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Added on the 25/10/2018 11:17:31 - Copyright : AFPTV - First images
Olivier Dubois, a French journalist and the world's sole remaining French hostage has been released after being kidnapped by jihadists in the Sahel in 2021. The US aid worker, Jeffery Woodke, who has been held captive since 2016 can also be seen in the footage. IMAGES
Music rises in the streets of west London as the famous and colourful Notting Hill Carnival returns after two years of Covid cancellation. Started as a children's fayre by local communities to ease tensions in a racially divided 60s London, the Carnival is now a world-reknowned celebration of the British Afro-Caribbean identity. IMAGES
A helicopter takes off from a military airport, after the landing of Burkina's ex-president, Blaise Compaoré, following 8 years in exile. A convoy of vehicles is also seen leaving the site. IMAGES
Russians commemorate the killing of investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya 15 years ago on President Vladimir Putin's birthday, as her newspaper, Novaya Gazeta, warns time has run out to punish the masterminds behind the murder. IMAGES
French Prime Minister Jean Castex boards the Paris-Nice night train in the French capital. The service is resuming after a pause of more than three years. The journey is just over a thousand kilometres and the train is expected to arrive at 9:11am on Friday. IMAGES