Новости за 28.12.2018

Egyptian security officials say a roadside bomb has hit a tourist bus in an area near the Giza Pyramids, in the outskirts of Cairo, killing at least two people and wounding 10 others.

Protesters angry with the postponement of Sunday's presidential election in parts of the Democratic Republic of Congo rallied for a second day on Friday as President Joseph Kabila blamed a deadly Ebola outbreak for the last-minute decision.

Acclaimed Israeli novelist Amos Oz, a tireless campaigner for peace between Israel and the Palestinians, has died of cancer at the age of 79, his daughter said on Friday.

The Syrian army said it had deployed forces to the Manbij frontline in northern Syria on Friday after the Kurdish YPG militia urged Damascus to protect the town, where US forces operate, from the threat of a major Turkish offensive.

A transformer explosion at an electric power substation in the New York City borough of Queens lit up the night sky with a bright blue light on Thursday, mystifying some residents, but officials said no one was injured in the incident.

From Facebook fails to prison "breaks" and the gastronomic delights of Christmas in France, a look back at some of the FRANCE 24 stories, TV shows and interviews of the week.

The “yellow vest” anti-government protests that have rocked France will be held on Saturday and New Year’s Eve, and continue into 2019, several sources in the movement said Thursday.

A sacked security aide to French President Emmanuel is under fresh scrutiny amid media reports that he is still using a diplomatic passport and could be profiting from his former insider status.

The US government partial shutdown was set to stretch deep into next week after legislators failed Thursday to make a breakthrough in the row over President Donald Trump's demand for a US-Mexico border wall.

Former First Lady Hillary Clinton's 17-year run as the woman Americans admire most is over.

A Spanish charity rescue boat is due to arrive in a southern Spanish port Friday morning carrying more than 300 migrants rescued off the coast of Libya a week ago.

Ten police officers were killed and three wounded in an ambush in northwestern Burkina Faso on Thursday, the west African country's security ministry said.