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Moroccans vote in parliamentary elections after migrant rush to Ceuta

Moroccan voters choose new parliament Wednesday in elections dominated by economic concerns after a mass migration surge to the Spanish enclave of Ceuta in July highlighted rising youth unemployment and cost of living concerns. Nearly 16 million Moroccans have registered to elect 395 members of the House of Representatives.

France 24 · Sep 23

‘I had never heard of Eswatini’: Deported by the US to a country that rejects them

Migrants previously convicted by US courts have been imprisoned in Africa’s last absolute monarchy, Eswatini, over the past several months. Since being deported from the US, they have found themselves in a country about which they know nothing, and where local residents look on these “criminal” arrivals with suspicion. Their…

France 24 · Sep 23

AI risks, Iran war dominate agenda at UN

France convenes a UN Security Council meeting Wednesday on artificial intelligence (AI) and international security, which includes briefings by leading industry figures, including the heads of OpenAI and Anthropic. The meeting comes as world leaders jostle over how to address the risks of the new technology. On the second day…

France 24 · Sep 23

US refusing to give Sudan's de facto leader visa for UN

In tonight's edition: The United States is withholding a visa for Sudanese army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan ahead of his scheduled UN appearance. Also, Ghana is beefing up its drugs authority in the wake of major drug busts in France, Belgium and South Africa. Plus it’s back-to-school season in Ivory…

France 24 · Sep 22

Macron urges world to 'stand firm' against 'abuse of power by empires' in final UN speech

French President Emmanuel Macron used his last address before the UN General Assembly as France's leader to urge the world's nations to stand alongside the United Nations in the face of a resurgent "law of the jungle". Macron also called for a moratorium on strikes on civilian and energy infrastructure…

France 24 · Sep 22

Trump's world? Leaders navigate consequences of US policy

A year ago, Donald Trump went to the rostrum of the United Nations General Assembly and after taking an axe to US aid and development funding, he read the world the riot act. One Iran war later, the US president is sticking to script, with a speech that borrowed much…

France 24 · Sep 22

Iran, AI and the ICC: Trump makes threats, touts policies at UN General Assembly

US President Donald Trump launched a full-throated defence of the deeply unpopular US-Israeli war against Iran before the UN General Assembly on Tuesday, claiming that Washington would reach a deal with Tehran after the upcoming US midterm elections. Trump also rejected the idea of global regulation of artificial intelligence, said…

France 24 · Sep 22

How is the EU responding to record fuel prices?

Fuel prices have hit record highs across Europe in recent days, driven by soaring oil prices amid the war in the Middle East and Ukrainian strikes on Russian refineries. However, the scale of the increases, as well as the measures taken to address them, varies significantly from one EU country…

France 24 · Sep 22

From slavery to today: The Black women who shaped America

"If you don’t understand the history of Black women, you don’t understand the history of America." Those words from Nobel Prize-winning novelist Toni Morrison open Sasha Bonét's debut memoir, "The Waterbearers". The New York writer traces three generations of Black women in her family: her grandmother Betty Jean, the daughter…

France 24 · Sep 22

Ladin: Dolomites villages refuse to give up on ancient language

Year after year, the mountains of the Dolomites become more popular with tourists. Amid millions of visitors, 30,000 inhabitants speak a language only they understand: Ladin, one of the oldest minority languages in Europe.

France 24 · Sep 22