Hamas released a hostage video on Wednesday showing a well-known Israeli-American man who was among scores of people abducted by the militants in the attack that ignited the war in Gaza.
Russia has added Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to its list of wanted criminals, a move Kyiv dismissed as a sign of Moscow's "desperation"....
A Hamas delegation arrived in Egypt on Saturday to resume Gaza truce talks as Egyptian media reported "significant progress in the negotiations" between the Palestinian group and Israel. A top Israeli official later downplayed the report, saying Israel will send a delegation to Cairo for talks on...
Glitter and rhinestones or pro-Palestinian demonstrations and slogans? The 2024 Eurovision Song Contest opens in the southern Swedish city of Malmo on Tuesday overshadowed by the war in Gaza....
Talks resumed in Egypt Saturday aimed at halting months of war in Gaza between Hamas militants and Israel that have triggered protests around the world....
France estimates that 150,000 Russian soldiers have been killed during Moscow's invasion of Ukraine, Foreign Minister StĂŠphane SĂŠjournĂŠ said in an interview published on Friday....
Germany's top diplomat on Friday said Russia will face consequences after accusing its military intelligence service of masterminding an âabsolutely intolerableâ cyberattack, as NATO and European Union member countries said they will not let Russiaâs âmalicious" behavior in cyberspace go un...
More than six months after the start of Israel's devastating offensive in response to the October 7 attacks, Palestinian journalists in Gaza continue to pay a heavy price. According to the NGO Reporters Without Borders (RSF), more than 100 have been killed, with at least 20 slain in the line of...
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday said Turkey's move to halt trade with Israel was aimed at forcing the country to a ceasefire over Gaza and increasing the amount of humanitarian aid entering the besieged enclave. Erdogan's words came after the UN humanitarian office said that an Israeli mil...
UNESCO on Thursday awarded its world press freedom prize to all Palestinian journalists covering the war in Gaza, where Israel has been battling Hamas for more than six months....
Student protests against Israel have entered their second week in France. A town hall event Thursday at the prestigious Sciences Po school in Paris ended with the administration refusing to create a working group to investigate ties with Israeli universities, which students across France want to se...
Tens of thousands of people took to the streets in Georgia on Thursday to protest against a "foreign influence" bill likened to Russian laws silencing dissent, an AFP journalist said....
French President Emmanuel Macron reaffirmed he did not rule out sending troops to Ukraine, saying the issue would "legitimately" arise if Russia broke through Ukrainian front lines and Kyiv made such a request, in an interview with the Economist published Thursday....
Arizona is waving goodbye to a Civil War-era ban of nearly all abortions as a repeal bill reaches the desk of Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs....
Turkey stopped all exports and imports to and from Israel as of Thursday, the Turkish trade ministry said, citing "worsening humanitarian tragedy" in the Palestinian territories. The ministry said that trade will be halted until the Israeli government allows humanitarian aid to enter Gaza uninterru...
The US State Department accused Russia Wednesday of having used a chemical weapon against Ukrainian forces in violation of the Chemical Weapons Convention, while also announcing fresh sanctions against Moscow....
Niclas Fuellkrug gave Borussia Dortmund a 1-0 home win over Paris Saint-Germain in their Champions League semi-final first leg on Wednesday....
Tens of thousands of people rallied Wednesday in Georgia against a controversial "foreign influence" bill, after parliament advanced the measure that Brussels has warned would harm Tbilisi's long-standing European aspirations....
Scuffles broke out in Parliament and dozens of protesters were arrested on Wednesday as Georgian lawmakers voted to advance a controversial bill that would require organisations receiving more than 20 percent of their funding from abroad to register as foreign agents. Georgian President Salome Zour...
Russia is being accused of jamming GPS signals across northern Europe, putting airlines on alert to possible flight disruptions. The rising frequency of these incidents is also shining a spotlight on recent trends in electronic warfare....
Police tore down a protest encampment at the University of Texas on Wednesday, arresting more than a dozen people, as unrest over Israel's war against Hamas in Gaza simmered on US campuses....
Josh Paul resigned from a senior position at the US State Department back in October to protest the US position vis-à -vis Israel's war in Gaza. In an interview with FRANCE 24, he said he did so because of the scale and scope of the conflict. "It was clear () that this would be far beyond anyth...
Hamas will respond to an Israeli truce proposal for Gaza "within a very short period", an official with the Palestinian militant group said Wednesday, stressing that any ceasefire needs to be permanent. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken renewed calls for Hamas to accept the ceasefire deal as he...
A new âcouncil of expertsâ set up in Russia is leveraging a decade-old law against gay âpropagandaâ to censure books. The move marks a new stage in the Kremlinâs control of information by targeting a broad array of literature, a cultural domain that has long enjoyed a special latitude in...
The New York judge presiding over Donald Trump's hush money trial fined the former president on Tuesday for defying a gag order and warned that further violations could result in jail time. ...
Dozens of protesters took over a building at Columbia University in New York early Tuesday, barricading the entrances and unfurling a Palestinian flag out of a window in the latest escalation of demonstrations against the Israel-Hamas war that have spread to college campuses nationwide. ...
Oleksandr Taran, 68, who goes by the callsign "Grandpa", leads a volunteer Ukrainian unit of men aged 60 and above and are therefore considered too old for the army. At a time when Kyiv is lowering the draft age as enthusiasm for signing up is waning after two years of war, these men are fighting t...
The US ambassador to the United Nations on Monday warned of an impending "large-scale massacre" in the Sudanese city of El-Fasher, a humanitarian hub in the Darfur region....
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Israel on Tuesday to push for a much-awaited ceasefire deal hours after Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu vowed to launch a military offensive on Rafah âwith or withoutâ a deal. Hamas is still studying a proposed deal involving a 40-day ce...
A cyber specialist who briefly worked at the top secret US National Security Agency (NSA) was sentenced to more than 21 years in prison on Monday for attempting to spy for Russia, the Justice Department said....
A Russian missile attack on an educational institution in the Ukrainian Black Sea port of Odesa on Monday killed four people and injured 28 others, local officials said. On an unnanounced visit to Kyiv, NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg said months-long delays in US military aid to Ukraine had "se...