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Border clashes between Thailand and Cambodia continued for the third day on Saturday with the death toll from the conflict rising to at least 33. More than 138,000 people have been evacuated from Thailand’s border regions and 35,000 have fled their homes in Cambodia. The UN Security Council held an emergency meeting on the crisis on Friday.

In tonight's edition, former DRC president Joseph Kabila is now on trial for treason, accused of backing M23 rebels in the country’s troubled east. 

Also, the UN World Food Programme announced it will suspend aid operations in Nigeria starting next month.

And a young senegalese herder  has returned to his village after five years of transhumance across several countries. 

Influencerinnen und Influencer müssen sich in Italien künftig an einen rechtlich bindenden Verhaltenskodex halten. Damit will die Regierung für mehr Transparenz in der Werbung sowie für den Schutz von Minderjährigen und dem Urheberrecht sorgen. Wer sich nicht an die Regeln hält, muss mit Geldstrafen von bis zu 600.000 Euro rechnen, teilte die italienische Kommunikationsaufsichtsbehörde (AGCOM) am Donnerstag mit. Auslöserin für den Kodex war Italiens wohl bekannteste Influencerin, Chiara Ferragni.

European powers on Friday urged an end to Gaza's "humanitarian catastrophe" as the UN food agency warned almost a third of people in the war-ravaged Palestinian territory were not eating for days. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres also slammed the 'indifference and inaction' of the international community to widespread starvation in the region.

Mit einer Episode, in der US-Präsident Donald Trump heftig verspottet wird, haben die Macher der Animationsserie „South Park“ den Zorn des Weißen Hauses auf sich gezogen. Die Folge nahm auch den Medienkonzern Paramount ins Visier, nur wenige Stunden nachdem er tief in die Tasche gegriffen hatte, um sich die Rechte an „South Park“ für sein Streamingportal zu sichern – und nur kurz nachdem Paramount einen Rechtsstreit mit Trump beigelegt hatte.

US President Donald Trump is traveling to Scotland on Friday as his family’s business prepares for the August 13 opening of a new golf course. During his visit, he will also meet with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.

Paris will host talks between Syria, France and the United States "as soon as possible" to integrate the autonomous Kurdish administration into the Syrian state. The Kurds control large swathes of northeast Syria and are negotiating with the central government in Damascus on the integration of their civil and military institutions into the national framework.

Despite heavy Israeli pressure, French President Emmanuel Macron announced Thursday that France will formally recognise the state of Palestine at a UN General Assembly in New York this September. FRANCE 24 looks back over the state’s long road to widespread diplomatic recognition.

Deutschland, Frankreich und Großbritannien haben Israel zur Aufhebung aller Beschränkungen für humanitäre Hilfslieferungen nach Gaza aufgerufen. „Die humanitäre Katastrophe, die wir derzeit im Gazastreifen beobachten, muss jetzt enden“, forderten Deutschlands Kanzler Friedrich Merz, Frankreichs Präsident Emmanuel Macron und der britische Premier Keir Starmer am Freitag in einer gemeinsamen Erklärung. Zudem plädierten sie für einen sofortigen Waffenstillstand und die „bedingungslose“ Freilassung aller Hamas-Geiseln.

🏗️ On July 24, President Donald Trump did a public tour of a renovation project at the Federal Reserve building, in Washington. During the visit, Trump and Fed chief Jerome Powell had a tense exchange. 

💰 The central banker vigorously shook his head in disagreement when Trump put forward a $3.1 billion figure for the cost of the work, instead of $2.7 billion.

💥 Relations between the two men have been tense since Trump's return to the White House. The Republican president appointed Powell during his first term (2017-2021). Powell was then reappointed by Democrat Joe Biden. But Trump claims to bitterly regret this choice and regularly subjects the chair of the Federal Reserve to virulent criticism, in particular regarding interest rates.

🚪However, it would be very complicated for Donald Trump to dismiss the Fed chair, who is practically impossible to remove. Such a dismissal would be unprecedented and would require proof of serious misconduct or malpractice on the part of the highly respected central banker, whose term ends in May 2026.

The morning of July 20, a convoy of 25 trucks from the World Food Programme (WFP) carrying essential aid crossed the border into northern Gaza. Civilians who were gathering to try to access the aid came under fire by the Israeli military, according to both the WFP and those present. The Israeli army denies this. Our team spoke to Ahmed Abou Askar, a young Palestinian who was among those trying to collect food.

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The medical charity Doctors Without Borders said Friday that a quarter of all young children and pregnant or breastfeeding women screened at its clinics in Gaza last week were malnourished. The aid group, known by its French initials MSF, said the "Israeli authorities' deliberate use of starvation as a weapon in Gaza has reached unprecedented levels, with patients and healthcare workers themselves now fighting to survive".