Rebecca GNIGNATI

1 week ago | france24.com | François Picard |Rebecca GNIGNATI |Elisa Amiri

Donald Trump dispatching his director of Homeland Security Kristi Noem to stump for nationalist right candidate Karol Nawrocki. The Law and Justice party of the outgoing Andrej Duda hopes to rally the 20-percent of voters who veered further to the right in the first round. In a nation where living standards have skyrocketed since joining the EU two decades ago, why are so many citizens eager to elect Eurosceptics?

1 week ago | france24.com | François Picard |Rebecca GNIGNATI

The U-S state department pausing visa applications for the country’s more than one million foreign students this quote “in preparation for an expansion of required social media screening and vetting.» In a land that prides itself on its first amendment of the constitution guaranteeing free speech, who decides when posting a picture of a Palestinian flag constitutes a national security threat? A passing fancy or the true decline of US soft power?

1 week ago | france24.com | François Picard |Rebecca GNIGNATI |Elisa Amiri

With the United Nations out of the loop, and Gaza residents forced to travel vast distances mostly for what look like rations, the international community warns it's a bid to force the displacement of a population that's only seen a trickle of aid since a March Second embargo. What's Israel's ultimate goal? And will the United States sign off on a move condemned by some of the Jewish State's closest allies like Germany and Italy?

2 weeks ago | france24.com | François Picard |Rebecca GNIGNATI

Ramaphosa reportedly now offering a workaround of post-Apartheid local Black ownership laws, laws to address historical inequality in a nation where whites make up 7-percent of the population but still own 70 percent of the land. Adding pressure on Donald Trump’s visitor, a lie that’s even appeared unsollicited on Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence chatbot.

2 weeks ago | france24.com | François Picard |Rebecca GNIGNATI |Elisa Amiri

At the time, allies insisted on Israel’s right to respond. But now, even nations with historical reasons for giving the Jewish state a wide berth are critical, the likes of Italy, the Netherlands, Germany, and the UK which has just summoned Israel's ambassador while suspending free trade talks. It's signed a communiqué with Canada and France which may recognize a Palestinian state next month.