France estimates that 150,000 Russian soldiers have been killed during Moscow's invasion of Ukraine, Foreign Minister Stphane Sjourn said in an interview published on Friday.

Hundreds protested outside the US embassy in Burkina Faso's capital Ouagadougou on Friday, against Washington's reaction to Human Rights Watch accusations of an army massacre of civilians, an AFP journalist saw.

Nepal's Supreme Court has ordered the government to limit the number of mountaineering permits issued for Everest and other peaks, a lawyer confirmed Friday, just as expeditions prepare for the spring climbing season.

Six decades after the military coup that plunged Brazil into 21 years of dictatorship, the country is still struggling with its old demons. FRANCE 24s team went to meet deeply divided Brazilians Bolsonaro supporters who are nostalgic for the dictatorship and survivors and left-wingers who want to make sure that this dark period of history is not forgotten.

A Saudi court has recently sentenced women's rights activist Manahel al-Otaibi to 11 years in prison in a "secret hearing", according to two human rights groups who denounced the ruling as contradictory to the kingdoms narrative of reform and womens empowerment.

The Latin American nation of Ecuador has been experiencing an unprecedented security crisis for several months. In the port city of Guayaquil, now under the control of drug gangs, residents are living in fear.

Germany's top diplomat on Friday said Russia will face consequences after accusing its military intelligence service of masterminding an absolutely intolerable cyberattack, as NATO and European Union member countries said they will not let Russias malicious" behavior in cyberspace go unanswered.

More than six months after the start of Israel's devastating offensive in response to the October 7attacks, Palestinian journalists in Gaza continue to pay a heavy price. According to the NGO Reporters Without Borders(RSF), more than 100have been killed, with at least 20slain in the line of duty. Meanwhile, the international press is still banned from ...

Police entered Paris' Sciences Po university on Friday to remove dozens of students staging a pro-Gaza sit-in in the entrance hall, AFP journalists saw, as protests fire political debate about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

China on Friday launched an uncrewed spacecraft on a nearly two-month mission to retrieve rocks and soil from the far side of the moon, the first country to make such an ambitious attempt.

Having long battled the creeping use of English in advertising, music and film, French MPs have declared a new struggle: keeping their home Olympics this year free from anglicisms.

As voters in more than 80 constituencies were casting their ballots on April 26 in the second phase of Indias mammoth general election, the countrys Supreme Court issued a critical ruling on the electoral voting system. Rejecting a petition filed by an NGO, the court ruled that India needs to nurture a "culture of trust" in e-voting. But the lack of trust ...

Britain's ruling Conservatives lost a parliamentary seat to the main Labour opposition Friday, as the country awaited local election results likely to pile more pressure on embattled leader Rishi Sunak.

Taiwan's defence ministry said Friday it had detected 26 Chinese aircraft and five naval vessels around the self-ruled island in the previous 24 hours.

Georgia has been engulfed by huge protests triggered by a proposed law that critics see as a threat to media freedom and the countrys aspirations to join the European Union.

Police forcibly removed scores of defiant pro-Palestinian protesters at several universities on Thursday, including taking down an encampment at the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) in a jarring scene that underscored the heightened chaos that has erupted at universities this week.

Normalization between Saudi Arabia and Israel is still uncertain amidst the continuing war in Gaza, even as the US nears reaching a deal with the Kingdom, which includes providing it with security guarantees and civilian nuclear assistance. Meanwhile, more arrests are made at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) as police forcibly removes the ...

UNESCO on Thursday awarded its world press freedom prize to all Palestinian journalists covering the war in Gaza, where Israel has been battling Hamas for more than six months.

Marseille's Europa League semi-final tie against Atalanta is finely poised going into the return after the teams drew 1-1 in Thursday's first leg in France.

Student protests against Israel have entered their second week in France. A town hall event Thursday at the prestigious Sciences Po university in Paris ended with the administration refusing to create a working group to investigate ties with Israeli universities, which students across France want to see cut over the war in Gaza. It is just one demand of ...

Tens of thousands of people took to the streets in Georgia on Thursday to protest against a "foreign influence" bill likened to Russian laws silencing dissent, an AFP journalist said.

French officials inaugurated on Thursday a huge water storage basin meant to help clean up the River Seine, set to be the venue for marathon swimming at the Paris Games and the swimming leg of the Olympic and Paralympic triathlons.

Ten candidates are in the running for Chad's May 6 presidential election, but the race is dominated by the two frontrunners: General Mahamat Idriss Dby, who is currently serving as transitional president, and Prime Minister Succs Masra. Once a leading opposition figure, Masra has come under fire from other critics of the regime, who suspect him of striking ...

In this weeks show, we focus on working life in France, or rather the time that French people take off work. The French have the reputation of being on vacation a lot. Compared to other countries, France is very generous when it comes to annual leave. So what's behind this phenomenon? On top of paid holidays, there are extra days off as well. All this begs ...

Paris rubbish collectors could strike over the summer, a major French union said Thursday, raising the spectre of piles of stinking trash on the streets during the Olympic Games.