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• Zelensky meets US envoy after Trump brands him a 'dictator' February 20, 2025
  Tensions between Zelensky and Trump over the US President's outreach to Moscow have exploded this week in a series of escalating barbs traded in press conferences and on social media. Amid the war of words, Zelensky said Thursday he had held a "productive meeting" with US envoy Keith Kellogg. In the US, some of Trump's […]
• Germany's crunch elections: Can mainstream parties blunt surging far right? February 20, 2025
  Crunch elections for Germany at perhaps the most pivotal moment since the fall of the Berlin Wall. Back then, it was about making a success of reunification. Now comes a reckoning over the German model that ensued. Under threat, the kind of global free trade that powers Germany’s export-driven economy. Instead it’s Trump’s tariffs, a Russian […]
• From the frontline: a Ukrainian soldier speaks to FRANCE 24 February 20, 2025
  Vadym Adamov is a 20-year-old veteran of the Ukrainian army, who fought the battle of Bakhmut. He is also a videographer. For FRANCE 24, he answered François Picard's questions.
• Zelensky meets US envoy after Trump brands him a 'dictator' February 20, 2025
  Volodymyr Zelensky was meeting Thursday with US envoy Keith Kellogg after Donald Trump branded the Ukrainian leader a "dictator" and said the Russians "have the cards" in any talks to end the war. Analysis by FRANCE 24 International Affairs Editor, Kethevane Gorjestani.
• Twenty-four hours in Ukraine’s Kharkiv, where life goes on despite the war February 20, 2025
  Kharkiv, eastern Ukraine’s largest city, is resolutely entering its fourth year of war, with residents stoically coping with emergency laws, night curfews and incessant air alerts. Underground schools have been built, and the city still offers a few leisure activities to ward off fear and help overcome personal tragedies. FRANCE 24 shares the daily lives […]
• France leaves last remaining military base in Ivory Coast February 20, 2025
  Ivory Coast officially took control of the last remaining French military base in the country as the majority of French forces departed from countries across West Africa. Story by Anna Pereira and Antonia Kerrigan.
• A model in crisis: Germans head to polls amid economic downturn February 20, 2025
  The economy is a top concern for voters in Germany as they go to the polls on Sunday to elect a new government. The country has seen two consecutive years of economic contraction and this stagnation could very well continue for a third year. Its post-Covid recovery was completely stunted by Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine […]
• Who are the Gaza hostages whose bodies have been returned to Israel? February 20, 2025
  Hamas handed over the bodies of Israeli infant Kfir Bibas and his four-year-old brother Ariel, the two youngest captives taken by Hamas in their October 7, 2023 attack and among the most potent symbols of the trauma inflicted that day. Story by David Gilberg and Charlotte Hughes.
• Press conference between Zelensky and Donald Trump’s Ukraine envoy is canceled by US February 20, 2025
  A news conference after talks between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and President Donald Trump’s Ukraine envoy was canceled at the request of U.S. officials, a Kyiv official said. More information with FRANCE 24 correspondent in Kyiv, Gulliver Cragg.
• France's parliament votes to limit use of man-made 'forever chemicals' February 20, 2025
  France's lower-house National Assembly voted Thursday to limit the sale and production of items containing dangerous and highly polluting "forever chemicals". Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) have been used since the 1940s in the mass production of waterproof, stain-resistant or non-stick objects.