Новости за 18.12.2018

Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel announced his resignation Tuesday, less than two weeks after his main coalition partner quit in a row over migration, leaving him leading a minority government.

French growth should bounce back early next year after violent anti-government protests and wilting business confidence cut short a previously expected year-end recovery, the INSEE stats agency said on Tuesday.

Madagascar goes to the polls for the second round of its presidential elections on Wednesday in a run-off between two ex-presidents, Marc Ravalomanana and Andry Rajoelina, who clashed during the country’s 2009 political crisis.

Immigration is a hot button issue for politicians across the world, resulting in a toughening up of migration policies: last year alone, 68 million people were forced to flee their homes. “Migration has become a political issue instead of a human one,” says Dina Ionesco, Head of Migration, Environment, and Climate Change Division of the International Organisation for Migration, in an interview with FRANCE 24. “We need to think concretely, technically, and in practical terms about how to manage... Читать дальше...

The French government proposed an amendment to the budget law on Tuesday that would give police and security forces mobilised for the Yellow Vest protests a €300 bonus.

Rupert Everett speaks to Eve Jackson about his directorial debut "The Happy Prince", his admiration of Oscar Wilde and why it was important for him to focus on the writer's final years in exile in Paris after being released from prison following his conviction for "gross indecency" – the result of a homosexual affair.

In the Democratic Republic of Congo, in the two years since President Joseph Kabila’s refusal to step aside, the Catholic Church has remained an institution that can speak without fear.

Last month, a naval incident saw Russia shoot openly at Ukrainian military personnel for the first time and seize 24 Ukrainian sailors. Ukraine, in response, has declared martial law in ten regions, made good on promises to create an independent Ukrainian Orthodox Church, and ended a treaty of friendship with Russia that was still in force. Little noticed by the world, war rumbles on in the eastern Donbas region, occupied by Russian-backed forces. FRANCE 24's Gulliver Cragg reports.

A new deadline has now been set for the British parliament's Brexit vote. Can Theresa May get her deal through the House of Commons by January 18? And if not, then what? Calls for a second referendum are growing louder. The government says any new poll would only divide the UK further. But Remain campaigner and transparency activist Gina Miller tells FRANCE 24 the so-called "People's Vote" is the only way to break the deadlock in parliament.

A Salvadoran woman accused of the attempted murder of her newborn baby under the country’s strict abortion laws after she was raped by her stepfather was freed by a court on Monday after more than 18 months in jail.

Manchester United have sacked manager Jose Mourinho with immediate effect after 17 matches following a dismal start to the season, the Premier League side announced on Tuesday.

Russian interference in the 2016 US presidential election on social media was more widespread than previously thought and included attempts to divide Americans by race and extreme ideology, reports released Monday said.

Major French toll road operator Vinci Autoroutes is planning to invoice motorists who drove on without paying during the recent “Yellow Vest” protests in France.

Anti-government protests in Hungary hit the country's public broadcaster on Monday, with the opposition galvanised by the furious reaction to a controversial new labour law.

Clashes erupted Tuesday morning in Yemen just minutes after a ceasefire deal took effect in the country's flashpoint port city of Hodeida, a pro-government official said.

A French anti-terrorist court on Monday charged a man arrested for allegedly supplying a revolver used in a mass shooting at a Christmas market in Strasbourg last week, a judicial source said.