The 2026 Youth Olympic Games have officially kicked off in Senegal. Crowds gathered for Saturday’s opening ceremony, featuring hundreds of drummers and dancers celebrating Senegalese and wider African culture, in keeping with the Games’ motto: “Africa welcomes, Dakar celebrates”. It is the first-ever Olympic sporting event to be held on the African continent, but comes…
Halloween celebrations have been embraced in many countries around the world. Charlotte Hughes brings us this round-up.
In Saint-Malo, in France’s Brittany region, the legendary Route du Rhum is preparing to set sail. Billed as the world’s biggest solo transatlantic race, it sees skippers sail alone from France’s northern coast to the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe. It’s a high-speed, high-risk crossing that takes place every four years.
For many voters, the cost of living is the single biggest issue. Our reporters Jessica Le Masurier and Sarah Andersen travelled to Michigan to meet voters, where, according to one NGO, around 40% of the population struggle to afford basic necessities.
Protests in France have helped inspire youth demonstrations elsewhere in Europe, from Portugal and Italy to Germany. Germany saw particularly large rallies on Saturday, led by a youth initiative whose name roughly translates as “Gen Z has got this”. Demonstrators called for better education and healthcare, stronger climate protection and a more affordable cost of…
As we saw in that report, protesters were frustrated at being kept on the outskirts of the French capital. There are also reports of social media posts about the demonstrations being suppressed. Daniel Quinlan has more.
A heavy police presence was hard to miss on the streets of Paris on Saturday, as the capital saw demonstrations for a third consecutive weekend over the rising cost of living and deteriorating conditions in schools. But the increased security failed to prevent clashes in several parts of the city. Riot police fired tear gas…
A drone strike hit a power station in northern Sudan early on Sunday, sparking a fire and triggering loud explosions, witnesses told Anadolu.The attack targeted the Abu Hamad power station in River Nile state, about 334 miles (538 kilometres) north of the capital, Khartoum, according to witnesses.They said loud explosions were heard around the facility…
Guardian understands Home Office continues to detain dozens of people, with one group forcibly removed this weekThe Home Office is still putting asylum seekers on to planes to France weeks after the controversial scheme to remove them ended, the Guardian has learned.The “one in, one out” scheme was announced by the French president, Emmanuel Macron,…
Yemeni government appoints governors for two provinces partly controlled by Houthis