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Sweden is reportedly probing a Russian Orthodox church in the town of Västerås over possible hybrid warfare techniques, a new investigation shows.

Plus, General Motors infuses $4 billion into U.S. production, and Volkswagen considers a smaller electric van after the ID. Buzz.

Day after day, the Cold War-style yet bizarre campaigns continue at the heavily fortified border between North and South Korea – from mammoth South Korean loudspeakers blaring BTS music; to large North Korean balloons carrying manure, cigarette butts and waste batteries; to small South Korean civilian leaflets slamming North Korean…

Support for France's main far-right party, the National Rally, has been climbing steadily in the past two decades, despite the long tradition of mainstream parties uniting to defeat it at the polls. But this tradition may not materialise for the upcoming elections, warns Ariane Bogain, a senior lecturer in French…

Lawyers for a death row inmate in the US state of Alabama say his execution could happen any day, even though they believe he was wrongfully convicted. Rocky Myers, who has an intellectual disability, is a Black man who was convicted by an overwhelmingly White jury of the murder of…

Israel says it will soon decide whether to launch an offensive in Lebanon, where it has clashed with the Iran-backed group Hezbollah for months. Steven A. Cook, a senior fellow for Middle East Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, tells FRANCE 24's Monte Francis that Hezbollah's large stores of…

India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi is expected to win a record-equalling third consecutive term in office on Tuesday when the 642 million votes cast in the world's largest election are counted. Ashley J. Tellis, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, tells FRANCE 24's Mark Owen that…

Campaigning to be Mexico's next president reached a climax on Wednesday with two women leading the race for the first time in the violence-plagued Latin American nation. Gema Kloppe-Santamaria, Associate Professor of Latin American History and International Affairs at George Washington University and Global Fellow at the Wilson Center, speaks…

After an Israeli strike on a Rafah camp kills at least 45 people, Dr H.A. Hellyer, Senior Associate Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute, tells FRANCE 24's Mark Owen that Joe Biden's red line on Rafah 'has been crossed multiple times to the point that it's rather pointless to…