France 24
| May 10, 2012
Algeria readied Thursday for its first election since the Arab Spring swept the region, with the historical ruling party, its moderate Islamist allies and the boycott camp all hoping to claim victory Thursday.
France 24
| May 7, 2012
Elena Casas Montanez provides an overview of France's newspaper headlines focusing on the French election, with coverage from Liberation, Le Figaro, and others.
France 24
| Apr 26, 2012
The Special Court for Sierra Leone finds Liberia's former president, Charles Taylor, guilty of aiding and abetting war crimes and crimes against humanity Thursday in a landmark judgment against a former head of state.
France 24
| Apr 23, 2012
French newspapers react to results from the first round of the country's presidential election, with many giving the Sarkozy campaign up for lost, and focusing instead on what a President Hollande might mean for France, as well as analyzing far-ri...
France 24
| Apr 6, 2012
France's far-left presidential hopeful Jean-Luc Mélenchon drew crowds of tens of thousands at an outdoor rally in Toulouse on Thursday, where he called for a return to national sovereignty and told supporters that France should withdraw fro...
France 24
| Apr 5, 2012
French President Nicolas Sarkozy's opponents suggested Wednesday he had been "stage-managing" the televised arrests of suspected Islamist extremists in order to give himself a boost in the upcoming presidential poll.
France 24
| Mar 29, 2012
The remains of Mohamed Merah, the 23-year-old Frenchman of Algerian origin who killed seven people in Montauban and Toulouse, will be interred in France after Algeria refused to allow burial there, an official at Paris's Grand Mosque said Thursday.
France 24
| Mar 28, 2012
Ashraf Khaul, a reporter for the Egypt Independent, explains what the row between the Egyptian army and the Muslim Brotherhood is really about.
France 24
| Mar 21, 2012
Just hours before French police raided a suspect's house in Toulouse on Wednesday, France 24's Ebba Kalondo spoke to a man claiming to be the gunman who killed four people at a Jewish school and three French soldiers in the space of 10 days.
Al Jazeera English
| Jan 23, 2012
Al Jazeera English's Listening Post looks at Russia Today, a news channel that seems more interested in reviving the Cold War than reporting what is really happening in Russia, today.
— Dec 4, 2012 at 04:31 pm
...pellets removed. He was transferred to a hospital outside Paris on Sunday. Tunisian authorities have not apologised for the incident. “I’m not n...
— Oct 21, 2012 at 05:40 pm
...the president Mohamed Morsi, and the Islamist hegemony of Egypt's future constitution. The Friday before that had seen clashes between members o...
— Oct 22, 2012 at 07:51 am
— Nov 9, 2012 at 06:39 am
France 24 is an international news and current affairs television channel based in Paris. Its stated mission is to "cover international current events from a French perspective and to convey French values throughout the world." It started broadcasting on 6 December 2006 under the presidency of Jacques Chirac and prime ministerial term of Dominique de Villepin.
The service is aimed at the overseas market, and broadcast through satellite and cable operators throughout the world. During 2010 the France 24 channel started broadcasting through its own iPhone app.
Based in Issy-les-Moulineaux in the suburbs of Paris, the channel broadcasts world news. Currently it offers variants in English and Arabic in addition to French. The channel has since 2008 been wholly owned by the French government, having acquired the remaining shares held by its former partners Groupe TF1 and France Télévisions. Its budget is approximately €100 million per year.
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