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South Sudan: Clinics offering mental health support scarce and at risk of shutting down

Authorities in South Sudan are sounding the alarm over the state of the country's mental health. Just last month, 12 suicides were reported in Juba in a single week. Clinics offering mental health support are scarce and at risk of closing down. In 2022,

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The Bright Side: Finnish fans celebrate 80th birthday of beloved Moomins characters

The Moomins, Finland’s beloved hippo-like characters created by Tove Jansson, are celebrating their 80th birthday. Over the weekend, fans flocked to Tampere in southern Finland to celebrate the anniversary of the 1945 publication as well as Jansson's bir

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Killing of Al Jazeera journalists is '100% a war crime', CPJ Regional Director says

Media advocacy group the Committee to Protect Journalists on Monday slammed an Israeli strike that killed several Al Jazeera staff in Gaza overnight, saying journalists should never be targeted in war. The CPJ in July called for the protection of Anas al

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Why Australia is risking US anger to recognise the state of Palestine

Australia will formally recognise a Palestinian state at the UN General Assembly in September, centre-left Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said Monday, adding that the situation in the besieged Gaza Strip had “gone beyond the world’s worst fears”. The mo

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'Attack on Democrat-run cities: Trump takes DC crackdown to new level, flexing new-found authority'

"We're not gonna take it": US President Donald Trump has announced a major federal overhaul of law enforcement in Washington DC and the mass deployment of the National Guard to crack down on "violent gangs, bloodthirsty criminals, roving mobs of wild you

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Macron calls for UN-backed Gaza mission, slams Israeli plans as 'permanent war'

French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday denounced Israel’s plan to expand military operations in Gaza City as a “disaster waiting to happen”. He pushed for a permanent ceasefire and a UN-mandated international coalition to stabilise the Gaza Strip, pr

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Colombian presidential hopeful Miguel Uribe dies 2 months after being shot during a rally

A Colombian senator and presidential hopeful whose shooting at a political rally in June recalled some of the darkest chapters of the country's drug-fueled violence died Monday. The family of Miguel Uribe Turbay said the politician died at a hospital in

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USA: Donald Trump announces the national guard will be deployed in Washington DC

President Donald Trump said Monday he’s placing the Washington, D.C., police department under federal control and deploying the National Guard to make the nation’s capital safer. Trump has promised new steps to tackle homelessness and crime in Washington

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Russian strikes pound Ukraine, Kyiv targets Moscow

Russian strikes continue to pound Ukraine. Six people were killed by drones or artillery fire in the eastern region of Donetsk and in the southern regions of Zaporizhzhia and Kherson, according to local authorities. A Russian glide bomb also hit a busy c

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UN slams Israel's killing of five journalists in Gaza, calling it a "breach of humanitarian law"

The UN human rights agency on Monday condemned Israel's targeted killing of six journalists in Gaza as a "grave breach of international humanitarian law". The office of UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk said on X that the Israeli military

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Nigerian troops kill more than 100 'bandits' in northwest operation

Nigerian forces killed more than 100 members of a criminal gang in an air and ground raid on Sunday in Zamfara state, a conflict monitoring report produced for the United Nations said Monday. The raid follows rising violence, including a deadly attack by

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Trump deploys National Guard and federalises DC police over crime – despite falling rates

US President Donald Trump said Monday he was deploying the National Guard and federalising the Washington, DC, police to tackle lawlessness in the US capital despite plummeting rates of violent crime, which according to the city's police department hit a

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Record-breaking heat sweeps Europe, fuelling the risk of wildfires

A heatwave swept through parts of Europe on Monday, breaking temperature records at weather stations in southern France and sparking wildfire risks while Bulgaria battled nearly 200 blazes. Scientists warn Europe is warming at nearly twice the global rat

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'Israel has a pattern of murdering journalists in Gaza and the West Bank and then lying about it'

A deadly Israeli strike on a tent outside the Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City has killed five staff members of Qatari news channel Al Jazeera and a Palestinian freelance journalist. The victims included prominent reporter Anas al-Sharif. The Israeli gover

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Jellyfish swarm forces France's largest nuclear plant to shut down

France's Gravelines nuclear power plant, the largest in Western Europe, was fully shut down on Monday after a "massive and unpredictable" swarm of jellyfish clogged its cooling system pumps, forcing four reactors offline, energy group EDF said.

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Live: Israel's plan for Gaza is a disaster waiting to happen, says Macron

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Syria condemns killing of unarmed man in Sweida hospital as video of incident surfaces

Syria’s interior ministry on Monday condemned the apparent killing of an unarmed man at a hospital during a week of bloodshed last month in the Druze-majority Sweida province after a video of the incident emerged. The perpetrators “will be held accountab

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'Genocide': Unless West forces Israel to change course, 'ethnic cleansing in Gaza will persist'

While Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu insists that there is no famine in Gaza, and Hamas bears full responsibility for the dramatic humanitarian crisis, FRANCE 24's Erin Ogunkeye welcomes Dr H. A. Hellyer, Senior Associate Fellow at the Royal United Servic

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Archaeologists find possible artefacts of oldest known Wallacean hominids in Indonesia

This discovery could challenge the way scientists see our ancestors. Archaeologists discovered tools dating more than 1 million years back on an Indonesian island. How did humans get there? and when? Scientists have many questions, Shirli Sitbon brings y

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Europe's diplomatic push ahead of Trump-Putin meeting in Alaska

European leaders on Sunday pushed for Ukraine to be a part of negotiations between the United States and Russia, ahead of talks between presidents Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump. Analysis by FRANCE 24 international affairs editor Kethevane Gorjestani.

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UN says 242 journalists killed in Gaza as Al Jazeera mourns those killed in Israeli strike

UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric on Monday condemned the killing of five Al Jazeera staff and a sixth reporter in an Israeli strike Sunday and said that at least 242 journalists have been killed in Gaza since the war began. Earlier, dozens of Gazan mour

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Trump vows to evict homeless from Washington DC

US President Donald Trump is promising new steps to tackle homelessness and crime in Washington, prompting the city's mayor to voice concerns about the potential use of the National Guard to patrol the streets in the nation's capital. Story by Bryan Quin

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Sudan: 25 million people acutely food insecure, according to the WHO

Malnutrition has killed 63 people, mostly women and children, in just one week in Sudan's besieged city of El-Fasher, a senior health official said Sunday, as fighting between the army and rival paramilitaries intensifies in the western region. Details b

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Australia to recognise Palestinian state at United Nations in September

Australia will recognise a Palestinian state at next month's United Nations General Assembly, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Monday, a move that adds to international pressure on Israel after similar announcements from France, Britain and Canada

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Italy, Spain, Greece, France... Wildfires break out across Southern Europe

Europe is facing another summer of wildfires, as the effects of man-made climate change continue to intensify on the continent. Fires are currently burning in Italy, Spain, and even Scotland – major blazes in France and Greece are now contained but autho

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Italy's Mount Vesuvius closed to tourists as wildfire rages

This Sunday has been devastating for countries in southern Europe facing violent fires. Massive resources - including firefighters and the army - were deployed in southern Italy to battle a blaze on the flanks of Mount Vesuvius near Naples. Story by Fran

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Europe is warming twice as fast as the rest of the globe

A blistering heatwave is currently gripping Europe, sending ending thermometers soaring to 43 degrees Celsius in France, 40 °C in Spain and 43°C in Greece. And this trend is set to continue – Europe is warming twice as fast as the global average, bringin

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Drone-on-drone warfare: Ukraine adapts its air defence strategy against Russian attacks

This spring and early summer, Russia intensified its campaign of attacks on Ukrainian cities. In particular, the number of drones used increased exponentially – Russia has started mass production of variants of the Shahed drones originally provided by Ir

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Israeli strike kills journalists in Gaza City, worsening the death toll for the media

Israel’s military targeted an Al Jazeera correspondent with an airstrike Sunday, killing him, another network journalist and at least six other people, all of whom were sheltering outside the Gaza City Hospital complex. Israel's military later described

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Europe pushes for Ukraine role in Trump-Putin talks

European leaders on Sunday pushed for Ukraine to be a part of negotiations between the United States and Russia, ahead of talks between presidents Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump. Story by Nicholas Rushworth.

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Israel's Netanyahu under pressure at home and abroad regarding Gaza occupation plan

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday defended a new military offensive in Gaza that's more sweeping than previously announced, declaring in the face of growing condemnation at home and abroad that Israel “has no choice but to finish the jo

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Netanyahu's Gaza war plan doesn't have 'anything to do with Israel's present or future security'

Director of Forward Thinking Oliver McTernan tells FRANCE 24 that Netanyahu's war plans to fully take over Gaza are mere "political games". He does not believe it has "anything to do with Israel's present or future security." And this actually reflects,

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Israel kills five Al Jazeera journalists in Gaza

A prominent Al Jazeera journalist who had previously been threatened by Israel was killed along with four colleagues in an Israeli airstrike on Sunday, in an attack condemned by journalist and rights groups. Story by Shirli Sitbon.

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Nvidia, AMD agree to pay US 15% of revenue from sales of AI chips to China

Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang met with US President Donald Trump at the White House last week and agreed to give the US government a 15 percent cut of Nvidia’s revenues from chip sales to China, according to media reports Sunday. The US has been re

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EU leaders push for Kyiv to be part of Trump-Putin talks to end Ukraine war

Top EU diplomat Kaja Kallas said any deal between the United States and Russia to end the war in Ukraine had to include Kyiv and the bloc, adding that she was convening a meeting of EU foreign ministers on Monday “to discuss our next steps". A statement

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Football: Liverpool lose Community Shield despite Hugo Ekitike's goal

Hugo Ekitike scored after 4 minutes in his first official match with the Reds, who lost on penalties to Crystal Palace.

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Australia ready to recognise Palestinian state at UN in September, PM says

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Monday that Australia's recognition of a Palestinian state would be predicated on commitments Australia received from the Palestinian Authority, including that Islamist militant group Hamas would have no involvemen

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'My boss raped me': Japanese prosecutor's long fight for justice

Hikari kept quiet for years about her alleged assault by her boss, Osaka's former chief prosecutor. Finally, after being diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and taking time off work, she filed her case in June 2024.

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Five Al Jazeera journalists, including Anas al-Sharif, killed in Israeli strike on Gaza

Israel’s military said it killed an Al Jazeera journalist that it accused of being a Hamas cell leader in a Gaza air strike on Sunday. Rights groups said he was targeted for his frontline coverage of the Gaza war and that Israel had provided no evidence

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Finland charges captain of Russian 'shadow fleet' tanker over Baltic Sea cable sabotage

Finnish prosecutors have charged the captain and two officers of a tanker believed to be part of Russia's "shadow fleet" with sabotage on Monday, accusing them of dragging an anchor along the Gulf of Finland seabed last December and cutting five undersea

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India: opposition parties protest controversial electoral roll

Some of India's opposition lawmakers, including leader Rahul Gandhi have been detained, and then released again by the police. They had taken part in a protest in New Delhi Monday, calling for the rollback of a controversial revision of the voter list in

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Colombia presidential candidate Miguel Uribe dies of injuries after June shooting

Colombian presidential candidate Miguel Uribe has died two months after being shot at a campaign event, his wife announced early Monday morning. Authorities have arrested six suspects linked to the attack.

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Mali detains two dozen soldiers over alleged coup plot against junta

Malian authorities have arrested two dozen soldiers accused of plotting to overthrow the ruling junta, which itself came to power in the west African country in a coup, sources told AFP on Sunday. The arrests, which include a high-ranking general, come a

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How can we adapt to the growing risk of wildfires?

Devastating wildfires are burning across the Mediterranean, the United States and Canada. Like numerous other extreme weather conditions or events, data suggests record breaking wildfires are becoming the new normal. How can our societies adapt to this g

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Trump says he will evict homeless people 'far' from Washington

US President Donald Trump on Sunday said that homeless people in Washington would be moved “far” from the city as part of his plans to give the White House the final say in how the city is governed. Washington is run by the locally elected government of

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UN Security Council calls Israel to reverse decision to occupy Gaza

A UN official on Sunday warned the Security Council that Israel's plans to control Gaza City risked "another calamity" with far-reaching consequences as Benjamin Netanyahu insisted his goal was not to occupy the territory. Analysis by Pamela Falk, FRANCE

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Zelensky says he will not allow Ukraine to be excluded from Putin-Trump negociations

Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky says any peace talks must include Kyiv. His comments come ahead of US President Donald Trump's high-stakes talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin next Friday in Alaska. Meanwhile European allies are worried abo

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Netanyahu defends new Gaza military push amid growing opposition

Speaking to international media in Jerusalem on Sunday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu defended the planned military operation to take over Gaza City, saying that Israel “has no choice but to finish the job and fully defeat Hamas”. His stateme

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Israel's Netanyahu speaks to international press - our analysis

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with the international press first the first time since his security cabinet's decision on Friday to expand the war in Gaza and take control of Gaza City. He said Israel “has no choice but to finish the job a

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Gaza: families struggle to procure food as the humanitarian disaster worsens

As pressure on Israel to scrap the plan continues to grow, so does the dire humanitarian situation on the ground. Another five people in the enclave - including two children - have died from malnutrition according to the Gaza Health Ministry. With condit

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The Bright Side: Humble bugs are popular pets in nature-loving Japan

Bugs are fast becoming the pet of choice in Japan where they compete for the attentions of pet lovers who might once have settled for more conventional choices such as playful puppies, cute kittens or hamsters endlessly spinning on a wheel. Fueling the J

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Chad's opposition leader sentenced to 20 years in prison for inciting violence

Chad's criminal court on Saturday sentenced Success Masra, the country's former prime minister and opposition leader, to 20 years in prison after convictions on charges including incitement to hatred and revolt and complicity to murder. The charges stemm

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Israeli activists disrupt most watched reality TV show, shouting 'get out of Gaza'

Amid an important wave of protests in Israel against Netanyahu's plan to occupy Gaza, Israeli activists stormed the live broadcast of “Big Brother” on Channel 13. The protestsers were wearing “Get Out of Gaza” T-shirts and gave a speech against the gover

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Firefighters bring massive wildfire in France under control

Firefighters have brought a massive wildfire in southern France under control but local authorities warned on Sunday that extreme heat and dry conditions could cause the blaze to flare up again as parts of the Mediterranean region endure a heatwave, with

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China aims to lead in AI and robotics at Beinjing World Robot Conference

The World Robot Conference is currently underway in Beijing. It comes as some analysts say China has overtaken the US in the robotics race, particularly when it comes to humanoid robots. In the past year Chinese humanoid robots have danced in lunar New Y

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UK police arrest over 466 at protest against banning of Palestine Action group

London's Metropolitan Police arrested more than 466 people at a protest on Saturday against Britain's decision to ban the group Palestine Action. British lawmakers banned Palestine Action under anti-terrorism legislation in July after some of its members

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As temperatures reach 50°C, Dubai runners stay indoors for "mallathon"

Early on Saturday, as temperatures soared outside, a sprawling shopping centre in Dubai echoed to the squeak of sneakers as hundreds of people joined "Mallathon" -- an indoor, air-conditioned race. Story by Peter O'Brien.

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The race for robot supremacy: Beijing conference highlights China's push for innovation

China is flaunting its robotics industry with a series of big events – the first World Humanoid Robot Games, the opening of a robot dealership in Beijing, and the World Robot Conference. Technologists think androids are the future, and analysts say China

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Southern Europe battles heat-fuelled wildfires

Southern Europe is grappling with a series of devastating wildfires. Blazes have broken out in several countries, including Greece, Spain, and France, fuelled by scorching temperatures. Turkey has experienced its hottest July in 55 years, with a peak of

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Thousands of Israelis protest against Netanyahu's Gaza plan and demand release of hostages

Thousands of protesters took to the streets of Tel Aviv on Saturday night to oppose Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's plan to escalate the nearly two-year Gaza war, demanding an immediate end to the campaign and for the release of the hostages. Story b

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