George Clooney's French move ruffles feathers with Trump

Russia joins Chinese and Iranian warships in South Africa naval drills

In tonight's edition: Russian,Chinese, and Iranian warships arrive at  South Africa's ports for a week of naval exercises. Also, just one month after being rocked by a coup attempt, people head to polls in Benin this sunday for legislative elections. And Senegal become the first team to book their...

Beyond the seized oil tanker Marinera: Growing fleet reflags to Russia

The United States announced on Wednesday that it had “seized” the Marinera, an oil tanker with links to Venezuela, in the North Atlantic. During the US pursuit of this boat, the Marinera changed its name (from the Bella 1) and swapped out its former flag for the Russian flag. Turns out, this is...

What can Trump offer Big Oil to bring US capital back to Venezuela?

US President Donald Trump has openly set his sights on Venezuela’s vast oil reserves, claiming Friday that US oil giants were going to invest upward of $100 billion in the country’s gutted industry. But analysts warn that relaunching Venezuela’s oil production could cost dearly in both time a...

'Not what you see on the map': French ambassador to Ukraine challenges Russia's victory narrative

Nearly four years into Russia's full-scale invasion, the war in Ukraine grinds on, and the search for a viable off-ramp looks increasingly narrow. Speaking to FRANCE 24’s Douglas Herbert, France's ambassador to Ukraine, Gaël Veyssière, delivers a pointed rebuttal to Moscow's battlefield narrati...

Anti-government protests spread in Iran: Supreme Leader warns protesters

Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Friday insisted that the Islamic republic would "not back down" in the face of protesters who he called "vandals" and "saboteurs", in a speech broadcast on state TV....

Khamenei says Iran 'will not back down' in face of 'saboteurs'

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Friday accused protesters of acting ‍on behalf of US President Donald Trump and warned that Tehran would not tolerate "saboteurs" acting as "mercenaries for foreigners" after demonstrators held the biggest nationwide protests in nearly two weeks....

🔴 Live: Russia says it fired Oreshnik hypersonic missile in massive attack on Ukraine

With Maduro gone, the US looks to drive Hezbollah out of Venezuela

Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro’s capture also marks an advance towards the US goal of uprooting Lebanese Shiite group Hezbollah from Latin America, where the movement stands accused of criminal activities linked to drug trafficking, arms sales and money laundering. Washington has warned that...

Does the EU now deem the US 'less reliable in terms of security, defence and trade'?

In his annual speech to French ambassadors, Emmanuel Macron warned the US was "gradually turning away" from some of its allies and "breaking free from international rules" following the capture of Venezuela's leader Nicolas Maduro and the US president's designs on Greenland. For in-depth analysis a...

Russia hits Kyiv with large-scale strikes after rejecting peacekeeping plan

Russia launched a large-scale attack on Ukraine’s capital, setting apartment buildings ablaze and killing at least four people, Kyiv’s mayor said on Friday, after Moscow rejected a proposed post-war peacekeeping plan. Ukraine and its Western allies agreed this week that European troops would de...

US federal agents shoot and wound two in Portland after Minnesota ICE killing

Federal immigration officers shot and wounded two people in a vehicle outside a Portland, Oregon hospital on Thursday, authorities said, a day after an officer killed a driver in Minnesota. Hundreds protested at an ICE building, as Oregon’s attorney general vowed to investigate and refer charges...

How far will Iran's protests go? Defiance grows despite crackdown

Iran's biggest protests since the "Woman, Life, Freedom" movement of 2022 are extending everywhere from Tehran's Grand Bazaar to remote villages throughout the country's 31 provinces. As usual, the regime is offering dialogue while employing deadly force, issuing menacing warnings and slowing or e...

Storm Goretti set to batter Europe with heavy wind, rain and snow

Several regions accross Europe will be buffeted by severe weather ranging from "exceptionally strong winds" to snow and freezing temperatures with the arrival of Storm Goretti on Thursday. The UK, France and Germany will bear the brunt of the storm, with Britain's Met Office issuing a "rare" r...

Heavy wind, rain, snow to batter Europe

Europe was set to be buffeted by weather ranging from severe winds to snow and freezing temperatures with the arrival of Storm Goretti on Thursday, with forecasters issuing warnings from Britain to Germany....

Russia frees imprisoned French researcher Laurent Vinatier

Russia has freed Laurent Vinatier, a French researcher serving ​a ‍three-year ​prison sentence for flouting laws requiring "foreign agents" to register with authorities. Vinatier will be exchanged for detained basketball player Daniil Kasatkin, accused by the US of hacking. Russian media repo...

Russia frees French researcher Vinatier convicted under country's 'foreign agents' law

Russia has freed Laurent Vinatier, a French researcher serving ​a ‍three-year ​prison sentence for flouting laws requiring "foreign agents" to register with authorities. Vinatier will be exchanged for detained basketball player Daniil Kasatkin, accused by the US of hacking. Russian media repo...

Policing the sky: NATO’s high-risk patrols near Ukraine

The war in Ukraine has not only reshaped borders on the ground but also transformed the airspace above Europe, forcing NATO’s European allies to redefine aerial security by patrolling a tense new frontier over the Black Sea in what is described as a “policing of the sky” mission aimed at upho...

REPLAY: French President Macron addresses diplomatic corps

French President Emmanuel Macron warned that the United States was "breaking free from international rules" as he addressed top diplomats on Thursday in a traditional New Year speech designed to spell out France's foreign policy priorities for the 12 months ahead....

US military operation in Venezuela 'a clear violation of international law'

During a US military operation in Venezuela, troops seized President Nicolás Maduro, and his wife, setting a 'dangerous precedent: any great power can do as it pleases', warns Dr. Gabriel Hetland, Author, Associate Professor of Sociology & Latin American Studies at the University at Albany. For a...

France's Macron slams 'temptation to divide up world' among 'great powers'

French President Emmanuel Macron warned that the United States was "breaking free from international rules" and turning away from allies as he addressed top diplomats on Thursday in a speech dominated by the fallout from the US attack on Venezuela....

How do shadow fleets work? US seizes two sentenced oil tankers

The phrase “shadow fleet” refers to ageing oil tankers that operate under false flags to bypass Western sanctions on Russian, Iranian, and Venezuelan crude, a practice Russia has reportedly invested billions of euros in since 2022 to maintain its oil exports. But how these shadow, or so-called...

UK helped US military to seize sentenced oil tanker on way to Russia

Washington says it has intercepted two Venezuela-linked oil tankers in the Atlantic as part of President Trump’s hardline effort to control oil movements across the Americas, claiming the vessels—the Marinera and the M Sophia—were part of a so-called shadow fleet used to ship sanctioned crude...

'Very challenging: Lack of stability, security' in Yemen amid decade-long civil war

Yemen's separatist leader has fled to the United Arab Emirates after an attempt to seize swathes of territory and move towards independence. Aidaros Alzubidi was accused of high treason and removed from Yemen's Presidential Leadership Council while the coalition bombed his home province after he re...

Russian strikes on Ukraine's Dnipropetrovsk leave one million without water and heat

Russian strikes on Ukraine have left more than one million people without water or heating in the east-central Dnipropetrovsk region and knocked out power for thousands more in the neighbouring Zaporizhzhia region, Ukrainian officials say....

Live: Venezuela says 100 killed in US attack, Maduro and wife injured

Venezuela's interior minister Diosdado Cabello says 100 people died in the US attack that removed President Nicolas Maduro from power, adding that the president and his wife were injured in the raid. The US on Wednesday seized a Russian oil tanker in the North Atlantic that officials said was part...

Trump Greenland threats: 'ego politics rather than geopolitics', expert says

Speaking with FRANCE 24's Monte Francis, Klaus Dodds, Professor of Geopolitics at Royal Holloway, University of London, says that US President Donald Trump's threats of annexation of Greenland are about 'ego politics, not geopolitics', and may be part of a grand bargain between Russia and the Unite...

Incoherence: America First creates mixed policy signals in Russia, China, Latin America, Greenland

The leaders of France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Spain and the United Kingdom have joined Denmark in reaffirming that mineral-rich Greenland “belongs to its people.” As the Americas and Europe find themselves deep in uncharted territory, François Picard welcomes fellow journalists Philip Turle a...

US seeks to assert its control over Venezuelan oil with tanker seizures and sales worldwide

The United States on Wednesday seized a Russian-linked oil tanker in the North Atlantic after pursuing it from off the coast of Venezuela, in an operation condemned by Moscow. The US military also announced a second sanctioned tanker had been seized in the Caribbean Sea, bringing the total number o...

US military says it has seized two sanctioned oil tankers

The United States said on Wednesday it had seized a Russian-flagged oil tanker in the North Atlantic and a second oil tanker in the Caribbean.  US officials said both of the vessels are part of a so-called shadow fleet that has carried oil for countries such as Venezuela, Russia and Iran in viol...

Warner Bros rejects Paramount takeover again and tells shareholders to stick with Netflix bid

Warner’s leadership has rebuffed Paramount’s overtures again and urged shareholders to back the sale of its streaming and studio business to Netflix for $72 billion. Warner expressed concerns that the Paramount bid would essentially be a leveraged buyout, which includes a lot of debt. A merger...