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Huesik: Korean for binge drinking
SOUTH KOREA A classic South Korean working day usually ends up in Huesiks, binge drinking sessions cast as social events. But behind the drunken smiles lurks an alarming variety of health problems...
View ArticleFighting the African Brain Drain
According to the International Organisation for Migration every single year 20,000 professionals leave the continent for jobs in the Western world. It's a trend that the United Nations believes is the...
View ArticleNine years on, questions still hang over Karachi killings
It's been nine years since 11 French engineers were killed in an attack in Karachi, Pakistan. Yet the authorities are no closer to bringing anyone to account, let alone finding out the motive for the...
View ArticleFears of a fresh conflict between Israel and Hamas
Israel has "opened the gates of hell" according to Hamas, the Islamist party in control of Gaza. On Wednesday, the head of Hamas's military wing, Ahmed Jaabari, was assassinated by an Israeli air...
View ArticlePyonyang celebrates "successful satellite launch"
Defying international pressure and a UN-imposed ban, North Korea has carried out its second missile test this year. Pyongyang is celebrating its successful 'space mission' but the move will likely lead...
View ArticleHundreds dead after quake strikes Yunnan province
An earthquake of at least 6.1 magnitude struck China’s Yunnan province on Sunday, killing at least 367 people and injuring more than 1,800 with hundreds still missing, state media reported. Thousands...
View ArticleUS border crisis: 'The children are refugees, not immigrants'
An influx of tens of thousands of Central American children at the US border has sparked an intense debate among politicians and the media on immigration. FRANCE 24 spoke to Michelle Brané of the...
View ArticleDeadly strike on Gaza school was a 'criminal act', UN says
An Israeli air strike on Sunday killed at least 10 people and wounded some 30 others at a UN-run school in the southern Gaza Strip, witnesses and medics said, prompting UN chief Ban Ki-moon to condemn...
View ArticleFrench troops 'kill several' ex-Seleka fighters during clashes in CAR
French peacekeepers killed several militiamen after they came under attack while on patrol in the Central African Republic, an officer with the African peacekeeping force said Tuesday.
View ArticleIsrael’s army withdraws from Gaza as truce begins
Israeli ground forces on Tuesday withdrew from the Gaza Strip as a 72-hour ceasefire went into force in a bid to end nearly a month of fighting.
View ArticleExperimental drug may have saved US Ebola victims
Two American aid workers rushed back to the US after contracting the Ebola virus have responded positively to an experimental drug developed in a government and military research programme.
View ArticleRosetta space probe makes historic rendezvous with comet
European scientists announced the historic rendezvous on Wednesday between a comet and the Rosetta spacecraft after a 10-year, six billion-kilometre (3.7-billion-mile) chase through the solar system.
View ArticleNATO warns Russian 'peacekeepers' could invade Ukraine
NATO officials warned on Wednesday that Russia could use the excuse of an humanitarian or peacekeeping mission to invade eastern Ukraine while revealing that Moscow had amassed 20,000 combat-ready...
View ArticleVideo: shock as Palestinians return to Gaza destruction
FRANCE 24’s special correspondents in Gaza followed Palestinians taking advantage of the ceasefire to find their possessions amid the rubble of their destroyed homes.
View ArticleEx-Khmer Rouge leaders sentenced to life in prison
A UN-backed tribunal in Cambodia has sentenced two top Khmer Rouge leaders to life in prison on war crimes charges for their role in the country’s 1970s terror.
View ArticleLiberians choose self-medication in Ebola fight
As the death toll from Ebola mounts, with victims including health workers, some Liberians are staying away from hospitals and opting for self-medication.
View ArticleAir Algérie cockpit voice recorder ‘unreadable’
Voice recordings taken from the cockpit of Air Algérie flight AH5017, which crashed in Mali killing 116 people last month, are “unusable”, French investigators attempting to determine the cause of the...
View ArticleVideo: Russia food ban a ‘nightmare’ for French farmers
French food trader Jean Selverro will lose €200 thousand a month because of Russia’s import bans on food from the European Union, announced this week. Normally, 90 percent of his apples and pears are...
View ArticleUS begins air strikes on ISIS fighters in Iraq
The US has begun air strikes on Islamic militants in Iraq, the Pentagon said Friday, a day after President Barack Obama authorised an aerial bombing campaign on jihadists from the Islamic State of Iraq...
View ArticleAir strikes, rocket fire resume as Gaza ceasefire ends
The Israeli military said Friday it had resumed strikes on targets “across Gaza” in response to Hamas rocket fire from the enclave soon after a three-day truce came to an end at 5am (GMT).
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