G7 finance ministers meet in Paris as headwinds mount for global economy

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The United States and Nigeria carried out air strikes against Islamic State group targets in northeastern Nigeria on Sunday. The region faces the double threat of attacks from jihadist groups and from criminal gangs that carry out kidnappings, including one that resulted in the abduction of 46 people, most of them children, on Friday.

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Half of all households in South Korea's capital Seoul have just one inhabitant. That trend is likely to continue, with more than 40 percent of men and women aged 25 to 49 saying they do not want to get married. Local authorities now consider solitude a serious public health issue. Seoul's municipal government is investing more than €260 million over five years to tackle what it calls an epidemic of loneliness. FRANCE 24's Chloé Borgnon, Junwon Bae and Justin McCurry report.

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A British photographer who lives in Kyiv has told FRANCE 24 how he doesn't believe the war in Ukraine is coming to an end. Mark Neville takes his photographs to tell the real stories of the Ukrainian people as they fight for their country against the Russian invasion. Amid the latest more positive news from the front line, and further signs that Ukraine is finding new ways of fighting back, he says it is best to take things one day at a time, and that while Russian leader Vladimir Putin is obvio