#Armenia and #Azerbaijan accused each other on Monday of attacking civilian areas on a ninth day of fighting, the deadliest in the South #Caucasus region for more than 25 years. FRANCE 24’s Gulliver Cragg tells us...
France’s Kerguelen archipelago, a maritime nature reserve teeming with life
Located 13,000 kilometres from the French mainland, in the middle of the Indian Ocean, the Kerguelen archipelago is home to a maritime nature reserve that has been listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site since 2019. On...
North Macedonia: Protecting the Sharr mountains | Global Ideas
The Sharr mountain range lies near what was once the Iron Curtain on a ribbon of land designated the European Green Belt. But over the past two decades, threats to this scenic wilderness – such as farming and...
Trial opens for suspect in failed 2015 Islamic State bombing of French church
A 29-year-old Algerian man went on trial in Paris on Monday, accused of killing a woman and trying to blow up a church near Paris, in a failed 2015 attack that investigators say was orchestrated by Islamic State...
‘A way to kill our economy’: Madrid starts partial virus lockdown amid political dispute
#Madrid awoke Saturday to its first day under a partial #lockdown, with police controlling travel in and out of the Spanish capital as the city and its suburbs have become Europe’s biggest hot spot in the second...
Nagorno-Karabakh conflict: International ceasefire calls ignored
#NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg called on Monday for a #ceasefire in Nagorno-#Karabakh as the death toll continued to rise from clashes in the breakaway enclave in the South #Caucasus. FRANCE 24’s Chief...
Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine: What the experts say | COVID-19 Special
In August, Russia declared itself the first country to approve a coronavirus vaccine: Sputnik V. High-risk groups have been receiving the Sputnik V jabs – health workers, journalists and teachers. Russia calls it...