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Biden touts benefits of Northern Ireland peace in Belfast speech

US President Joe Biden urged Northern Ireland's feuding political leaders to restore its power-sharing government as he touted the potential for investment and growth 25 years after the Good Friday Agreement, which ended decades of armed conflict. The US president of Irish descent faced heated criticism from pro-UK hardliners.

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After Trump's indictment: 'Americans in the middle are tired of crazy'

Reed Brody, a top US and international lawyer, tells FRANCE 24 he does not see Americans voting collectively for another four years of Donald Trump. After Trump last week became the first former US president to be indicted on criminal changes, Brody says the indictment – and other more serious…

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Fallout from Macron’s China visit ripples across Atlantic and Indo-Pacific

The fallout from French President Emmanuel Macron’s visit to China rippled across the seas on Tuesday as Chinese warships continued to operate near Taiwan, a day after military drills officially ended. Across the Atlantic, Macron’s remarks on Europe risking entanglement in "crises that aren't ours" in relation to Taiwan sparked…

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Russia plans electronic draft papers to mobilise new army conscripts

Russia’s lower house of parliament on Tuesday voted unanimously to introduce electronic mobilisation papers to make it harder for Russian men to avoid the draft. More than 300,000 are believed to have been called up since President Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine last year. The UN, meanwhile, says the confirmed civilian…

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Russian soldiers in occupied Melitopol are ‘panicking’, exiled mayor says

Ukraine’s armed forces are gearing up for a counter-offensive to take back territory currently occupied by Russia. But it is not just the military that is preparing – civilian administrations in exile are also making plans for their return. FRANCE 24’s correspondent Gulliver Cragg met with the exiled mayor of…

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Music show: Brandt Brauer Frick on creating club-like free spaces

Brandt Brauer Frick are a classically trained German trio who met through their love for clubbing. Over the last decade, their forward-thinking and genre-blending music has been performed in huge clubs such as Berlin's Berghain and alongside 100-piece orchestras. They popped by FRANCE 24 to talk about their new album…

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Russia and Ukraine swap more than 200 in prisoner exchange

Russia and Ukraine on Monday carried out a major prisoner swap, with 106 Russian prisoners of war being freed in exchange for 100 Ukrainians, both sides said. The exchange comes as the commander of Ukraine's ground forces said Russian troops had switched to "scorched earth" tactics in the embattled eastern…

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Funeral held for Israeli sisters killed in West Bank attack, mother dies from injuries

Sisters Maia and Rina Dee, who were British-Israeli citizens, were killed on Friday when their car was shot at by a suspected Palestinian gunman. Their mother, who was in the car with them and critically wounded, died on Monday.

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'No funding': Ivory Coast's autistic children lack treatment

Around 1% of the population in Ivory Coast could be affected by autism spectrum disorder (ASD), according to estimates from the World Health Organisation. ASD is an often taboo subject, however, and treatment is hard to come by as the country severely lacks the necessary medical resources to help patients.…

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‘In exchange for our own’: Ukrainians collect bodies of enemy soldiers for return to Russia

Last year, as Russia was forced out of areas of Ukraine it had occupied, thousands of Russian casualties were left behind. Since then small groups of Ukrainians, both military and civilian, have been trying to find and collect the bodies in order to send them back to Russia. FRANCE 24's…

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20 years after the fall of Saddam Hussein, Iraq's women are still not being heard

On April 9, 2003, Saddam Hussein's regime in Iraq collapsed, triggering a transition period. During this time, a new government was formed, institutions underwent significant changes and the balance of power between different factions of the population changed radically. This new regime represented an opportunity for women campaigning for gender…

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31 Ukrainian children returned from Russia, Save Ukraine charity says

Thirty-one children have been brought back to Ukraine after being illegally taken to Russia from territories occupied by Moscow, the Save Ukraine charity said on Saturday. In the eastern city of Kramatorsk, Ukrainians laid flowers at the central train station one year after a Russian missile strike killed scores of…

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France-China trade ties: 'There is a greater risk due to the current geopolitical climate'

Emmanuel Macron, accompanied by top French business executives, concluded his trip to China on Friday with a visit to the southern city of Canton, where he met with more Chinese investors. With trade talks on the agenda, several deals between companies from both countries have already been sealed during the…

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Truth or Fake 2023: image verification in the age of AI and video games

For France's Press and Media in Schools Week 2023, France 24’s Observers team, specialised in debunking misinformation, has produced a new annual edition of "Truth or Fake", a short programme giving tips on how to disentangle fact from fiction.

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French island of Martinique seeks to reduce reliance on food imports

The French Caribbean overseas department of Martinique has a large agricultural sector, with banana and sugar plantations stretching as far as the eye can see. But the island also relies heavily on food imports. This spells bad news for consumers, as most products cost around 10 percent more than in…

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Europol denies claim that cybercrime website Genesis Market is still online

The Europol law enforcement agency has told FRANCE 24 that the "whole infrastructure" of popular cybercrime website Genesis Market has been taken down by an international police consortium, after claims it was still active on the dark web. We take a closer look in this edition of Tech 24.

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Egyptian pharaoh Ramses the Great returns to Paris for blockbuster exhibition

As the "Ramses and the Gold of the Pharaohs" exhibition opens in Paris, we bring you a special show dedicated to the celebrated king who ruled the Egyptian empire over 3,000 years ago. The exhibition's centrepiece is the pharaoh's sarcophagus, which is on special loan to France. It's a gesture…

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Major exhibition in Paris showcases sarcophagus of Ramses II

A major exhibition opens in Paris on Friday that showcases some of the greatest treasures of Ancient Egypt. Called “Ramses and the Gold of the Pharaohs”, the exhibition at the Grande Halle de la Villette displays among other wonders the sarcophagus of Ramses II. FRANCE 24’s Eve Jackson reports.

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'Putin has decided to become the new Stalin': Exiled Russian dissident Vladimir Osechkin

Russian dissident Vladmir Osechkin spoke to FRANCE 24 from the French city of Biarritz, where he has been living in exile since 2015. The founder of Gulagu.net, an NGO that documents abuses in the Russian prison system, believes the Russian secret services "tried to organise his liquidation" in September 2022.…

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Looking back at Picasso's life and legacy

Few artists have left such an impact on their era. Pablo Picasso dominated the 20th century, bequeathing an iconic legacy to the history of painting, printing and sculpture. Fifty years after the Spanish artist's death, his influence still looms large. To mark that anniversary, FRANCE 24's Olivia Salazar-Winspear retraces his…

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The Abraham Accords: 'Palestinian leaders don’t realise that the region is changing'

Palestinian human rights lawyer and former diplomat Ghaith al-Omari, a prominent advocate of the two-state solution and negotiations with Israel, gave FRANCE 24 a lengthy interview on a recent visit to Paris. In this last of a three-part series, he discussed the Abraham Accords, which saw the normalisation of diplomatic…

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Macron’s favourite restaurant set on fire, participation dwindles in French pension protests

Protesters in Paris briefly set fire to President Emmanuel Macron’s favourite restaurant Thursday as hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets for an 11th day of demonstrations against the president’s deeply unpopular pension reform. Violence also flared in others French cities, including Rennes and Nantes, but overall protest…

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US pharma giant Johnson & Johnson seeks to settle baby powder case

US pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson has offered to pay almost $9 billion to settle tens of thousands of lawsuits alleging that its talcum powder caused ovarian cancer. If approved by a court in the US state of New Jersey, the payout would be one of largest liability settlements in…

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Russian cyber weapons 'could do a lot of damage' in the US: Former counterterrorism czar

In an interview with FRANCE 24 in New York, former US counterterrorism czar Richard Alan Clarke described the main threats facing the United States' cyberspace and warned that Russia's cyber weapons could potentially "do a lot of damage" in the US. To explain why this hasn't happened so far, he…

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Trump indictment: 'Cannot and will not normalise serious criminal conduct', prosecutor says

Former US president Donald Trump offered a full-throated defence of his conduct Tuesday in his first public remarks since being charged over hush money payments to a porn star, blasting the criminal prosecution as "an insult to our country". Trump hours earlier pleaded not guilty to 34 felony counts in…

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