2023

Two years after reaching the quarter-finals on debut, The Gambia will face a perilously tough task in January at the Africa Cup of Nations.

Hamas’s surprise attack on Israel on Saturday has triggered outright war between Israel and Palestine, with levels of violence not seen in decades. FRANCE 24… Read More »Former Israeli security chief Ami Ayalon: ‘The military can defend us; it cannot secure us’

A judge in the southern Senegalese city of Ziguinchor has cancelled the removal of imprisoned opposition politician Ousmane Sonko from electoral lists, his lawyers and… Read More »Senegal judge cancels removal of opposition leader Sonko from electoral lists

Burkina Faso’s government said Friday that it had signed an agreement with Russia for the construction of a nuclear power plant to “cover the energy… Read More »Burkina Faso signs agreement with Russia for nuclear power plant

France captain Antoine Dupont said on Friday the French coaching staff did not put pressure on him to play in this weekend’s Rugby World Cup… Read More »Rugby World Cup 2023: France’s Dupont says he was not put under pressure to return

European Union governments failed on Friday to give a decisive opinion on a proposal to extend by 10 years EU approval for the use of glyphosate,… Read More »EU countries deadlocked on plan to extend approval of weedkiller glyphosate

The deal comes after junta leader Capt Traore asked President Putin to help set up a nuclear plant.

In The Press for Friday, October 13: We look at the battle of images in the Israeli and international press, as Israel says it has… Read More »Israel in battle of images amid war with Hamas

French media say that a teacher has been killed and children injured in a stabbing in a school in northern France.

Bosnia and Herzegovina is home to three ethnic groups who were at the core of one of the deadliest conflicts on European soil since World… Read More »How Bosnia and Herzegovina’s post-war generation is dealing with its past