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Around 250 municipalities in northern France will be declared in a state of natural disaster due to massive flooding, President Emmanuel Macron said Tuesday as he visited affected areas fearing further rises in the water level.
Hundreds of Syrians in the mainly Druze city of As-Suwayda took to the streets for a fifth consecutive day on Thursday, protesting at worsening economic conditions and demanding the departure of Syrian President Bashar al Assad. Mahmoud Naffakh, of France 24's Observers team, takes a closer look at the causes and consequences of these rare demonstrations against the Syrian authorities.
Whilst the war in Yemen has raged for eight years, the poorest country in the Arabian peninsula is experiencing an economic crisis, in large part due to two competing currencies. Saudi Arabia announced that it would provide £1.2 billion dollars to the country’s legitimate government to prop up its economy. In the city of Marib, on the front line, the crisis is in plain sight. FRANCE 24’s Edouard Dropsy reports, with Matthew Thompson.
We look at why the IMF's predicted economic growth of just 3 percent, the lowest forecast since 1990, could hurt developing nations most. We also take a closer look at Airbus's deal in China, as French President Emmanuel Macron meets his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping. Finally, we find out why Sean "Diddy" Combs has been paying Sting $5,000 a day, and has been doing so for years.
Little did we know how the Russian war in Ukraine would impact on the lives of people living in the world, but eleven months on, everyone is feeling the pinch in their pockets after food and energy prices increased. Euronews takes a look in Review of the Year