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BBC announces job losses at World Service (www.france24.com)
2022-10-1

Russia vetoes UN Security Council resolution on Ukraine annexations (www.france24.com)
2022-10-1 Russia Ukraine

Water-filled condoms bring 'mermaid vibes' to Paris Fashion Week (www.france24.com)
2022-9-28 Paris

Protesters hurling rocks and homemade explosive devices clashed with security forces at a Mexican military base during a demonstration over the disappearance of 43 students in 2014. Hundreds of demonstrators, some shouting "murderers," pulled down metal fencing (www.france24.com)
2022-9-24 Mexico

A protest to demand justice for 43 Mexican students who disappeared in 2014 turned violent on Thursday, leaving 11 police officers injured (www.france24.com)
2022-9-23 Mexico

Specks of dust retrieved by a Japanese space probe from an asteroid some 300 million kilometres from Earth have revealed a surprising component: a drop of water, scientists said Friday (www.france24.com)
2022-9-23 Japan

Climate groups called Wednesday for the World Bank's president to be removed after he refused multiple times to say if he believed man-made emissions contributed to global warming (www.france24.com)
2022-9-22 World Bank Climate

More than 1,000 people have been arrested at demonstrations across Russia against President Vladimir Putin's announcement of a partial mobilisation of civilians to fight in Ukraine, a police monitoring group said Wednesday (www.france24.com)
2022-9-22 Russia Putin Ukraine

As world leaders gather for the annual General Assembly, calls for change are coming from an unlikely source -- the United States, which has been exasperated by Russia's veto power as it seeks to hold Moscow to account for its invasion of Ukraine (www.france24.com)
2022-9-18 Russia Ukraine

Russia doing better than expected despite sanctions: IMF (www.france24.com)
2022-9-18 Russia IMF

Lebanese depositors storm banks amid historic economic crisis (www.france24.com)
2022-9-17 Lebanon

A young Iranian woman, who was in a coma after being arrested by the Islamic republic's morality police, died on Friday. Mahsa Amini was on a visit to Tehran with her family when she was detained by the specialist police unit that enforces the strict dress code obligatory for women (www.france24.com)
2022-9-17 Iran Islam Tehran

Mexico arrests general over disappearance of 43 students (www.france24.com)
2022-9-16 Mexico

A young Iranian woman is in a coma and fighting for her life after being arrested in Tehran by the Islamic republic's morality police (www.france24.com)
2022-9-16 Iran Islam Tehran

The US Treasury placed top Russian finance officials, a neo-Nazi fighter group, and a children's rights official who allegedly directs the removal of Ukrainian children to Russia on its sanctions blacklist (www.france24.com)
2022-9-16 Russia Ukraine

Humanity is "going in the wrong direction" on climate change due to its addiction to fossil fuels, the UN said Tuesday in an assessment showing that planet-warming emissions are higher than before the pandemic (www.france24.com)
2022-9-14 Climate

The United Nations mission in Afghanistan has accused the Taliban authorities of intimidating and harassing its female staff working in the country, including detaining three women for questioning on Monday (www.france24.com)
2022-9-13 Afghanistan

Afghan women made an impassioned plea at the UN Monday for solid international action to address the "gender apartheid" in their country since the Taliban swept to power last year. "Today, human rights in Afghanistan do not exist" (www.france24.com)
2022-9-13 Afghanistan

Fifty million people around the world are trapped in forced labor or forced marriage, the UN said Monday, warning that their ranks had swelled dramatically in recent years. The United Nations had set a goal to eradicate all forms of modern slavery by 2030 (www.france24.com)
2022-9-13

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Saturday that he has "never seen climate carnage" on such a scale as he toured parts of Pakistan hit by floods, blaming wealthier countries for the devastation (www.france24.com)
2022-9-11 Climate

Dozens of girls protested in an eastern Afghan city after Taliban authorities shut their secondary schools just days after classes resumed. Five government secondary schools in the eastern province of Paktia restarted classes after hundreds of girls and tribal leaders demanded they reopen. (www.france24.com)
2022-9-11

Rebuilding Ukraine following the devastation caused by the Russian invasion will cost an estimated $349 billion,according to the joint assessment by the government of Ukraine, the European Commission, and the World Bank (www.france24.com)
2022-9-10 Russia Europe World Bank Ukraine

Russian forces controlling Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant have killed two staff at the facility and detained and abused dozens of others, the head of Ukraine's nuclear energy agency said Friday (www.france24.com)
2022-9-10 Russia Energy Ukraine

In decidedly undiplomatic language, Brazil's economy minister has renewed a spat with France over deforestation in the Amazon, telling the European nation it is becoming "irrelevant" and risks being told where to stick its criticism (www.france24.com)
2022-8-11 France Europe Amazon Brazil

US uncovers Iran 'plot' to kill ex-National Security Advisor John Bolton (www.france24.com)
2022-8-11 Iran

A former Twitter worker was found guilty on Tuesday of spying for Saudi officials keen to unmask critics on the platform. Ahmad Abouammo was pronounced guilty on criminal counts including money laundering, fraud, and being an illegal agent of a foreign government (www.france24.com)
2022-8-10 Twitter

Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday said the United States was "concerned" by "credible" reports that Rwanda is supporting rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. The resurgence of the M23 group in Congo's restive east has exacerbated tensions between the neighbors (www.france24.com)
2022-8-10

The United States on Monday returned 30 stolen works of art and antiquities to Cambodia that had been looted from the southeast Asian nation, including from an ancient Khmer city, and illegally trafficked around the world for decades (www.france24.com)
2022-8-9 Cambodia

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis acknowledged Monday that the intelligence service's surveillance of the head of the socialist opposition's mobile phone was "politically unacceptable". Speaking three days after two key members of his conservative government resigned over the spying (www.france24.com)
2022-8-9 Mobile Greece Intelligence

Any attack on a nuclear plant is "suicidal", United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned Monday after fresh shelling hit a huge atomic power complex in southern Ukraine. Moscow and Kyiv blame each other for the latest strike at the Zaporizhzhia plant (www.france24.com)
2022-8-8 Ukraine

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