As Gaza war grinds on, Israeli military faces daunting new challenges in Lebanon

12/10/2024 17:49 France 24

Israel's decision to begin ground attacks against Hezbollah in Lebanon has sparked a debate about the wisdom of opening up a second front and presents Israeli soldiers with a different challenge from the dense urban environment of Gaza. Analysts believe Hezbollah has built an intricate network of tunnels cut deep into the hills of southern Lebanon, a tall order for the Israeli military.

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AFP, BBC win honours for war reporting at Bayeux War Correspondents' Awards

AFP photographer Mahmud Hams won the top prize for photos including his harrowing image of a woman after an Israeli strike on Khan Younis in the Gaza Strip on October 17, 2023....

12/10/2024 20:19 France 24

Russia and Ukraine launch rival overnight drone attacks, with most intercepted

The Ukrainian air force said it had intercepted and destroyed 24 of the 28 drones launched by Russia overnight from Friday to Saturday, as the two countries traded air strikes. Russian officials on Saturday said it had downed 47 Ukrainian drones and that strikes had killed one person in the Belgoro...

12/10/2024 13:30 France 24

UN warns of catastrophic regional conflict as Israel fights in Gaza and Lebanon

The Israeli military’s decision on September 30 to start a ground offensive against Hezbollah in Lebanon adds to the risk that the conflict with Iran-backed militants Hezbollah and Hamas will escalate into a regional war, UN peacekeepers say....

12/10/2024 07:53 France 24

New memoir from Russian dissident Alexei Navalny reveals he knew he would die in prison

Excerpts of a memoir written by late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny revealed he believed he would die in prison, an event which finally occurred on February 16 at age 47. The New Yorker magazine published excerpts from the book, "Patriot", on Friday, ahead of its release on October 22. ...

12/10/2024 02:55 France 24

Should Zelensky's government be afraid of far-right groups?

Ukrainian deputy Oleksandr Merezhko sparked a stern online backlash after publicly warning about the threat posed by what he described as a growing far-right movement in Ukrainian society. Ukraine’s far-right fringe remains a sensitive topic in the war-torn country – and an easy target for Russ...

11/10/2024 11:29 France 24

European Mediterranean states to meet in Cyprus over Middle East and migration

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11/10/2024 03:55 France 24

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has been meeting with leaders across Europe to drum up fresh military and financial aid for Ukraine ahead of winter and discuss a "victory plan" that, he says, could end fighting in Ukraine in 2025....

11/10/2024 01:25 France 24

Italy to host next Ukraine ‘recovery conference’ in July 2025

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10/10/2024 22:01 France 24

'Irreversible' environmental disasters loom as global temperatures rise, new study finds

A major study published on Wednesday warns that even temporarily exceeding the 1.5°C global warming limit could lead to irreversible consequences, including rising sea levels and mass biodiversity loss. With global emissions still rising, scientists stress that hopes of reversing climate overshoot...

10/10/2024 15:56 France 24

Zelensky presents Ukraine 'victory plan' to Macron in Paris

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky arrived in Paris on Thursday to present his plan for defeating the Russian invasion of Ukraine to the French president who pledged the meeting would reaffirm France's "unwavering support" for Ukraine....

10/10/2024 13:49 France 24

Zelensky to embark on European tour in search of more military aid

Anticipating a potential shortage of US military support after the US presidential elections in November, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will follow up a Ukraine-Southeast Europe summit with a tour of meetings with multiple European leaders, he announced on Wednesday. Russia has made key ad...

09/10/2024 23:39 France 24

Macron meets Ukrainian troops training in France ahead of talks with Zelensky

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09/10/2024 16:42 France 24

FRANCE 24's journalist under investigation in Russia after reporting from Kursk

Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) said on Monday that it has opened criminal cases against foreign journalists for "illegally" crossing the border between Ukraine and Russia's Kursk region....

09/10/2024 13:25 France 24

Orban calls for ‘change’ in EU address, lawmakers slam his democratic backsliding

Hungary's nationalist leader Viktor Orban made his case for "change" in Europe in a headline address to the EU parliament on Wednesday. His speech was greeted by denunciations as lawmakers took turns to lambast Orban's democratic backsliding and pro-Russian positions. ...

09/10/2024 10:07 France 24

US, UK trio win 2024 Nobel chemistry prize for work on proteins

US nationals David Baker and John Jumper, together with Briton Demis Hassabis, shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry on Wednesday for work revealing proteins' secrets through computing and artificial intelligence. ...

09/10/2024 09:53 France 24

Kremlin denies report of Trump, Putin private phone call after Ukraine invasion

Former US president Donald Trump secretly sent Covid tests to Vladimir Putin in 2020 when he was in the White House and spoke multiple times to the Russian president after leaving office, an explosive new book by US journalist Bob Woodward reveals. The Kremlin on Wednesday denied reports in the upc...

09/10/2024 08:46 France 24

🔴 Live: Israeli offensive in northern Gaza kills dozens, death toll in a year exceeds 42,000

A large-scale Israeli operation in northern Gaza killed dozens of people and threatened to shut down three hospitals, Palestinian officials and residents said Wednesday. Thousands more were trapped in the area, particularly in the Jabaliya refugee camp, as UN officials warned of shortages of basic...

09/10/2024 04:02 France 24

Nobel physics prize-winning scientist sounds alarm on AI

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08/10/2024 20:05 France 24

‘Radicalised by crime’: Teen hitmen take Marseille’s grisly drug violence to new level

Successive murders in France’s second-largest city have cast a grim light on the growing use of teenage contract killers by rival drug lords in Marseille, the subject of a new book by a trio of French journalists that explores an alarming development in the port city’s deadly drug wars....

08/10/2024 17:31 France 24

North Korean military officers 'highly likely' killed in Ukraine, Seoul says

Ukrainian media reports that six North Korean military officers were killed alongside Russian troops in a missile attack near occupied Donetsk are "highly likely" to be true, Seoul's defence minister said Tuesday. Defence Minister Kim Yong-hyun told lawmakers that he expected North Korea to send mo...

08/10/2024 07:03 France 24

At least seven dead in Israeli strike on residential building in Damascus

Seven civilians were killed in an Israeli air strike in Damascus on Tuesday, the Syrian government said, with a UK-based war monitor saying the strike had targeted a building used by Iran's Revolutionary Guards and Lebanon's Hezbollah. Syria's defence ministry said women and children were among the...

08/10/2024 05:01 France 24

Kamala Harris says she would not meet with Putin if Ukraine is not represented

Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris said she would not meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin for peace talks if Ukraine was not also represented. She also reiterated criticism of her rival Donald Trump's policies on Ukraine, describing them as a "surrender"....

08/10/2024 02:49 France 24

‘Once the fighting gets intense, it's almost impossible to do peacebuilding’

Monday marks one year since the Hamas-led series of attacks on Israel and the beginning of Israel’s retaliatory war in Gaza, which has unfolded along with a rise in settler attacks in the occupied West Bank. The spiralling violence has spurred renewed calls for a two-state solution. FRANCE 24 s...

07/10/2024 17:40 France 24

Russia court sentences 72-year-old American to nearly 7 years for fighting in Ukraine

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07/10/2024 09:59 France 24

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07/10/2024 01:05 France 24

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06/10/2024 13:14 France 24

🔴 Live: Israel defence minister warns Iran it may end up like Gaza, Beirut

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06/10/2024 04:56 France 24

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05/10/2024 16:25 France 24

🔴 Live: Hezbollah fighters clash with Israeli troops in Lebanon border area

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05/10/2024 05:07 France 24

October 7 attacks: Israel's intelligence failures

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04/10/2024 13:42 France 24

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