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South Korean opposition candidate Yoon Suk-yeol was elected president in Wednesday’s election, with ruling party candidate Lee Jae-myung conceding defeat and congratulating his opponent.

In an interview with FRANCE 24, Ukraine's deputy minister Olha Stefanishyna confirmed an attack from Russian forces on a maternity hospital in the city of Mariupol, saying "there is no doubt this has been a targeted attack". She also warned that Russia had shut off the Chernobyl nuclear plant and claimed that this was part of a series of reckless actions that increase the threat of a nuclear accident.

An offer from Poland to donate MiG-29 fighter jets to Ukraine took US officials by surprise on Tuesday, raising fears the move could draw NATO allies into more direct conflict with Russia. Vice President Kamala Harris arrives in Warsaw on Wednesday for talks on how to help Ukraine counter Putin's aggression.

The wreckage of polar explorer Ernest Shackleton's ship Endurance, trapped and crushed by sea ice more than 100 years ago, has been found. Researchers said Wednesday they had discovered the wreck the wreck some 3,000 below the freezing waters of the Weddell Sea, off the coast of Antarctica.

A 57-year-old man with terminal heart disease who made history as the first person to receive a genetically modified pig’s heart died on Tuesday afternoon at the University of Maryland Medical Center (UMMC), the hospital said.

Venezuela released two jailed US citizens on Tuesday in an apparent goodwill gesture toward the Biden administration, which has reached out to the regime of Nicolas Maduro as it looks for help in shutting off Russia’s oil revenues amid the war in Ukraine.

At Lviv’s main train station, people fleeing the war wait for hours, hoping to board a train heading to Poland. FRANCE 24's Luke Shrago reports from Lviv.

The 28-year-old all-rounder missed the drawn first Test in Rawalpindi due to a hamstring injury. "Ashraf has tested positive for Covid-19 in his on-arrival test at the Karachi team hotel," the PCB said in a statement. "He will now undergo a five-day isolation." The second Test starts on Saturday in Karachi. Ashraf has blossomed as a Test all-rounder in the past two years, giving Pakistan much-needed balance in both batting and bowling. He has so far played 13 Tests, scoring 632 runs with four half centuries and taken 22 wickets. Читать дальше...

Gurbaz, a wicketkeeper-batsman, has played 20 T20 internationals, scoring 534 runs at a strike rate of 138. The Titans, who are making their IPL debut along with Lucknow Super Giants this season, picked the Afghan player at his base price of $66,000, the franchise said in a press release. Gurbaz, 20, will be the third Afghanistan cricketer alongside Rashid Khan and Noor Ahmad to feature for the franchise, it added. The Titans had been looking for a replacement after Roy pulled out of the IPL last month... Читать дальше...

She is standing at the door of a hearse in the centre of Lviv in western Ukraine, where her son's flower-covered coffin has just been laid by six young soldiers. He was a military engineer, killed by a Russian artillery strike near Mariupol in the south of the country. "His name is Vasyl Vyshyvany, he was 28-years-old," the father tells AFP. He had been mining the area around a bridge to stop the Russian advance when Grad missiles struck the location, killing him instantly, he says. "There is no body inside... Читать дальше...

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who has pushed for Turkey to play a mediation role, has expressed hope the talks can avert tragedy and even help agree a ceasefire. But analysts fear there are only the lowest chances of a breakthrough at the meeting in Antalya between Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and his Ukrainian counterpart Dmytro Kuleba. Senior Ukrainian officials, including the defence minister, have held a sequence of meetings with a Russian delegation in Belarus largely devoted to humanitarian issues... Читать дальше...

They carefully lay down their "tefillin" prayer boxes before heading into another room for the morning service, where their voices compete with the sound of air sirens outside. "We spend the whole day in the synagogue, praying, studying the Torah," says Odele, 46, who asked to withhold her surname. She left Israel a year ago to live here, some 200 kilometres south of Kyiv, to be close to the grave of the revered rabbi, Nachman of Breslov, who founded a Hasidic movement that settled in this town in early 1800s. Читать дальше...

On Tuesday (March 9), the United States rejected a plan put forward by Poland to send its fleet of Soviet-era MiG-29 fighter jets to a US air base in Germany, to be eventually handed over to Ukraine.

Ahmed Seif, 23, was shot in the stomach three times during clashes with Israeli troops in the village of Burqa, near Nablus, in the occupied West Bank on March 1. He was rushed to hospital in Nablus, where he died on Wednesday morning. AFP reporters in Burqa saw a procession of hundreds march through the village on Wednesday during Seif's funeral. Clashes had erupted last week in Burqa after a demonstration in support of Palestinian prisoners, Wafa reported. The Israeli army said in a statement... Читать дальше...

He said he spoke with Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky earlier in the day and "told him that Canada will soon be sending highly specialised equipment to them." Canada had on February 14 already said it would deliver Can$7.8 million (5.5 million euros, US$6.1 million) worth of lethal equipment and ammunition, before adding another pledge of 25 million dollars in non-lethal protective gear. Beyond equipping Ukraine, Trudeau said three million dollars will go towards tackling Russian disinformation about Ukraine. Читать дальше...

The UK government on Tuesday (March 8) said it was setting up a visa centre for Ukrainian refugees in northern France, after anger that some were being turned away.

The first round of the French presidential election is now only a month away. Twelve candidates are vying for the French presidency – a unique, immensely powerful institution. Experts say it's the most powerful office in the democratic world. How much authority and might does France's leader have on the national and international stages, and what are the other perks that come with the top job? In this episode of French Connections Plus, Florence Villeminot and Genie Godula explore the many powers of the French president.

The Russian invasion of Ukraine has triggered one of the largest population movements in Europe since World War II. As the Ukrainian army is fortifying the cities, many city dwellers have fled to the countryside, where they have discovered a rural population determined to resist for the long term.

Thousands of images of the war have been posted on social media since the beginning of the Russian intervention in Ukraine on February 24. In order to compile and authenticate these countless photos and videos, the Centre for Information Resilience, a British NGO that promotes democracy and fights disinformation, has developed a collaborative map to document the conflict and allow people to access verified information.

Warne died at the age of 52 on the Thai holiday island of Koh Samui on Friday. His body is to be repatriated. An autopsy found he had died of natural causes following a reported heart attack. A state funeral for the legendary leg-spinner will be held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, with tickets open to the public, said a statement by the Victorian government. Warne "didn't just inspire a cricketing generation - he defined it," it said. Further details were still being finalised, the state government added. Читать дальше...

The so-called Life and Family Protection Law punishes women who "have induced their own abortion or given their consent to another person to carry it out" with 10 years behind bars -- more than three times the current sentence of three years. The bill, set to come into law once President Alejandro Giammattei signs it, was passed by Congress on International Women's Day. It also punishes anyone who induces an abortion without a woman's consent with up to 50 years in prison. Abortion is only authorized... Читать дальше...

Mykolaiv, a strategic city close to the southern port of Odesa, has been under intense fire by Russian forces. Some 160 Ukrainian soldiers have been admitted to a local hospital, but most of those wounded and killed are civilians.

Demonstrators demanded more help and stronger climate action as Morrison toured Lismore, which endured some of the worst flooding in a near two-week deluge along the east coast that has killed 20 people. "We need help!" protesters chanted as Morrison visited the city. Many of them held placards with messages blaming the climate crisis including: "Coal and gas did this" and "This is what climate change looks like." After the second major floods in a year, chunks of rubble and discarded, water-damaged... Читать дальше...

The warm spell caught some skiers off guard on the largely man-made snow at the Zhangjiakou cross-country event where six gold medals were up for grabs. Athletes in the Olympics last month at the same venue had battled blizzard conditions and a brutal wind chill, with some events postponed because of the weather. Norwegian cross-country skier Birgit Skarstein, who competes in the women's sitting category, likened the weather to July in Norway as temperatures in the nearby Zhangjiakou city nudged a balmy 17 Celsius (63 Fahrenheit). Читать дальше...

Liverpool stuttered into the quarter-finals of the Champions League with a 2-1 aggregate win over Inter Milan after suffering a 1-0 loss to the Italian side, who were reduced to 10 men, at Anfield on Tuesday. Bayern Munich cruised through to the last eight spot, crushing Salzburg 7-1.