By FRANCE24 The Paris prosecutor on Wednesday requested a five-year prison sentence and a five-year ban from public office against far-right leader Marine Le Pen, at a trial where she and 24 others are accused of embezzling European Union funds. The trial, which comes almost a decade after initial investigations started, threatens to undermine her […]
By Eve JACKSON This year’s Booker Prize winner Samantha Harvey speaks to France 24’s Culture Editor Eve Jackson about her wonder-filled space novel “Orbital”. They discuss climate change, fiction’s role in politics and Elon Musk’s space endeavors. Source: France 24 Category: arts24
By FRANCE24 Seeking shelter in a tent of sticks and rags after floods devastated her village in northeastern Senegal, Khardiatou Sy says she feels abandoned by the government days ahead of snap parliamentary elections. The 28-year-old is one of tens of thousands to have been displaced when torrential rains caused the Senegal River to burst […]