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Uighur refugee Gulbahar Haitiwaji: 'The Chinese want to eradicate the Uighurs'

Gulbahar Haitiwaji lives in France and belongs to China's Uighur minority, a mainly Muslim community from the northwestern province of Xinjiang. Back in 2016, her life changed dramatically. Summoned to return to China under a spurious pretext, she was thrown into prison then sent to a "re-education" camp. She recounts the appalling conditions of her detention in a new book entitled "Survivor of the Chinese Gulag". The Chinese "want to wipe out the culture and the tradition of the Uighurs and eradicate the Uighurs themselves", she told FRANCE 24. [...]

US President Joe Biden: A return to 'normalcy'?

Vice-president under Barack Obama and a senator for 36 years, Joe Biden is a political figure familiar to most Americans. To many, he may lack the charisma of the previous Democratic president, but after a tumultuous four years in US politics, is he the steady pair of hands the nation needs? [...]

Deadly twin suicide blasts rock Baghdad market

A rare twin suicide bombing on a bustling commercial street in the heart of Baghdad on Thursday killed at least 28 people and wounded more than 70, according to Iraqi officials, in an attack that ruptured months of relative calm. [...]

Biden vows to end the 'uncivil war' in inaugural address

Democrat Joe Biden was sworn in as president of the United States on Wednesday, vowing to end the ‘uncivil war’ in a deeply divided country reeling from a battered economy and a raging coronavirus pandemic that has killed more than 400,000 Americans. [...]

Who are the nominees for US President Biden's cabinet?

US President-elect Joe Biden took office on Wednesday, starting off with several measures to tackle the Covid-19 crisis, revive the battered economy and reverse many of former president Donald Trump’s controversial policies. FRANCE 24 takes a look at his cabinet nominees. [...]