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Staff at France's EDF question involvement in futuristic Saudi city

Some employees of French energy giant EDF want the company to reconsider its involvement in a hydro-electric plant in the Saudi desert that would power Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's futuristic megacity Neom, following concerns over the project's sustainability and alleged human rights abuses.

Radio France Internationale · Apr 8, 2024

Israeli military preparing ‘unrelenting attacks’ – as it happened

This blog has now closed. You can follow the Guardian’s new live news blog on the Israel-Hamas conflict here

The Guardian - AU · Oct 23, 2023

French TV station fires journalist over unauthorised broadcasts

French news channel BFMTV said on Thursday it had fired a senior TV presenter and filed a criminal complaint after media reports one of its anchors had broadcast disinformation.

Reuters · Feb 23, 2023

How undercover reporters caught ‘Team Jorge’ disinformation operatives on camera

For more than six months, undercover reporters posed as consultants working on behalf of a businessman who wanted to delay an African election

The Guardian - US · Feb 15, 2023

Total's contested oil projects in Africa: The case of Uganda and Tanzania

In the Lake Albert region, in northwestern Uganda, TotalEnergies plans to extract large quantities of oil buried deep in the ground. Work has already started. Backhoe loaders are digging the soil across the savannah. At the top of the embankments of red earth designed to diminish the noise of machines,…

Radio France Internationale · Feb 1, 2023

What exactly does that Paris Olympic mascot look like? The French have decided – and it is not a cheery hat

The joyfully bizarre – and saucy – phryges have got even me excited about a month of sport, writes Guardian columnist Emma Beddington

The Guardian - UK · Nov 20, 2022