Ukraine on Tuesday announced that it had detained two Ukrainian security officials involved in a plot coordinated by Russia to assassinate senior Ukrainian officials, including President Volodymyr Zelensky.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is under mounting pressure from his own War Cabinet and his country's closest ally over postwar plans for Gaza, even as the war with Hamas shows no sign of ending....
US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan is travelling to Israel on Sunday for talks on the Gaza war, according to the White House. His visit comes after at least 31 people were killed in an Israeli air strike targeting a house at the Nuseirat refugee camp in the centre of the Palestinian territo...
Israeli troops and tanks pushed on Saturday into parts of a congested northern Gaza Strip district that they had previously skirted in the more than seven-month-old war, killing and wounding dozens of Palestinians, medics and residents said....
A Russian court has ordered that Deutsche Bank's and Commerzbank's assets, accounts, property and shares be seized in Russia as part of a lawsuit involving the German banks, court documents showed....
Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili on Saturday put a mostly symbolic veto on the "foreign influence" law that sparked unprecedented protests and warnings from Brussels that the measure would undermine Tbilisi's European aspirations....
âGhost Trailâ, which opened the Criticsâ Week sidebar in Cannes this week, follows a Syrian exileâs pursuit of the man who tortured him during the countryâs civil war. FRANCE 24 spoke to French director Jonathan Millet, whose impressive Cannes debut delivered one of the festivalâs earl...
On May 18, 1944, Allied troops captured Monte Cassino in Italy, celebrated for its historic hilltop abbey, after four months of bitter fighting. The soldiers of the French Expeditionary Corps particularly distinguished themselves in the battle for this key point in the German defensive line. But th...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in an exclusive interview with AFP on Friday he expects Russia to step up its offensive in the northeast and warned Kyiv only has a quarter of the air defences it needs to hold the front line. ...
The Israeli military said on Saturday that its forces operating in the Gaza Strip recovered the body of Ron Binyamin, who was among 252 people seized by Hamas-led Palestinian gunmen on October 7. This comes as Israeli troops and tanks pushed into Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza, killing 15 Pa...
More than two years into Russiaâs invasion, Ukraineâs strong presence at the Cannes Film Festival bears witness to its stubborn defence and the resilience of its film industry. The warâs pervasive impact on civilian life is the subject of âThe Invasionâ, whose director Sergei Loznitsa spo...
Eve Jackson brings you the latest from the Cannes Film festival including the premiere of Greek filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos' âKinds of Kindnessâ with Emma Stone, Willem Defoe, Margaret Qualley and Jesse Plemons. His last movie âPoor Thingsâ took four Oscars earlier this year. Itâs the thi...
The Women's World Cup will take place in South America for the first time after Brazil was chosen to host the 2027 edition at a FIFA congress Friday marked by debate about the war in Gaza....
Russia intercepted more than 100 Ukrainian drones overnight in the south of the country and over annexed Crimea and the Black Sea, Moscow's defence ministry said on Friday....
Israel on Friday defended its Gaza offensive at the International Court of Justice after South Africa asked judges to order it to halt operations in Rafah and completely withdraw from the Palestinian territory. Israeli Justice Ministry official Gilad Noam called South Africa's case, which accuses I...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky visited the northeastern city of Kharkiv on Thursday to boost morale and reinforce troops in the region where Russian forces are trying to press their new offensive beyond border areas....
After Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, an estimated 100,000 Russians found refuge in the neighbouring Caucasus republic of Georgia. Many continue to work in the IT services sector for Russian firms. Others have opened their own businesses. Most express their solidarity with...
Residents of conflict-hit Sudan are "trapped in an inferno of brutal violence" and increasingly at risk of famine due to the rainy season and blocked aid, the UN's humanitarian coordinator for the country warned Wednesday....
Chinaâs leader Xi Jinping welcomed Russiaâs President Vladimir Putin on Thursday as he began a two-day state visit while Moscow presses forward with a new offensive in Ukraine, underscoring the close relationship between the autocratic leaders.  ...
Israel vowed Thursday to "intensify" its ground offensive in Rafah, in defiance of global warnings over the fate of hundreds of thousands of Palestinian civilians sheltering in Gaza's far-southern city. Read our liveblog to see how all the day's events unfolded....
The Arab League called on Thursday for a UN peacekeeping force in the "occupied Palestinian territories" at an international summit dominated by the war between Israel and Hamas....
Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in Beijing early on Thursday for talks with Xi Jinping that the Kremlin hopes will deepen a strategic partnership between the two most powerful geopolitical rivals of the United States....
Over the past three days, Russia has seized control of several localities north of Kharkiv in a fierce new offensive that could bring Moscow to the gates of Ukraineâs second-largest city. FRANCE 24 spoke to several military analysts who believe that it is still too early to speak of a turning poi...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has postponed all upcoming international trips, his press secretary said on Wednesday, as Ukrainian troops withdraw from parts of the Kharkiv region ahead of an unrelenting Russian ground assault....
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken sought Tuesday to rally the spirits of glum Ukrainians facing a fierce new Russian offensive, assuring them that they are not alone and that billions of dollars in American military aid on its way to the country would make a âreal differenceâ on the battle...
Thousands of protesters rallied Tuesday in Georgia after parliament adopted a law to brand overseas-funded NGOs as groups under âforeign influenceâ, a measure Brussels has warned will undermine Tbilisiâs European aspirations....
Former US State Department Middle East Negotiator Aaron Miller, who served under six US secretaries of state on Arab-Israel affairs, told FRANCE 24 on Tuesday that Israel's strategy in Gaza has essentially "broken down" despite its armyâs progress in the enclave....
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Monday urged Europe to ramp up its military aid to Ukraine, particularly air defence systems, as Kyiv struggles to repel a fierce Russian offensive in the northeast....
An Australian judge sentenced a former army lawyer to more than five years in jail Tuesday for stealing secret defence files on the Afghanistan war and leaking them to the media....
The United Nations on Tuesday said women and children account for at least 56 percent of the thousands of people who have been killed in the Gaza war. The comments come amid criticism from Israel that the world body relies on the death toll communicated by the health ministry in the Hamas-run terri...
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Kyiv on Tuesday in an unannounced diplomatic mission to reassure Ukraine that it has American support as it struggles to defend against increasingly intense Russian attacks....