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When he was elected president of the Philippines in 2022, Ferdinand Marcos Jr vowed to legalise divorce. The Catholic nation is the only country in the world, along with the Vatican, to ban it. Yet two years on, legislation has still not been passed. That could happen by the end of next year, now that […]

Football is an intrinsic part of life in certain parts of Ukraine. On mornings when there are no air raids, kids play football outside the Kharkiv Metalist stadium. A group national of national guardsmen in Kharkiv recently gathered to watch Ukraine play against Slovakia at Euro 2024. Ukraine’s victory in the match drew a more

On May 24, a landslide devastated a whole village in one of the poorest regions of Papua New Guinea, a country north of Australia that’s home to 10 million inhabitants. According to the UN, 670 people were killed but very few bodies have been found so far. A week after the disaster, our Asia correspondent Constantin

The conflict in Sudan between the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, which broke out on April 15, 2023, has caused the world’s largest humanitarian crisis and the displacement of over 9 million people. More than 650,000 of them have now fled to neighbouring South Sudan. These survivors have escaped atrocities, only to reach

The United Nations said on Tuesday it has been unable to distribute aid in the Gaza Strip from the Israel-controlled Kerem Shalom crossing because of lawlessness and panic among hungry people in the area, despite Israel’s daytime pause in military activity. Israel’s military said on Sunday there would be a daily pause in its attacks from 0500

Forest fires in Canada have never been quite so destructive. Some 15 million hectares – the equivalent of more than a quarter of mainland France – have already gone up in flames. Canada is warming faster than the world as a whole and 2023, the world’s hottest year on record, was inevitably challenging. Firefighters, rescue

Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba granted an interview to FRANCE 24 on the sidelines of the G7 summit in Italy, where Ukraine and the US are signing a ten-year bilateral security agreement. Kuleba called the deal a “landmark event”, noting that it’s the first of its kind between the two countries since Ukraine gained independence in 1991. Kuleba

Yemen’s Houthi rebels late on Wednesday attacked a commercial ship in the Red Sea with a “drone boat”, authorities said, the latest escalation despite a US-led campaign trying to protect the vital waterway. A senior Hamas leader insisted that the amendments the group has suggested for a Gaza ceasefire proposal presented by the United States

FRANCE 24 spoke to Dennis Ross, a former US Middle East chief negotiator, who is now a fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. The ex-US envoy said he believes that “Israel is pretty close to completing the dismantling of Hamas as a military”, which is “back to being a militia and engaging

French President Emmanuel Macron will on Wednesday face scrutiny in a televised press conference to explain his decision to dissolve the lower house of parliament and call for snap elections after his centre-right alliance suffered a humiliating defeat to the far right in European parliamentary elections on Sunday. During his exchange with journalists, Macron is