With demonstrators shouting “Shame!” and “Power to the people!”, rare protests erupted in several Ukrainian cities on Thursday over the dismissal of the country’s popular defence minister Mykhailo Fedorov. Seen as a moderniser, Fedorov was removed by President Volodymyr Zelensky…
His blossoming, botanical and flowing forms recall the life cycles of plants and humans. Designer Ali Zalzali tells FRANCE 24 about creating his first couture collection, ‘Natura Morta’ and the evocative short film he made to conjure up the universe…
Health workers fighting the Ebola outbreak in DR Congo are going on strike over unpaid wages. This comes as the World Health Organization warned that Ebola was spreading in the Democratic Republic of Congo at a faster pace than during…
In Kenya, a court delivered a closely watched ruling this morning that had been eagerly awaited by the country’s Rastafarian community. Since 2021, the court had been considering a petition seeking to decriminalise the use of cannabis by the community,…
An Italian court on Thursday sentenced 32 defendants, including former motorway operator Autostrade chief Giovanni Castellucci, for their roles in the 2018 collapse of Genoa’s Morandi bridge which killed 43 people. Castellucci was among 57 defendants tried over the disaster,…
Ukraine’s ousted defence minister Mykhailo Fedorov served just six months before his ambitious drive to reform the military led to irreconcilable clashes with the country’s top brass, which he viewed as out of date, inflexible and mired in bureaucracy. Fedorov’s…
Paris is one of the most visited cities in the world with some 50 million tourists exploring the French capital every year. Many visitors are coming back for a second or third time, and – having already ticked off the…
Ukraine awarded Britain’s Keir Starmer its “Order of Freedom” honour on July 19 as the outgoing prime minister made his final visit to the capital, Kyiv. Burnham will become leader of the ruling Labour party on July 17 before taking…
Syria said on July 19 it had foiled an attempt to smuggle weapons to Hezbollah in Lebanon by seizing a shipment that included missiles at its border with Iraq. It comes after US President Donald Trump floated the idea of…
An Italian court has found 32 defendants guilty over the deadly Genoa bridge collapse in 2018. Forty-three people died when their vehicles plunged from the flyover in the port city. On the morning of August 14, 2018, during a summer…