Meta launches Twitter rival Threads but faces delays in Europe over privacy concerns (www.france24.com)
Schiphol grounds hundreds of flights as deadly storm lashes the Netherlands (www.france24.com)
Bye bye 'Barbie': Vietnam bans new movie over South China Sea map (www.france24.com)
The fantasy comedy film about the famous doll, directed by Greta Gerwig and starring Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling, had been set for nationwide release in Vietnam on 21 July....
Nobel literature laureate Annie Ernaux on gender and social class (www.france24.com)
For decades, Annie Ernaux has written fearlessly about sex, abortion and illness - laying bare herself and society. Deeply intimate and political work that earned the French writer the Nobel Prize for literature last October. Ernaux spoke to France 24’s Fatimata Wane at the Taormina book festival in Sicily, where she was among...
‘We need a lot more’: Lack of firepower hampers Ukraine’s advance on Zaporizhzhia front line (www.france24.com)
As Ukraine’s top army general has put it, every metre of ground in the country’s counteroffensive is being won “with blood”. The Ukrainian soldiers’ progress is particularly gruelling in the southeastern Zaporizhzhia region. FRANCE 24’s Gwendoline Debono reports from the front line, where Russian forces are giving...
‘We need a lot more’: Lack of firepower hampers Ukraine’s advance on Zaporizhzhia front line (www.france24.com)
As Ukraine’s top army general has put it, every metre of ground in the country’s counteroffensive is being won “with blood”. The Ukrainian soldiers’ progress is particularly gruelling in the southeastern Zaporizhzhia region. FRANCE 24’s Gwendoline Debono reports from the front line, where Russian forces are giving...
Putin expected in Beijing, more dependent than ever on China (www.france24.com)
Beijing is hosting representatives of 130 countries on October 17-18 to mark a decade of its Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) – a key geopolitical project of President Xi to extend China’s global reach....
Saudi Arabia pauses normalisation talks with Israel amid ongoing war with Hamas (www.france24.com)
