"It's the first year we've been summoned so much to help outside" our region, said 23-year-old Victorien Pottier. Volunteer firefighters make up more than three-quarters of all the nearly 252,000 firefighters in the country, according to official f...

The Southeast Asian nation has been plunged into turmoil and its economy is in tatters since a February 2021 coup which ousted Aung San Suu Kyi's government. The military alleged widespread voter fraud during November 2020 polls which Suu Kyi's Nat...

Former US President Donald Trump faces a host of possible legal charges over his removal of official presidential records, including some documents marked Top Secret, from the White House to his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida.

Rushdie was on a ventilator after the attack during a literary event in New York state on Friday, more than 30 years after he went into hiding following late supreme leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's fatwa. "Bravo to this courageous and duty-con...

The question is utterly theoretical for most of us, but for US astronaut Jessica Watkins, it hits a bit differently. "Whichever comes first!" Watkins says with a laugh, in a lengthy interview with AFP from her post on the International Space Statio...

The fish floating by the German banks near the eastern town of Schwedt are believed to have washed upstream from Poland where first reports of mass fish deaths were made by locals and anglers as early as on July 28. German officials accused Polish ...

US lawmakers on Friday adopted President Joe Biden's sprawling climate, tax and health care plan, a major win for the veteran Democrat that includes the biggest-ever American investment in the battle against global warming.

Colombian government officials on Friday met with members of the National Liberation Army (ELN) in Havana, where they have been based since 2018, with Bogota saying it officially recognizes the "legitimacy of dialogue... in the search for peace." "...

A new trade plan will be unveiled within days, while US forces will transit the Taiwan Strait in the next few weeks, said Kurt Campbell, White House coordinator for Asia-Pacific issues and an adviser to President Joe Biden. The statement came after...

At least three people were killed and 15 wounded Friday in Russian shelling on the Ukrainian towns of Kramatorsk in the east and Zaporizhia in the south, according to initial counts by local authorities. Read FRANCE 24’s coverage of the day’s ev...

The Polish eighth seed managed 43 winners of his own in a rapid-fire 7-6(7/4), 6-7(5/7), 6-1 triumph that put him into his fourth semi-final at the Masters level. Hurkacz will next face Norway's fourth-seeded Casper Ruud, who crushed home hope Feli...

The announcement comes after Pyongyang earlier this week blamed Seoul for causing the Covid-19 outbreak in the North and threatened to "wipe out" the South Korean authorities, if necessary. Virus restrictions were eased as "the public health crisis...

The 42-year-old firefighter who works in the Venezuelan state of Merida, the region of the country with the highest suicide rate, is not always so lucky. Last year, Venezuela recorded 4.3 suicides per 100,000 people, according to estimates by the V...

These days, the 23-year-old Taliban member is studying English and has enrolled in a computer science course in the capital, Kabul. "When our country was occupied by infidels, we needed bombs, mortars and guns," says Jalali, an employee at the Mini...

Last month, the Musa Qala District Hospital in Helmand province was forced to shut its doors to all except those suffering from suspected cholera. The infirmary was soon jammed with listless patients, intravenous drips needled into their wrists as ...