Indonesia may be on the front lines of the fight against global warming, but many of its people are climate sceptics. A 2019 survey found that Indonesia – the world’s biggest Muslim-majority country – has the highest proportion of climate change skeptics globally. About 18 percent of respondents said human activity is not affecting the … Read more
Nearly three years after more than 100 countries promised to tame methane emissions, the indiscriminate leakage of this powerful greenhouse gas is still rampant. As world leaders convene in Aerbaijan for the COP29 climate summit, FRANCE 24’s reporters follow the trail of methane leaks in Romania, home to one of Europe’s largest oil reserves. Source … Read more
Israel’s warfare in Gaza is consistent with the characteristics of genocide, a special UN committee said Thursday, as a Human Rights Watch report said Israel’s displacement of Gazans amounts to a “crime against humanity”. Israel said HRW’s claims were “completely false”, insisting its “efforts are directed solely at dismantling Hamas’s terror capabilities and not at … Read more
Seeking shelter in a tent of sticks and rags after floods devastated her village in northeastern Senegal, Khardiatou Sy says she feels abandoned by the government days ahead of snap parliamentary elections. The 28-year-old is one of tens of thousands to have been displaced when torrential rains caused the Senegal River to burst its banks … Read more
1. Carnival begins The 11th day of the 11th month is a magical date for Carnival lovers. In German Carnival strongholds, which include the Rhineland, and especially Cologne, Bonn, Düsseldorf, Aachen and Mainz, the season officially begins at precisely 11:11 am on November 11. A jester called “Hoppeditz” awakes in Düsseldorf. Cologne greets its triumvirate … Read more
This year’s Booker Prize winner Samantha Harvey speaks to FRANCE 24’s Culture Editor Eve Jackson about her wonder-filled space novel “Orbital”. They discuss climate change, fiction’s role in politics and Elon Musk’s space endeavors. Source link
The Paris prosecutor on Wednesday requested a five-year prison sentence and a five-year ban from public office against far-right leader Marine Le Pen, at a trial where she and 24 others are accused of embezzling European Union funds. The trial, which comes almost a decade after initial investigations started, threatens to undermine her party’s efforts … Read more
Human Rights Watch said in a report released Thursday that Israel’s repeated evacuation orders in Gaza amount to the “war crime of forcible transfer”, and to “ethnic cleansing” in parts of the Palestinian territory. “Human Rights Watch has amassed evidence that Israeli officials are… committing the war crime of forcible transfer,” the report said. Source … Read more
France, home of the “City of Love”, burlesque, and sex symbols such as Bridgitte Bardot. But what are the sex lives of everyday French people like today? That’s what a new study published Wednesday aimed to decipher. The study by the French Institute of Health takes a deep dive into the sexual habits of French … Read more
Donald Trump has had few defenders in Congress as reliable as Matt Gaetz, who has thundered at one prosecutor after another for perceived bias against the president-elect and emphatically amplified the Republican’s rallying cry that the criminal investigations into him are “witch hunts.” That kinship was rewarded Wednesday when Trump named Gaetz as his pick … Read more