Amid worsening conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan, the UN Security Council is expected to call for an immediate ceasefire and negotiations to restart. The secretary-general has expressed grave concerns over the...
Fears Nagorno-Karabakh conflict a threat to regional stability
Concerns are growing regional heavyweights will be drawn into the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh. Russia has a defence pact with Armenia, and Turkey has openly backed Azerbaijan. According to Armenia, Ankara is also...
Analysis: lasting peace elusive in Nagorna-Karabakh conflict
The UN Security Council was scheduled to meet Tuesday for emergency talks on the military escalation in Nagorno-Karabakh. Intense fighting in recent days has caused nearly 100 confirmed deaths. FRANCE 24’s international...
Macron vows to support Belarus people in talks with exiled opposition leader
French President Emmanuel Macron was in Lithuania Tuesday, in talks with exiled Belarusian opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya in a bid to resolve the country’s political crisis. The meeting was...
Mass death of elephants in Botswana: climate change is a ‘threat amplifier’
Climate change is a “threat amplifier”. It takes tough scenarios and makes them more likely to happen and more frequent. That’s the view of passionate biologist and activist Niall McCann, who says the...
Trump and Biden to outline competing visions in first debate
Donald Trump and Joe Biden go head to head Tuesday in the first debate of the US presidential campaign, in Cleveland Ohio. The president and former vice president will seek to outline their very different visions of the...
French telcos bid on rights to 5G network
French telecommunications operators are bidding for the rights to 5G networks, which promises download speeds up to 10 times faster than 4G, even while the technology’s impact on health and the environment is not yet...