'Final humiliation': Andrew stripped of 'prince' title is his 'biggest fall from grace'

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PRESS REVIEW – Friday, October 31: American papers discuss US President Donald Trump's nuclear reset that "revives a Cold War debate". Next: the British tabloids are on fire after Andrew is stripped of his royal "prince" title. Finally, how much is too much when it comes to Halloween decorations?

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42 million Americans facing hunger as shutdown enters second month

The US government shutdown barrelled towards its second month on October 31 and the pain is spreading fast -- with food aid vanishing and 42 million Americans caught in the crossfire on November 2nd. Republicans warned that millions will begin feeling the full force of the shutdown, while Democrats...

31/10/2025 16:36 France 24

Alleged Russian-linked hate attacks in France "are a double blow to those targeted"

Three Bulgarian men are on trial in Paris for alleged involvement in spray-painting blood-red hands on the city's Holocaust Memorial, with courts expected to give their verdict. French intelligence services link the act of vandalism to a campaign by Russia to destabilise France and other Western so...

31/10/2025 14:37 France 24

Sudan's RSF says it arrested fighters accused of El-Fasher abuses

Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces said they had arrested several of their fighters accused of committing abuses during the capture of the city of El-Fasher. Although the goal is to show that the RSF follows the rules of war, it's probable those arrests "are not significant at all" FRANCE 24...

31/10/2025 14:06 France 24

EU has a 'moral obligation' to developing countries on emissions: Sweden's ex-environment minister

The EU Council insists that the EU must leave next month's COP30 climate summit in Brazil with a clear path forward to keeping a lid on 1.5°C of warming. But is that target already out of reach? Our guest says that the world is actually on course for 2.9°C of warming, and that the international c...

31/10/2025 12:15 France 24

Ukraine's invisible wounds of war: Soldiers seek solace at Greece's Mount Athos

Mount Athos, in northern Greece, is the beating heart of the Orthodox Christian faith and home to 2,000 monks. But for the past year, it has also become a place of refuge and pilgrimage for Ukrainian soldiers. For these men, wounded at war and suffering from deep trauma, Mount Athos's retreats of...

31/10/2025 12:09 France 24

Rhetoric ramp-up around US nuclear weapons testing is reminiscent of Cold War

US President Donald Trump announced that the US would restart nuclear weapons testing. The move elicited shock and confusion, coming right before his meeting with his Chinese counterpart on October 29 -- and right after their Russian Counterpart had revealed two new nuclear-powered weapons earlier...

31/10/2025 10:59 France 24

Humanitarian crisis deepens in Sudan after RSF take over el-Fasher

Fears that the Sudan region of Darfur is plunging into genocidal violence are reviving. U.N officials have warned of a rampage after the RSF took hold of the city of el-Fasher, reportedly killing more than 450 people in a hospital and carrying out ethnically targeted killings of civilians and sexua...

31/10/2025 10:14 France 24

UN accuses Iran of widespread arrests, abuses after 12-day war with Israel

United Nations fact finders on Thursday condemned Iran for intensifying repression since its 12-day war with Israel in June, reporting more than 21,000 arrests and widespread mistreatment of minorities and journalists. ...

31/10/2025 02:53 France 24

A truce on whose terms? Trump hails pause in trade war with China

After launching a trade war with China, Donald Trump is now declaring a deal is at hand for a one-year truce. With nothing yet signed, we ask about the South Korean sit-down between the US president and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping, promises of reduced tariffs and computer chip exports by the...

30/10/2025 19:27 France 24

Sudanese missing in El-Fasher after paramilitary takeover are in ‘grave danger’, aid groups warn

International aid groups on Thursday warned that the trickle of people arriving at a refugee camp in Sudan from El-Fasher after it was seized by a paramilitary group is a sign of the extensive atrocities committed in the major Darfur city and the difficulties of trying to get to safety. The UN Secu...

30/10/2025 18:00 France 24

Sudanese refugees recount RSF violence in El-Fasher

#Refugees who fled #Sudan’s #El-Fasher recount brutal #RSF attacks, hunger and #shelling that killed their families. Aid groups call it war crimes, with around 2,000 people feared dead as the scale of atrocities committed when the RSF seized the city comes to light....

30/10/2025 17:06 France 24

RSF killed hundreds at Darfur hospital, aid workers say, as thousands others flee

More than 36,000 civilians have fled el-Fasher since the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces captured the army's last stronghold in the Darfur region. The UN and other NGOs have been warning about possible mass killings and ethnic cleansing, after hundreds were found dead in a hospital. Some that fle...

30/10/2025 16:04 France 24

Pokrovsk part of last major defensive arc stopping Russia from seizing Donbas

Ukraine's army chief said Thursday that Russian troops are intensifying its attacks on the eastern stronghold of Pokrovsk and that they are strengthening its defences to repel the attacks - but that the military's main priority is to save the lives of its soldiers. Alongside the Ukrainian controlle...

30/10/2025 16:00 France 24

Award-winning Swedish author Linnea Axelsson on the plight of the Sami people

An award-winning author has spoken of her verse novel which centres around the lives and traditions of her own Sami people. The Sami are indigenous to northern Scandinavia, including Sweden, Norway, Finland and Russia. Linnea Axelsson's book "Aednan: An Epic", or "Aednan - Terre-Mère" in French, t...

30/10/2025 14:12 France 24

US Halloween retailers feel brunt of tariffs on Chinese products

Tariffs on Chinese exports to the US are raising prices on Halloween supplies for consumers. One supply store owner in Washington DC says 95 percent of all of his wares are from China - making his business extremely sensitive to tariff increases. With both countries announcing a year-long truce in...

30/10/2025 14:07 France 24

Donald Trump announces US to start nuclear weapons testing again

US President Donald Trump said he has ordered the Pentagon to start nuclear weapons testing to equal China and Russia, a significant change in the US's weapon strategy. The move comes after Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the successful test of a nuclear-capable, nuclear-powered underwat...

30/10/2025 13:39 France 24

'Executions', 'torture' and 'carnage' in deadly Rio de Janeiro police raid

PRESS REVIEW – Thursday, October 30: First, we take a look at reactions in the Brazilian press after the deadly police raid in Rio de Janeiro. Next, papers discuss US, Chinese and Russian nuclear plans and a new nuclear weapon dubbed a "doomsday machine". Also: "Russia's moral guardians" are try...

30/10/2025 11:42 France 24

Trump-Xi summit yields tariff cut, one-year deal on rare earth minerals

A rare meeting between US President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping in South Korea has brought a 10 percent reduction in US tariffs and a one-year postponement of China's rare-earth export controls, a limited de-escalation of the two countries' trade war. Also in this edition: America's...

30/10/2025 11:18 France 24

A year on, families of Spain's flood victims voice sorrow and rage at memorial ceremony

Spain commemorated the anniversary of last year’s massive floods that killed over 230 people. A year later, citizens continue to express frustration over what they consider to be a botched government response, saying there could have been less deaths had the population been warned sooner. The hea...

30/10/2025 10:35 France 24

Ukraine tries to fend off intensifying Russian attacks on strategic eastern city

Ukrainian forces are struggling to fend off intensifying Russian advances around the eastern city of Pokrovsk. Moscow's troops have in recent weeks closed in on the key logistics hub after more than a year of grinding advances, which Kyiv says have come at a staggering human cost to Russia. FRANCE...

30/10/2025 10:23 France 24

Russia batters Ukraine’s energy grid with wave of deadly drone, missile attacks

Russia on Thursday launched a wave of drone and missile attacks targeting Ukraine’s energy grid, cutting power to thousands of households as winter approaches, Kyiv said. At least two people were killed and several children were wounded in the strikes. “[It’s a] bad blow in our efforts to kee...

30/10/2025 10:11 France 24

Trump orders immediate resumption of US nuclear weapons testing

US President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that he has directed the Pentagon to immediately restart nuclear weapons testing, citing the need to match the capabilities of Russia and China as he prepared to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping in South Korea....

30/10/2025 02:15 France 24

AI-generated videos of Hurricane Melissa flood social media

From shark videos to news reports, AI is taking fake disaster content to a new level. If you have opened TikTok or X in the past 48 hours you may well have seen AI-generated photos and videos of Hurricane Melissa, as the storm blasted across the Caribbean. The flood of disinformation prompted Jamai...

29/10/2025 22:09 France 24

'Any kind of solution has to be rooted in Palestinian self-determination and Israeli security'

FRANCE 24's Mark Owen speaks with Yael Berda, Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology & Anthropology at Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Co-Chair of "A Land For All", about the war in Gaza. She says that even amid the fragile ceasefire 'we have to have an endgame, we have to see that t...

29/10/2025 20:49 France 24

'The suspicion is firmly at Russia's door': Four Bulgarians on trial for defacing Holocaust memorial

FRANCE 24's Antonia Kerrigan looks back over the first day of the trial of four Bulgarians accused of defacing a Holocaust memorial with red hand prints. The Paris prosecutor’s office says the incident may have been orchestrated by Russia....

29/10/2025 18:13 France 24

Genocide warnings 'flashing red' after RSF takeover of Sudan's El-Fasher

Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have seized the western city of El-Fasher amid reports of extreme violence and mass killings. The capture of the key city in the Darfur region is a strategic boon for the paramilitary group, raising fears that Sudan’s ongoing civil war will enter a new phase o...

29/10/2025 18:03 France 24

3,000 Gaza survivors living in the Emirates Humanitarian City hope to rebuild lives there

Since the start of the war on October 7th 2023, the UAE has evacuated 3,000 Gazans; mostly families with injured or seriously ill children. Many are trying to rebuild a normal life. While some hope to return to their homeland, others now see their future in the Gulf. But with a fragile ceasefire in...

29/10/2025 16:04 France 24

WWI soldiers' messages found on Australian beach in a shored-up bottle

Messages in a bottle written by two Australian soldiers a few days into their voyage to the battlefields of France during World War I have been found more than a century later on Australia’s coast. One of the soldiers requested the bottle's finder deliver his letter to his mother at Wilkawatt, no...

29/10/2025 15:08 France 24

As the war takes a new turn, who are the fighting sides in Sudan?

The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces seized control of the entire Darfur region, after ousting the rival Sudanese army from its last stronghold there in el-Fasher. Its capture raises fears that Africa's third-largest nation may split again, nearly 15 years after the oil-rich South Sudan gained ind...

29/10/2025 14:31 France 24

Defaced memorial trial thought to be part of series of Russian interference cases

The four Bulgarians on trial in Paris are facing seven years in prison if found guilty of defacing a Holocaust memorial in 202. It is believed to be one of many cases of Russian interference in the country trying to exacerbate tensions related to the Israel-Hamas war. FRANCE 24's Antonia Kerrigan t...

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