Новости за 05.11.2018

French rescue workers were searching into the night Monday for possible victims under the wreckage of two dilapidated buildings that suddenly collapsed in the centre of Marseille.

Emmanuel Macron has kicked off a seven-day tour of Northeastern France for the WWI armistice centenary commemorations. At the same time, the embattled French president will try to conquer back the French. Will it work?

Voters will head to the polls on 6 November for the US mid-term elections. This year, the polls are taking place against the backdrop of a polarisation in views, with a stark move away from the political centre. The Florida governor's race -- predicted to be one of the closest -- is a prime example. It pits Ron DeSantis, a Republican candidate who openly supports Donald Trump, against Andrew Gillum, a progressive Democratic. FRANCE 24’s correspondents report from Florida.

French prosecutors have issued international arrest warrants for three senior Syrian intelligence and government officials, including security chief Ali Mamlouk, for alleged collusion in war crimes, legal sources said Monday.

Nelson Cunningham is a lawyer and former special advisor to President Bill Clinton. He gives us his perspective ahead of Tuesday's crucial US midterm elections, which are now predicted to be a tight race. "Three months ago, Democrats felt extremely confident about these elections," Cunningham told FRANCE 24. But Donald Trump "has in the last three months changed the dynamic and he's made it a nail-biter".

The United States announced a new raft of sanctions on Iran on Monday, but granted exemptions to eight countries, allowing them to temporarily continue buying Iranian oil, said US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.

More than 80 people, mostly children, were kidnapped from a school in the city of Bamenda in western Cameroon early on Monday, government and military sources said.

Matthew Caruana Galizia was the first on the scene when his mother Daphne was assassinated in a car bombing just over a year ago. Daphne Caruana Galizia was a Maltese anti-corruption journalist, whose widely read blog probed a web of corruption on the Mediterranean island. Today, Matthew is determined to see those who ordered his mother's killing brought to justice. He spoke to FRANCE 24 about his frustration at the slow progress made in the investigation so far.

Saudi Arabia sent a toxicologist and a chemicals expert to Istanbul to cover up the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi before the Turkish police searched the kingdom’s consulate, a senior Turkish official said on Monday.

Although voters in New Caledonia rejected leaving France in a referendum on Sunday, leaders of the South Pacific archipelago’s independence movement were left buoyed by the result, which was closer than expected.

Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman goes on trial in New York on Monday, accused of running the world’s biggest drug cartel and spending a quarter of a century smuggling more than 155 tons of cocaine into the United States.

Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Barack Obama made dueling election appearances on Sunday, offering sharply different views on the country’s problems but agreeing on the high stakes for voters in the final 48 hours of a tight campaign.

Countries will gather at the UN in Geneva Monday to review the rights record of Saudi Arabia, as it faces a torrent of international condemnation over the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

A letter written by nineteenth century French poet Charles Baudelaire announcing his intention to kill himself sold at auction on Sunday for 234,000 euros ($267,000), three times the expected price.

The United States is reimposing punitive measures targeting the Iranian oil and financial sectors in what US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called "the toughest sanctions ever placed" against Iran.

Fighting has escalated around Yemen's key port city of Hodeida, with at least 150 combatants killed over the weekend from both the rebel and government-backed sides, officials said Sunday.

Fighting has escalated around Yemen's key port city of Hodeida, with at least 150 combatants killed over the weekend from both the rebel and government-backed sides, officials said Sunday.