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Satellite images verified by FRANCE 24 reveal that China has built a replica of Taipei’s presidential district in remote Inner Mongolia, fuelling speculation that Beijing intends to use the site as a training ground to prepare for a future invasion of Taiwan.

Nearly three quarters of French people eat chocolate once a week, consuming an average of 7 kilos per year. But what seems a simple indulgence has a dark side: cacao farming has resulted in massive deforestation. Reports of child labour and farmers who are often unfairly paid have tarnished the…

In this edition of arts24, Jennifer Ben Brahim meets nine-time Grammy-nominated musician Anoushka Shankar. She's a masterful sitarist and film composer as well as an impassioned activist, and has worked with the likes of Herbie Hancock, Patti Smith and even the Dalai Lama. Her love of composing beautiful blends of…

Social media users are sharing a video of a sunset which they claim provides proof that Earth is flat and the sun is “local”, by which they mean that it orbits a flat Earth at cloud level. This is actually an optical illusion.

Turkey's local elections on Sunday dealt the biggest blow in more than two decades to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his ruling AKP party.

Since the conflict between Israel and Hamas broke out last October, Yemen's Houthi rebels have been carrying out attacks against commercial vessels in the Red Sea, in what they say is a campaign of solidarity with Palestinians during Israel's war in Gaza. The Houthis' missiles and drones are spreading terror…

As Turkey's opposition celebrates a strong showing in local elections, the country's official inflation rate has crept back up to 67 percent, despite President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's shift towards mainstream economic policies. Also in this edition: Germany's legalisation of recreational cannabis aims to curb the black market, but misses out…

Seven members of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps including two high-ranking generals were killed in an Israeli attack on the Iranian consulate in Damascus, the Guards said in a statement Monday. Earlier in the day, Israel’s military confirmed it had withdrawn from Gaza’s main hospital, Al Shifa. The health ministry…

France will deliver hundreds of old armoured vehicles and new surface-to-air missiles to Ukraine in its war against Russia, French Defence Minister Sébastien Lecornu said on Sunday. The announcement came as a Russian cruise missile strike on infrastructure in Ukraine’s western Lviv region killed one man, while another man died…

Bulgaria and Romania joined Europe's vast Schengen area of free movement on Sunday, opening up travel by air and sea without border checks after a 13-year wait.

An Israeli air strike hit a tent camp in the courtyard of Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in central Gaza on Sunday, killing at least four people and wounding 17, World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said. Tedros said a WHO team was at the hospital when the strike occurred. The…