An overnight Russian drone attack on Kyiv wounded nine people, including an 11-year-old girl, authorities said Wednesday, as Moscow steps up aerial bombardments on the Ukrainian capital.
It looks like an ordinary train waiting to depart an ordinary station. But through its fogged windows you can see the injured hands and faces of Ukrainian servicemen stretched out on hospital beds. Operated by the military, the train transports wounded soldiers to hospitals far away from the frontl...
Russia's defence ministry said Tuesday that its forces had captured the eastern Ukrainian town of Selydove as Moscow's troops advance closer to the key logistics hub of Pokrovsk. The Russian army took 478 square kilometres of Ukrainian territory in October, a record since the first weeks of the con...
The UN agency for children, UNICEF, is warning that children are bearing much of the pain and suffering in Ukraine. As the war sparked by Russia's full-scale invasion grinds on towards the three-year mark, the loss of essential infrastructure, the lack of power and the lack of a proper health servi...
Kamala Harris urged Americans to write the "next chapter" for their country and reject Donald Trump's chaos and division as she delivered a powerful closing argument to voters Tuesday against the glowing backdrop of the White House. The Democratic vice president warned against Trump's lust for "unc...
Israel has passed a law banning the UN Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA from operating in the country, and occupied territories, citing involvement of some of their staffers in the Oct. 7th attack on southern Israel. The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) employs...
Hezbollah's new leader, Naim Qassem, said Wednesday he would stick to the war strategy laid out by his predecessor, Hassan Nasrallah, who was killed by Israel last month after full-scale fighting broke out. His declaration came after Israel’s military said it had killed the deputy commander of He...
A viral fake video, produced by Russian influence actors, purports to show a man ripping up mail-in ballots for Donald Trump in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Intelligence agencies have found that Russia has increased its election meddling efforts in favour of the Republican candidate. We tell you mor...
Dozens of Palestinians, including women and children, were killed in an Israeli strike on the northern Gaza city of Beit Lahiya Tuesday. While some of the dead may have been Hamas fighters that Israel said was targeting, others were civilians who stayed in the area, FRANCE 24's Irris Makler said, r...
North Korea's foreign minister arrived in Russia on Tuesday for talks as the Russia-Ukraine war appeared to take a dangerous new turn, with NATO and South Korea expressing alarm that North Korean troops could soon be joining in on Moscow's side. FRANCE 24's Mark Owen speaks to Dr Samuel Ramani from...
Bidzina Ivanishvili is widely perceived to be the big winner of Georgia’s weekend parliamentary election. Although the results are bitterly contested, with tens of thousands of protesters flooding the streets of Tbilisi on Monday, Georgia’s richest man is credited with – almost single-handedl...
Baalbek, known as the 'City of the Sun' in ancient times,is one of the world's largest complex of Roman temples, designated a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. But since war erupted between Israel and Hezbollah, tourists don’t visit anymore, and residents are fleeing for their lives....
Russia on Tuesday held nuclear drills that involved firing missiles from the ground, sea and air, the defence ministry said. President Putin, who recently approved changes to rules on the use of nuclear weapons, had multiple times alluded to resorting to using such force since the start of Russia's...
The EU on Tuesday announced a new increase of tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles on top of the current 10 percent currently levied on car imports. The extra taxes, set to enter into force no later than Thursday, were the subject of much debate among EU members, with strong opposition from Germany...
“We have no other land to go to," a Palestinian woman responds to Israeli soldiers seeking to displace her community from their village in the West Bank. It's one of the many moving moments captured in the documentary "No Other Land", by an Israeli and Palestinian collective of filmmakers: Yuval...
It's been described as a searing account of the refugee exodus sparked by the Arab Spring and ensuing Syrian civil war. "The Strangers' Case" is a new film that follows a series of characters, most notably a Syrian doctor and her young daughter who decide to flee their homeland. The characters come...
Ukraine is planning to draft another 160,000 troops into its army over the next three months, Kyiv officials said on Tuesday. The announcement came as Moscow said it had captured the mining hub of Selydove in the Donetsk region where Russian forces made rapid advances in recent weeks. ...
PRESS REVIEW – Tuesday, October 29: Israel's parliament has voted to ban UNRWA from operating within the country, with many observers warning that it will worsen the situation in Gaza. Elsewhere, The Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos responds to criticism over the fact that his paper won't be back...
North Korea has sent 10,000 troops to Russia for training, the White House said Monday, as Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky warned Pyongyang may soon have as many as 12,000 soldiers on Russian soil. ...
Tens of thousands of Georgians massed outside parliament Monday night, demanding the annulment of the weekend parliamentary election that the president has alleged was rigged with the help of Russia. FRANCE 24's Mark Owen speaks to Tinatin Japaridze, Eurasian Political Risk Analyst at Eurasia Group...
Could the nation that back in 2008 fought a war against Vladimir Putin be giving up on its EU dream? Packed crowds are massing outside Georgia’s parliament to protest what the pro-Western president calls a stolen election. We scrutinise Saturday's vote, which gave another outright majority to the...
Who is the shadowy billionaire, Bidzina Ivanishvili, behind the ruling Georgian Dream party - which claimed victory in Saturday's contested election? Emerald Maxwell takes a look at Georgia's richest man and one-time pro-Western Prime Minister, whose party has drifted towards Russia since the war i...
The world's current climate pledges would only cut planet-warming emissions by 2.6 percent by 2030, the UN said Monday, barely a fraction of what is needed to avert the worst impacts of global warming. Valerie Dekimpe, France 24's environment editor, takes a closer look at the UN's findings....
NATO chief Mark Rutte on Monday confirmed the presence of North Korean troops in Russia, calling their deployment a "threat to security" and a "significant escalation" of the war in Ukraine. Rutte hinted the troops may be a sign of the "growing desperation" of Russian President Vladimir Putin, who...
The trial of French actor Gerard Depardieu on sexual assault charges has opened in the absence of the celebrity who had declared himself to be ill. His lawyer had said earlier that Depardieu was "extremely affected" by ill health, and that he had asked for proceedings to be delayed until he could a...
The UN's Environment Programme (UNEP) is warning that crunch time for the planet is now a reality, and that any time left for climate delays has already run out. It warns that extreme heatwaves, storms, droughts and floods are already ravaging communities, this with global temperatures rising less...
Georgia's president called for protests in Tbilisi on Monday evening after the ruling party declared victory in a parliamentary election marred by reports of voting violations that Western countries said must be fully investigated. The results of Saturday's election are a blow for pro-Western Georg...
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Sunday proposed a two-day truce in Gaza and limited hostage exchange aimed at securing "a complete ceasefire" after more than a year of war between Israel and Hamas. It came amid a rare anti-war rally in Israel’s Tel Aviv....
The United Nations warned on Monday that countries' current pledges for reducing carbon emissions fall "miles short", as greenhouse gas levels reached record highs in 2023. A separate report by UN Climate Change found that barely a dent is being made in the 43 percent emissions cut needed by 2030 t...
PRESS REVIEW – Monday, October 28: The ICC's chief prosecutor is accused of sexual misconduct and of trying to persuade the alleged victim to deny the claims. Elsewhere, The Washington Post has decided not to back a presidential candidate for the first time in decades, much to the disappointment...
The Israeli army on Monday launched fresh strikes on the southern Lebanese city of Tyre, Lebanese state media said, hours after telling swathes of the city to evacuate immediately as it was planning an attack on Hezbollah targets. The strikes came after an earlier Israeli raid on the city killed at...
