Niger's junta released about 50 individuals Tuesday, including former ministers, a diplomat, a journalist, and soldiers linked to a 2010 coup attempt, following a national conference recommendation. Former President Mohamed Bazoum remains detained despite global demands for his release.

China on Tuesday sent its army, navy, air and rocket forces to surround Taiwan for large-scale drills Beijing said were aimed at practising for "precision strikes" and a blockade of the self-ruled island. FRANCE 24's Sharon Gaffney speaks to Stphane Corcuff from the Lyon Institute of Political Studies. He says that the US is ranking the protection of Taiwan ...

Argentinas Javier Milei recently announced that his government would declassify all documents relating to Nazi fugitives who settled in Argentina after WWII. Following this announcement, users are sharing the viral claim that Hitler peacefully ended his days in Argentina. We debunk these claims in this edition of Truth or Fake.

A Nigerian human rights and environmental NGO has filed a lawsuit in the Lagos High Court to stop Shell from selling its Nigerian assets to a local oil and gas company. HEDA says Shell is responsible for 35% of Nigeria's oil spills and accuses the oil multinational of structuring the $2.4 billion deal to avoid responsibility for its long history of ...

There was a sea of humanity out in the streets last Saturday to protest the jailing of Turkeys popular presidential contender Ekrem Imamoglu, but now the country's on a weeklong post-Ramadan break. Long enough to dull the momentum of the countrys biggest mass movement in more than a decade?

Russian forces continue to advance in Ukraine but at a slower pace than in recent months, according to data from the Institute for the Study of War (ISW), which shows Moscow's territorial gains slowing down for the fourth consecutive month in March.

France winger Louis Bielle-Biarrey was named Six Nations Player of the Championship on Tuesday after scoring a record eight tries to help his team win the tournament. The win means Les Bleus have won the best player award four times in the past six editions.

French courts on Monday banned far-right leader Marine Le Pen from running for office for five years, ruling out the frontrunner for Frances 2027 presidential race. As Le Pen now faces a lengthy appeal process, her 29-year-oldprotg Jordan Bardella could wellbecome the National Rallys new presidential candidate.

South African TV and film writers Amy Jephta and Sean Drummond join Dheepthika Laurent on set to talk about their upcoming projects. Sean was head writer on the second season of "Unseen", a wildly popular crime thriller on Netflix. He also talks about his 2017 neo-Western, "Five Fingers for Marseilles", a film that inspired one of the songs on Beyonc's ...

On Monday, France's famous Michelin guide awarded 68 new stars, including a prized third star to two French chefs. That brings the number of three-starred restaurants in France to 31.The 2025 Michelin edition also includes nine new two-star eateries, including one in Bordeaux.France is currently home to the highest number of Michelin-starred restaurants in ...

In 2024, Brazil recorded an almost 70 percent year-on-year increase in cases of discrimination and attacks on religious practices, according to the ministry of human rights. The main victims are religions of African origin, such as Umbanda and Candombl. Their followers are threatened and their religious temples destroyed and ransacked. This intolerance is ...

PRESS REVIEW Tuesday, April 1: We bring you all the reactions from the French and international press after French far-right leader Marine Le Pen was found guilty of embezzlement and banned from running for public office. The immediate ban means she'll likely be ineligible for the 2027 French presidential elections. The international press, meanwhile, turn ...

Myanmar held a minute's silence on Tuesday in tribute to victims of a catastrophic earthquake that has killed more than 2,000 people, buckling roads and flattening buildings as far away as Bangkok.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has back-peddled on his decision to appoint former navy commander Vice Admiral Eli Sharvit to the top post of the countrys Shin Bet security agency, according to his office, following criticism from a key US senator.

SpaceX launched the first human spaceflight directly over Earth's polar regions on Monday -- a days-long, privately funded orbital mission involving four astronauts.

A French court on Monday barred French far-rightleaderMarineLePenfrom running in the 2027 presidential election after she was convicted of embezzlement, in a seismic ruling that could fuel global tensions over judicial efforts to police politics.Read our liveblog to see how the day's events unfolded.

The Chinese military on Tuesday surrounded Taiwan in what it said was a practice blockade of the island and a "stern warning" against Taiwanese separatists as tensions continue to escalate between the two countries.

Israel's military said it struck a southern suburb of Beirut early Tuesday in an attack on a Hezbollah militant. The bombing came a few days after another strike there,further testinga shakyfour-month ceasefirebetween Israel and the Iran-aligned group.

Concerns have ratcheted up about security in South Sudan since fighting broke out between forces loyal to the two men behind the devastating civil war that only ended in 2018. That fragile peace between President Salva Kiir and Vice-president Riek Machar has been pushed to breaking point by Machar's house arrest last week. On Monday, Juba denied that Machar ...

FRANCE 24's Sharon Gaffney speaks to Asl Aydntaba, Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution, about the mass protests in Turkey. She says that Turkish authorities understand that there won't be much of a pushback from the West against the crackdown on the opposition, due to the current geopolitical environment. She adds that the CHP is trying to find a ...

French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday called for a "gesture of mercy and humanity" towards jailed French-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal in a phone call with his Algerian counterpartAbdelmadjid Tebboune. The author was sentenced to five years in prison last week in a case that has damaged already-strained ties between France and its former colony.

The USGS has warned that the final death toll from the magnitude 7.7 quake in Myanmar could top 100,000 and economic losses may exceed the country's GDP. Since the 2021 coup, the nation of 51 million people has been facing an unprecedented "polycrisis" marked by economic collapse, civil war, climate hazards and deepening poverty. Plus, France's competition ...

Can justice be truly blind? Truly impartial and impervious to biases, pressures and power plays? Can citizens in this day and age agree to accept it when a court bars a presidential front runner from contesting the next election? The party of the French far-rights Marine Le Pen calls it "an execution of democracy," the ruling that finds nearly two dozen ...

This week, Marjorie Hache chats to two up-and-coming musical outfits: Naya M, who comes from Bordeaux and has just released an EP, "Dealing With Ghosts", full of layered lo-fi indie; and Oracle Sisters, a trio who formed in Paris but hail from Denmark, Finland and Northern Ireland. They have just released their second mystical album "Divinations", full of ...

In this edition, we find out why France is destroying its old stock of donor sperm, despite long waiting lists for help conceiving a child through IVF and other fertility treatments. Under the nation's latest bioethics law, anonymous sperm donations are no longer allowed. We find out why and how the need for such donations has jumped.