This week on arts24, we’re bringing you a double dose of European punk. Elias Bender Rønnenfelt is a singer with Copenhagen’s finest post-punk export, Iceage. The group is currently touring Europe, and he is stopping off in Paris this week to…
Israel’s President Isaac Herzog begins the process of coalition government negotiations this week. One possibility is for the centrist opposition bloc to form a government with the Arab parties, which would oust current Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Protests for and…
Humans have caused irreversible changes to our planet in their time on Earth, pollution that continues even in death. Cremation relies heavily on fossil fuels, while traditional burials take up land. So is there a more eco-friendly way to honour our…
Monday marks the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists – chosen in memory of Ghislaine Dupont and Claude Verlon, two journalists from Radio France Internationale murdered in Mali on 2 November 2013. According to a report by…
Nine people were killed Sunday when the Learjet they were travelling in plummeted into a neighbourhood in southern Florida, just miles from US President Donald Trump’s resort home of Mar-a-Lago, officials said.
Donald Trump and his Republican Party will make last-gasp pitches to US midterm voters Monday to hold back a predicted Democrat wave that could take over Congress and impose tight political constraints on the president for the first time in…
PRESS REVIEW – Monday, November 2: Bulgarian papers discuss the country’s new president. In Belarus, some political prisoners are held in psychiatric wards instead of prisons. Also: Hitler’s Eagle’s Nest burned down. Will it be rebuilt and should it? Finally,…
A temporary ceasefire across Ukraine’s Kherson region allowed people to flee the Russian-occupied city of Oleshky over the weekend. They arrived in the Chernihiv region Saturday after traveling through Russia and Belarus, with some reuniting with freidns and family they…
Chinese state broadcaster CCTV did not broadcast a Real Madrid La Liga match on Sunday after star forward Kylian Mbappé caused a furore in China with remarks he made about former leader Mao Zedong. FRANCE 24’s correspondent Jan Camenzind Broomby…
French students back from autumn holidays blocked some high schools on Monday, determined to revive last month’s protest movement despite a handful of concessions from the government during the break. Blockades took place in several cities across France, including Paris,…