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The far-right Sweden Democrats have risen to become the second-largest party in parliament after Sunday’s election. French-speaking sympathisers with the party shared a video on Twitter that claims to show Islamists protesting against the anti-immigration coalition. But all is not as it seems. We tell you more in this edition of Truth or Fake. 

A ceasefire was holding Thursday on the Armenian-Azerbaijani border, Yerevan said, after the worst clashes since 2020 killed dozens of troops and jeopardised a fledgling peace process.

A Ukrainian volunteer medic, Yuliia Paievska, captured by Russia during its deadly siege of the port city of Mariupol told US lawmakers Thursday how Russians routinely tortured her and others, killing many detainees. Meanwhile, Russian President Vladimir Putin welcomed Beijing’s “balanced position” on Ukraine during a regional summit meeting with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping in Uzbekistan. Read FRANCE 24’s […]

Hungary is no longer a “full democracy” and the EU needs to do everything to bring it back into line with European values, the European Parliament said Thursday.

Despite the Ukrainian army’s rapid counter-offensive, Russian forces still occupy vast swathes of Ukraine, including much of Donetsk and Luhansk, the two regions that make up the Donbas. Cities in the Ukrainian-held parts of the Donetsk region suffer regular shelling, suffering significant damage to infrastructure and putting local people in danger. In July, Kyiv tried to impose mandatory […]

EU chief Ursula von der Leyen said Thursday that war-torn Ukraine would have Europe’s support for “as long as it takes”, as she visited Kyiv for talks on closer integration with the bloc.

At least three people were killed and 15 wounded Friday in Russian shelling on the Ukrainian towns of Kramatorsk in the east and Zaporizhzhia in the south, according to initial counts by local authorities. 

Volunteer firefighters have been called up from their day jobs all over France this summer to help battle wildfires.

Firefighters have been igniting tactical fires in southwest France in a bid to slow the advance of wildfires after a blaze that flared in Gironde on Tuesday grew to threaten an area the size of a small city. Further prevention techniques have seen firefighters monitoring the area from watchtowers for signs of smoke and soaking the […]

As Ukraine’s grain exports slowly restart, as estimated 45 million tons of produce is still sitting in warehouses. Large-scale agricultural producers are at the front of the export queue, leaving thousands of small and medium-scale farmers in a difficult position as they prepare to harvest summer crops in the coming weeks. “Nobody is buying from us at […]