With CCTV cameras on almost every street corner, London is the European capital with the most video surveillance, and facial recognition is becoming increasingly prevalent. According to London’s Metropolitan Police, this tool allows them to be more efficient in making arrests. But locals are divided on its implications for their privacy. Our France 2 colleagues […]
Continue ReadingAhead of talks between US, Ukraine and Russia in the UAE, Zelensky gave a very critical speech in Davos, accusing the EU of lacking political will in, a surprising change of tone for the Ukrainian president. But for FRANCE 24’s Gulliver Cragg, this could be a calculated move “to keep Americans on side”, and especially […]
Continue ReadingUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on January 22 blasted the EU’s lack of “political will” in countering Russian leader Vladimir Putin, during a fiery address criticising some of Kyiv’s top allies at the World Economic Forum. In a marked departure from his usual warm rhetoric towards the EU, he slammed what he sees as inaction. Since, […]
Continue ReadingAlison Sargent welcomes Christopher Featherstone, Associate Lecturer in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of York. Mr. Featherstone frames the “Board of Peace” not as a clearly defined peace initiative, rather as a “Trump Show” spectacle. Lacking a long-term vision, it’s a platform for Trump to maintain global relevance, under the […]
Continue ReadingOfficials representing Ukraine, Russia and the United States are set to meet in Abu Dhabi on Friday for their first trilateral talks on security issues in a bid to end the war in Ukraine. Diplomatic efforts to end the near four-year-long war have gained momentum in recent months, but Moscow and Kyiv remain deeply divided […]
Continue ReadingUkrainian, US and Russian officials will hold security talks in the United Arab Emirates on Friday, the Kremlin said, after senior US negotiators met President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on a US-drafted plan to end the war in Ukraine. Diplomacy has intensified, but deep divisions persist over territory.
Continue ReadingSpanish investigators on Thursday recovered two more bodies from the wreckage of a high-speed train collision last weekend, raising the death toll to 45. The back-to-back rail accidents have fuelled safety concerns in Spain, which observed three days of mourning after the crash in Andalusia, its deadliest rail disaster in over a decade.
Continue ReadingWhile the world waited Wednesday on what Donald Trump would utter on Greenland, what if we missed the bigger picture? That for 73 minutes, the US president before an audience of traditional transatlantic allies in Davos, hurled invectives and insults while doubling down on what’s now official US policy, the assessment that Europe’s a continent […]
Continue ReadingThe European Union must remain vigilant and ready to respond firmly in case of new threats, President Emmanuel Macron said in Brussels ahead of an emergency EU leaders summit to discuss U.S. President Donald Trump’s public intends to acquire Greenland. FRANCE 24’s Nicholas Rushworth reports.
Continue ReadingSpeaking with FRANCE 24’s Sharon Gaffney, Steven Durlauf, Director of the Stone Centre for Research on Wealth Inequality and Mobility at the University of Chicago’s Harris School of Public Policy, says that ‘the damage has been done and it’s very persistent’, following the announcement by US President Donald Trump that he was scrapping the planned […]
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