🔴Live: At least 100 killed in Israeli strikes on south, Lebanon's health ministry says

23/09/2024 05:45 France 24

Lebanon said Monday that at least 100 people had been killed by a barrage of Israeli strikes in the south of the country. The Israeli military said it launched more than 300 strikes on Hezbollah targets and called on residents of southern Lebanon to evacuate areas where Hezbollah stores weapons; it was the first warning of its kind in nearly a year of steadily escalating conflict. Read our liveblog for the latest news on the conflict in the Middle East.

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Russian cosmonauts touch down in Soyuz capsule after record-breaking stay on ISS

A Russian space capsule with two Russians and one American on board landed Monday in Kazakhstan after undocking from the International Space Station (ISS). Russian cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub returned after a record-breaking stay of 374 days aboard the ISS, while American astronaut T...

23/09/2024 13:27 France 24

Residents flee as Russian troops close in on Ukrainian village of Pokrovsk

Russian forces have been intensifying their attacks on the approach to the town of Pokrovsk in the Donbas, which used to be a key logistical hub far back from the front, crucial for supplying Ukrainian troops and towns in the east. But now, water, electricity and gas supplies have been cut off and...

23/09/2024 09:47 France 24

Zelensky in US to discuss Ukraine's 'victory plan' with Biden

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky arrived in the United States on Sunday to present his war plan to President Joe Biden, as well as presidential candidates Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, as the US continues to oppose Ukraine's use of NATO weapons on targets inside Russian territory. With talk...

22/09/2024 22:48 France 24

Israeli forces raid and shut down Al Jazeera's bureau in West Bank

The Israeli military on Sunday raided the office of Qatar-based news network Al Jazeera in the occupied West Bank and issued a 45-day closure order, claiming that the Ramallah office was "used to incite terror". The move comes amid a longstanding feud between the global news channel and Prime Minis...

22/09/2024 10:29 France 24

Swiss voters reject plan to boost biodiversity, vote against pension reform

Switzerland's biodiversity was dealt a blow on Sunday when voters rejected a plan to protect the country's endangered ecosytems. Environmentalists have repeatedly warned that the country's biodiversity is declining but the government said that the proposed measures would severely impact Switzerland...

22/09/2024 03:07 France 24

Zelensky hopes for quick US action as more weapons depots are hit in Russia

President Volodymyr Zelensky called for the United States to supply Ukraine with more weapons before his upcoming visit to the White House to present a "victory plan". Zelensky's plea came as Ukraine said Saturday it had hit two Russian munition depots overnight, in attacks that illustrated its gro...

21/09/2024 14:46 France 24

Israel says 'dozens' of warplanes striking 'extensively' in southern Lebanon

Israel's military said on Saturday it had in the past hour been "striking extensively" in southern Lebanon after detecting plans by Hezbollah to strike Israeli communities. Earlier in the day, its air force struck thousands of rocket launchers in southern Lebanon that posed an "immediate" threat a...

21/09/2024 05:22 France 24

🔴Live: Israel strikes southern Lebanon as Hezbollah vows revenge for device blasts

Israeli warplanes carried out their most intense air strikes on southern Lebanon in nearly a year of war late on Thursday, targeting rocket launchers directed towards Israel. Israel said it is shifting its war objectives to its northern border with Lebanon after carrying out two days of attacks on...

20/09/2024 06:10 France 24

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19/09/2024 12:30 France 24

🔴Live: Israeli military says it hit seven Hezbollah targets in Lebanon in overnight air strikes

Israel’s military on Thursday said it had carried out overnight air strikes on seven Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon, including a weapons storage facility. Following two days of deadly explosions targeting hand-held electronic devices used by Hezbollah, Turkey on Thursday accused Israel of...

19/09/2024 06:15 France 24

Russian advance in Kursk 'stopped', says Ukraine military official

A spokesman for the Ukrainian army said on Wednesday that the Russian counter-offensive in the Kursk region had been halted and that parts of that zone remained "under Ukrainian control". In western Russia, Ukrainian drones "destroyed" a warehouse containing missiles and artillery ammunition on Tue...

18/09/2024 15:51 France 24

🔴Live: Russia calls Lebanon pager blasts ‘act of hybrid warfare’

Russian’s foreign ministry on Wednesday said that a mass attack via exploding pagers widely used by the Hezbollah group in Lebanon was an “act of hybrid warfare” which could provoke a major war throughout the Middle East. A senior Lebanese security source said on Wednesday that Israel’s spy...

18/09/2024 06:01 France 24

North Korea launches second set of short-range ballistic missiles in a week

North Korea continued a series of provocative maneuvers early Wednesday when, for the second time since Thursday, it fired a second round of short ballistic missiles – a move experts say could be linked to the isolated country's suspected illicit supplying of arms to Russia...

18/09/2024 04:24 France 24

'We are getting close' to taking action against Hezbollah, Israeli ambassador to UN says

FRANCE 24 spoke to Israel's new ambassador to the United Nations, Danny Danon. Earlier this Tuesday, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu made the safe return of residents to the north of Israel – which is facing near-daily attacks by Hezbollah from neighbouring Lebanon – an official war goal. "...

17/09/2024 14:43 France 24

Meta bans Russian state media outlets for social media 'interference' campaigns

US tech giant Meta said late Monday that it was banning Russian state media outlets from its apps, including Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Threads, following US prosecutors' allegations that RT had covertly funded influence campaigns through social media....

17/09/2024 04:35 France 24

Hezbollah blames Israel after several killed, thousands wounded by pagers exploding across Lebanon

Hezbollah blamed Israel for the explosion of pagers across Lebanon on Tuesday that killed at least nine people and wounded 2,750 more, according to the Lebanese health minister. Hundreds of Hezbollah members were among the wounded, security sources said. Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu ea...

17/09/2024 04:16 France 24

Israeli military recruits African asylum-seekers for war in Gaza

The Israeli military has reportedly been recruiting African asylum-seekers to support its war efforts in Gaza, offering promises of permanent residency in return. But refugee advocacy groups say they have reason to doubt that recruits are receiving what was promised....

16/09/2024 17:32 France 24

The other D-Day: France's forgotten colonial troops and the Provence landings

It's one of the untold stories of World War II: how France whitewashed its colonial troops during the liberation from Nazi rule. On August 15, 1944, experienced fighters who came from all corners of the French empire landed in southern France and won key battles to liberate the nation. But because...

16/09/2024 15:38 France 24

Russia orders evacuations in Kursk region, Ukraine invites UN and Red Cross to ‘ensure rights’ there

Russian authorities have ordered the evacuation of “multiple” villages that border Ukraine in the Kursk region, a local governor said on Monday. The news comes as Moscow says its forces have wrested two more villages in the region out of Kyiv’s control. Ukraine’s foreign ministry has invite...

16/09/2024 12:03 France 24

Deadly shelling in Ukraine's Pokrovsk as Russia gains ground

At least one person was killed by Russian shelling in eastern Ukraine city of Pokrovsk on Sunday, while Moscow's troops advanced around the city. ...

15/09/2024 16:49 France 24

Lithuanian artists affirm identity, Western links with major cultural festival in France

With the shadow of the war in Ukraine to its east, the Baltic nation is seeking to reaffirm its ties with the West. The Season of Lithuania in France, running from September to December, will be an opportunity for Lithuania to anchor itself in the West with over 200 events programmed across France...

15/09/2024 16:11 France 24

Netanyahu warns Yemen's Houthi rebels of 'heavy price' after first missile attack on central Israel

Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that Yemen's Houthi rebels would pay "a heavy price" after the group claimed responsibility for a rare missile attack launched from Lebanon on Israel's Upper Galilee region and the annexed Golan Heights. The attack, which caused no casualties...

15/09/2024 12:21 France 24

Biden to use rest of term putting Ukraine in 'best possible' position to prevail, adviser says

US President Joe Biden will use the rest of his term in office "to put Ukraine in the best possible position to prevail" against Russia, National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said Saturday during a speech given remotely to a forum in Kyiv. Sullivan also said Biden will be meeting with Ukrainian P...

15/09/2024 05:51 France 24

Battle of Tinzawaten: The final hours of Wagner mercenaries in the Sahara

The Battle of Tinzawaten, in the Sahara Desert, was the Wagner Group's worst defeat in Africa. Between July 25 and 27, separatist Tuareg rebels along with Islamist fighters killed between 50 and 67 of the Russian group's mercenaries near Tinzawaten in northern Mali. The FRANCE 24 Observers compiled...

14/09/2024 14:58 France 24

Russia, Ukraine swap 206 prisoners in exchange deal, Zelensky says

Russia and Ukraine successfully exchanged 103 prisoners of war each on Saturday in a deal brokered by the United Arab Emirates. Despite ongoing hostilities, the two nations have managed several POW swaps throughout the conflict, with this latest exchange following a similar deal made just three wee...

14/09/2024 11:31 France 24

Iran says research satellite successfully launched into orbit

Iran successfully launched its new research satellite Chamran-1 into orbit on Saturday, according to state media. Despite Tehran's insistence that its space activities are solely for peaceful and defence purposes, Western governments have repeatedly warned the Iranian government against such launch...

14/09/2024 10:29 France 24

Biden, Starmer delay decision to approve long-range strikes inside Russia

US President Joe Biden and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer postponed a decision on allowing Ukraine to use long-range Western-supplied missiles to strike inside Russia following a meeting at the White House on Friday. The two leaders plan to revisit the issue at the upcoming UN General Assembly...

13/09/2024 07:11 France 24

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday said Kyiv’s surprise incursion launched August 6 into Russia’s border region of Kursk had “slowed” Moscow’s advance in eastern Ukraine. “In Kharkiv region, the enemy has been stopped, the progress in Donetsk region has been slowed down,...

13/09/2024 03:01 France 24

Toronto festival cancels screenings of film ‘Russians at War’ over ‘significant threats’

The Toronto International Film Festival announced Thursday it was cancelling all screenings of the documentary “Russians at War” due to "significant threats" to public safety and festival operations. Directed by Anastasia Trofimova, the film follows a Russian battalion during the 2022 invasio...

12/09/2024 23:41 France 24

Palestinian economy lies 'in ruins' after 11 months of war in Gaza, UN says

Gaza’s economy is in ‘ruins’ and less a sixth of the size it was before Israel launched a military campaign there more than 11 months ago in response to the deadly Oct. 7 attacks, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) said in a report on Thursday. “The Palestinian...

12/09/2024 15:06 France 24

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