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To mark the show's tenth birthday, Annette Young is joined by Anita Bhatia, founder of Impact Commons, and former Deputy Executive Director at UN Women; Anya Neistat, the legal director at the Clooney Foundation for Justice and Rebecca Amsellem, a French-Canadian feminist and creator of Les Glorieuses newsletter, to take a look back at the progress, or otherwise, of women's rights since 2013.

Many Moldovans are leaving the country, where poverty and corruption are rife. But one school director is giving her all to keep her establishment open, for the sake of the children and the future.

It's hard to imagine the holiday season without the Wham! pop classic. But at the core of "Last Christmas" lies melancholy and a broken heart.

After a year of record-high temperatures and increasing greenhouse gas emissions, global leaders at the COP28 climate have agreed to transition away from fossil fuels.

Sport is important for our health, but it can develop into an addiction. An extreme triathlete who is also a sports scientist explains the phenomenon of sports addiction.

A few days after Volodymyr Zelensky's visit to Washington, social media accounts are claiming that the Ukrainian president had recently bought a mansion in Florida. The posts show pictures of a lavish mansion and a document that looks like a US naturalisation certificate under his name. But both photos are fake: Zelensky did not buy a house in the US, nor did he become a US citizen.

Russian authorities have put on hold two hearings for jailed opposition politician Alexei Navalny. A United Nations rights expert earlier expressed concern about the dissident's "enforced disappearance."

President Aleksandar Vucic called for the snap vote barely two years since the last parliament was elected. His ruling party is on course for an absolute majority, but the opposition has made claims of election fraud.

One of Russia's main supporters in Europe is Serbia. The Kremlin would like to keep it this way and has been ensuring Russia-friendly media outlets in Serbia disseminate anti-West propaganda.

Israeli papers react to new revelations surrounding the death of three Israeli hostages accidentally killed by the IDF in Gaza. Also: French papers discuss the government's last-ditch effort to pass its landmark immigration bill. We then take a look at two powerful men on different sides of the Atlantic who benefited from impunity despite years of sexual harassment accusations. We end with a bit of progress for Black actors and actresses in Hollywood.

How can the deaths of Palestinians in Gaza be monitored by outside organisations? Nearly 19,000 people have been killed in 10 weeks of war, according to the Hamas-run health authorities. The credibility of those statistics has at times been undermined by sceptical world leaders, including US President Joe Biden. In Perspective, FRANCE 24's Gavin Lee spoke to Emily Tripp from UK-based transparency watchdog Airwars, which is using open-source data to try to verify the death toll in the Gaza Strip.

The Vatican says it will allow priests to bless same-sex and unmarried couples. However, it says, such blessings are not a sign of the Catholic Church's approval and cannot happen as part of a religious ceremony.