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New major research has found that cases of several different kinds of cancer have risen sharply among young people in England, the US, and in the Netherlands.

New major research has found that cases of several different kinds of cancer have risen sharply among young people in England, the US, and in the Netherlands.

A French policeman was charged Tuesday with violence for firing a tear gas grenade at close range at a 14-year-old student during high school protests that have shaken the country.

The death of a 28-year-old Russian lab worker at Siberia’s Irkutsk Anti-Plague Institute has sparked online panic about a ‘plague’, despite the WHO assessing the public health risk in Russia as low.

Protests have been gripping France with students demanding better learning conditions and more equal opportunities.

A seventh man was arrested Tuesday over a major incident last month at a British military airbase used by the United States to launch strikes on Iran, police said.

One factor accelerating these student protest is social media, and its being boosted even more by artificial intelligence.

A former German spy chief was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of espionage and treason, an embarrassing case at a time when the country is seeking to broaden the powers of its intelligence agencies.

Hundreds of thousands of students and their supporters took part in nationwide protests across France on Tuesday after weeks of student barricades protesting school conditions.

A quarter of a million demonstrators took to the streets across France on Tuesday as unions and teachers joined high school students demanding better learning conditions in protests that later descended into sporadic clashes with security forces.

It’s a protest movement that a broke, lame-duck French government did not see coming.

Jean-Emile Jammine is pleased to welcome Reed Brody, international human rights lawyer and former New York assistant attorney general.

Senator Flavio Bolsonaro received on Monday endorsements from Ronaldo Caiado and Romeu Zema, two right-wing politicians who ran against him in Sunday's first-round vote, for ‌the runoff against President Luiz ⁠Inacio Lula da Silva later this month.

Senator Flavio Bolsonaro received on Monday endorsements from Ronaldo Caiado and Romeu Zema, two right-wing politicians who ran against him in Sunday's first-round vote, for ‌the runoff against President Luiz ⁠Inacio Lula da Silva later this month.

Paramount completed its acquisition of Warner Bros Discover on Tuesday, after a bidding war against Netflix.

Tens of thousands of demonstrators took to the streets across France on Tuesday, as unions and teachers joined high school students who for days have been demanding better learning conditions in protests punctuated by violent confrontations.

Norway's government said Monday it wants a temporary ban on the use of smart glasses in certain public places, citing privacy concerns, notably recording images without the knowledge of those filmed.

Police fired tear gas at protesters blockading French high schools on Tuesday as students, teachers and parents took to the streets on the biggest day of action in a wave of demonstrations against understaffed and dilapidated classrooms.

Russian air defenses intercepted nearly 900 Ukrainian drones overnight over multiple regions of the country, as well as the occupied Crimean Peninsula and the Sea of Azov, the Defense Ministry in Moscow said Tuesday.

Paris is once again the centre of planet fashion, as the spring-summer 2027 collections take over the catwalks.

Kenya on Tuesday reported its first-ever Ebola death after a Kenyan national who had been living in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) died after returning to the country.

In an interview with FRANCE 24, Israeli former hostage Shoshan Haran said "we were naive" about Hamas before the October 7, 2023 attack on her kibbutz.

Tens of thousands of demonstrators marched in cities across France on Tuesday in support of protests by school pupils demanding more education funding, increasing pressure on the government of outgoing President Emmanuel Macron.

Recent reports and videos of alleged recruitment irregularities are fuelling tensions between mobilisation authorities and Ukrainian society, while raising questions about the oversight and implementation of military recruitment.

We take a look at what exactly French high school students are demanding in their nationwide blockades.

Airstrikes and artillery fire rocked northern Ethiopia's Tigray region overnight into Monday, aid sources said, in clashes between federal government and rebel forces that have raised fears of wider fighting.

Ukrainian drones killed two people and hit a major fuel depot overnight in one of the biggest attacks of the war on Moscow and the surrounding region.

Opposition parties held protests in India’s capital New Delhi on Tuesday, demanding the resignation of the country’s election chief over a contentious revision of voter lists as hundreds of police personnel were deployed across the heart of the city.

A separatist party narrowly won Quebec's election on Monday, a result that could make it tougher for Prime Minister Mark Carney to maintain national unity against U.S.

The author of a new book that tells the story of a White supremacist coup in her hometown of Wilmington, North Carolina has spoken to FRANCE 24 about how those involved and the authorities covered up the event for years.

A major march is set to depart from central Paris this afternoon as French students continue their protests classroom conditions.

Following months of consultations with energy experts, Mexico is preparing to tap its shale oil and gas reserves using one of the world's most controversial extraction techniques: fracking.

Due to the ongoing fighting in Ethiopia's Tigray region, some 5,000 students who asked to be relocated are now starting the academic year far from home.

Students at Cornell University staged an anti-rape protest on Monday and to voice their solidarity with ‘Jane Doe’ - the former student who was allegedly ganged raped after consuming drugs and alcohol at a frat house two years ago.

UK police on Tuesday said they had arrested ‌a ⁠22-year ‌old British man ⁠in London on suspicion of preparing terrorist acts ‌in relation to the suspected plot at the RAF Fairford airbase used by the US to strike Iran.

Thousands of demonstrators were massing under heavy police surveillance across France on Tuesday, as unions and teachers joined high school students who for days have been demanding better conditions in protests punctuated by violent confrontations.

In August, US employment in roles most exposed to AI for people aged between 22 and 25 shrank by 4.4 percent year-on-year.

American Karl Deisseroth and Germans Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine on Monday for developing optogenetics, a technique that uses light to control individual nerve cells in the brain.

François Picard is pleased to welcome Philip Ingram, journalist and former British military intelligence officer.

France braced on Tuesday for a day of nationwide high-school blockades and trade union-led street protests in support of students demanding that President Emmanuel Macron's cash-strapped government tackle understaffed and dilapidated schools.

PRESS REVIEW – Tuesday, October 6: The death of a researcher in Siberia, reportedly from the plague, sparks concern despite Russian authorities' denial.

Bulgarian authorities are searching for missing the crew members of a boat than sank in its economic zone in the Black Sea after sea and are drones targeted two merchant vessels in the Black sea.

Yemen's Houthis claimed an attack on the main airport in the Saudi capital while also denying on Tuesday losing territory to government forces, as fighting intensified.

A book designed by Spanish surrealist painter Salvador Dali was stolen from an art museum in central France, prosecutors said on Monday.

Donald Trump's immigration crackdown has led to a controversial practice: deporting tens of thousands of asylum seekers to third countries.

As France's student protest movement continues, one of the main grievances is the conditions of the country’s schools, with many buildings severely dilapidated and in some cases, facing dangerous risks.

Sleep deprivation is seen these days as a major health issue - not least of all in Japan where people sleep less on average than in any other OECD country.