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With more than 90 per cent of the blank ballots, Benjamin Netanyahu's block remained 53 seats on Thursday, compared with 49 in the main opposition bloc led by Gadi Eisenkot and 19 in the majority Arab parties. The Central Electoral Commission began in the night to strip the votes by correspondence. Follow our direct on these laws.
The Spanish rider, Alexia Putellas, won the Women's Balloon on Monday for the third time in her career after her triumphs in 2021 and 2022. With the prestigious individual prize, the new London City Lionesses player joins his fellow countryman Aitana Bonmati at the top of the list, sacred in the last three years.
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A man suspected of being in connection with a planned assassination attempt against the Prime Minister and the Minister of Defence was arrested in Poland, announced Sunday Donald Tusk.
With his home victory over Lyon (2-1) for the return of Ligue 1 after three weeks, Lens ended a series of four matches without victory. Paris Saint-Germain will face Le Mans on Saturday night without Ousmane Dembélé or Nuno Mendes, left to rest after the international truce.
The United States invited national security advisers from France, Germany and the United Kingdom, as well as representatives of the European Union and NATO, to discussions with Ukraine in Miami, Florida.
Sébastien Lecornu tried to provide answers to several crises on Wednesday during an address, assuring that law enforcement "does not have instructions to confront high school students", saying "not to be indifferent to their anxieties" and announcing a measure allowing a reduction of 12 to 18 cents in the price of the litre at the pump.
Can false information threaten a country's peace? In Africa, social networks have become a circulation ground for rumours, political manipulations and disinformation campaigns. With artificial intelligence, the phenomenon takes on a new dimension. In the invisible virus. Essay on disinformation in Africa, published by Rivenuve, French-Congolese journalist Dominique Tchimbakala deciphers the mechanisms of disinformation and its consequences for African societies. Guest of the Journal de l'Afrique sur France 24, she looks back at the
To vote in the 27 October parliamentary elections, Israelis living abroad have no choice but to go to Israel. With the price of the plane tickets that explodes, some sacrifice holidays, trips and family reunions to participate in an election that they consider decisive for the future of the country. Testimonies of Israelis living in Paris.
With similar demands, overloaded classes, safety and hygiene problems, a stifling heat going on. Law enforcement has sometimes had to intervene.
Pope Leo XIV is to receive seven victims of sexual violence in the Church on Sunday in private. This unprecedented meeting in the official programme of an apostolic journey, however, arouses criticism: collectives of victims, removed from the appointment, denounce a format too small and demand an awareness of the systemic nature of abuses.
For the first time in 130 years of the history of the modern Olympic Games, an Olympic event will take place on the African continent. With the Dakar 2026 Olympics, Senegal will host the first Olympic sporting event in Africa.
The DR Congo won on Thursday against Equatorial Guinea at the Martyrs' stadium in Kinshasa for the first day of the E-group counting for the CAN 2027 playoffs. With a goal inscribed in each period, the Leopards left no chance at the Nzalang Nacional in this meeting.
Received in the White House as part of a state visit, Chinese President Xi Jinping called on Thursday to maintain a "conflict-free" position between Beijing and Washington. He also told Donald Trump that their countries had "the responsibility" to control artificial intelligence so that it remained at the service of humanity.
Belgium and Rwanda today announced the restoration of their diplomatic relations. They were broken in 2025. It was Kigali, who had made the decision, accusing his former colonial power of having sided with Kinshasa in the DRC conflict.
In an interview with France 24 on the margins of the UN General Assembly in New York, Togo's Foreign Minister, Robert Dussey, assures us that relations "have never been difficult" between France and Togo, a country where France 24 and RFI are suspended. He also called not to isolate the countries of the Alliance of Sahel States.
Canadian author of Haitian origin Thélyson Orélien is accused of using AI massively for his book "It Was That or Die", in the run for the Goncourt Prize. The accusations are based on results from Pangram, a text detector generated by IA: this software, considered reliable by several researchers, detected that the vast majority of the book would have been written with AI.
The authorities reported at least two deaths and 20 injuries as a result of the bombing.
Fatumata Diawara returns with MASSA, her most personal album. The Malian singer, composer and guitarist explores motherhood, faith, memory, the disappearance of her father and resilience. Twelve titles written by Fatumata Diawara and composed and arranged with Matthew Chedid, -M-, where the intimate joins the themes that have been going through her work for a long time: women, transmission, Mali and freedom. What did his father give him? How did maternity change her look? Why does she always consider her guitar a weapon? And how to carry Mali d
Amos Nachoum has set new standards for underwater photography taking huge risks. He dived without a safety cage and captured award-winning images of marine predators. He tells the BBC about his passion and how his relationship with his father shaped him as a man.
