"What is happening in Gaza will go down as the most documented genocide in history.” Riyad Mansour, Palestinian Ambassador to the UN, called out the open nature of Israel’s crimes on Gaza, at the UN Security...
France’s new parliament meets for first session • FRANCE 24 English
France’s new National Assembly is set to meet for the first time Thursday (July 17) following snap legislative elections which have split the lower house in three political blocs. Parliamentarians must elect a new...
Libya fights climate change with a tree planting initiative
A town in Libya is doing its utmost to combat the effects of climate change. Rahul Radhakrishnan reports on the city of Zliten, where residents are planting one million olive trees to change the desert landscape, and to...
Wildfires burn 700,000 hectares of Pantanal wetland | DW News
Stretching between Brazil, Bolivia and Paraguay, the Pantanal is the world’s biggest tropical wetland. So far this year at least 700,000 hectares of it have burned. A major factor is the continuing drought that...
White House: Biden experiencing mild COVID-19 symptoms
US President Joe Biden has contracted COVID-19 another twist in a roller-coaster of a presidential campaign. The White House says Biden’s symptoms are mild, and that he’ll spend some time at his home in...
Donald Trump VP pick JD Vance vows to fight for ‘forgotten’ Americans | BBC News
Donald Trump’s vice-presidential pick JD Vance has vowed to fight for working-class Americans that he argued had been “cast aside and forgotten” by the Democrats. He argued in his address at the Republican National...
Live: Von der Leyen speech and debate ahead of reelection vote at the European Parliament | DW News
Ursula von der Leyen won only half the battle when EU leaders endorsed her for a second term as president of the European Commission in June. Now, she still needs to win over a majority of the European...