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...
World Food Programme trumps Thunberg to win 2020 Peace Prize
The United Nations World Food Programme has won the Nobel Peace Prize for its efforts to end world hunger. The organisation has helped 97 million people in 88 countries over the last year alone. Contenders for the prize...
Kyrgyzstan president ready to resign once new cabinet appointed
Kyrgyz President Sooronbay Jeenbekov is ready to resign in a bid to end post-vote chaos enveloping the Central Asian country, he said in an address published Friday on his website. A disputed parliamentary vote has...