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United States President Donald Trump announced on Tuesday that Washington would end its annual $3.8 billion (€3.4 billion) in aid to Israel, based on a mutual decision. The news coincided with midterm elections in which support for Israel has been a contentious issue.

French judges have opened a judicial investigation into a complaint of an alleged war crime, following an Israeli strike on a residential building in Beirut in November 2024, it emerged on Tuesday.

Democrats seized control of the US Congress on Tuesday, capturing the Senate and House of Representatives in a nationwide rejection of President Donald Trump set to put the brakes on the final two years of his presidency.

The United Nations has confirmed it has begun the process of ending its peacekeeping mission in Western Sahara, after Russia and the United States vetoed each other's draft resolutions on extending the 35-year-old deployment.

Students blockaded dozens of high schools across France on Tuesday to maintain pressure on the government over education reforms as trade unions prepared for a nationwide strike later this week.

France's top tennis player Arthur Fils on Tuesday starts his bid for the Paris Masters title, and a place at the season-ending championships in Turin.

In Miami’s Little Haiti, a man struggling to find steady work sees opportunity in Donald Trump’s politics. The president’s false claims about Haitian immigrants have not shaken his support. For the man known as Blood, what matters just before the midterm elections is the promise of a chance to earn a living.

A petition urging that a French television channel be taken off air gained traction on Monday, after accusations that far-right views it aired contributed to the racist killing of a black man. 

Monday marks the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists – chosen in memory of Ghislaine Dupont and Claude Verlon, two journalists from Radio France Internationale who were murdered in Mali on 2 November, 2013. According to a report by Unesco, attacks and harassment targeting the press continue to go largely unpunished in Africa and across the globe.

Health authorities investigating two suspected Ebola cases in north-eastern Nigeria ​confirmed on Monday that both samples were negative after ‌two rounds of testing.

A massive thunderstorm and flash flood warnings failed to deter voters in Miami as they headed to polling stations on Florida’s final day of early voting ahead of the US midterm elections.

France is readying for another week of protests after the head of a student group said a campaign of high school blockades would restart Monday, ahead of a nationwide day of strikes and protests on Thursday.

A year after paramilitary forces at war with the Sudanese army captured the strategic city of El Fasher, survivors and aid workers report that the capital of North Darfur state remains largely abandoned. Some residents are too scared to return, while thousands are still missing – many held in deplorable conditions in overcrowded prisons.

How do you report on the reality of a Russia at war from its capital? Based in Moscow for more than 30 years, the BBC's Russia correspondent Steve Rosenberg is one of the few Western journalists still working in the country. He spoke to RFI about his daily life as a reporter in Russia and why he has chosen to stay, despite the Kremlin's increasing hostility to foreign media.

French police say they've arrested five British far-right activists found carrying tear gas bombs as they were filming themselves harassing migrants near the northern Channel port of Dunkirk.

France has launched an attempted murder investigation after petrol bombs were thrown at security forces during a weekend protest in Paris, prosecutors told AFP on Sunday.

The forests of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo are a haven for some of the world's rarest species – but despite being protected areas, they are under threat from conflict, poaching and deforestation. After global decision-makers gathered at the United Nations' Cop17 biodiversity summit this week, Emmanuel Bahati Lukoo, a ranger at Kahuzi-Biega National Park, says people on the frontline of wildlife protection deserve greater recognition.

Two restaurant owners in the Florida Keys have differing views of Donald Trump's America on the eve of US midterm elections, with a French immigrant concerned about growing political divisions and a Cuban-American restaurateur still sympathetic to Republicans despite misgivings about the president.

The Youth Olympic Games opened with a spectacular ceremony in Senegal on Saturday, marking the first Olympic event in Africa as the continent seeks a bigger role in international sports competitions.

For Ukrainian media, exposing corruption in times of war is a high-stakes move – with domestic scandals potentially tarnishing the country's image in the eyes of the international partners it relies on. But journalists remain dedicated to their role as a counterbalance to the authorities, believing that upholding democracy is more important now than ever.