Author: France 24

Excitement is building, one day ahead of the start of the famous round-the-world yacht race, the Vendée Globe, setting off from France’s Atlantic coast. How does one prepare for the 3-month unassisted mega sailing race? FRANCE 24’s Cédric Ferreira and Natalia Riuz Giraldo met some of the skippers, including Clarisse Cremer, one 6 women participating.

A day after the US government announced new export restrictions hitting China’s chip industry, Beijing retaliated with a ban on the sale of key minerals like gallium and germanium to the United States.  Plus, after its bizarre rebranding campaign was met with a social media storm, Jaguar unveiled its next-generation, all-electric concept car as it tries to turn around its business. 

French President Emmanuel Macron and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman signed a strategic partnership deal in Riyadh and pledged to help de-escalate the Middle East conflict, particularly in Lebanon, with a call for the holding of long-delayed presidential elections. 

French rock and metal have been gaining prominence on the world stage. From Grammy-nominated Gojira playing the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympics to the country being home to one of the world’s biggest Metal festivals, it’s no surprise France has finally launched an official Rock and Metal chart. Arts24 looks at how the genre gained popularity with heavy metal band Mass Hysteria’s bass player Jamie Ryan.

Cycling great Mark Cavendish announced his retirement from the sport on Saturday, writing on social media that his final race will be Sunday’s Tour de France Criterium in Singapore.

The board of the world’s fourth largest automaker, Stellantis, said that its CEO Carlos Tavares had stepped down from his position on Sunday. The group, which owns brands such as Jeep, Chrysler and Peugeot, had experienced a sharp fall in sales this year, especially in the US market. Also, we look at how a political impasse over budget talks could bring down the French government. 

Insurgents launched a surprise two-pronged attack on Aleppo last week reigniting Syria’s civil war and opening up another violent front in the Middle East with the possibility of drawing Russia and Turkey into the conflict.

Indonesia is the Asian capital of wildlife trafficking, a market estimated at $20 billion according to Interpol. The archipelago is one of the world’s biggest reservoirs of biodiversity. Wild animals are already the victims of massive deforestation, but they now face another. On the islands of Java, Sumatra and Borneo, poachers capture wild animals in their natural habitats and sell them at markets in Jakarta or online. While some of the animals remain in Indonesia, most are sent to other countries in Asia. In response, the Indonesian government is tightening laws against wildlife trafficking. Poachers and traffickers currently face a…

An author who has drawn strong parallels with the iconic Black lesbian feminist writer Audre Lorde has spoken to FRANCE 24 about Lorde’s legacy, and her hope that she is carrying on her message. Alexis Pauline Gumbs is author of the new biography “Survival is a Promise – The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde”. At the same time, she’s in Paris to promote her latest book published in 2022 in English, entitled “Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals”, which has now been translated into French as “Non-noyées”. We spoke to her in Perspective.

Fiorentina’s match with Inter Milan was suspended on Sunday after midfielder Edoardo Bove suddenly collapsed to the ground amid scenes of anguish at the Franchi stadium in Florence.