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🔴 #BREAKING - Emmanuel #Macron is elected to a second term as #French president on Sunday evening with 58.2% of the vote, according to an estimate from the Ipsos polling institute.
Follow our special coverage on : f24.my/8ZhG.t
Missiles strike residential areas in Azerbaijan after shelling of Armenia separatist capital f24.my/6z2c.t
#NotreDame: 'The roof has entirely collapsed, there are flames coming out the back of the cathedral as if it was a torch'
, Journalist at France 24, at the scene of the fire.
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On Tuesday, the Aerocene Pacha, the world’s first piloted fully ☀️ solar balloon, made its maiden flight in #Argentina 🇦🇷.
The project is the brainchild of , with backing from an unusual source: K-pop band 🎤
#BTS #solarpower #hotairballoon
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Argentina introduces 'millionaire's tax' to help pay for coronavirus f24.my/791p.t
Coronavirus death toll passes 7,000 as WHO urges world to 'test, test, test' f24.my/6IDb.t
WHO warns relaxing lockdowns could spur ‘deadly resurgence’ of coronavirus f24.my/6NCv.t
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🇳🇱 The #Netherlands woke up to a political earthquake Thursday after a farmers' protest party won key elections, throwing the government's environmental policies into doubt.
reports ⤵️
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🔴What does globally renowned Indian🇮🇳 mystic think about his title as a #guru🧘♂️?
FRANCE 24's speaks with #Sadhguru in an exclusive #interview, as he rides a motorcycle from Europe to India to raise awareness about soil degradation⤵️ #savesoil
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"What happened is really awful, and we can't let it go unchallenged"
🇫🇷 Thousands of people rallied in #Paris and other French cities on Sunday in a show of solidarity and defiance following the beheading of a teacher for showing pupils cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed
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🇮🇳 Caste discrimination is a prevalent problem in #India—even in schools among children.
Those belonging to the lowest caste experience the worst prejudice, sometimes even facing violence.
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"It can be linked directly to the shoddy way in which the post-#Brexit transition has been handled by this government," says our international affairs commentator about the #PetrolShortages in Britain
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#KashmirHour: #Pakistani PM Imran #Khan leads nationwide anti-#India protest over #Kashmir ⤵️
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#CatalanReferendum: "The Spanish government is violating fundamental rights"
- live from #Barcelona on
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A mother who received a uterus transplant from a dead donor gave birth to a healthy baby. The breakthrough operation, performed in September 2016 in Sao Paulo, #Brazil 🇧🇷, shows that such transplants are feasible and could help thousands of women… f24.my/4683.i
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🔴🇫🇷#Macron announces #mandatory #vaccination for "care staff in hospitals, those working in clinics, retirement homes, with the disabled, and all professionals/volunteers who work in contact with vulnerable people".
Those concerned will have until Sept 15 to get the jab⤵️
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🇭🇰 #HongKong hospital workers are on strike... not for higher salaries, or better working conditions, but to push the territory's leader #CarrieLam to shut the border with mainland #China to stop the #coronavirus from spreading further ⤵
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🇸🇳 In #Senegal, more than 10,00 protesters gathered in the capital Dakar Tuesday to back opposition leader Ousmane Sonko, the aspiring presidential candidate, who is now facing a libel case ⤵️
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🔴The French army has released images that it says show Russian mercenaries burying bodies near a military base in Mali
This was allegedly part of an attempt to frame French troops for leaving mass graves behind following the withdrawal of troops
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#NotreDameCathedral: 'Below me there are lots of people gathered singing Ave Maria, singing catholic hymns, trying to bring some kind of unity'
reporting live from the scene
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Donors have come together to help restore #NotreDame after the devastating fire.
Click here for more information ➡ f24.my/4kbN.t
🇮🇳 In #India, a conspiracy theory known as "#LoveJihad" is being perpetuated by Hindu nationalist groups who claim Muslims are orchestrating a takeover by seducing and converting Hindu women.
FRANCE 24's from the team with more 👇
Arrest of four students under new Hong Kong security law provokes public outrage f24.my/6jFb.t
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Gospel choir sings a touching version of "Stand by Me" during #royalwedding 💍🤵👰🔔 #MeghanMarkle #PrinceHarry #HarryandMeghan
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Ghana's president says one person infected 533 with Covid-19 at fish factory f24.my/6T0t.t
Nigeria police 'kill' protesters in Lagos after curfew imposed f24.my/6zif.t
#HongKong police are under fire after officers tackled and then pinned a 12-year-old girl down during a pro-democracy protest over the weekend.
According to the girl's family, she was buying art supplies 🖌️🎨 when she was caught in a protest crowd
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#Macron on #NotreDame: 'I say to you very solemnly this evening, this cathedral will be rebuilt... it is part of our destiny in France and our project for years to come'
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Armenian president: 'Turkey has a completely destructive role in Nagorno-Karabakh' f24.my/6zNg.t
Rights groups accuse Ethiopian forces of committing war crimes in Tigray f24.my/8Wiv.t
"My dream is actually very simple, for the Chinese Communist Party to let go and give us back a free Hong Kong," said one activist
Protesters held a flash mob in the city's financial district Tuesday to mark the pro-democracy movement's 1 year anniversary
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Dozens arrested as Hong Kongers protest against proposed national security law f24.my/6d1C.t
Ethiopia: video of Tigray massacre lifts lid on 'war without photos' f24.my/7ShE.t
Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦: Authorities allow women over 21 to travel without the consent of a male guardian.
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🇫🇷 French President has just arrived in #Lebanon today as #France seeks to provide the country with urgent disaster aid.
Read more ➡️ f24.my/6kWT.t
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🔴 : "We will rebuild #NotreDame, even more beautiful than before, and I want the reconstruction to be accomplished in five years".
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▶️ Police arrest two Hong Kong pro-democracy legislators for alleged roles in 2019 protests f24.my/6oDz.t
#EXCLUSIVE - "The situation in #Gaza is most worrying. The images we've been seeing bring back very terrible memories of our own history and #Apartheid. So we can't but side with the #Palestinians."
Watch South African President Cyril #Ramaphosa's interview on ⤵️
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For the past eight months in 🇪🇹 #Ethiopia's northern Tigray region, the country's federal army has been battling the Tigray People's Liberation Front
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Son of Colombian President Gustavo Petro arrested on money laundering charges
➡️ go.france24.com/2Ba
🔴 #EXCLUSIVE - "#Uganda is still under the tight grip of a military dictatorship under General #Museveni."
Ugandan opposition leader Bobi Wine gave an exclusive interview to on . Catch it on our website ⤵️
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#NotreDame: 'It goes beyond religion, it goes beyong art... it has taken the weight of being a national symbol'
Jean-Louis Cohen, architectural historian.
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Thousands in Paris protest racial injustice as George Floyd killing resonates beyond US f24.my/6Xhy.t
"I don't think either man comes out of it victorious"
Our international affairs editor Philip Turle gives us his take on the first US presidential debate
#Debates2020
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"It was very hard to hear the two men at several points in this debate. [...] Overall it was really a fight between the two"
🇺🇸 and have more on how the first presidential debate between President Trump and Democratic candidate Joe Biden unfolded ⤵️
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Five Hong Kong democracy protesters arrive in US to seek asylum f24.my/7Gbx.t
🔴 "I know exactly what happened"
The former Prime Minister of #Pakistan 🇵🇰 Imran Khan told 's that he is convinced that the recent attack on him was an assassination plot hatched by the Prime Minister, the Interior Minister and a senior intelligence officer
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🔴 The #US 🇺🇲 froze foreign-held assets of 🇷🇺 President Vladimir Putin and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov Friday.
The new round of sanction also included a travel ban, as our #WashingtonDC correspondent explains ⤵️
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‘We are all Samuel’: Thousands gather in Paris to pay respects to murdered teacher f24.my/6zEZ.t
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🇺🇦🎤"#Russia wants to crush us, to erase us, but we are still standing. We are resisting, the whole world is helping us."
#Ukrainian President Volodymyr #Zelensky addressed his nation on Thursday in a taped message⤵️
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🇺🇬👁️🗨️ Why we've got our this week:
Ugandan opposition politician says he's inspired by the "people power" that has ousted dictators from several African countries as he considers running for the 2021 presidential elections.
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#BREAKING - #Fire breaks out at Paris Cathedral #NotreDame.
Watch our special edition #LIVE. twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1
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#NotreDameFire: 'A lot of the relics and treasures have been saved, one of the priorities when the fire broke out... was to try and retrieve and save what could be taken out.'
, journalist for
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Citing Covid-19, Hong Kong postpones elections to 2021 f24.my/6jW5.t
🔴EXCLUSIVE: On the run in Hong Kong, Edward Snowden was sheltered by a group of refugees.
France 24 met with Snowden's "guardian angels", who today find themselves in danger.
Watch the program in full on THE REPORTERS f24.my/5U22.t
#security #whistleblower #refugee
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#NotreDameFire: 'They are now saying the structure of Notre Dame has been saved'
@cntrentF24, senior reporter for
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Russia opens criminal probe into ally of poisoned Kremlin foe Navalny f24.my/7Cq3.t
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Keeping Hong Kong’s pro-democracy movement alive with mooncakes, milk tea and taxis f24.my/6uJX.t
Top Hong Kong court upholds emergency law to ban face masks at protests f24.my/7C7R.t
🔴🇮🇳 Philosopher and author Divya Dwivedi says there are two Indias:
➖ Past India of racialized caste order oppressing the majority population.
➖ The idea of a future egalitarian India without caste oppression and Hinduism.
Watch her analysis here on the 👇
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🇫🇷 A Black man beaten up by several French police officers for no apparent reason said he is seeking justice after a video of the incident shocked people across the country.
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#EXCLUSIVE - "The way [the Israëli] have been unleashing terror, one could quite easily characterise it as an #Apartheid type of state"
Watch South African President Cyril #Ramaphosa's interview on ⤵️
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#NotreDameFire: #Paris inhabitants and worshipers pay tribute to #NotreDame cathedral, singing religious songs and gospels. Video by for #SaintMichel
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Meet , a group created by four friends to expose what they call the "forgotten lies" of politicians over #Brexit. Their not-so-secret weapon: billboards! 🇬🇧🇪🇺
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🇦🇲 "#Armenia, and the Armenian people will back the people of #NagornoKarabakh. We cannot leave them undefended."
Watch the full interview with Armenian Prime Minister ⤵️
f24.my/6w6A.t
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Five Hong Kong democracy protesters arrive in US to seek asylum
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▶️ Ethiopia's Tigray conflict: Tigrayan diaspora denounces 'genocide' as crisis worsens f24.my/8A3k.t
👨🚀🇫🇷 We followed Thomas Pesquet's adventures on the International Space Station for 6 months, and now, the celebrated French astronaut is on for an exclusive interview.
He talks about his passion for space, his dreams, and a comeback on ISS! 🚀🌜
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🇵🇰 "Once the rain finally stopped, it left a hundred-kilometre lake in the middle of my country, that could be seen from space"
#Pakistan's FM tells that the floods that ravaged his country has created a catastrophe of apocalyptical proportions
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🔔 A newly revealed database exposes in extraordinary detail the main reasons for the detentions of hundreds of #Uighurs in the #Xinjiang region of #China 🇨🇳
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