Новости за 31.12.2018

French President Emmanuel Macron hit out at politicians who seek to stir public anger as he delivered his traditional New Year's Eve greetings on Monday following a bruising 12 months that saw his approval ratings plummet.

Emmanuel Macron's disgraced former security advisor said on Monday he continued to exchange messages regularly with the French president even after he was sacked in the summer for violent conduct, a claim dismissed by the Elysée Palace.

From the scandal involving his bodyguard Alexandra Benalla to the Yellow Vest protests that have rocked France, 2018 has been a bruising year for the country's "Jupiterian"' president, Emmanuel Macron. FRANCE 24's Douglas Herbert takes a closer look.

A NASA spaceship is zooming toward the farthest, and quite possibly the oldest, cosmic body ever photographed by humankind, a tiny, distant world called Ultima Thule some four billion miles (6.4 billion kilometers) away.

A prominent Bahraini activist, who played a key role in the 2011 Shiite-led anti-government protests, on Monday lost his final appeal against a five-year jail term for writing tweets deemed offensive to the state.

Russia has detained a US citizen in Moscow accused of spying, the FSB security service said on Monday.

It was the year that Facebook's reputation went into freefall, Saudi dissident Jamal Khashoggi was assassinated, a US president met with Kim Jong-un and Prince Harry got hitched. FRANCE 24 takes a look back at the Top 10 stories of 2018.

The disgraced former aide of President Emmanuel Macron admitted Sunday he had used his diplomatic passports "for personal convenience" after being fired in August, a day after investigators opened a probe into his failure to return the documents.

France is deploying more than 147,000 security forces nationwide to gird for New Year's Eve unrest as yellow vest protesters prepare to join the public revelry.

President Donald Trump has ordered a slowdown to the withdrawal of U.S. forces in Syria, Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham said Sunday.

Former Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn will be spending the beginning of 2019 behind bars after a Tokyo court on Monday extended his detention through to January 11.

Britain and France have agreed to boost bilateral cooperation over a spike in migrants trying to cross the Channel, the UK's Home Office said Sunday.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's alliance won Bangladesh's election with a thumping majority, the country's Election Commission said early on Monday, giving her a third straight term following a vote that the opposition rejected as rigged.