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This year’s Victory Day parade on May 9th highlighted Russia’s strengthening ties with China, with Chinese leader Xi Jinping as the guest of honour. A man Vladimir Putin has referred to as a dear friend, Xi Jinping has met with […]

Israel struck Lebanon on Saturday in retaliation for rockets targeting Israel, killing two, including a child, in the heaviest exchange of fire since its ceasefire with the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah almost four months ago. The rockets fired from Lebanon

Palestinians are resorting to burning books in Gaza for fuel amid a spiralling humanitarian crisis after a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas broke off. Israel had already cut off the supply of food, fuel and humanitarian aid to Gaza’s roughly

Since Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Natanyahu’s attempt to fire security chief Ronen Bar – despite a court ruling against the move – regular protests against the Israeli leader are growing “and they are being joined by major forces in Israeli society”,

Israel’s attorney general said on Friday that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu cannot name a new internal security chief, following a supreme court decision freezing the government’s bid to oust him. The unprecedented move to fire Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar has deepened divisions in the country while Israel resumes its military operations in the Gaza Strip. FRANCE 24 speaks to Guy Lurie, research fellow at the Democratic Values and Institutions Program to shed more light on the situation. Source link FRANCE24

Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, who was arrested this week on suspicion of corruption, has been the “most viable candidate against President Erdogan”, said Guney Yildiz, visiting fellow at the London School of Economics, adding that Imamoglu is also the opposition’s

The humanitarian crisis continues to unfold in Sudan as the civil war rages on, leading to a “clear, high rate of malnutrition” across the country, said Jean-Nicolas Armstrong Dangelser, head of mission of MSF in Sudan. Dangelser also noted the

Inhabitants from the small Mexican village of El Bosque have recently been recognised as “people displaced by climate change” by the government, a first in the country. In this small fishing town, many have lost their homes to the sea and

Israel struck Lebanon on Saturday in retaliation for rockets targeting Israel, in the heaviest exchange of fire since the ceasefire. Earlier, rockets were fired from Lebanon into Israel for the second time since December, sparking concern about whether the fragile

US sources say that the Trump administration is seeking to negotiate more favourable terms in its deal to gain access to Ukraine’s mineral resources. FRANCE 24’s Catherine Norris-Trent reports from a mining region in central Ukraine on how local people