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What is Washington to do about Mideast mission creep? What response from the United States after the weekend attack in Jordan that’s killed three of its troops? It has already hit back at Iran-backed militias in Iraq and Syria but to what effect?

Outrage in Spain over a poster of Jesus that's deemed homoerotic. Finally, an Australian MP accuses a national broadcaster of photoshopping her body for a news report.

French farmers are blockading key motorways around Paris for a second consecutive day this Tuesday. They are determined to show that they can hold out for several days if new measures due to be announced by the French government continue to disappoint.

The French call the first general policy speech of a prime minister before parliament the great oral exam. That expression takes on a whole new layer of meaning when the prime minister is just 34.

After showing his work internationally, including in London, Lagos, Cape Town and New York, Nigerian-born artist Chibuike Uzoma is in Paris for his first solo exhibition at the Mitterrand Gallery. Entitled "Twelve Tickets", his exhibition engages issues such as contemporary politics, post-colonialism, migration, popular culture and themes related to religious and ethnic conflicts. He spoke to Eve Jackson.

The WHO is sounding the alarm. The UN health agency is warning of a massive resurgence of measles cases in the Europe region, extending to Central Asia. Elsewhere too, the numbers of cases are skyrocketing. The primary cause is a decline in vaccination rates since the Covid-19 pandemic. FRANCE 24's Julia Sieger tells us more.

The controversial budget for 2024 is being debated in parliament this week. The squabbling and delays were just a foretaste of what is to come in 2025 when tax revenue will decline.

Boris Nadezhdin will run against Vladimir Putin in Russia's next presidential election. While the anti-war candidate has many young supporters, experts say he has a long way to go to securing the presidency.

Following a foreign minister meeting, Iran and Pakistan agreed on closer security cooperation in a bid to cool tensions after both countries exchanged airstrikes earlier this month.

An anti-migration convoy, reportedly organised by right-wing extremists, is currently on the move in the United States. Set to last until February 3, the convoy will split up for rallies in three border hotspots located in Texas, Arizona and California. Amid this ongoing protest, some social media users are sharing unrelated videos. We tell you more in this edition of Truth or Fake.

Observers say Qatar takes on this role since as a small but fabulously wealthy country built on vast supplies of liquid gas, it needs to make itself indispensable to the international community and protected from unwelcome interventions by its larger neighbours, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.

Amid mounting protests against the far right, calls are growing to ban the Alternative for Germany party. But German law sets the bar high for banning a political party.