The week in pictures: Trump-Xi talks, Hurricane Melissa and Mexico's Day of the Dead
Culture • Nov 2, 2025, 10:26 AM
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US President Donald Trump hails an "amazing" meeting with China's Xi Jinping, Hurricane Melissa leaves a trail of destruction in the Caribbean, and Mexicans don colourful skeleton costumes as they celebrate El Dia de los Muertos – the Day of the Dead. FRANCE 24 takes a look back at the week's most striking images.
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Acclaimed British playwright Tom Stoppard dies aged 88
Culture • 8:09 PM
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British playwright Tom Stoppard, a dramatist who won an Academy Award for the screenplay for 1998's "Shakespeare in Love", has died at the age of 88. Famed for his dazzling wit and depth, Stoppard was credited with reshaping modern theatre, combining int
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Paris arthouse cinemas reinvent themselves amid audience decline
Culture • 6:43 AM
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With audiences dwindling and streaming on the rise, Paris’s iconic arthouse cinemas are racing to reinvent themselves or risk closing for good. One cinema in the Champs-Elysées area has adopted a "modular" economic model, enabling screening rooms to be r
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