- new'Passengers in London are facing severe disruption'
"These are serious strikes and union workers would say for serious 'cost of living' times", reports Bénédicte Paviot, FRANCE 24 correspondent in London. She describes a situation where inflation had…
- 5 hours ago 19 Aug 22, 9:28am -
- Strikes halt London's transport network as inflation affects wages
London's transport network ground to a halt on Friday as train and bus workers held strikes over pay and conditions, the latest in a summer of labour market disputes as double-digit inflation eats int…
- 6 hours ago 19 Aug 22, 8:19am -
- In Ukraine's martyred Bucha, more victims are buried without a name
In March, during the early days of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, numerous atrocities were committed in small towns north of Kyiv – horrors that are still being documented today. In Bucha, an est…
- 8 hours ago 19 Aug 22, 6:32am -
- Live: Electricity from Russian-held Zaporizhzhia plant belongs to Ukraine, Guterres says
During a visit to the key Black Sea port of Odesa on Friday, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said the electricity generated at the Russian-held Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant belongs to Ukrain…
- 11 hours ago 19 Aug 22, 3:46am -
- Finland's Prime Minister Sanna Marin slams leaked video of her partying
Finland's Prime Minister Sanna Marin on Thursday said she was upset that videos of her dancing at private parties were published online as they were meant to be seen only by friends.
- 14 hours ago 19 Aug 22, 12:44am -
- EU-mediated talks fail to quell Kosovo-Serbia standoff
EU-mediated "crisis management" talks Thursday between Serbia and Kosovo failed to quell rising tensions between the Balkan neighbours, but further dialogue will take place, the bloc's diplomatic chie…
- 20 hours ago 18 Aug 22, 6:06pm -
- Rail workers stage latest strike in UK as inflation hits four-decade high
Railway staff in Britain on Thursday staged the latest in a series of strikes, once again disrupting commuters and leisure travellers, as decades-high inflation hits salaries and prompts walkouts acro…
- 23 hours ago 18 Aug 22, 3:08pm -
- Violent thunderstorms batter France’s Corsica, death toll mounts
Fierce thunderstorms and hurricane-force winds hit the French island of Corsica on Thursday morning, killing at least five people, including a teenage girl, and injuring dozens of others, local a…
- 1 day ago 18 Aug 22, 10:06am -
- Volunteers from the Georgian Legion help Ukrainians repel Russian army
In the first weeks after the Russian invasion in February, thousands of volunteers from all over the world, not all of them with military experience, flooded into Ukraine to help repel the Russian arm…
- 1 day ago 18 Aug 22, 4:47am -
- Erdogan warns of ‘another Chernobyl’ after talks with Zelensky, Guterres
Following talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and UN chief Antonio Guterres in Lviv on Thursday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned of the dangers of "another Chernobyl" disa…
- 1 day ago 18 Aug 22, 3:12am -