Tina Turner, the American-born singer who left a hardscrabble farming community and abusive relationship to become one of the top recording artists of all time,… Read More »Tina Turner, known as the ‘Queen of rock ‘n’ roll’, dies at 83
The grave of Mahsa Amini, the young Iranian Kurdish woman whose death sparked a protest movement that rattled Iran’s clerical leadership, has been vandalised, according… Read More »Mahsa Amini’s grave vandalised in Iran, family lawyer says
The 2024 summer Olympics in Paris will mark the first time an opening ceremony has not been held inside a stadium – instead, the extravaganza will unfold along the River Seine, with spectators lining streets… Read More »France unveils security plan for Olympics opening ceremony in central Paris
The Cannes Film Festival has always showcased politically engaged films and this year is no different, with a particular focus on the climate crisis. Two French… Read More »Climate activists take centre stage as French films warn of eco-catastrophe
Kenyan caddy Virginia Karemi Njeri says she was ‘desperate’ when she took up a career in golf but the sport has turned her life around.
France is to try 19 men over a people-smuggling plot that led to the 2019 deaths of 39 Vietnamese migrants in the back of a… Read More »France to try 19 suspected human smugglers over 2019 migrant lorry deaths
FRANCE 24 spoke to exiled Russian opposition figure Ilya Ponomarev, the political representative of the Freedom of Russia Legion. This Ukraine-based paramilitary group of Russian… Read More »Pro-Kyiv Russian group says it ‘didn’t lose a single soldier’ in cross-border raids on Belgorod
A Swiss court on Wednesday acquitted Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan on charges of rape and sexual coercion, finding no evidence against the former Oxford University… Read More »Swiss court acquits Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan on charges of rape, sexual coercion
German police on Wednesday carried out raids across seven states targeting climate activists of the “Letzte Generation” (Last Generation) group, which has sparked controversy with… Read More »German police carry out nationwide raids against Last Generation climate activists
The trial of Senegal opposition leader Ousmane Sonko on rape charges adjourned early Wednesday, with the prosecutor calling for a 10-year jail term in a… Read More »Senegal prosecutor calls for 10-year jail term for opposition leader Sonko
