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Vatican

Benedict XVI's funeral: How the Vatican will bury the pope emeritus

The ceremony will be the first of its kind, as the Vatican has never had to bury a pope while another, reigning pope was still living.

Climate

How a storm turned a French resort into a climate change laboratory

Pensioners Anne and Jean Birault became climate migrants 12 years ago, after one night in La Faute-sur-Mer changed their lives forever.

28 December 2022

Europe

Europe's health workers slam 'empty' post-pandemic promises

Euronews interviewed public health professionals across Europe and they all agree: working conditions have only worsened since the pandemic and they are demanding action.

12 December 2022

Spain

'Terrifying cocktail': Spain's worst environmental disaster, 20 years

Never before had 63,000 tonnes of heavy fuel oil washed up on Iberian coasts, creating a 2,000 kilometres-long polluted area stretching from Portugal to Spain and all the way to France.

14 November 2022

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World News

Columbus Day: What is celebrated on 12 October in Latin America?

While Spain, Italy and the United States celebrate the day Christopher Columbus landed on the American continent in 1492, some Latin American countries have opted to venerate their indigenous cultures instead of their colonisers.

12 October 2022

Cry Like A Boy

Liberia’s Ebola gravediggers still live with trauma six years on

Mark Korvayan was head of the burial team during Liberia’s Ebola crisis. He tells the #CryLikeaBoy about his experience.

18 November 2021

Europe

Locals on the deadly floods that put climate at top of election agenda

Of the 180 people that died in Germany amid record flooding in July, 133 were neighbours of the Ahr Valley.

23 September 2021

World News

How have the 9/11 attacks changed life for Europeans?

The plane hijackings may have targeted the US but their repercussions were felt worldwide. Here's how Europe changed after the devastating attacks.

10 September 2021

Cry Like A Boy

Podcast | Liberia’s army of peace: The women who stood up to warlords

The power of women, that’s what this episode of the CryLikeABoy podcast is about. Listen to Cecelia Danuweli and Gini Reticker reflect on the role of women during the civil war in Liberia.

Cry Like A Boy

Podcast | The women who redefined the frontline in Liberia's civil war

Liberia had been in a spiral of violence, hunger and death for more than a decade when the country's women said enough was enough and united to end the war. #CryLikeaBoy

Cry Like A Boy

Podcast | Liberia's invisible war wound: from warrior to black sheep

We join Liberian journalist Carielle Doe to explore the war wounds that cannot be seen but are difficult to heal. The ex-combatants who once lived by their own rules now struggle with PTSD #CryLikeaBoy

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Podcast | Liberia’s civil war: the soldiers who battled masculinity

Liberia’s brutal civil war pushed soldiers and masculinity to the extreme. Jonathan and Morris had to show strength even when they feared death. Join our talk with Liberian journalist Carielle Doe as we retrace the past #CryLikeaBoy

Spain

Is Morocco using migration as a bargaining chip against the EU?

A heavy influx of 8,000 migrants in Spain last week came following the hospitalisation of Ghali in the country, a move that angered Morocco.

World News

Europe's weather 'forced a record number from their homes in 2020'

The Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) said flooding had triggered a record 120,000 displacements, while 5 major storms displaced 6,200 people across nine countries, “double the annual average for the last decade".

Cry Like A Boy

How a small Cape Verde island became an LGTBI oasis in Africa

In the port city of Mindelo in Cape Verde, lives Tchinda Andrade, a trans woman in her thirties. Wearing a short skirt, she sells her Brasilian fritters in the streets in broad daylight. No one insults or attacks her #CryLikeaBoy

Destinations

How to have a local experience in a very touristy country

Euronews journalist Marta Rodríguez shares some tips on how to get the best out of a trip to her native Spain.

Poland

This Polish teen's cosmetics website is helping women escape violence

Poland has one of the worst records on preventing violence against women in Europe.

Cry Like A Boy

Podcast | The European origins of today's homophobia in Africa

What are the origins of homophobia in Africa? Where do the laws that punish same-sex relationships come from? Listen to our new #podcast episode of #CryLikeaBoy

4 February 2021

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Podcast | The story of when Dakar was the “gay capital” of West Africa

In this episode, we investigate the colonial roots of homophobia in Senegal. To do this, we travel back in time to when Dakar was known as the “gay capital” of West Africa #CryLikeaBoy #Podcast

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Podcast | What it’s like to be a gay man in Senegal

Dakar-based journalist Marta Moreiras explores what it means to be gay in Senegal, where homosexual men here are targeted with the slur “Góor-jigéen” - a pejorative term which literally means “men-women” in the Wolof language #CryLikeaBoy

17 December 2020

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