Five years of financial woes

August 9th 2007 is widely accepted as being the day the global financial crisis really got under way. That was the day when French bank BNP Paribas expressed its fears over the subprime mortgage market in the US, starting domino effect of economic misery that is still casting a shadow over most Western countries. Five years on, the Eurozone is still in major trouble and there's little sign of things improving in the near future.

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24/11/2009 - ENVIRONMENT

Could fishing quotas save dwindling tuna stocks?

Members of the International Convention for the Conservation of Atlantic Tuna have voted to lower the tuna quota to 13,500 tonnes for next year. For the Japanese, who consume 80% of the world's tuna, the cuts are excessive.

23/11/2009 - MIDEAST CONFLICT

Saving Sergeant Shalit

After three years of difficult negotiations, there is growing speculation in the Middle East that Hamas will release Franco-Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit in return for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners, although no official deal has yet been signed.

23/11/2009 - FOCUS

Cambodia's forgotten generation

An investigation into a little known legacy of the Khmer Rouge regime: children born from the hundreds of thousands of forced marriages in an effort to “further the glory” of Cambodia.

20/11/2009 - EUROPEAN UNION

Spanish farmers hard hit by credit crisis

The agricultural sector has been particularly hard hit by the credit crisis. FRANCE 24 takes a closer look and reports from Spain, where farmers are set to stage a strike this Friday in protest at plunging prices.

19/11/2009 - FOOTBALL

Does football need video?

Thierry Henry's controversial handball in France's match against Ireland on Wednesday gave Les Bleus a place in South Africa next year. But it has also sparked a debate: does the sport need video to catch cheating instead of a referee's naked eye?

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