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Focus

Our Focus programme brings you exclusive reports from around the world. From Monday to Friday at 7:50am Paris time.

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Geopolitics and the Olympics: When the IOC struggles to stay on the sidelines

Geopolitics and the Olympics: When the IOC struggles to stay on the sidelines

When French aristocrat Pierre de Coubertin revived the Olympics in 1894, he imagined the Games as an occasion for world ... Read more

26 Jul 2023

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Space wars: Meet the French soldiers scanning the skies

Space wars: Meet the French soldiers scanning the skies

To mark France's Bastille Day, the traditional military parade is taking place on Paris's Champs-Elysées. This report ta... Read more

14 Jul 2023

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Argentina's 'death flights': Plane repatriation brings closure to families of victims

Argentina's 'death flights': Plane repatriation brings closure to families of victims

One of the most chilling pieces of evidence of the brutal Argentinian dictatorship, which lasted from 1976 to 1983, is a... Read more

13 Jul 2023

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Saving every drop: Drought forces Catalonia to diversify water sources

Saving every drop: Drought forces Catalonia to diversify water sources

With Spain currently experiencing a heatwave, the country is trying to adapt. Barcelona, a city on the frontline of clim... Read more

12 Jul 2023

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India promotes digital detoxes to combat excessive screen time

India promotes digital detoxes to combat excessive screen time

In 2022, Indians spent an average of nearly five hours a day on their mobiles – the eighth highest figure in the world, ... Read more

11 Jul 2023

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Undocumented workers left in limbo as French immigration bill delayed

Undocumented workers left in limbo as French immigration bill delayed

As part of a new immigration bill, the French government is hoping to fill labour shortages with undocumented migrants b... Read more

10 Jul 2023

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Earth's final frontier: The global race to exploit deep sea minerals

Earth's final frontier: The global race to exploit deep sea minerals

In this edition we head into the depths of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. Many of the minerals used in our day-to-day ... Read more

7 Jul 2023

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Spain's vulnerable Valencia region prepares for risk of wildfires

Spain's vulnerable Valencia region prepares for risk of wildfires

In 2022, Spain was the country in Europe worst hit by forest fires. More than 300,000 hectares went up in smoke in almos... Read more

6 Jul 2023

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Burundi sees gradual economic revival after seven-year isolation

Burundi sees gradual economic revival after seven-year isolation

In October 2022, Burundi reopened its borders after seven years of closure. Evariste Ndayishimiye, the new president, is... Read more

5 Jul 2023

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A trip down recovery lane: Switzerland revives LSD use for therapeutic purposes

A trip down recovery lane: Switzerland revives LSD use for therapeutic purposes

The past decade has seen an acceleration of medical research on LSD, a hallucinogenic substance discovered in the 1940s ... Read more

4 Jul 2023

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