French PM says gendarmes to use armoured vehicles against riots
The French gendarmerie, a military unit with law enforcement duties among the civilian population that is distinct from the police force, will use armoured vehicles to suppress riots, Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne said Friday, following three nights of violence after the deadly shooting of a 17-year-old boy during a traffic stop in the Paris suburb of Nanterre. Follow our liveblog for all the latest developments.
The French gendarmerie will use armoured vehicles to suppress riots, Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne said Friday, after three nights of violence following the deadly shooting of a teenager during a traffic stop.
"Additional mobile forces" would be deployed along with the vehicles belonging to France's gendarmerie, Borne said, also announcing the cancellation of "large-scale events binding personnel and potentially posing risks to public order".
4:34pm: 'Perpetual lack of opportunity' in France's poorer suburbs
Poverty, lack of jobs and lack of opportunities are problems that have plagued many of the poorer suburbs surrounding Paris and other French cities for decades despite efforts to improve conditions by multiple French presidents, says FRANCE 24's international affairs commentator Douglas Herbert, following a third night of violence triggered by the police shooting of a teen in the Paris suburb of Nanterre.
War crimes surge in Burkina Faso, the world’s ‘most neglected crisis’
Villagers increasingly caught up in army crackdown on Islamist militants, with both sides accused of mass killings of civilians
Civilians in Burkina Faso are being punished by the “total war” the government is waging against Islamist militant groups, with both sides accused of war crimes.
The military has been accused of targeting the Fulani ethnic group, while jihadists have sought retribution against villagers they believe support the government.
According to the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (Acled), 1,694 civilians have been killed over the past year by the army and Islamist militants and the number soared between April and June, after a “general mobilisation” was announced to fight a more aggressive battle against the jihadists.
Chinese spy balloon did not collect information, US says
The Chinese balloon that flew across the US from Alaska early this year did not collect intelligence, the Pentagon said on Thursday.
Pentagon spokesperson Pat Ryder said that the US "took steps to mitigate" intelligence collection by the balloon.
The US Air force shot down the object just off of the South Carolina coast on February 4, after it had floated over the US mainland for days.
US officials have been studying the debris recovered from the Atlantic ocean.
"As you heard at that time, we were aware that the balloon has intelligence collection capabilities," Pat Ryder said in a press conference.
Darfur: Between two wars
Twenty years of conflict in Sudan, from Darfur to Khartoum and back.
In 2003, the Darfur war began. In 2023, a new conflict has engulfed the streets of Sudan's capital, Khartoum, while violence escalates in the restive western region. Where does this leave Darfur? Jérôme Tubiana, who has reported from the region numerous times since 2004, returned in March and early April 2023, just before the new conflict began.
I. Twenty years of war
It is 2023 and Darfur has officially been in conflict for 20 years.
But since January, speculation about tensions within the fragmented military apparatus in the Sudanese capital had funnelled attention away from this grim anniversary and towards worries about the immediate future. Then, on April 15, the fighting began - first in Khartoum, then the rest of the country. Now Darfur is embroiled in another conflict - or the extension and escalation of an old one.
Exclusive: Russian General Sergey Surovikin was secret VIP member of Wagner, documents show
Documents shared exclusively with CNN suggest that a top Russian military commander, Gen. Sergey Surovikin, was a secret VIP member of Wagner, the private military company that staged a brief rebellion exposing disunity among senior Russian military officials.
The documents, obtained by the Russian investigative Dossier Center, showed that Surovikin had been assigned a personal VIP Wagner registration number in 2018.
Surovikin is listed along with at least 30 other senior Russian military and intelligence officials, who the Dossier Center said are also VIP Wagner members. The identities of those officials has not been revealed.
Poland charges Russian ice hockey player with spying
An ice hockey player from Poland's major league has been charged with spying for Russia, Warsaw says.
The man, a Russian citizen, was arrested on 11 June in Silesia, southern Poland, and is believed to be part of a Russian spy ring.
Poland's Internal Security Agency (ABW) has so far detained 14 people suspected of being part of the group.
It says all of them are citizens of countries to the east of Poland, not necessarily just Russia.
The decades-long spy conflict between Russia and the West has intensified since Moscow launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
Poland is one of Ukraine's strongest allies, providing military and financial help as well as sheltering millions of Ukrainian refugees.
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