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Our Focus programme brings you exclusive reports from around the world. Every day at 8:45am Paris time.
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As British town councils face budget cuts, local residents lend a helping hand
Peeling paint, rundown roundabouts and shuttered post offices: in recent years, local public services across the United Kingdom have been in steady de...
Extreme heatwaves: Indians struggle and suffer from water shortages
In late April, 98 of the world's 100 hottest cities were located in India. From mid-April to May 2026, daily maximum temperatures exceeded 46°C across...
Nationalism on the rise: Anti-foreign rhetoric gains ground in Japan
For several months, Japan has been moving in a more nationalist and conservative direction. The shift has been fuelled by economic challenges at home...
Exiled for an anti-war drawing: A Russian family punished for dissent
It is the moving story of a Russian father and daughter who opposed Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine. It all began in March 2022, when 12-year-old Mari...
WWII internment of travellers: French survivors fight for recognition
Throughout World War II, discriminatory policies saw thousands of Romani, Sinti, Manush, Yenish and travellers displaced across France, imprisoned in...
Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa gets a facelift, but at what cost?
Ethiopians are heading to the polls for general elections that Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's Prosperity Party is expected to win. Ahmed, who has been in...
Pakistan: Male contraception still taboo despite looming demographic crisis
One of Pakistan’s greatest challenges is controlling its rapidly growing population. With more than 258 million inhabitants, the country is already th...
New Zealand sees brain drain to Australia amid stagnating economy
New Zealand is facing a major brain drain. Even former prime minister Jacinda Ardern has chosen to relocate to Australia. Her decision has reignited a...
Chile's Trump-inspired border controls complicate life for migrants
Just after taking office, Chile's new far-right President José Antonio Kast pledged to expel more than 300,000 undocumented migrants. Two months into...
Settler violence in the West Bank intensifies against Palestinians
In the occupied West Bank, illegal Israeli settlements are dramatically increasing, encouraged by the Israeli government and protected by the army. Me...
Germany becomes destination of choice for Jews leaving Israel
Last year, for the first time in its history, Israel recorded a negative migration balance. In 2024, 82,700 Israelis left the country, an all-time rec...
Gun violence in Guadeloupe: A never-ending fight against firearms
On the French Caribbean archipelago of Guadeloupe, there is one gun for every 10 residents. Since the beginning of the year, 12 people have already be...
As Palestinians mark Nakba, Israelis celebrate conquest of East Jerusalem
On May 15, Palestinians commemorated the Nakba ("catastrophe" in Arabic), referring to the forced exodus of Palestinians during the creation of the St...
India's rise of rural cinema: Film productions turn to the countryside
In 2025, Panchayat became the most-watched series in India. Its success stems from its story about the head of a village council in a rural area of ...
Loneliness: South Korea's silent epidemic
Half of all households in South Korea's capital Seoul have just one inhabitant. That trend is likely to continue, with more than 40 percent of men and...
The murky waters of Chile's salmon industry
Salmon is one of the most widely consumed fish in the world, with global demand exploding in recent years. In Chile, salmon farming has become the cou...
London's old double-decker buses and underground carriages get a second life
In London, the Tube and iconic red double-decker buses are deeply woven into the city's fabric. When these ageing vehicles retire, some are given a su...
Romanians fearful as Danube Delta targeted by Russian attacks
Several heads of state, including Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, are gathering in Bucharest this Wednesday for the B9 summit, which brings to...
Los Angeles's housing crisis: Essential workers priced out of the city
In the United States, home ownership used to be part of the American Dream. But today, in cities like Los Angeles, housing has become unaffordable for...
Germans confront past with Nazi party membership lists available online
As Europe commemorates the 81st anniversary of the Allied victory over the Nazis this May 8, many in Germany are discovering long-buried family secret...
Dharavi, India's largest slum, braces for major redevelopment plan
Located in the heart of the Indian metropolis of Mumbai, Dharavi is one of the world's most densely populated slums; home to nearly 1 million people....
Nearly 600,000 Venezuelans in limbo after losing temporary protected status
In 2025, the US Supreme Court provisionally authorised the Trump administration to lift Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for hundreds of thousands of...
Thailand's monkey business: Pharmaceutical labs rely on primate testing
Many pharmaceutical giants use monkeys to test drugs and vaccines. But since China banned the export of primates in 2020, prices have skyrocketed, fue...
The scourge of online gambling in Indonesia: Young people hooked on addictive sites
In Indonesia, almost 1 million minors are thought to have an online gambling habit. Worse, authorities say more than 80,000 online players are aged be...
Pimps in France turn to TikTok, luring minors into prostitution
Behind ordinary-looking TikTok adverts for "rose sellers" lies a sordid reality: a recruitment scheme linked to prostitution, often targeting minors....
Mauritania sees gold rush in Sahara desert
Despite fluctuations in its price, gold continues to fuel economies and often greed across Africa. Deep in the Sahara, in Mauritania, extraction sites...
Indian Muslims say they're being targeted as millions of voters deleted from rolls
Last year, the Election Commission of India launched a "Special Intensive Revision", or SIR, describing it as an exercise to eliminate duplicate or de...
Life in Tehran since the ceasefire: How Iranian society is evolving
As the stalemate continues in the Strait of Hormuz and peace talks between Washington and Tehran appear to be stalled, life in Iran seems to have retu...
Amsterdam becomes world's first capital to ban fossil fuel ads
Cities around the globe are clearing their billboards of adverts for flights, cruise ships and petrol cars in a bid to reduce global warming. Amsterda...
Fleeing war in Sudan, refugees flock to Libya's Kufra province
For the past three years, war has been raging in Sudan betwe en the regular army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, leading to more than 11 mi...
Residents pay the price as Afghanistan-Pakistan border remains closed
The border between Pakistan and Afghanistan has been completely closed for six months, a direct consequence of the conflict between Kabul and Islamaba...
Last remaining perpetrators of Rwandan genocide return to villages
Thirty-two years after the genocide in Rwanda, the country is undetaking its most sensitive task yet: reintegrating the last remaining perpetrators in...
India's 'wells of death': Gravity-defying stuntmen become social media phenomenon
It looks almost impossible: cars and motorbikes racing at full speed inside towering vertical arenas in India. These dangerous stunt shows are known a...
Living under threat of landslides: The Italian villages at risk of disappearing
With its mountains, hills and fragile cliffs, Italy is one of the European countries most susceptible to hydrogeological disasters: landslides, sinkho...
Spain at risk of housing bubble as Madrid attracts wealthy foreigners
In the last few years, Madrid has become a destination of choice for wealthy Latin American investors, as well as for young Americans. The latter are...
After three years of war, exiled Sudanese find their place in Kenya
This Wednesday marks three years since the start of the civil war in Sudan, a conflict that has forced 14 million people to flee their homes. Some 4 m...
Residents of Iraqi Kurdistan in despair: 'We weren't at war with anyone'
After a month and a half spent living under the threat of drones, residents of Iraqi Kurdistan are exhausted. Just 24 hours before the ceasefire, a ci...
Cold Response 2026: NATO holds Arctic drills to test readiness against Russia
As global attention remains focused on the Middle East, a parallel contest of influence is unfolding in the Far North, where NATO troops have recently...
Hungary's vote: Rising opposition threatens Orban’s grip on power
Hungary's election on Sunday could have repercussions far beyond its borders. Since Prime Minister Viktor Orban came to power in 2010, Hungary has bec...
India hit by Middle East war: Millions face gas shortages
In the weeks leading up to the ceasefire, the impact of the war in the Middle East was felt far beyond the region, reaching countries such as India. T...