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The iconic French island of Mont Saint-Michel is deserted. Heavily reliant on tourism, the island’s businesses have lost one-third of their annual sales, with up to one-third of local tour guides expected to stop altogether.
Ukraine's navy fleet was eviscerated after Russia seized the Black Sea peninsula of Crimea last March and Moscow snatched the pride of the fleet moored in its strategic ports.
For more than nine months, Afghan girls over the age of 11 have been prohibited from going to high school. The Taliban have not reneged on the ban they imposed on taking power last August, despite their initial promise to do so. In the western city of Herat, FRANCE 24's reporters followed one teacher who hopes that her former students will be able to continue their education. They also met a teacher who is defying the ban by giving clandestine lessons. Meanwhile, some fathers are trying to convince the authorities to reopen girls' schools for their daughters.
French President Emmanuel Macron declared that he wants to “convince" a broad range of French voters to back his centrist vision, kicking off a two-week battle against far-right challenger Marine Le Pen ahead of the country's presidential runoff vote. Le Pen, meanwhile, is ready for the fight, eager to highlight rising prices for energy and food that have hit poorer households especially hard recently as Macron has focused his efforts on seeking a diplomatic solution to the war in Ukraine. Joining FRANCE 24 for analysis of the French presidential runoff is Professor Ariane Bogain, Senior Lecturer in French and Politics at Northumbria University. Macron must focus on left-leaning policies over the next two weeks, explains Professor Bogain. By addressing social justice and displaying a more conciliatory position on pension reform, she says that Macron "is clearly targeting the left voters so that they don't abstain. Because high abstention among left-wing voters will be beneficial to Marine Le Pen."
Locals go through the rubble of collapsed homes after an earthquake in the western Afghanistan province of Badghis killed at least 22 as it struck residential houses, mostly in the district of Qadis - a rural area not easily accessible by road.
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