Three years into #Lebanon’s devastating financial collapse, some 80 percent of the population is now living below the #poverty line. The situation is driving more and more people to risk…
Continue ReadingParis will not broadcast #WorldCup matches on giant screens in public fan zones amid concerns over rights violations of migrant workers and the environmental impact of the tournament in #Qatar.…
Continue ReadingThe 15th of August will mark the one-year anniversary of the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan. FRANCE 24 talked to refugees who have fled the country. In episode 2 of our…
Continue ReadingIn total, more than 13,000 Afghans in France, including people who had made their own way, put in requests for asylum in 2021, according to the refugee agency OFPRA. #Afghanistan…
Continue ReadingIn #Italy, some 1 million #renewableEnergy installations are already producing 19 percent of the country’s energy. Initiatives to produce electricity for local consumption are on the rise. One example is a deprived…
Continue ReadingHomer and Ulysses are two Syrian brown #bears that were rescued from a #zoo in the suburbs of Tyre, southern #Lebanon and will be relocated in a wildlife sanctuary in…
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.…
Continue ReadingThe #migrant rescue #ship #OceanViking has rescued 203 people, including 67 minors, in recent days, its owner SOS Mediterranee said Sunday. The migrants came from Egypt, Gambia, Libya, South Sudan,…
Continue Reading#Moscow mayor Sergei Sobyanin on Saturday announced a ‘non-working’ week in the Russian capital as cases in the city hit a six-month high amid a sluggish vaccination campaign. The order…
Continue ReadingUS Secretary of State Antony #Blinken on Wednesday used a visit to #CostaRica to urge Central Americans with dreams of making a better life elsewhere not to head to his…
Continue ReadingIsraeli politicians battling to unseat veteran Prime Minister Benjamin #Netanyahu were racing against the clock Tuesday in talks to build a "change" #coalition of bitter ideological rivals. They have until…
Continue ReadingThe largest ship in the Iranian navy caught fire and later sank Wednesday in the Gulf of Oman under unclear circumstances, semiofficial news agencies reported. The Fars and Tasnim news…
Continue ReadingThe price of #oil hit its highest level in more than two years after the oil-producing cartel #OPEC and its allies agreed to continue increasing supply in the coming months.…
Continue Reading#Peru on Monday announced a sharp increase in its #Covid-19 death toll, saying there have been more than 180,000 #fatalities since the pandemic hit the country early last year. Subscribe…
Continue ReadingEx-Metallica bassist John Newsted has said he’s “not joining Megadeth” following recent speculation he might be joining the group. The rumours emerged after David Ellefson was sacked from Megadeth, leading…
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