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- by FRANCE 24Almost every district of Ukraine’s capital came under a “massive” attack on Friday, its mayor said. Russia fired missiles and drones at energy, rail and other critical infrastructure, officials said, amid intensified strikes since its 2022 invasion. At least 11 people were wounded, five of whom were hospitalised,
- by FRANCE 24A Brussels court on Thursday found Belgian jihadist Sammy Djedou — presumed killed in a 2016 airstrike — guilty of genocide against Iraq’s Yazidis. Djedou, an Islamic State fighter reported dead in Raqqa, was tried in absentia after Belgium received no formal confirmation of his death in its first Yazidi-related mass-crimes case.
- by FRANCE 24The BBC said on Thursday its chairman had apologised to US President Donald Trump for a misleading edit of one of his speeches, but denied it amounted to defamation. The broadcaster also said it was probing a possible second instance of a Trump speech edited in a misleading way.
- by FRANCE 24German Chancellor Friedrich Merz on Thursday told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that he neededto ensure that young Ukrainian men do not come to Germany in large numbers. Since Ukraine relaxed the rules prohibiting working aged men from leaving the country in August, the number of Ukrainian refugees enerting Germany has swelled.
- by The FRANCE 24 ObserversA number of videos have been circulating online that claim to show tearful Ukrainian soldiers who claim they were mobilised against their will. In reality, these videos are all deepfakes generated using the faces of Russian video game streamers.