France – Newspapers

Regional police chief Lalith Pathinayake said queues in the city of Kandy were already 10 kilometres (six miles) long to worship what Buddhists believe to be a tooth of the Buddha -- a special showing of the relic that will end on Sunday. Officials estimated there were around 450,000 people in queues on Thursday morning, more than double the […]

The attack took place last month as Rabbi Arie Engelberg was walking with his nine-year-old son from a synagogue in Orleans, about 110 kilometres (about 70 miles) south of Paris. After the teenager was arrested, he told investigators that he was Palestinian, but later said during a hearing that he was Moroccan and 16 years old. According to his […]

Donald Trump imagery is everywhere in this joint with a dozen tables -- in cardboard cutouts of the man eking out his trademark forced smile, on banners from the 2024 campaign, and on hats and T-shirts displayed for sale. It is a franchise of a company with four such Trump-themed outlets in Texas and no equal anywhere else in America. This […]

He has floated wanting to fire the Fed chair before backing off for now, and he slapped tariffs on China only to then promise compromise and mollification. "There is no chance the US flip-flops on trade the past month were remotely planned," Joseph Grieco, professor of political science at Duke University, told AFP. "It's been one improvisation […]

Gunmen killed 26 men -- all Indian except one Nepali -- in the tourist hotpot of Pahalgam on Tuesday, the deadliest attack on civilians in the contested Muslim-majority territory since 2000. Survivors said the gunmen targeted men, sparing those who could give the Islamic declaration of faith, Indian media reported. The killings have shocked the […]

In Ayoreri, a village on the Kenyan border, Sam Chekwoi, 42, said unpredictable rains and droughts have made it increasingly hard to feed his two wives and 11 children. "I used to farm but the sun would destroy my food crops. That is when I decided to start catching those birds to provide food for my children and myself," he said. He showed […]

Held every Easter, the fierce contest pits the village's upper and lower halves against each other in a bruising effort to drive the ball into a river. Victory goes to the team that manages to hurl the ball -- stuffed with earth doused in locally made wine and weighing a hefty 16 kilograms (35 pounds) -- into the water. Known as Lelo, the game […]

An overnight Russian combined missile and drone attack triggered fires, smashed buildings and buried residents under rubble in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, killing nine people and injuring more than 70, the State Emergency Service said on Thursday. "It is certainly the biggest attack on Kyiv since July," FRANCE 24 correspondent Gulliver Cragg said, […]

President Cyril Ramaphosa will host Zelensky on his first visit to Africa just weeks after South Africa joined for the first time a UN General Assembly resolution criticising Russia for the war. The UN's February resolution "reaffirmed its commitment to Ukraine's sovereignty, independence, unity, and territorial integrity" against "the full-scale […]

But even here, 600 kilometres (370 miles) from the front line and almost two hours drive from central Moscow, residents said an end to the fighting was long overdue. In Vereya's cemetery, framed photographs of fallen soldiers lay nestled between flowers, while the flags of Russian military divisions fluttered in the wind. Many in the town said […]