Новости за 19.09.2025

The 35th edition of the annual awards, which are organised by the science humour magazine Annals of Improbable Research, were held just a few weeks before the real Nobel prizes. Here are the 10 prize winners, which were announced at a raucous ceremony at Boston University on Thursday night. - Painting stripes on cows - A team of Japanese researchers won the Ig Nobel biology prize for showing that painting zebra stripes on cows meant that flies were less likely to bite them. While one of the researchers accepted the award... Читать дальше...

India won the September 14 group match by seven wickets in Dubai and afterwards refused to shake hands with their opponents, angering Pakistan. It was the first meeting between the neighbours since a four-day cross-border conflict in May left more than 70 people dead. The Pakistan Cricket Board lodged a protest with the International Cricket Council alleging that match referee Andy Pycroft had told skipper Salman Agha not to approach Indian counterpart Suryakumar Yadav for a handshake at the toss. Читать дальше...

Israel's bid to capture Gaza City has sparked international outrage, with the territory already devastated by nearly two years of war and gripped by a UN-declared famine. It comes ahead of a planned move by several Western countries, including France and Britain, to recognise a Palestinian state next week at a UN summit. The United Nations estimated at the end of August that about one million people were living in Gaza City and its surroundings. Israel says hundreds of thousands of them have fled the Gaza Strip's largest city. Читать дальше...

As the academic year begins, many students will embark on what has become a rite of passage: studying abroad for part of their course. However, the Erasmus+ programme is not limited to university undergraduates and postgraduates. Since its expansion in 2014, apprentices, trainers, job-seekers, and others have also benefited from these international exchanges. Founded in 1987 as Erasmus, the scheme has supported the personal and professional growth of more than 16 million people. Currently, 33 countries participate fully in Erasmus+ activities... Читать дальше...

The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in Sudan launched a drone attack on Friday that killed at least 75 people near the western city of El-Fasher, the last state capital in Darfur that is still in the hands of the Sudanese army. The strike hit a mosque in a camp for displaced people, first responders said.

Palestinian authorities have arrested Hicham Harb, a key suspect involved in a deadly 1982 anti-Semitic attack on a Jewish restaurant in Paris, according to French prosecutors. The arrest, which comes as France prepares to formally recognise of Palestine’s statehood at the UN General Assembly on Monday, marks a significant step forward in the decades-long pursuit of the perpetrators.

Suranga Wellalage was glued to the television back home in a Colombo suburb on Thursday for the game against Afghanistan when he collapsed and was rushed to hospital. The former amateur cricketer died of a heart attack aged 54. His son was told the heartbreaking news by Sri Lankan team management straight after the six-wicket win over the Afghans in Abu Dhabi. The news meant very muted celebrations as Sri Lanka went through to the next stage of the regional Twenty20 tournament. Within hours the... Читать дальше...

The 25-year-old Briton, who trails by 31 points in the drivers' title race, clocked a best lap in one minute and 42.704 to top the times, beating his 24-year-old Australian rival by 0.310 seconds. A similar 1-2 outcome in Sunday's race would clinch a second consecutive constructors' championship success for McLaren and leave the duo to fight for the individual title without the spectre of team orders. Ferrari's Charles Leclerc was third, half a second adrift closely followed by fourth-placed George Russell of Mercedes. Читать дальше...

On September 18, Donald #Trump praised ABC for pulling 'Jimmy #Kimmel Live' over criticism of Charlie #Kirk and suggested TV networks should lose their #licenses for negative coverage of him.

The English side had trailed 1-0 after the first leg of the final qualifying round last week in Norway, but Terland's treble against her compatriots secured a 3-1 aggregate win and United's spot in the inaugural 18-team league phase. "We are history makers," said United coach Marc Skinner. "I said to the players at the end, we've got to go in there and not just make up the numbers, we have to go and really be excited by the opportunity to play against Europe's best teams." Last year's quarter-finalists... Читать дальше...

Syria's Foreign Minister arrived in Washington, the first official visit at that level in more than 25 years. Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shibani will meet US lawmakers to discuss the lifting of remaining US sanctions on his country. FRANCE 24's Kethevane Gorjestani tells us more about the goals of his visit.

Myanmar is once again in the grip of civil war. Since the 2021 military coup that ousted the civilian government of Aung San Suu Kyi, hundreds of thousands of Burmese have fled to Thailand to escape escalating violence and a collapsing economy. Thai authorities are struggling to manage the influx, particularly in border regions. At the same time, Thailand faces a labor shortage – and increasingly relies on Burmese workers to fill critical gaps in the workforce.

In Estonia's far northeast lies the Baltic city of Narva, right on the border with Russia. With a tumultuous history marked by successive invasions – first Soviet, then Nazi, then Soviet again – Narva’s conflicting and divided memories of the past may play into the hands of its powerful Russian neighbour. Elena Volochine and Gulliver Cragg bring you this report.

Malawi has been one of the countries hit hardest by the Trump administration's funding cuts and tariff hikes. The stop-work orders issued by Washington in January have frozen several of the country’s key sectors, including health, education and infrastructure. As Malawians vote in the 2025 presidential elections, FRANCE 24 embarks on a journey across the country to assess just how much US policies have impacted one of Africa’s poorest nations. Tom Canetti, Caroline Dumay and Stefan Carstens report.

Recognition of a Palestinian state is "the best way to isolate Hamas", French President Emmanuel Macron said in a TV interview with Israeli broadcaster Channel 12 on Thursday. France is expected to officially recognise Palestine as a state early next week at the UN General Assembly.

New negotiations are set to begin this week between Washington and New Delhi on the Trump administration’s steep tariffs on imports from India. So far, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi has refused to bow to US economic pressure, counting on his country’s international clout rather than flattery of the US president to get Washington to compromise.

PRESS REVIEW – Friday, September 19: International media react to Jimmy Kimmel’s cancellation, calling it a “bad time for comedians,” and speculate on what the Trump administration might target next. According to The Washington Post, billion-dollar mergers are fueling the wave of TV host suspensions. Meanwhile, Russia has revived its “Soviet Eurovision” – a retro move seen as part of broader Cold War nostalgia. Finally, Vanity Fair profiles Pakistani journalist Taha Siddiqui and his Paris-based venue, the “Dissidents Club”.

The United States once again vetoed a UN Security Council resolution Thursday (September 18) that had demanded an immediate and permanent ceasefire in Gaza and the release of hostages after saying that the effort did not go far enough in condemning Hamas. FRANCE 24's Nicolas Chamontin and Simon Moritz bring us more with this report.

Israeli military spokesman Avichay Adraee told residents of famine-struck Gaza City on Friday the army would use “unprecedented force against Hamas”, urging them to leave the city and head south “to the humanitarian area”. Israel also shut down the “temporary transportation route” that was meant to help residents flee. Follow our liveblog for the latest updates on the war in Gaza.

France has given two Malian diplomats until Saturday to leave the country and suspendid its counter-terrorism cooperation with the country, weeks after a French envoy was arrested in Bamako. Paris is demanding the diplomat's release, calling the arrest 'unjustified', as Mali continues to accuse foreign powers of destabilising the country amid its ongoing security crisis.

US President Donald Trump complained about receiving bad publicity from TV networks and threatened to remove their licenses, fuelling a national debate on free speech that was sparked when talk-show host Jimmy Kimmel was suspended for his comments on the right using Charlie Kirk’s death to score political points.

Australia and Papua New Guinea this week agreed on the text of a deal which will see the countries commit to defending each other from armed attacks. Asked about the deal, a spokesperson for Beijing's embassy in Port Moresby said China respected Papua New Guinea's right to strike deals with other countries. But such a deal should not be "exclusive", nor restrict Papua New Guinea from cooperating with other countries, the spokesperson said late Thursday. "It should also refrain from targeting... Читать дальше...

Queensland ranks third-highest in Australia for drug use, the latest government data show, with around one in five people in the state reporting they had used in the past twelve months. Late on Thursday, the government of the northeastern state said it would ban funding for testing which checks the chemical purity of drugs for users to see if they have been laced with other harmful substances. The state's health minister Tim Nicholls said the government had a "zero-tolerance approach to illicit drugs". Читать дальше...

Residents of Plaridel, north of the capital Manila, could have told him what happened -- contractors had only just begun a project that government officials marked "completed" more than a year earlier. The dike is one of more than 100 flood-control projects at the centre of one of the country's biggest corruption scandals in decades. It has already sparked leadership changes in both houses of Congress, but the real impact is among communities left without protection, many of them strung along rivers in the Bulacan region. Читать дальше...