Новости за 01.11.2018

New Caledonia, an idyllic French island territory in the southwestern Pacific, votes Sunday on whether to seek full independence from Paris, 18,000 km away

The judge who has upended Brazilian politics with a sweeping corruption investigation, Sergio Moro, accepted an offer Thursday from far-right President-elect Jair Bolsonaro to be his justice minister.

Hundreds of Google engineers and other workers around the world walked off the job Thursday to protest the internet company's lenient treatment of executives accused of sexual misconduct.

Three years after the disappearance of three Hong Kong publishers, the last bookshop on the island still selling books banned on the Chinese mainland has closed – ending a long tradition of defying the Communist Party.

The brutal murder of the Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi at his country's consulate in Istanbul has shocked the world. Yahya Assiri, a Saudi human rights activist who knew Khashoggi, tells FRANCE 24 why the Saudi authorities decided to silence the Washington Post journalist. He also tells us why Riyadh underestimated the global reaction to the case and says he believes Mohammed bin Salman's days as Saudi crown prince are numbered.

Around 2,000 migrants set off on foot from El Salvador's capital on Wednesday, the latest of several groups of Central Americans heading to the United States, even as U.S. President Donald Trump increased pressure to halt their flow.

Divers on Thursday recovered a flight data recorder from the crashed Lion Air jet, a crucial development in the investigation into what caused the plane to plunge into Indonesian seas earlier this week, killing all 189 people on board.

Peru's powerful opposition leader Keiko Fujimori was taken into custody on Wednesday after a court ordered her held in preventive detention for three years pending the outcome of a corruption probe.

President Donald Trump said Wednesday that as many as 15,000 soldiers could be dispatched to the US-Mexican border to stop what he described as dangerous groups of immigrants.

A cancer-stricken groundskeeper on Wednesday accepted a slashed award in a landmark trial focused on weed-killer Roundup, setting the stage for an appeal by maker Monsanto.