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Staff shortages, rats in the corridors, and a university admissions system that feels like a lottery: As protests sweep France, high school students have drawn up a list of demands to deal with these and other issues. Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu has promised a government response by the end of October, but whether he can quell the unrest remains to be seen.
The governing body of the judges ruled out that Martínez Ribera was interfering with his partner's work.
An investigation published by the Israeli newspaper 'Haaretz' claims that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu received warnings about a possible large Hamas operation days before the attack, including information transmitted by the President of the United Arab Emirates. Daniel Schwartz, a historian, journalist and political analyst, addresses the issue in France 24.
Kemi Badenoch has been outlining her policy proposals if her party were to form the next UK government.
It has emerged Lubna Speitan was listed in court documents as a "close friend" of a man later jailed for supporting al-Qaeda.
Tory leader says her party is "coming back", as she aims to convince voters it has changed after 2024 election defeat.
Mónica García will lead the ballot in Madrid with Emilio Delgado, Tesh Sidi and Eduardo Rubiño, as the party's sources move. Coms admits "progress" but avoids closing the negotiations
This year, China published new rules to regulate funerals. The government advocates affordable and environmentally friendly services in the continuity of its decades-long policy of imposing cremation. But in the countryside – where people have been burying their dead on their lands for centuries – many families resist. How is this modernisation that Beijing wants lived through? Report from Yena Lee, with Lou Kisiela.
In this issue of "A l'Affiche!" dedicated to the movie releases of the week, Thomas Bouvre and Natacha Vesnitch stop on the documentary "Naza", Israeli filmmakers Rachel Szor and Yuval Abraham. Acclaimed to the last Mostra in Venice, where he won the Jury Special Award, the documentary reveals how the Israeli government is organizing the destruction of the Gaza Strip and its Palestinian population.
Between two days of mobilization, the government increases the signs of appeasement to the attention of young people who, for some, have resumed the course path but for others continue the blockages.
Despite Badenoch's personal poll ratings going up, the Conservative party is languishing behind.
The Malian army says it has entered the strategic northern city of Kidal, which was captured around five months ago by Tuareg separatists who announced their withdrawal earlier Tuesday as the military advanced – a symbolic boost to Mali's junta and its Russian backers. In late April, jihadists from Al-Qaeda-linked JNIM and its Tuareg separatist allies kicked off a series of attacks aimed at weakening Mali's junta rulers, including taking control of Kidal and killing the defence minister. FRANCE 24’s Senior journalist Wassim Nasr explains.
As Israel gears up for its first elections since Hamas' Oct. 7, 2023, attack, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his opponents are putting it at the heart of their campaigns. Three years on, the worst security failure in Israel’s history now threatens to end the career of its longest-serving prime minister. FRANCE 24's Noga Tarnopolsky reports from Jerusalem.
The candidate, who the 25 disputes power with Lula, states that he wants to end the re-election, change the judiciary and reduce the criminal age
State Attorney argued that evacuating the square may be "more harmful" than allowing settlement
The player, born in Rosario 39 years ago, says goodbye as one of the largest of the sport statistically speaking. In 21 years he wore his country's selection shirt, he played 208 games where he scored 126 goals. His farewell was marked at a full-of-the-art Monumental stadium on Tuesday, October 6.
Pedro Sánchez has advanced the general elections of Spain to November 29, nine months ahead of schedule. It is the third time in the last eight years that this strategy has been used in the midst of strong political pressure. Will Sanchez once again survive the ballot box and continue to head the government? Or could the electoral advance this time change the course of the Iberian country? We analyzed it in France 24.
South Sudan's first general election is set for December 22. Insecurity, political tensions and the failure to begin voter registration have raised doubts over whether a credible poll can be held.
Student protests in France continue for the second week, respectively, as trade union mobilization escalates and demonstrations expand in a number of French cities. In an effort to contain growing anger, the political street and the student are expecting a letter from the head of Government, Sebastian Lukorno, at a time when the authorities announced the suspension of the use of sound bombs after accusations by the police of excessive violence against protesters. To what extent can such recent governmental rhetoric and actions contribute to calming the crisis, or may they push for further political polarization and escalation on the street? With the hardest Hamodi, Professor of Political Science.
On Tuesday, the German authorities arrested the former head of the German Foreign Intelligence Service (BND) August Haning on suspicion of having committed espionage and leaking State secrets. The Federal Public Prosecutor ' s Office announced the arrest of Haning (80 years old) under an arrest warrant issued by the investigating judge of the Federal Court, on the strong suspicion that he had committed acts involving climatic espionage, exploration of State secrets, attempted high treason and acting as an agent of an intelligence service.
