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Harvey Weinstein diagnosed with bone marrow cancer, US media reports

Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein has been diagnosed with leukemia, a form of bone marrow cancer, US media outlets reported on Monday. He is currently serving a 16-year sentence after being convicted on rape charges by a California court in February this

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Britain aims to reset EU trade ties to boost growth, says minister

Britain aims to reset its EU trade ties, essential for reviving growth, according to Trade Minister Douglas Alexander. Brexit caused "significant disruption" to UK trade, necessitating a recalibration of its global outlook. Alexander met the WTO head in

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Putin seeks unity at BRICS summit to challenge Western 'hegemony'

Europe • 3:16 AM

Two dozen world leaders, including China's Xi Jinping, India's Narendra Modi, and Turkey's Recep Tayyip Erdogan, are gathering in Kazan, Russia, for summit of the BRICS group between October 22-24. The event is Russia's largest diplomatic gathering since

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Hurricane Oscar leaves six dead, ongoing power blackouts in Cuba

Cuba's capital remains paralysed as the island braces for a fourth night of blackouts after Hurricane Oscar's landfall. Protests erupted in urban areas like Havana, with residents banging pots, blocking streets, and demanding water. The government issued

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Peru ex-president Toledo sentenced to more than 20 years for corruption

Former Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo was sentenced to 20 years and six months in prison for accepting bribes from Brazilian construction firm Odebrecht. The conviction, related to the Lava Jato corruption scandal, marks a major milestone in Peru's

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Live: Blinken heads to Israel to revive Gaza ceasefire talks after Sinwar death

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrives in Israel on Tuesday on a new push for an elusive Gaza ceasefire, seeing new opportunity after Israel's killing of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar last week. It will be his 11th trip to the Middle East since the war

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North Korea sending troops to Ukraine would be ‘dangerous’ development, US warns

Washington warned that North Korea sending troops to support Russia in Ukraine would be a dangerous development, following reports from Seoul. US Ambassador Robert Wood told the UN Security Council this deepens the DPRK-Russia military ties, and consulta

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Cuba never recovered from Covid, Trump sanctions, expert says

Electricity has been restored to almost 90% of Havana residents four days after a nationwide blackout hit Cuba. Several Cuban provinces were still without power, after the collapse of the nation's largest power plant caused lights to go out across the is

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Cuba never recovered from Covid, Trump sanctions, expert says

Electricity has been restored to almost 90% of Havana residents four days after a nationwide blackout hit Cuba. Several Cuban provinces were still without power, after the collapse of the nation's largest power plant caused lights to go out across the is

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Mozambique: police and protesters clash in Maputo after disputed election

It's been a day of unrest in Maputo, Mozambique, in the wake of the killing of two members of the political opposition on Saturday. This Monday, police fired tear gas at protesters, who were demonstrating against the killings and what they say is elector

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Moldova’s president bet big on the EU referendum. It may cost her dearly

Europe • 8:16 PM

Moldova has voted to enshrine its EU membership aspirations in the nation’s constitution by a razor-thin margin after a campaign awash with accusations of Russian interference and political repression. It’s an awkward moment for President Maia Sandu, who

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What we know about the ‘UNRWA ID’ allegedly found amidst Sinwar’s belongings

Israeli media said last week that two men killed alongside Hamas head Yahya Sinwar were his bodyguards, and that one of them worked for UNRWA. It later posted photos of items allegedly found at the scene, including an “UNRWA ID” causing online furore tha

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Cuba restores electricity to part of Havana, but the crisis is far from over

Cuba has restored 50% of electricity to Havana, but a chronic lack of fuel and deteriorating infrastructure means the crisis is far from over. The AI boom has caused a surge in electricity demand... and in Taiwan, atomic energy could soon be making a com

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Russian interference did not represent 'critical mass' in Moldova vote, expert says

Moldovans voted by a razor-thin majority in favor of securing the country’s path toward EU membership, after the pro-Western president accused foreign interference and “criminal groups” of trying to undermine the vote in the former Soviet republic. FRANC

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Trump and Harris make final pushes in key battleground states

With just over two weeks to go before the 2024 presidential election and the race in a dead heat, Donald Trump and Kamala Harris are hitting the campaign trail in strategic battleground states. FRANCE 24's Fraser Jackson reports from Washington.

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After Sinwar's death: Why is Israel ramping up strikes in Lebanon and Gaza?

Is the off ramp in sight or did Benjamin Netanyahu’s government deliberately blow past it? If achieving the stated aim of killing Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar offers Israel a reason to relent in Gaza and Lebanon, that has yet to happen. The days since have

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President Paul Biya returns to Cameroon after weeks abroad amid health rumours

Africa • 5:27 PM

Cameroonian President Paul Biya returned to the capital Yaoundé on Monday after several weeks abroad, quelling rumours about his health that had circulated during his absence.

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Israel airport authority says Ben Gurion airport reopens after brief halt to flights

Israel's airport authority on Monday resumed operations at the country's main airport, Ben Gurion, after briefly closing its airspace. The Israeli army later said in a statement that five drones had been intercepted "in the area of the Mediterranean Sea"

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World lags on 2030 nature goals headed into UNCOP16 talks

The world in 2022 reached its most ambitious deal ever to halt the destruction of nature by decade's end. Two years later, countries are already behind on meeting their goals. As nearly 200 nations meet on Monday for a two-week UN biodiversity summit, CO

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French transport minister meets cycling groups after cyclist death sparks protests

France • 2:50 PM

France's Transport Minister François Durovray is expected to meet with cycling associations on Monday after a cyclist in Paris was allegedly deliberately run over by a motorist following a dispute.The tragedy has reignited a national debate on road safet

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Moldovans narrowly vote to secure the country's path toward EU membership

Moldovans voted by a razor-thin majority in favor of securing the country’s path toward European Union membership, electoral data showed Monday, following a ballot that nearly caused a major setback for the pro-Western president, who accused “criminal gr

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France's 2025 belt-tightening budget bill to be debated in Parliament

France's belt-tightening budget delivers a bigger tax hit than the government originally let on, according to new breakdowns that suggest a bigger dent in President Emmanuel Macron's pro-business legacy. FRANCE 24's Emerald Maxwell reports from the Natio

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On the ground: 'We are bracing for more strikes across Lebanon'

Lebanese were surveying the damage on Monday after overnight Israeli strikes hit nearly a dozen branches of a Hezbollah-run financial institution that Israel says is used to fund attacks but where many ordinary people keep their savings. The strikes targ

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Cubans struggle with an extended power outage and a new tropical storm

Cubans took to the streets in protest as widespread blackouts stretched into their fourth day, their concerns heightened as Hurricane Oscar crossed the island’s eastern coast with winds and heavy rain. In Santo Suárez, part of a populous neighbourhood in

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Gulen, the powerful cleric accused of orchestrating failed 2016 Turkish coup, dies

The US-based cleric Fethullah Gulen, who built a powerful Islamic movement in Turkey and beyond but spent his later years mired in accusations of orchestrating an attempted coup against Turkish leader Tayyip Erdogan, has died. He was 83. Gulen was a one-

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What is Hezbollah's Qard al-Hassan financial institution?

Israeli airstrikes overnight struck branches of a Hezbollah-linked financial institution, Al-Qard Al-Hassan Association, further escalating Israel's offensive against the Iran-backed Lebanese group. FRANCE 24's Kethevane Gorjestani tells us more.

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Are camembert and blue cheese heading for extinction?

The COP16 summit opens this Monday in the Colombian city of Cali, with the ambition to stimulate the still timid implementation of objectives to safeguard biodiversity by 2030. But what exactly is biodiversity and what are the drivers of the collapse of

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Meeting France's UFO detectives

Is there anybody out there? In France, an organisation exists whose sole role is to answer this question. The GEIPAN, part of the French space agency, decodes dozens of cases each year. They try to find rational reasons to seemingly impossible sightings.

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Music show: Franco-British artist Emily Loizeau digs deep with 'La Souterraine'

Franco-British singer-songwriter Emily Loizeau joins us on arts24 to tell us about her new album "La Souterraine", which she produced with John Parish, a longtime collaborator of PJ Harvey. She tells us more about her multi-layered pop and rock album, th

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'Nature is on the brink of burnout,' WWF warns as COP16 biodiversity summit opens

What do African forest elephants, leatherback turtles in Guyana and river trout in mainland France have in common? The answer is that all three have been highlighted in the latest Living Planet report from the World Wide Fund for Nature. They are linked

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Gaza rescuers say over 400 killed in two weeks of Israeli assault on territory's north

Gaza's civil defence agency said Saturday more than 400 Palestinians were killed in the north of the territory over the past two weeks during an ongoing military assault Israel says is aimed at preventing Hamas militants from regrouping. The military lau

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Thousands protest in Spain's Canary Islands against mass tourism

Thousands of flag-waving demonstrators hit the streets across Spain's Canary Islands on Sunday to demand restrictions to the mass tourism they say is overwhelming their Atlantic archipelago. Rallying under the slogan "The Canary Islands have a limit", de

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Asia view: Vatican confirms renewal of contested accord with China

We delve into life in Asia in our weekly “Asia View” segment with our Beijing correspondent Yena Lee. She tells us more about a controversial deal between the Vatican and Beijing on the appointment of Chinese bishops.

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COP16 in Cali: UN biodiversity summit opens with call for 'significant' funding

The world's biggest nature protection conference opens in Colombia Monday with the United Nations chief calling for countries to "convert words into action" and fatten a fund seeking to address biodiversity loss. On the eve of the official start of the c

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Trial opens over mining giant BHP's liability in 2015 Mariana dam disaster

A long-awaited civil trial related to one of Brazil's worst environmental disasters, the 2015 Mariana dam collapse, is getting underway in London. More than 620,000 people, including relatives of 19 people killed in toxic mud, are having their cases hear

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Fears rise over Lebanon's growing displacement crisis

As the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah continues, fears are rising over the burgeoning humanitarian crisis in Lebanon, where the government says more than a million people have been displaced by violence. With state institutions unable to cope, cha

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Trump hands out french fries in Pennsylvania, Harris visits Georgia churches in swing-state appeals

With the US presidential election just over two weeks away, Democrat Kamala Harris visited two churches on Sunday while her Republican rival, Donald Trump, visited another kind of American temple: a McDonald's, where he again accused Harris of lying abou

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Crunch time for conserving nature's treasures as COP16 biodiversity summit kicks off

PRESS REVIEW – October 21: Financing conservation in the embattled Amazon rainforest is at the heart of the COP16 biodiversity summit in Colombia. In other news, Donald Trump vies for votes in the swing state of Pennsylvania by lauding golfer Arnold Palm

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'Bad news': Reactions from Brussels as Moldova EU referendum hangs in the balance

A referendum on Moldova joining the EU hung in the balance early Monday with almost all votes counted, as President Maia Sandu blamed an "unprecedented assault on our country's freedom and democracy" in a vote marred by fears of Russian meddling amid the

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Hopes of Gaza ceasefire talks following Sinwar's death dim as Israel intensifies campaign

Israeli forces blew up homes and besieged schools and shelters for displaced people on Monday as they deepened their operations in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip, residents and medics said. Israel has intensified its campaigns both in Gaza and Lebano

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Israel targets Hezbollah's financial arm and begins striking Beirut

Israel's military announced Sunday it is now taking aim at the Lebanon-based Hezbollah's financial arm and will attack a “large number of targets” in Beirut and elsewhere. Explosions began in Beirut's southern suburbs about an hour later. Evacuation warn

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Seoul summons Moscow envoy to demand withdrawal of North Korean troops from Russia

South Korea's Vice foreign minister Kim Hong-kyun Kim told the Russian ambassador to South Korea, Georgiy Zinoviev, that the deployment of North Korean troops and weapons for Russia's war in Ukraine “poses a significant security threat" to South Korea an

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Israel bombs Hezbollah-linked finance group in Lebanon

FRANCE 24's correspondent in Beirut Rawad Taha reports on overnight Israeli air strikes that particularly targeted branches of the Hezbollah financial institution Al-Qard Al-Hassan in the cities of Nabatiyeh and Tyre, according to the official National

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Sanofi pursues sale of France's leading painkiller to US investment fund after controversy

French pharmaceutical company Sanofi confirmed on Monday its plans to sell a controlling stake in its consumer health unit Opella to a US investment fund, after providing the French government with guarantees on maintaining jobs and production within Fra

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Trump heads to hurricane-hit N. Carolina, Harris to rally in key swing states

Former US president Donald Trump headed to hurricane-ravaged North Carolina on Monday after heavily criticising the government's disaster response in the battleground state. Meanwhile, Vice President Kamala Harris is hitting the key swing states of Michi

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Turkish cleric, longtime Erdogan rival Fethullah Gulen dies in US aged 83

Turkish Muslim preacher Fethullah Gulen has died in the United States, where he lived since 1999. Gulen was a one-time ally of Turkey’s powerful leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan but they fell out badly, and Erdogan accused him of being behind an attempt to se

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Moldova voters narrowly approve referendum on joining the EU

A knife-edge majority of 50.39% of Moldovans voted “yes” in the country's pivotal referendum on joining the European Union, electoral authorities said on Monday, after pro-EU President Maia Sandu said Sunday’s vote had been marred by “unprecedented” fore

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UN COP16 biodiversity summit kicks off in Colombia with funding push

The world's largest nature protection conference opened in Colombia Monday. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called for urgent action and investment in the Global Biodiversity Framework Fund (GBFF) established last year. He urged countries to increa

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Israel strikes south Beirut after evacuation warnings

The Israeli military launched strikes on southern Beirut shortly after urging residents to evacuate on Monday. Meanwhile, Syria's defence ministry reported that an Israeli strike killed two civilians in Damascus on Monday, targeting a vehicle. Read our b

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Electricity restored to half of Havana following nationwide blackout, Cuba state media says

Half of Havana's residents have had their electricity restored, four days after a nationwide blackout left most of Cuba without power, the city's energy company announced on Monday.

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Tens of thousands of pro-EU supporters rally in Georgia ahead of key vote

Tens of thousands of pro-EU demonstrators staged a rally in Tbilisi, Georgia on Sunday, a week before parliamentary elections that will decide the country's future path in Europe. Brussels froze Georgia's EU accession process earlier this year after the

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France's Macron will make a three-day state visit to Morocco, palace says

French President Emmanuel Macron will embark on a three-day state visit to Morocco from October 28, the Moroccan royal palace announced Monday, marking a step towards easing three years of strained relations between the two nations.

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Biden unveils plan expanding access to contraceptive products

The White House on Monday proposed to expand access to free contraceptive products for 52 million women of reproductive age in the United States with private health insurance, the White House said. Kamala Harris has made the issue of women’s health care

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France grapples with male violence against women

Saturday, October 19: This week, Erin Ogunkeye is joined by Women for Women France CEO Sarah McGrath to talk about several different stories involving violence against or accusations of violence against women. Dozens of local officials are demanding the

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Sunday, october 20, 2024

Harris marks birthday at Georgia churches while Trump courts voters at McDonald's

Kamala Harris celebrated her 60th birthday campaigning in Georgia, joined by Stevie Wonder, while Donald Trump appealed to blue-collar voters in Pennsylvania. Harris urged compassion and focus on families, contrasting her message with opponents sowing di

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Tens of thousands of pro-EU supporters rally in Georgia ahead of key vote

Tens of thousands of pro-EU demonstrators staged a rally in Tbilisi, Georgia on Sunday, a week before parliamentary elections that will decide the country's future path in Europe. Brussels froze Georgia's EU accession process earlier this year after the

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French football league condemns homophobic chants during PSG match

The French football league (LFP) has condemned homophobic chanting by a section of PSG fans during a home game on Saturday against Strasbourg. The slurs were directed against the Marseille club and its midfielder Adrien Rabiot, a former PSG player whose

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At least 87 killed or missing after Israeli strikes on north Gaza, Palestinian officials say

At least 87 people were killed or remain missing after Israeli strikes on northern Gaza overnight and on Sunday, according to the Hamas-run health ministry, which said that an additional 40 people were wounded in strikes on Beit Lahiya. The Israeli milit

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COP16: What’s at stake at the UN biodiversity conference

The UN's 16th annual conference on biodiversity – COP16 – kicks off Monday in Colombia with the world's pledges to halt humankind's destruction of nature put to the test. Building on pledges made at last year's conference, the near 200 participating coun

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