Focus

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Our Focus programme brings you exclusive reports from around the world. Every day at 8:45am Paris time.

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    Facial recognition: ICE agents use app to scan US citizens and immigrants

    US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents are using a new facial recognition smartphone app called Mobile Fortify to scan the faces of both US citizens and immigrants. They point a phone camera at their target and it pulls up the person's immigration status. Previously reserved for use at US borders or criminal investigations, the technology is causing concern among civil rights advocates, who fear widespread digital surveillance on American streets.

    6 min

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    Bangladesh elections: Islamist-led coalition hopes for chance at power

    Bangladesh has held its first elections since a student revolution deposed autocratic leader Sheikh Hasina in 2024. Hasina's main rival, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), is now projected to win. Yet the biggest development is the resurgence of the Islamist party Jamaat-e-Islami, which was banned under Hasina. Minorities targeted in recent mob violence and some women now fear for their rights. FRANCE 24's Navodita Kumari, Alban Alvarez and Muktadir Rashid report.

    6 min

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    Canada's tighter immigration policy divides the country

    Canada is undergoing a historic demographic shift: according to Statistics Canada, the country is experiencing its sharpest population decline since World War II. Behind this phenomenon is an unprecedented tightening of migration policy, after years of openness under former prime minister Justin Trudeau. As a result, the number of foreign students and temporary workers has plummeted in order to "reduce pressure on housing, public services and infrastructure", according to authorities.

    6 min

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    Failed American dream: Deportees restart their lives in Guatemala

    In the year since Donald Trump returned to the White House, more than 350,000 migrants have been deported from the United States. This report takes us to meet several of them in Guatemala. In this central American country, thousands have started to rebuild their lives after their forced removal. FRANCE 24's Andrés Suárez Jaramillo reports, with Lauren Bain.

    6 min

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    Humanitarian crisis in northern Syria leaves Kurdish refugees stranded

    In Syria, last week’s agreement between Kurdish forces and Damascus includes a humanitarian component, ultimately aimed at allowing refugees to return home. These families fled the fighting that followed the fall of Bashar al-Assad. There are now more than 100,000 internally displaced people in the Qamishli region, in Syria’s far northeast. Report by Marie Charlotte Roupie, Abdulrahman Daoud and Josh Vardey.

    6 min

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    Yodelling taken to new heights: Swiss folk singing adapts to modern era

    Long confined to tourist clichés, Swiss yodelling is moving on from being a folkloric curiosity. This ancient Alpine vocal technique, which alternates between "chest voice" and "head voice", was inscribed on UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage list in December 2025. Today, yodelling is sung in a multitude of contexts and crosses the boundaries of folk music to blend with rock, pop and even rap. FRANCE 24's Jade Lévin reports, with Josh Vardey.

    7 min

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    Mass weddings on the rise in Pakistan as poverty soars

    In Pakistan, the economic crisis and climate-related natural disasters are placing sustained pressure on the poorest families. In a nation where around 45 percent of the population lives below the poverty line, marriage has become financially out of reach for millions of households. Each year, tens of thousands of couples are forced to delay or abandon plans to marry. In response, mass weddings are multiplying across the country, cutting across religious communities. Our correspondents report.

    6 min

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    US-Canada relations cool at the border over Trump's tariffs and threats

    Canada and the United States share the world's longest border. But tensions are rising over trade and politics. US President Donald Trump has threatened Canada with unprecedented tariffs and has expressed a desire to annex the country and turn it into the 51st US state. In the Canadian border town of Cornwall, those tensions can be felt in everyday life. Our France 2 colleagues report, with FRANCE 24's Guillaume Gougeon.

    5 min
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