Humanitarian aid organizations are struggling to deal with an avalanche of refugees amassing along Syrian borders as well as internally displaced people fleeing violence in the country.
Following in the footsteps of wayward EU member Hungary, one of Europe’s poorest countries, Romania, is the next post-Soviet state to be accused by Brussels of testing its democratic boundaries.
Pointing to recent statistics, France's Jewish communities have expressed alarm over a rise in anti-Semitic incidents since last March's deadly shootings of a rabbi and three schoolchildren in Toulouse. Is it a disturbing trend, or a cyclical spike?
Far-right National Front candidate Marine Le Pen obtained a surprising 18% of the vote in the first-round of France’s presidential election Sunday night. But who will those votes go to in the second round?
As the world marks International Women’s Day on Thursday, many Tunisian women fear they are losing the gains obtained before and during the revolution of January 2011. But some of them are not ready to give up.
In a Q&A with France 24, an expert sheds light on the obscure figure and prospective policies of Kim Jong-un, 29, who will likely succeed his father, Kim Jong-il, who died on Saturday.
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has said he will resign after Parliament passes austerity measures prescribed by the EU. Is this the end of his 20 years in politics? FRANCE 24 spoke to a specialist in Italian media.
The "Arab Spring" and domestic difficulties for both Hamas and the Israeli government were instrumental in negotiating the release of hostage Gilad Shalit, according to one Middle East expert.
The case of Troy Davis, an African-American scheduled to be executed in Georgia Wednesday for killing a white police officer, has added new urgency to arguments that the US justice system is racially discriminatory.
Parisian Muslims escaped a government ban on street prayers Friday when some 5,000 worshippers piled into a makeshift mosque in the north of the capital.
