Issued on: 26/06/2022 – 20:50 Turkish police on Sunday broke up a banned Pride march in Istanbul, detaining more than 200 demonstrators and an AFP photographer, journalists and organisers reported. The governor’s office had forbidden the march around Taksim Square in the heart of Istanbul, but protesters gathered nearby under heavy police presence earlier than
Issued on: 18/06/2022 – 20:41 Around 50,000 Ukrainians have taken refuge from the war in Turkey, including more than 1,000 orphans and foster children. Some of them have gone to the coastal city of Antalya, that was already home to a Ukrainian and Russian population before the conflict began. Here FRANCE 24 met children who
Issued on: 11/06/2022 – 20:13 Iran and Venezuela signed a 20-year deal on cooperation between the two allies subject to US sanctions during a visit Saturday to the Islamic republic by Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. The inking of the agreement “shows the determination of the high-level officials of the two countries for development of relations
Issued on: 02/06/2022 – 14:04 Three non-governmenatal organisations (NGOs) said on Thursday they had filed a lawsuit at a Paris court against three top French arms’ producers for alleged war crimes complicity in Yemen after selling weapons to Saudi Arabia and the UAE. The compliant, filed by the European Centre for Constitutional and Human Rights
Issued on: 27/05/2022 – 13:22 Since early May, Iranians have been taking the streets to protest rising prices of basic goods, causing prices to balloon by up to 300%. The economic protests quickly turned political, with people calling for the fall of the regime as security forces harshly repressed dissent. We spoke to a young
Issued on: 15/05/2022 – 07:05Modified: 15/05/2022 – 07:08 Polls opened on Sunday in Lebanon’s first election since the deadly Beirut port blast and the country’s economic collapse, making it a test of whether Iran-backed Hezbollah and its allies can preserve their parliamentary majority amid soaring poverty and public anger. The parliamentary election is a first
Issued on: 30/04/2022 – 11:53Modified: 30/04/2022 – 11:56 Israeli security forces reinforced their presence in the occupied West Bank on Saturday and made arrests after the killing of a guard at a Jewish settlement. The Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigade, one of the main militant groups present in the West Bank, claimed responsibility for the murder which
Issued on: 26/04/2022 – 08:35 Almost three years into Lebanon’s trifecta of economic, social and political crises, Lebanese youths are desperate to move abroad. For them, leaving the country means finding better opportunities for the future. Studies show that this belief is on the rise among youth – and this, in turn, is expected to
Issued on: 20/04/2022 – 18:38 Over the past three months, the Saudi government has launched a massive demolition campaign targeting dozens of poor neighbourhoods in Jeddah, to make way for an urban development project. With very little time to leave and no compensation, hundreds of thousands of people are now in dire straits, with no
Issued on: 19/04/2022 – 11:08 Six months on from elections that failed to deliver a new president or prime minister, Iraq remains in a state of complete political deadlock. A dispute between the two largest political blocs has led to a boycott of parliament, meaning quorum cannot be reached. Ordinary Iraqis are feeling the economic consequences of this
