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26 Jan
At least 30 people have been killed and several others injured in Nigeria's central Plateau state in a series of attacks around Mangu town, despite a curfew imposed by the state government, a community spokesperson said.
19 Jan
From Lebanon to Iraq and Syria, the ripple effects of the war between Israel and Hamas are being felt, but nowhere more so than Yemen. For months now, Houthi rebels there have been firing missiles at cargo ships in the Red Sea, prompting the US and UK to bomb targets inside Yemen this past weekend. FRANCE 24 spoke to Dr Elisabeth Kendall, a Yemen specialist at the University of Cambridge.
22 Oct
Olaf Scholz has vowed solidarity with Germany's Jews amid concerns about a rise in domestic antisemitic incidents tied to the war between Israel and Gaza.
5 Oct
Ankara has said it will continue its pursuit of those behind a Sunday bomb attack on the Turkish Interior Ministry. Syrian Kurds say they have no connection and claim Turkey's actions amount to war crimes.
6 Sep 2023
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16 Jul 2023
Luis Martin Sanchez Iniguez was found dead in the state of Nayarit. He was last seen in Xalisco, a town that has long been linked to the smuggling of heroin and opium.
11 Jun 2023
The Bedouin communities living in the unforgiving Badia, or the Syrian desert, are facing a surge in armed attacks. The violence reaches a peak each year between February and April: the truffle season. As tribes go out to hunt truffles, they risk being ambushed by sleeper cells of the Islamic State group, which has taken refuge in the Badia since 2019. This exclusive investigation from FRANCE 24's Observers team exposes the horrific abuses being carried out deep in the desert.
10 Jun 2023
Recent drone attacks and the shelling of a Russian border town have forced residents to flee their homes, sowing panic and fear. The Kremlin has downplayed the raids, but experts think they reveal Putin's weaknesses.
4 Jun 2023
Moscow said several drones targeted the city early Tuesday which came after Kyiv reported a fresh wave of drone attacks — the third in 24 hours — earlier in the day.

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Since Tunisian President Kais Saied seized full governing powers in July 2021, concern has been growing about a crackdown on free speech and dissent in the country. In the last year, about 50 political opponents have been in jail in various cases.
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The increase in the death toll comes as scores of other people are reportedly missing. The Russian government is on high alert following the attack, which was claimed by the "Islamic State" Khorasan group.
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The Nigerian government says it is investigating the $2.4 billion foreign exchange allocations and forward contracts which the Central Bank of Nigeria flagged as ineligible. Tilewa Adebajo, the CEO of CFG Advisory, joins CNBC Africa for this discussion.
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Even though the Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for last week’s deadly Moscow concert hall attack, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin, pro-Russian social media users and bots are continuing to insist that Ukraine was involved in the atrocity.
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FRANCE 24 spoke to Egyptian-American comedian Bassem Youssef, who is speaking out against the war in Gaza. Formerly a TV icon in Egypt before fleeing to the US, Youssef called accusations of anti-Semitism against him "laughable". Calling the label "overused", especially against Jews supporting the Palestinian cause, he said that anti-Semitism "has become a comical accusation". "Anti-Zionism is not anti-Semitism," he added.
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Even though the Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for last week’s deadly Moscow concert hall attack, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin, pro-Russian social media users and bots are continuing to insist that Ukraine was involved in the atrocity. We debunk all the false claims for you in this edition of Truth or Fake.