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Cannes spotlights Cameroonian film: ‘It’s high time African stories influence world cinema’

The Cannes Film Festival delivered its first honours on Thursday with a historic prize for Malaysia’s “Tiger Stripes” while African movies continued to enjoy the Cannes spotlight with the screening of “Mambar Pierrette”, an intimate portrait of a free-spirited seamstress and single mother in Cameroon. Its director, Rosine Mbakam, sat…

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DeSantis's troubled Twitter campaign launch underlines issues since Musk takeover

Technical malfunctions have marred Florida Governor Ron DeSantis's announcement that he's running for US president. The hyped Twitter Spaces appearance was 20 minutes late in starting, repeatedly lost sound and many users said they had trouble logging in. Since Elon Musk took the reins, Twitter has struggled with a myriad…

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Russia has begun moving tactical nuclear weapons to Belarus, Lukashenko says

Russia's Wagner mercenary group is withdrawing its forces from the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut and is transferring its positions to Russian army units, according to the group's founder Yevgeny Prigozhin. Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said Thursday that Russia had begun moving ahead with relocating tactical nuclear weapons to his country.…

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A look at the Free Russia Legion, the pro-Ukrainian group that attacked Belgorod

A cross-border incursion into the Russian region of Belgorod on Monday put the Free Russia Legion under the spotlight, prompting questions about this mysterious paramilitary unit of anti-Putin Russians.

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Europe to regulate AI to enjoy its benefits and protect users

This week, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is in Europe, meeting with leaders like French President Emmanuel Macron. Altman rose to fame with ChatGPT, but he has also become one of the industry's most prominent voices calling for regulation to ensure artificial intelligence is used responsibly. FRANCE 24's Science reporter Shirli…

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Pro-Kyiv Russian group says it 'didn't lose a single soldier' in cross-border raids on Belgorod

FRANCE 24 spoke to exiled Russian opposition figure Ilya Ponomarev, the political representative of the Freedom of Russia Legion. This Ukraine-based paramilitary group of Russian volunteers has been involved in cross-border incursions into Russia's Belgorod region in the past last few days. Ponomarev claimed the pro-Ukrainian, anti-Putin group "didn't lose…

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Russian border region Belgorod targeted by overnight drone attacks, says official

A Russian official in the southern Belgorod region bordering Ukraine said Wednesday that the territory was targeted by numerous drones overnight, following an armed incursion into the territory from Ukraine. The news comes after the state TASS news agency cited Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov as saying that Russia would achieve…

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‘In the Rearview’: Polish filmmaker brings Ukrainian refugees' plight to Cannes

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has effectively knocked out the country’s film industry, resulting in a starkly diminished presence at the Cannes Film Festival this year – though the war is still very much part of the Cannes conversation. Maciek Hamela’s documentary “In the Rearview”, about the evacuation of Ukrainian refugees,…

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Cannes movie explores roots of Sudan bloodshed, making festival history

Tunisia’s Kaouther Ben Hania joined early frontrunners for the Palme d’Or in Cannes with her haunting “Four Daughters”, about the decision by a group of teenage girls to join the jihad in Syria. Meanwhile, Africa’s “Cannes moment” continued with the timely screening of Sudanese drama “Goodbye Julia”, whose director spoke…

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Malaysian tweens earn their ‘Tiger Stripes’ in Cannes coming-of-age body horror

A young girl’s experience of puberty gets the body-horror treatment in Amanda Nell Eu’s playfully rebellious “Tiger Stripes”, the first feature by a Malaysian female director to premiere at the Cannes Film Festival. FRANCE 24 spoke to Eu about the making of the movie and its universal message.

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Women & Cannes: Anger over Johnny Depp's inclusion

The Cannes Film Festival kicks off and while seven out of the 21 directors nominated this year are female, there's anger over the opening movie starring Johnny Depp who's staging a comeback after winning a defamation trial against his former wife, Amber Heard, who accused him of abuse. Also protests…

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Foreign students in Northern Cyprus: False promises and disillusion

In Turkish-controlled Northern Cyprus, education has become the leading economic sector. No less than 23 universities are concentrated in the small self-declared state recognised only by Turkey, which has occupied it since 1974. They attract students from developing countries by offering affordable courses with a "European" stamp of approval. But…

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Ukrainian troops brace for long-awaited counteroffensive

Ukraine's armed forces are braced for the country's much-touted counteroffensive. Near the southern frontline in Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia region, an intensive ground assault training programme is currently taking place. FRANCE 24’s Catherine Norris Trent, Johan Bodin and Dmytro Kovalchuk went to meet the troops poised to try and break through Russia’s…

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Africa’s ‘Cannes moment’ opens with tribute to Malian great Souleymane Cissé

The record number of African films at the 76th Cannes Film Festival has fuelled talk of a moviemaking revival on the continent, powered by a new generation of female directors. Fittingly, this year’s Carrosse d’Or award, part of the Directors Fortnight strand, went to Mali’s Souleymane Cissé, the veteran director…

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Rainfall improves France's groundwater levels, but many areas still in red

Europe is monitoring its groundwater levels, hoping to avert acute shortages over the summer and mitigate a crisis in some of the driest areas. FRANCE 24's Science reporter Shirli Sitbon looks at the situation in France, where it has rained in some regions in recent weeks, but not everywhere. Many…

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Ten years of gay marriage in France: Same-sex couples reflect on a decade of change

May 17 is the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia. This Wednesday also marks exactly 10 years since gay marriage became legal in France. Since then, around 7,000 such marriages have taken place each year in the country. Back in 2013, FRANCE 24's reporters Pauline Godart and Claire Paccalin…

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Intensive farming identified as key factor behind Europe's bird decline

Europe has lost about one quarter of its bird population over the last 40 years. A new study from the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences shows that intensive farming is the key factor in this decline, even more so than global warming or urbanisation. FRANCE 24's Science reporter…

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A police station or a high school? Deadly clashes in Senegal as locals and gendarmes dispute land use

Violent clashes between the gendarmerie and the Lebu community erupted on May 8 and 9 in Ngor, a district of Senegal's capital Dakar. The conflict began over a land dispute: the gendarmes want a police station while locals want to build a high school. According to four eyewitnesses who spoke…

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Music show: Faada Freddy keeps humanity at the heart of his music on new optimistic EP

Senegalese singer Faada Freddy released his critically acclaimed debut “Gospel Journey'' back in 2016. He went on to tour the globe performing some 300 concerts worldwide. Now, he’s breaking his long recording silence with a new EP, “Tables will turn”, a message of optimism after the turbulence of the Covid-19…

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Zelensky says he thanked pope for support over Ukraine 'tragedy'

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said he had thanked Pope Francis during a meeting in the Vatican Saturday for focusing on the plight of millions of Ukrainians after the Russian invasion. Earlier in the day, Germany pledged to send a new weapons package to Ukraine worth €2.7 billion ($2.97 billion), reportedly…

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'Without water, we are nothing!': Spain's crippling drought reignites tensions over Tagus river

An early scorching heatwave across Spain has worsened the impact of the country's long-term drought, causing unprecedented damage to the country's crops. As farmers grow desperate for irrigation, the government's plan to limit the rerouting of water from the nation's longest river – the Tagus – for agricultural purposes lies…

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A week of turmoil in Pakistan: Breaking down the Imran Khan case

Pakistan's former prime minister Imran Khan has been released on bail after his arrest earlier this week was ruled unlawful. For months, Khan had managed to avoid arrest, but when he was finally taken into detention while in court this past Tuesday, chaos ensued outside. Nearly 2,000 people have been…

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Head of EU's democracy watchdog: 'We have to raise our voices'

The watchdogs of EU democracy will have to be "much louder in the future" if they hope to see off a mounting threat from homegrown populists and autocrats who are chipping away at Europe's founding commitments to free speech and the rule of law, a top EU official has warned.…

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Thirty-five years on, murder of anti-apartheid activist Dulcie September still unsolved

On March 29, 1988, South African anti-apartheid activist Dulcie September was shot dead at close range in central Paris. In the 1970s, she had been imprisoned in her home country for her activities against the apartheid regime. Upon her release, she had been authorised to leave South Africa on the…

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Wife of jailed Russian activist Kara-Murza says she will 'never stop fighting' for him

FRANCE 24 spoke to Evgenia Kara-Murza, the wife of Vladimir Kara-Murza, a Russian opposition activist who was recently sentenced to 25 years in jail by a Moscow court for "high treason" because of his outspoken criticism of the war in Ukraine. Kara-Murza sent a message to her jailed husband: she…

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