A statue of a Spanish conquistador overlooking the Colombian city of Popayán has been torn down by members of indigenous groups in the latest case of a monument to a historical figure with links to racism or colonialism...
Yemen conflict: Huthi rebels and govt troops clash in Marib
Two senior UN officials on Tuesday voiced concerns about the worsening situation in war-wracked Yemen, particularly in the northern Marib region, and said that violations of the ceasefire reached in December 2018 had...
Emirati Ministry of Foreign Affairs: ‘We have never abandoned Palestinians”
Director of the Policy Planning Department at the United Arab Emirates Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Jamal Al-Mushrakh, spoke with FRANCE 24 in Dubaï, in the wake of his country’s signing of...
A look back at France’s Covid-19 lockdown, six months on
On March 17, 2020, the day after Emmanuel Macron’s famous address to the nation, lockdown measures to fight the spread of #Covid-19 came into force in France. Six months on, people remember the surprise and anguish they...
Coronavirus pandemic: Intensive care capacities in Marseille close to overload
While French health authorities reported new 9,784 confirmed coronavirus cases on Wednesday, the third-highest number of daily additional infections on record since the end of the winter, intensive care capacities in...
Who should decide how our girls dress?
The France 24 Debate’s panellists discuss the meaning of young girls’ empowerment in our hypersexualised society. They agree that education has its role to play for girls, as well as for boys, since there is...
WHO chief for Europe urges countries to keep up coronavirus quarantines
The World Health Organization’s European director warned national governments Thursday against reducing the quarantine period for people potentially exposed to the coronavirus, even as he acknowledged that COVID-19...