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Following a rail accident that resulted in at least 64 casualties on Wednesday 28 October near Toledo, the Spanish Minister of Transport called into question the unexpected reopening of the network, while a technical breakdown of the safety system persisted.
The message from That Girl Boina explaining why she had closed her beauty salon aroused strong reactions from other small business owners.
The strengthening of relations between Russia and the military governments of Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger will be at the heart of the third Russia-Africa Summit, to be held in Moscow on 28 and 29 October 2026.
Platforms such as BrixHub aggregate and make available in a few clicks billions of personal data stolen from both private and public sites. Feminist associations warn about a major risk for women victims of violence, but also women activists, while the state struggles to regain control over a digital ecosystem that has become uncontrollable.
'My comment was ill-judged and I now understand that it hurt many people,' Mbappe says after Chinese brands dropped him.
On Monday night’s episode of “The Daily Show,” Jon Stewart trolled Donald Trump’s fixation on Nicki Minaj as the president’s odd remarks about the rapper’s “beautiful ass” have been making the rounds across the internet. Stewart began the evening’s show by focusing on the midterm elections, and the issues that voters are, “for some reason,” […]
Israelis will vote on 27 October in the first parliamentary elections held since the October 7 attacks. Proportional poll, coalition play, majority at 61 seats... while no bloc seems to be the majority in the polls, France 24 takes stock of the functioning of an electoral system that can reserve the bulk of the battle for the post-scrutin period.
1999, 2006, 2019, 2023... How many times have Benjamin Netanyahu been announced as a political end? The Israeli Prime Minister went through electoral defeats, was dropped by his allies, prosecuted, and even accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity by the ICC. In every crisis, many predicted the end of his political career. Every time, however, he thwarted the prognosis. On 27 October, the Israelis were called to the polls to elect their deputies and so choose whether Netanyahu would again remain Prime Minister. How did he manage to maintain his
A Russian military satellite, Cosmos-2612, conducted an approach against an Iceye-X36 commercial satellite used by the Ukrainian armed forces, which was considered "threatful" by the US State Department. The manoeuvre would be a first between a military and commercial satellite, according to Norbert Pouzin, an orbital analyst at Aldoria.
In Brazil, the Stock Exchange dives by 17% and real, the Brazilian currency, falls by 8%. How can this market reaction be explained? What does it reveal about expectations and concerns about the re-elected left-wing president? Decryption of the challenges of Lula's new mandate with Sébastien Velut, geographer and research director at the Research Institute for Development.
After his re-election as President of Brazil, Lula began a new term with several major issues on the agenda. How can we respond to insecurity, fight poverty and manage social networks? These projects test its ability to gather and translate its commitments into concrete measures. Decryption of the social, security and digital challenges facing the Brazilian President with Antoine Mariotti.
This technology, which was nearly 250 years old, experienced an unexpected revival of interest in the context of the current war between Russia and Ukraine. How do Ukraine and Russia try to use balloons in fighting?
Today, high school events continued throughout France, notably in Rennes, Nantes, Lille, Paris, Marseille, Créteil and many other cities. In total, more than 150 establishments were closed on Thursday, less than the previous days. Sébastien Lecornu's political response on Wednesday night was not enough. Interunion student and professional calls for a new day of action and strike Tuesday, October 13.
How do the French perceive this student anger movement? On Tuesday, parents and union activists joined the demonstrations, a sign of a possible convergence of mobilizations. According to two separate polls, one in two Frenchmen said they supported the movement.
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.
Three years after the attack on Nir Oz, in which 47 people were killed and 76 taken hostage, some survivors returned to live there.
Three years, day to day, after the October 7 attacks, Israel is no longer the same country. For nearly two years, the Hebrew state has lived at the rate of hostages. But these terrorist attacks by Hamas also upset the Israeli relationship with their army and leaders.
Gavin Newsom called the remarks "deranged", but the White House said Trump was warning of the risk of a nuclear Iran.
Satellite images reveal a major transformation in the residence during the war, while court files and job offers offering a cash payment expose the hidden documentary traces of this vast project.
On the front page of the press, concern in France before Act III, today, about the mobilization of high school students. A movement criticized for its outbursts, while a number of voices speak out against the "police violence", for which it would be the target. Yesterday, in Spain, the Spanish government announced early legislative elections on 29 November. And the twentieth anniversary tomorrow of the assassination of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya on 7 October 2006.
