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Kremlin denies report of Trump, Putin private phone call after Ukraine invasion

Former US president Donald Trump secretly sent Covid tests to Vladimir Putin in 2020 when he was in the White House and spoke multiple times to the Russian president after leaving office, an explosive new book by US journalist Bob Woodward reveals. The Kremlin on Wednesday denied reports in the…

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Biden urges Netanyahu to minimise civilian harm in Lebanon

US President Joe Biden urged Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to minimise harm to civilians in Lebanon, especially in the populated areas of Beirut, while reiterating support to target Iran-backed Lebanese Hezbollah militants, the White House said after their call. The plea came after Israel’s Defence Minister Yoav Gallant said…

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Residents evacuate as Florida braces for the arrival of Hurricane Milton

Two weeks after Hurricane Helene stormed through the southeast of the United States, Floridians on Wednesday rushed to secure their homes and leave as incoming Hurricane Milton was labelled a Category 4 storm, with the potential to dramatically exceed Helene's "storm surge".

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Sean 'Diddy' Combs scandal: What's true, what's fake

Did Justin Bieber release a P. Diddy song? Are there underground tunnels in P. Diddy’s home? What about a resurfaced photo purporting to show Kamala Harris with the disgraced music mogul? Has a list of accomplices been revealed? We debunk the major fake news surrounding the Sean "Diddy" Combs scandal,…

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Trade tensions rise as EU, China impose tariffs

Global trade tensions are heating up, as China announces new tariffs on imports of European brandy. The move follows the EU decision to raise tariffs on Chinese-made electric vehicles, following similar moves by the US and Canada. Greta Peisch, a partner at Wiley Rein LLP and former General Counsel for…

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Kenyan MPs vote to impeach Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua

Kenya's National Assembly has voted to impeach Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua. Some 281 MPs voted for the motion, with 44 voting against. Having fallen out of favour over the past year, Gachagua was criticised by both the opposition and deputies aligned with President William Ruto. Meanwhile, the civil war may…

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Escalation to what ends? Israel further widens war beyond Gaza

When does escalation morph into overreach? On October 8, the one-year anniversary of the first Hezbollah rockets fired on Israel, the IDF is announcing the killing of another top-ranking Hezbollah commander – the heir apparent to Hassan Nasrallah – and the deployment of a fourth division to southern Lebanon.

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‘Radicalised by crime’: Teen hitmen take Marseille’s grisly drug violence to new level

Successive murders in France’s second-largest city have cast a grim light on the growing use of teenage contract killers by rival drug lords in Marseille, the subject of a new book by a trio of French journalists that explores an alarming development in the port city’s deadly drug wars.

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'The Apprentice': Film about Donald Trump released a month before US election

There have been documentaries, television programmes and "Saturday Night Live" comedy sketches, but this is the first film about one of the most divisive men of our times. "The Apprentice" tells of how Donald Trump rose to fame and power in 1980s New York before he became president of the…

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One year of humanitarian crisis in Gaza: 'Warnings are going unheeded,' UNICEF says

Gaza has become "a much darker reality than anyone ever thought possible". That's the description from a spokesman for the United Nations Children's Fund, UNICEF. James Elder, who was in Gaza himself last week, told us how the people of the enclave are now able to live on just 15…

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France bars Osama bin Laden’s son from returning ‘for any reason’

France is barring Osama bin Laden’s son, Omar, from returning to the country “for any reason whatsoever”, the French interior minister said on Tuesday. Omar lived in France with his British wife for several years, working as an artist in Normandy. He was ordered to leave the country last year…

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Ethiopia's coffee and cut flower producers struggle to adhere to new EU regulations

Ethiopia's coffee and cut flower industries are grappling with significant challenges due to new EU regulations. From January 2025, producers must comply with the bloc's Due Diligence Act, which mandates strict environmental standards for exporting to Europe. Millions of small-scale coffee farmers will need to demonstrate that their land is…

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Nobel Prize in physics awarded to John Hopfield, Geoffrey Hinton for machine learning discoveries

The Nobel Prize in physics was on Tuesday awarded to John Hopfield of Princeton University and Geoffrey Hinton of the University of Toronto for their “foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks”.

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China's plan to boost economy underwhelms markets

China's economic planners held a highly anticipated press conference this Tuesday to announce new measures that could boost the country's lagging consumer demand. But the measures fell short of expectations for investors on the stock market, who were expecting major stimulus instead. Also in this edition: Samsung apologises for missing…

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France’s new govt relies on far-right support as it faces no-confidence vote

France’s new government, led by conservative Prime Minister Michel Barnier, will have to lean on the support of the far right as it faces a no-confidence vote in parliament on Tuesday. The motion was called by left-wing alliance New Popular Front, which won the most votes in the June-July parliamentary…

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At least seven dead in Israeli strike on residential building in Damascus

Seven civilians were killed in an Israeli air strike in Damascus on Tuesday, the Syrian government said, with a UK-based war monitor saying the strike had targeted a building used by Iran's Revolutionary Guards and Lebanon's Hezbollah. Syria's defence ministry said women and children were among the dead in the…

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Storm-weary Florida prepares for 'extremely serious' Hurricane Milton

Less than two weeks after being hit by Hurricane Helene, Florida is preparing for a direct hit by Hurricane Milton. According to forecasters, this could be the worst storm to hit the Tampa area in over a century.

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'The mindset in Israel is still one of devastation, agony and shock,' foreign policy adviser says

Israelis held somber ceremonies on Monday to mark a year since the deadliest terrorist attack in the country's history, a Hamas-led raid that shattered its sense of security and has since spiralled into wars on several fronts with no end in sight. FRANCE 24's Sharon Gaffney speaks to Alon Pinkas,…

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Israel-Hamas war: Looking back at one year of misinformation

Did Israeli soldiers fire on their own civilians at the Supernova music festival on October 7? Were 40 babies beheaded? Were Hamas atrocity photos generated using artificial intelligence? Did Palestinians stage their own suffering? We debunk the major fake claims that have shaped the misinformation war between Israel and Hamas…

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Rwanda starts vaccine trials for Marburg virus as death toll climbs

In Rwanda, the Marburg virus has already killed 12 people in two weeks. The country has started distributing 700 doses of a vaccine that's still in the testing phase. This is the first time it will be deployed during an outbreak in Africa. Meanwhile, more than 17 million people in…

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Grim anniversary, forever war? October 7 and the future of the Middle East

It was an unspeakable terror attack that succeeded: succeeded in shock value, succeeded in triggering a massive overreaction that has appalled the planet, succeeded in stoking an escalation that's drawn in the whole region. Fortunately, not everyone is hell-bent on an all-out clash of civilisations in the Middle East.

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‘Once the fighting gets intense, it's almost impossible to do peacebuilding’

Monday marks one year since the Hamas-led series of attacks on Israel and the beginning of Israel’s retaliatory war in Gaza, which has unfolded along with a rise in settler attacks in the occupied West Bank. The spiralling violence has spurred renewed calls for a two-state solution. FRANCE 24 spoke…

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Europe's Hera spacecraft blasts off to investigate asteroid already rammed by NASA

The European Space Agency's Hera spacecraft set off on Monday on its two-year journey towards a small asteroid already rammed by NASA to test whether potentially planet-threatening asteroids can be bumped off course by a well-timed launch.

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Music show: Cassius on three decades of the French Touch

Hubert Blanc-Francard, aka Boombass, is one half of one of France's coolest music exports: Cassius. In the wake of acts such as Daft Punk and Air, they conquered dancefloors and charts across the world as part of the French Touch movement, before reinventing themselves a decade later while producing albums…

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'An ongoing nightmare': Cousin of slain Israeli hostage recounts months of anguish

The cousin of a slain Israeli hostage has spoken to FRANCE 24 about how Israel should have put her life and the lives of the other hostages at the top of the agenda right from the start. Gil Dickmann says the Israeli government did not do that, and as result…

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