On October 25, Serbia's student-led protest movement won a historic victory in parliamentary elections, defeating outgoing President Aleksandar Vucic's party. Supporters of the student list explained to FRANCE 24 how they mounted a massive mobilisation to fight electoral fraud and monitor the electoral process inside and outside the polling stations.
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Far-right senator banned from leaving country as supreme court judge’s ruling makes reference to money-laundering case The far-right senator Flávio Bolsonaro was banned from leaving Brazil and ordered to surrender his passports just hours after his dramatic loss in the presidential election to the leftist president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. The ruling was issued by supreme court justice Alexandre de Moraes, the same justice who oversaw the trial of the senator’s father, the former president Jair Bolsonaro, for attempting a coup.
In tonight's edition, 15 military officials are sanctioned by the UK over the brutality and abuse of civilians during the fall of El Fasher. Also, Algeria's set to send in army units to Niger to protect energy and economic interests there. And days after a foreigner was beaten to death on the streets of Durban, the stalled asylum process has left many migrants living in fear.
The left-wing incumbent president had lost the first round to right-wing challenger Flávio Bolsonaro.
Iran says indirect negotiations with the U.S. continue but rules out bending to Trump's demands, even if he orders new strikes.