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The ivory-billed woodpecker, whose last confirmed sighting was nearly 80 years ago, is one of 23 federally protected species that would be officially declared extinct under a US government proposal announced on Wednesday.
A Taliban spokesman on Tuesday declared the route to the airport onnly open to foreigners, urged skilled Afghans to stop fleeing the country, and warned that it would not accept any extension of the August 31 deadline for evacuations. FRANCE 24's Senior Reporter Catherine Norris-Trent is one of the very few Western reporters currently in Afghanistan. She reports on the growing tension near the airport.
The 74th edition of the Cannes film festival was declared open Tuesday by a bevy of acclaimed directors: Bong Joon-ho, Spike Lee, Pedro Almodovar, and Jodie Foster. BBC's Film Critic Emma Jones reports from Cannes.
Gunmen have kidnapped 140 students from a boarding school in northwestern Nigeria, a school official said on Monday, the latest in a wave of mass abductions targetting schoolchildren and students. Heavily-armed criminal gangs often attack villages to loot, steal cattle and abduct for ransom in northwest and central Nigeria, but since the start of the year they have increasingly targeted schools and colleges. FRANCE 24's Chinwe Ossundu tells us more.
The Taliban on Monday declared a three-day ceasefire for this week's Eid al-Fitr holiday, following a sharp spike in violence as Washington goes about withdrawing its remaining troops from Afghanistan.
Le transfert de ces patients vers la métropole doit permettre d'alléger la pression sur les services de réanimation en Polynésie, actuellement l'un des territoires français les plus durement touchés par l'épidémie de Covid-19.
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