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Syria's Mar Musa monastery provides the tastiest mulberries, and its services draw from Eastern Orthodox Christian and Sufi customs.

While France confirmed its first case of Ebola, reports of people successfully treated for the condition are also emerging from Mongbwalu, the epicentre of the epidemic in the eastern part of the DRC. Although successful treatments are sparking hope among teams on the ground, hea

An intense heatwave that scorched western Europe this week spread into central and eastern parts of the continent on Saturday, bringing record temperatures from Denmark to Switzerland and Germany. The extreme heat disrupted transport, strained hospitals and renewed concerns over

The record-breaking heatwave in France is set to come to an end on Sunday, with the country's extreme weather alert expected to be lifted by the evening, bringing relief after temperatures climbed as high as 40°C this week. But the heatwave is far from over, as it shifts eastward

A skydiving plane crashed in eastern France on Sunday, killing all 11 people on board. The crash in the town of Tomblaine killed five instructors, five students and the pilot, according to local officials. The cause of the incident was not immediately clear, and a technical inves

Central and Eastern Europe are now taking the brunt of an extreme heatwave that has swept Europe in recent days as it moves further east. Among the country's seeing temperatures soar is Ukraine, where the war-battered energy grid is struggling to cope amid the surge in demand for

One month after Congolese authorities officially declared a new Ebola outbreak, the virus is still spreading in the east of the country and the death toll continues to rise. There are now more than 1,000 confirmed cases and more than 250 confirmed deaths. FRANCE 24's Aurélie Bazz

While France, Italy, the UK and the rest of western Europe reeled under a heatwave last week, central and eastern Europe sweltered too. The Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and the Balkans hit record temperatures. Ukraine imposed power outages as its grid buckled under demand. R

William Hilderbrandt is pleased to welcome Mateo Jaramillo Ortega, ICRC Regional Spokesperson for Eastern Africa. He asserts that '"civilian suffering in Sudan is not inevitable: much of the harm over the past three years, since the beginning of combat in Khartoum, and nowadays i

Ukraine still controls the strategically important eastern city of Kostiantynivka, President ​Volodymyr Zelensky and the General Staff said on Saturday, rejecting Russian claims that it has been captured. Russia's military told President ​Vladimir Putin ‌on Friday that its forces

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Sunday that fighting was continuing for the eastern town of Kostyantynivka, rejecting Moscow's claim that Russian forces had captured the strategic settlement. Zelensky also warned Russia was preparing a new wave of large-scale attac

Iran on Friday laid to rest Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, more than four months after his death in an air strike, as two days of US and Iranian attacks raised fears of a return to all-out war. Khamenei's flag-covered coffin was carried into the shrine of Imam Reza in his home city of M