Voters in Senegal go to the polls on Sunday to elect a new president in the most wide-open election in the country’s history. The vote… Read More »How Senegal’s presidential election was postponed, reinstated and moved up
Algeria will hold early presidential elections in September, three months ahead of schedule, a statement from the president’s office said, without providing further details.
BBC teams report from the devastated capital and hear accounts of rapes and street executions from refugees.
In Latvia, the war in Ukraine has rekindled fears of being attacked by Moscow’s forces. The youngest citizens of this little-known Baltic country, which shares… Read More »Life across the Russian border: Young Latvians face an uncertain future
With “les Jeux”, otherwise known as the Olympic Games, just around the corner, we discuss France’s love of all sorts of other games, from board… Read More »All fun and games: France’s love of ‘les jeux’
France’s Senate on Thursday overwhelmingly voted against a free-trade agreement between the EU and Canada thanks to an unusual alliance in the upper house between… Read More »French Senate rejects EU-Canada free-trade agreement
The U.S. Department of Justice and 15 U.S. states on Thursday sued Apple, alleging it monopolized smartphone markets in the first major antitrust effort against… Read More »US files antitrust lawsuit against Apple over iPhone ‘monopoly’
As the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) warns of “imminent” famine in northern Gaza, with some 1.1 million people experiencing catastrophic food insecurity amid… Read More »‘No food, no water, no tents’ – Women in Gaza fight for survival as famine looms
At least 30 schools in the Paris region have this week received threatening messages accompanied by “shocking” footage of beheadings, the education ministry said on… Read More »French schools sent threatening messages and beheading videos, says ministry
He tells the BBC he won’t apologise for attempting to delay the vote, a move that led to deadly protests.
