Author: France 24

Street art used to mean spontaneous scribbles under the cover of darkness; now those images hang in major museums and sell at auction for millions. A new exhibition at the Petit Palais in Paris is celebrating the universal language of street art. “We Are Here” features work from around the world, including an installation by French artist Seth. He tells us how collaborating with people around the world has informed both his style and the way he creates his pieces, and why we should adopt more of a child-like attitude when we encounter artwork in galleries.

In Zimbabwe, the countries’ struggling healthcare system is driving desperate cancer patients to unregulated herbalists. Doctors warn these types of alternative medecines could be doing more harm than good. Story by Laurent Berstecher.

Liverpool kept up their unbeaten run with a 1-0 victory over Girona on Tuesday. Real Madrid beat Atalanta 3-2 away depite Kylian Mbappe’s injury. Both Paris Saint Germain and Aston Villa won their matches. 

China’s antitrust authorities announced the opening of an investigation into Nvidia over a possible breach of a deal struck back in 2020. The move is part of a wider US-China confrontation regarding chip technology which can power artificial intelligence systems, military equipment and cyber warfare infrastructure. Washington had ramped up its export controls on chip technology to China last week, placing 140 Chinese entities on a trade blacklist.

The U.N. special envoy for Syria said European nations should not rush to repatriate refugees to the country following the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s government, and he urged foreign players, including Israel, not to intervene militarily.

Nominations for the 82nd Golden Globe awards were announced on Monday with French Director Jacques Audiard’s genre-defying “Emilia Pérez” leading with 10 nods ahead of fellow musical “Wicked”. Stars of film and TV featured heavily in this year’s list of nominations, while the award body continues to recover after years of upheaval and scandal.

France 24 correspondent Jessica Le Masurier provides the latest developments after police in Altoona, Pennsylvania, arrested a 26-year-old man on Monday over the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson last week.

As Syrian rebels topple the government of Bashar al-Assad in Damascus, we take stock of what over a decade of fighting has done to the country’s economy. Syria’s GDP has been decimated by the conflict’s human and material toll, while the Syrian pound has plummeted. On its last legs, the cash-strapped regime grasped at any opportunities to bring in revenue, including producing and trafficking narcotics.

As the insurgents swept across Syria in just 10 days to bring an end to the Assad family’s 50-year rule, they broke into prisons and security facilities to free political prisoners and many of the tens of thousands of people who disappeared since the conflict began back in 2011. More information with FRANCE 24 International Affairs Commentator, Douglas Herbert.

This week on Paris des Arts, an artist with a capital A! A leading light in new French chanson, and mad for literature and poetry – Dominique A sits down with us in the Maison de la Poésie in Paris, an emblematic location for him, before we head to the Theatre de Nouveautés alongside actor and comedian Max Boublil for the lowdown on his new show, “a delicate situation”.