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On this edition of Access Asia, we find out why anger is brewing in South Korea after the country’s national team was eliminated from the World Cup. We also ask our Sports Editor why China hasn’t managed to make it to football’s top tier despite massive investment. Plus, Japan’s prime minister heads to India as … Read more

As the US prepares to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the birth of the country – an event many feel has been hijacked by Donald Trump – France 24’s Kethevane Gorjestani takes a look at how New York mayor Zohran Mamdani as become the face of opposition to Trump’s vision of what it means to … Read more

Hambach Wilderness Lives After a decades-long battle, one of Germany’s last remaining fragments of intact ancient woodland has been saved from coal-mining expansion. The remainder of the Hambach forest between the western German cities of Aachen and Cologne will remain standing as the country phases out coal, the most polluting fossil fuel. For decades, environmentalists … Read more

Authorities Friday were looking for a Ukrainian woman with a tattoo suspected of planting a bomb in Monaco that injured three people including a Ukrainian-born tycoon, after German police raided her flat. Identified as Anastasiia Berezovska, 39, the suspect is wanted in Monaco for attempted murder, placing an explosive device on a public road with … Read more

While the Lyhanna case in France has exposed the shortcomings of a fragmented system for dealing with sexual violence against minors, Belgium stands as a model with its Centers for the Care of Sexual Violence (CPVS). The centers are based on a simple principle: a victim only has to walk through one door to find … Read more

There were at least 2,025 more deaths than expected in France during June’s heatwave, the country’s health minister said on Friday. France last month recorded its hottest June since records began in 1947 with temperatures spiking above 40C in many areas. Source link

The 2026 Tour de France will open with a short, fast, team time-trial in Barcelona on Saturday, the first round of the battle to decide who will wear the coveted yellow jersey on the Champs-Élysées in Paris. Many of the tougher mountainous stages are packed into the final week, but there will be opportunities to … Read more

Authorities in Kyiv asked residents to stay indoors as much as possible on Friday due to a spike in air pollution caused by massive Russian strikes the day before which started fires across the city. Source link

A treatment trial for the Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo enrolled its first patient on Thursday, marking a milestone in efforts to combat the epidemic, WHO chief Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters. Source link

Hannes Loth drives an electric car and wants to install wind turbines in his municipality. Loth, Germany’s first full-time mayor from the right-wing, populist Alternative for Germany (AfD), is promoting the expansion of renewable energy – even though it contradicts his party’s platform. Farmer is mayor of Raguhn-Jaenitz from 2023 and has ambitious plans. In … Read more