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In the run-up to the mid-term elections, on 3 November in the United States, accusations of fraud are going on at full speed, as are false accusations against certain candidates. For example: Illinois voting machines would try to influence the voter's choice, or the senator's pretender in Texas James Talarico would have sexually abused one of his students.
Conservative Senator Flavio Bolsonaro fled Brazil for the United States after his defeat in the presidential election, reported on Tuesday from American media, while Donald Trump's government announced that he would grant him a visa.
New "large scale" atrocities could happen again in Sudan, such as those committed during the capture of El Fasher by paramilitary forces a year ago, on Monday alert the member states of the Coalition for the Prevention of Atrocities and Justice in Sudan.
Gulliver Cragg, live from Kiev, analyses the situation.
Hugo Toudic, Doctor of Political Philosophy and specialist in American institutions, is our guest.
Russian President Vladimir Putin told his counterpart Donald Trump on Friday that Russia was willing to "supply oil to the US and global markets" in a context of fuel crisis. This project, confirmed by Mr Trump, has attracted serious criticism from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who denounced a "unworthy" and "weak" decision by Washington, at a time when a Ukrainian delegation is in the United States to negotiate.
The killing by a firing squad of the author of a killing on a military base in Texas will be broadcast live, the US Defense Minister announced, with the UN denouncing on Friday a form of "torture". Nidal Hasan "will be shot by soldiers, as it should be, and we will ensure that the public can attend, that it is public," said Defense Minister Pete Hegseth in a video shot on Wednesday.
Russia is called upon by WHO, the European Union and the United States to increase transparency after the death of a laboratory technician in Siberia. Daria Shipilova, who worked at the Irkutsk pest control institute, died of pneumonia of unknown origin. Between the versions of some media and the denial of the authorities, the vagueness persists and maintains rumours and misinformation.
Less than a month before the mid-term elections in the United States, US President Donald Trump is increasing his travels to regain control of the campaign, while his popularity is at the lowest. Republicans could lose both the House of Representatives and the Senate. Purchasing power, inequality of wealth and investment in artificial intelligence are at the heart of American concerns. A decisive campaign for Donald Trump and his party.
A rare storm for the season hit the north-east of the United States on Sunday, showered by heavy rains and swept by powerful winds, which killed tens of thousands of users and deprived them of electricity according to the American media.
Russia's head of diplomacy, Sergey Lavrov, accused Europe of systematically opposing peace projects in Ukraine, according to him, from the position of the United States.
The International Organization of la Francophonie (OIF) is preparing to hold a vote for the first time in its history to elect its Secretary-General. In an interview with France 24, Louise Mushikiwabo, a candidate for her own estate, called herself "serine". The withdrawal in 2025 from Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger of the organization did not, in her view, constitute a failure "of the secretary general".
In Ethiopia, the Tigray rebel authorities claimed on Thursday that they were in "total war" against the Ethiopian government, while fighting between federal forces and armed groups in the regional states neighbouring Amhara and Afar. A total of 272 rebels were killed and 260 injured in the north of the country, according to the federal army.
The President of the Palestinian Authority Mahmoud Abbas, who was denied entry into the United States to participate in person in the United Nations General Assembly, said on Thursday afternoon, 24 September, that Israeli policies no longer only compromised the two-State solution, but were now threatening "the very life and existence of its people".
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, isolated on the international scene, speaks at the UN rostrum on Thursday 24 September, as well as Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, who will be in video conference for lack of a visa from the United States, as last year. The explanations of Stéphane Amar, France 24 correspondent in Jerusalem.
Donald Trump has been raving several times in recent days about his strategy in Yemen, divided between Saudi pressure to hit the pro-Iranian Houthis and the risk of engaging the United States in a new front in the Middle East, according to the New York Times. The explanations of Matthieu Mabin, correspondent France 24 in Washington.
Donald Trump announced on Friday 18 September that he had obtained from Denmark and Greenland a "permanent control" of the security of strategic Arctic territory which, according to Washington, will prevent the opponents of the United States, China and Russia in the lead, from settling there.
