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The Danish government has released environmental activist Paul Watson after rejecting Japan's extradition request. The founder of the NGO Sea Shepherd, who has been detained in Greenland since this summer, can now return to France, where he lives with his wife and two young children.

He was a street-fighting revolutionary with a taste for flash cars and crisp shirts – a moralising bank-robber who was eventually gunned down in the streets of Paris. As a film recreates this astonishing figure’s notorious trial, we speak to his old acquaintances

Our team has identified at least 38 fake news stories about the 2024 Paris Olympic Games that circulated online since the start of the year, most of them thought to have been manufactured by Russia – from made-up terrorist threats to fictional attacks on athletes to fake media reports. Even…

Rights groups report rise in racist, homophobic and transphobic attacks in run-up to first round of voting

Sébastien Farcis, a French journalist who was the India correspondent for Radio France Internationale and Libération, has claimed that he was forced to leave the country with the Ministry of Home Affairs denying the renewal of his journalist permit. “No reason has been provided to justify this work ban,” he…

IN THE PRESS – Friday, March 15: As millions of Russians head to the polls for the country's presidential election, Vladimir Putin opponent Ilya Yashin gives an interview to French newspaper Libération, detailing his fears of being killed. Also, Russian officials have come up with innovative ways to get young…

A respected French journalist, who was Jerusalem correspondent for French daily Libération in the 1990s, has told FRANCE 24 how he hopes a temporary peace deal between Israel and Hamas can be achieved, but that longer term both sides need to try to see the situation from the other's point…

The incident allegedly occurred in July at a crew party for Je Le Jure – Mr Theis’s third project as a director

IN THE PRESS – Friday, October 6: We take a look into a report by French newspaper Libération on Ukrainian war crime investigators. Also, Indian press freedom is under scrutiny once more as the founder of website NewsClick is arrested. In other news: the French press feels the nerves ahead…

Russian propaganda is linking the current bedbug outbreak in Paris to Ukrainian refugees. To "prove" this false narrative, pro-Russian accounts on social media are sharing fabricated French media publications from Le Figaro, Libération and Contrepoints, falsely claiming that "parasite experts believe that the bedbug epidemic in Paris is linked to…

IN THE PRESS - Friday, July 14, 2023: As France celebrates its national holiday in the shadow of recent unrest, left-wing paper Libération laments cancelled festivities, especially in areas where many families can't afford to go on vacation. We also look at reactions to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's controversial…