Lyzza started DJing around Amsterdam when she was a teenager, just a few years after she and her mother moved from their native Brazil to the Netherlands. After making a name for…
Continue ReadingJoao Peres, Political Science professor in Rio de Janeiro, speaks to FRANCE 24 as a tense Brazil awaited Jair Bolsonaro’s next move Monday. The far-right incumbent remained silent after losing…
Continue ReadingThe left-wing former president of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, has defeated far-right incumbent Jair Bolsonaro in the country’s presidential election. Lula won 50.9% of the votes after a…
Continue ReadingCulture ministers from 160 UNESCO member states met in Mexico City for the World Conference on Cultural Policies, Mondiacult 2022, where unequal access to new technologies, illicit trafficking and other…
Continue ReadingThe New York Philharmonic is tuning up to open their brand-new performance space next month — and it’s not only the instruments that need to strike the perfect pitch. The…
Continue ReadingChinese President Xi Jinping told his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on Thursday that Beijing was willing to work with Moscow as "great powers" during his first trip overseas since the…
Continue ReadingIn his nightly address, President Volodymyr Zelensky said Ukraine’s forces have retaken 400 settlements in the Kharkiv region during the swift counter-offensive in September, liberating around 150,000 people from occupation.…
Continue ReadingWilliam Ruto has been sworn in as Kenya’s president. He narrowly won the Aug. 9 election in East Africa’s most stable democracy over longtime opposition figure Raila Odinga. The Supreme Court…
Continue ReadingBritain’s Queen Elizabeth fascinated many artists during her seven-decade reign and was portrayed on screen in award-winning dramas, animation and even US comedy sketch show "Saturday Night Live." FRANCE 24’s…
Continue ReadingThe Eiffel Tower’s lights were turned off early on Thursday night in tribute to Queen Elizabeth, with Parisians recalling a British monarch who anchored her country through upheaval with poise…
Continue ReadingBy Melissa Noel· Updated August 23, 2022 The International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition is observed on August 23 every year. The United Nations…
Continue ReadingThe hardline Islamist Taliban marked a year in power on August 15 with small scale celebrations as the country struggles with rising poverty, drought and malnutrition that has left over…
Continue ReadingIndian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said the country must become a developed nation in a speech marking the 75th anniversary of India’s independence. But the Modi administration has overseen massive crackdowns…
Continue ReadingHundreds of thousands of girls and young women have been deprived of educational opportunities since the Taliban returned to power a year ago, but their thirst for learning has not…
Continue ReadingThe #Taliban have proposed a three-month #ceasefire in return for the release of about 7,000 insurgent prisoners held in #Afghanistan’s jails, a government negotiator involved in peace talks said Thursday.…
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