022-10-21 Hong Kong Ban

Russia ally Belarus on Monday jailed a dozen opponents of authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko for terms of up to 25 years (www.france24.com)
2022-10-18 Russia

Iran activists call for further mass protests as Biden expresses support (www.france24.com)
2022-10-16 Iran

Rape used in Ukraine as part of Russian 'military strategy', says UN envoy (www.france24.com)
2022-10-15 Russia Ukraine

Turkey adopts new 'disinformation' law that could jail journalists (www.france24.com)
2022-10-14 Turkey

Ukraine could extradite Russian war crimes suspects to the International Criminal Court even though Moscow is not a member, the tribunal's prosecutor said (www.france24.com)
2022-10-14 Russia Ukraine

France will deliver radar and air defence systems to Ukraine in the coming weeks to help the country protect itself from Russian drone and missile attacks, French President Emmanuel Macron said on Wednesday, adding that the war had entered "an unprecedented stage" (www.france24.com)
2022-10-13 Russia France Drone Ukraine

Heatwaves to make regions uninhabitable within decades say UN, Red Cross (www.france24.com)
2022-10-11

Fame no shield from 'frightening' Iran arrest wave (www.france24.com)
2022-10-11 Iran

France's fuel shortage causes frustration for motorists, anxiety for government (www.france24.com)
2022-10-9 France

US President Joe Biden admitted this week that American diplomats still did not know how Russian President Vladimir Putin could bring an end to his faltering war in Ukraine and save face. Western analysts see no good options (www.france24.com)
2022-10-8 Russia Putin U.S. Ukraine

The World Bank has pumped $14.8 billion into fossil fuel projects globally in the period following the landmark Paris climate accord, a report said Thursday (www.france24.com)
2022-10-7 World Bank Climate Paris

Russian elites are speaking out on Moscow's setbacks in Ukraine (www.france24.com)
2022-10-7 Russia Ukraine

Iranian security forces massacred dozens last week in the southeastern province of Sistan-Baluchistan when they opened fire on a protest in the city of Zahedan that erupted as Iran is convulsed by nationwide demonstrations, rights activists charge (www.france24.com)
2022-10-7 Iran

EU weighing Iran sanctions over Mahsa Amini 'killing' (www.france24.com)
2022-10-6 Europe Iran

Enzymes found in the saliva of wax worms can degrade one of the most common forms of plastic waste, according to research published Tuesday that could open up new ways of dealing with plastic pollution (www.france24.com)
2022-10-5

Iranians based abroad and their supporters gathered in cities around the world Saturday in solidarity with protests sparked by the death of Mahsa Amini in the custody of the country's notorious morality police (www.france24.com)
2022-10-2 Iran

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