Powerful storms turbo-charged by a warming planet, poor urban planning and carelessness combined with catastrophic consequences in Spain's deadliest floods in a generation, experts told AFP.
At least 35 people were injured and three people, including one twelve year old boy, were killed after Russian troops bombed a residential buyilding in Kharkiv early on Thursday. Moscow also fired 10 missiles at Dniester Estuary bridge, which connects the north and southern areas of the Odesa regio...
In Lebanon, displaced residents from the southern Christian border villages are hopeful to return to their homes as soon as possible. However, the war remains at a standstill. Carla Samaha and Rawad Taha report....
The dramatic consequences of the deadly flash floods in Spain's Valencian region are a devastating reminder of what's to come in all corners of the earth as a warming world struggles to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. And it's also a cruel reminder of how much remains to be done in terms of prepar...
Thousands of people are still without water and electricity in Spain, after the torrential lashed the eastern regions this week, causing the most powerful flash floods in recent memory. Scientists have consistently warned that under climate change we will see more extreme weather events such as flo...
Georgia's electoral commission said on Thursday that a partial recount of the vote confirmed that the ruling Georgian Dream party won the country's contested parliamentary election. Pro-Western opposition parties alleged election interference by Russia as they refused to recognise the result on Su...
Senior White House officials are set to visit Israel on Thursday as The United States ramps up efforts to wind down the conflict in the Middle East during the Biden administration’s final months. Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati said on Wednesday that he was “hopeful” about the possibilit...
The United States and South Korea on Wednesday urged North Korea to withdraw its troops from Russia, expressing concerns that they could be deployed in the Ukraine conflict. Russian UN envoy Vassily Nebenzia dismissed these concerns as "mere assertions"....
North Korea launched a "long-range ballistic missile" Thursday, South Korea’s military confirmed, marking Pyongyang's first test since allegations it sent troops to Russia. This comes after South Korea warned of potential North Korean ICBM or nuclear tests, possibly timed ahead of the upcoming US...
A new report from medical and health experts is warning that climate change – driven by fossil fuel emissions – is raising heat levels to dangerous new heights, while also worsening drought and food security. About a third of all human-caused greenhouse gas emissions are linked to food, mostly...
Ukraine's president warns it could lead to "a world war." Is Volodymyr Zelensky overreacting by sounding the alarm over the deployment of North Korean soldiers to Russia? NATO believes the troops are destined for the Kursk region on the border with Ukraine, where the Kremlin's forces have struggled...
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...
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....
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...
