Four people were reported dead Thursday and more than 180 injured as thousands of firefighters battled huge blazes spreading across the Mediterranean resort regions of Turkey's southern coast.

French heavyweight judoka Teddy Riner suffered a shock defeat on Friday, losing to Tamerlan Bashaev of the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) team in the men's judo +100 kg division and bowing out from the gold medal race in the quarter-finals.

Portugal on Thursday said it will ease anti-coronavirus measures at the weekend thanks to declining Covid-19 infections and progress made in vaccinating the nation's 10-million population. The government aims to gradually lift the restrictions in thr...

France's Martinique will go into a partial lockdown due to a surge in Covid-19 cases. There is growing concern among officials in Paris over the infection rates in France's overseas territories in the Caribbean, Indian Ocean and the Pacific where vac...

A film warehouse in Sao Paulo was partially destroyed by a fire Thursday just months after employees of the Cinemateca Brasileira had warned of such a disaster, accusing the government of deliberately neglecting the cultural institution. Fifteen fi...

Monsoon floods and landslides have cut off more than 300,000 people in villages across southeast Bangladesh and killed at least 20 people including six Rohingya refugees, officials said Friday. The region along the Bangladesh-Myanmar border where n...

The first person convicted under Hong Kong’s national security law was sentenced to nine years for terrorist activities and inciting secession, judges said on Friday, in a watershed ruling with long-term implications for the city’s judicial land...

The Orthodox monastery of Valamo in Finland usually receives around 160,000 visitors a year, many from Europe and Russia who come to experience the peaceful surroundings and expansive orthodox library, as well as the country's largest whisky distill...

Lebanon battled rapidly spreading wildfires for a third straight day Friday after they destroyed pine forests and threatened homes in northern areas. The blaze that started Wednesday in Lebanon's remote Akkar region "is spreading quickly over large...

British rower Josh Bugajski accused former chief rowing coach Juergen Grobler of "destroying" athletes as a searching inquest began Friday into the nation's disastrous showing at the Olympics regatta. Britain's rowers mustered just one silver and o...

A Hong Kong waiter was jailed for nine years on Friday after he became the first person convicted under a sweeping new national security law that Beijing imposed on the city to stamp out dissent. Tong Ying-kit, 24, was found guilty on Tuesday of te...

Australia suffered a blow to their men's basketball gold medal hopes Friday with Toronto Raptors star Aron Baynes ruled out of the rest of the Olympics with a neck injury exacerbated by a bathroom fall. The triple Olympian picked up the problem in ...

The Philippines will send more than 13 million people in the national capital region back into lockdown next week, the government said Friday, as it tries to head off a surge in cases of a hyper-contagious coronavirus strain. Experts have warned of...

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett announced on Thursday that Israelis over 60 would be offered a third dose booster of the Pfizer vaccine against Covid-19. FRANCE 24's Emerald Maxwell reports.

Russian Karen Khachanov set up an Olympic men's singles final against either Novak Djokovic or Alexander Zverev by overpowering Pablo Carreno Busta in the last four on Friday. The 12th seed, a former top-10 player who has struggled for consistency ...