At least 77 hospitalized and hundreds evacuated after a huge blaze tore through a 33-story apartment block in Ulsan, South Korea.
CrossTalk | Quarantine Edition | What Is Trumpism?
With Election Day looming, it is important to ask how Donald Trump changed the GOP, if at all. Is there such a thing as “Trumpism?” Do the political and establishment elites understand why he was elected in the first...
Moscow talks raise ceasefire hopes for Nagorno-Karabakh
Officials from Armenia and Azerbaijan were meeting in Moscow on Friday to thrash out a possible ceasefire, and exchanging prisoners and casualties, after nearly two weeks of fierce fighting in the Nagorno-Karabakh...
Louise Glück’s humour and universalism win over the Nobel Committee
American poet and essayist Louise Glück is this year’s winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. We take a look at the author’s signature themes of family, mythology and loss through her poem “The...
US kidnapping plot foiled by FBI
IN THE PAPERS – Friday, October 9, 2020: We start by taking a look at reactions in the French and African press to the release of French aid worker Sophie Pétronin and Malian opposition leader Soumaïla Cissé, who had...
Brexit deadline ‘will not be met’, Irish Foreign Minister Simon Coveney tells FRANCE 24
As formal Brexit negotiations wrap up, Ireland’s foreign minister is predicting that a deal will not be struck before the deadline laid out by British Prime Minister Boris Johnson. Simon Coveney tells FRANCE 24 he...