International report

A little bit of rain never hurt anybody, but what happens if you have too much? People in the Netherlands have been pondering this question for years.

Now one group of entrepreneurs in Amsterdam have taken the city's frequent rainfalls and turned them into a boozy business opportunity, which satisfies people's taste buds and the environment.

Hemelswater - that's "heavenly water" in Dutch - is a beer company that makes beer using, you guessed it, rainwater.

But it turns out making beer is just one of the ways the city is tackling its increasing flooding problems.

RFI’s Rebecca Rosman has the story.

France is famous for its corner bakeries, neighborhood butchers and independently owned markets. But thirty kilometres outside of Paris, the future of this traditional style of shopping is being put to the test with the opening of the American wholesale supermarket Costco. Ryan Thompson has this report.

In India, cows are protected by the constitution -- inline with many Indian religions which hold cattle tobe sacred. In some states, it is illegal to kill or eat cows, in others it’s allowed, and in others it’s carefully regulated.

But in the past two years, over a dozen people have been killed and scores have been injured as mobs attack people, usually Muslims, who are accused of transporting or killing cows.

Murali Krishnan reports from northern India on the country’s cow vigilantes.

After Latin America’s oldest guerrilla group the Farc handed in their weapons in June, Colombia’s main rebel group are a step closer to civilian life. But peace has brought something of an unexpected dividend to the Farc.

With the fighting over, the rebel group is undergoing a baby boom after 53 years during which the FARC’s women fighters were not allowed to have children.

Emily Wright has more from a Farc camp, near the town of Icononzo, about 100 kilometres from the Colombian capital Bogota.

When the United Kingdom voted in a general election recently, the Conservatives of Theresa May got more seats in parliament than any other party. But they didn’t quite get a majority.

So May asked a small party - the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) - from Northern Ireland, which had the ten extra seats she needed, to join her conservatives in government.

Now many people in Great Britain are asking ‘who are the DUP?’, the Conservatives' partners in government.

As Pierre Bertrand reports from outside parliament in London, before the agreement many people in Great Britain, had never heard of the Northern Ireland’s ruling Democratic Unionist Party.

Turkey is still under emergency rule. Since last July 2016's failed coup, over 60,000 people have been detained and more than one  hundred and forty thousand lost thier jobs.

But that crackdown is facing what could be its greatest challenge yet - a man walking from the capital Ankara to Istanbul, holding a simple placard with the word justice. Dorian Jones reports from Turkey on the Justice March.

In the north-east of Kenya, one of Africa's biggest lakes is shrinking. Lake Turkana is being described as the "Aral Sea of east Africa" after the inland a sea in central Asian that has almost completely disappeared. As Lake Turkana shrinks, the livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of Kenyans are at risk. Benedict Moran reports.

His photographs are known all over the world. Franco-Iranian photojournalist Reza has covered some of the biggest historical events of the past decades, such as the Lebanese civil war and the Rwandan genocide. A vast experience he now wants to pass on to young generations.

Just last week Reza started giving photography lessons to a group of students from the slums of Buenos Aires.

The project will result in an international exhibition.

Correspondent Aude Villiers-Moriamé, attended Reza’s first classes with the children.

Paris hosted VivaTech a major technology fair, featuring among other things, robot waiters and flying taxis this month. Dhananjay Khadilkar went along and the first thing he met was... a robot.

Small African countries struggle to protect the coastal waters on which local communities depend – thousands of nautical miles go unpoliced. Last month environmental campaign Greenpeace wrapped up a series of joint surveillance missions with the coastguards of four countries: Guinea Bissau, Senegal, Sierra Leone and Guinea.

Their research has unearthed a Wild West in Africa’s oceans, where far from shore, industrial vessels are involved in illegal fishing activities, which take a toll not only on developing economies but on food security and vulnerable marine species.

For the third and final part of his series, Kyle G Brown was aboard the Esperanza, a 71-metre ship that Greenpeace uses to track down and stop illegal fishers in west Africa. The vessel has sailed the east Atlantic for three months, researching illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing.

Kyle G Brown investigates the situation off West Africa's coasts with the support of JournalismFund.EU.