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Workers at Esso-ExxonMobil and TotalEnergies refineries and fuel depots in France’s northern Normandy region on Wednesday voted to continue a strike over wage disputes despite the government’s threat to use force to order staff back to work as fuel shortages cause havoc for millions of motorists.

Ukraine says its air defence systems shot down a majority of Russian rockets that were launched on the day following deadly strikes across the country. FRANCE 24’s Gulliver Cragg reports.

Striking French fuel refinery workers voted Wednesday to continue their stoppages and blockades, defying the government which began ordering some of them back to work in a bid to get supplies flowing.

It’s a revolution in a country with a pacifist tradition. In June, the German parliament voted to spend €100 billion to modernise the army and replace obsolete equipment. The special fund is meant to create the biggest conventional army in Europe. Before the war in Ukraine, that would have been unthinkable. But the population backs […]

US President Joe Biden left the door open Tuesday to diplomacy with Moscow to end the invasion of Ukraine, refusing to rule out talks with President Vladimir Putin at the meeting of G20 nations in Bali in November. Follow FRANCE 24’s live blog for all the latest developments. All times are Paris time (GMT+2). 

In an exclusive interview with FRANCE 24 following Russia’s recent missile attacks on Ukraine, Lithuania’s Prime Minister Ingrida Simonyte said the reason civilians are being targeted is because Russia is “losing on the battleground”, and want to “create panic and exert pressure on Ukrainian society – and us”.

Andriy Dolgopolov, a Grad rocket battery commander, and his wife Tetiana Dolgopolova, a first aider in the Ukrainian army, met three years ago while serving in the Donbas. Now, they find themselves fighting side-by-side against Russia’s full scale invasion. “The most important thing is that couples are not jealous of each other,” says Andriy. “And […]

With energy prices in Europe and around the world rising, there are concerns that this winter in France will be tough. Consumption will need to be reduced, and in a worst-case scenario, cuts will be unavoidable. This is just one of the consequences of the ongoing war in Ukraine. But electricity in France is predominantly […]

Ukraine vowed to strengthen its armed forces after Russia launched its biggest aerial assaults on cities since the beginning of the war, forcing thousands to flee to bomb shelters and prompting Kyiv to halt electricity exports to Europe. Follow FRANCE 24’s live blog for all the latest developments. All times are Paris time (GMT+2). 

In southern Spain, the Donana National Park, one of the largest wetlands in Europe, has run dry. A year and a half ago, UNESCO declared the area “overexploited”, but since then it has also been the victim of an extreme drought. Ecologists say action is urgent, but many locals say that tackling the problem would […]