Los Angeles wildfires spark insurance anxiety among victims

12/01/2025 10:03 France 24

As hundreds of Los Angeles residents return to find homes reduced to ashes due to a devastating wave of wildfires, many are fearful that their insurance policies may not cover the rebuild cost and that future premiums will be astronomical. We talked about this situation with Michael Wara, Senior researcher for climate and energy at Stanford University.

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Germany battles to secure stricken 'Russian shadow fleet' oil tanker

Germany was battling on January 11 to secure a heavily loaded tanker stranded off its northern coast, towing the stricken ship that it said was part of Russia's sanctions-busting "shadow fleet" away from shore to avert an oil spill....

12/01/2025 13:39 France 24

Ukraine says it captured 2 North Korean soldiers fighting for Russia

Ukraine’s forces have captured two North Korean soldiers fighting alongside Russian forces in Russia’s Kursk border region, President Volodymyr Zelensky said on January 11, the first such claim by Kyiv since North Korea sent thousands of troops to shore up Moscow's war effort on the other side...

12/01/2025 10:07 France 24

Saudi Arabia calls for Syria sanctions relief as Arab, EU diplomats gather in Riyadh

Saudi Arabia said Sunday it was time to lift sanctions on Syria as it hosted talks between key diplomats from the Middle East and Europe focused on reestablishing stability in the war-torn country following the fall of Bashar al-Assad....

12/01/2025 07:51 France 24

Tropical storm lashes France's Mayotte just weeks after devastating cyclone

Tropical Storm Dikeledi brought strong winds and heavy rains to France's battered Indian Ocean territory of Mayotte on Sunday, less than a month after the archipelago was ravaged by a deadly cyclone. Authorities have called for “extreme vigilance” as the French weather service warned residents...

12/01/2025 06:40 France 24

Ukraine forces arrest two North Korean soldiers

Ukraine said on January 11 that it was questioning two wounded soldiers it claimed are North Koreans taken prisoner while fighting for Moscow in Russia's Kursk region. France 24's Rob Parsons gives us his analysis....

11/01/2025 16:16 France 24

Ukraine questioning two North Korean soldiers captured in Kursk, Zelensky says

Two North Korean soldiers captured by Ukrainian troops in Russia's Kursk region are being questioned in Kyiv, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Saturday. Ukrainian authorities have vowed to provide media access to the prisoners of war because "the world needs to know what is happening"...

11/01/2025 14:42 France 24

US intensifies sanctions on Russia in bid to give Ukraine, Trump leverage

The US on Friday imposed a swath of fresh sanctions on Russian oil and gas which could cost the country billions of dollars per month, aimed at cutting Russia's revenue for funding the ongoing war in Ukraine. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky welcomed the action, which should improve the odds...

10/01/2025 20:44 France 24

‘Overshoot’: As planet crosses 1.5°C global warming limit, can we still reverse course?

The past two years were the first to officially exceed the 1.5°C temperature threshold for global warming that countries in the Paris Agreement pledged to avoid. Could geoengineering provide a solution to reverse the trend and lower temperatures? ...

10/01/2025 17:00 France 24

'Poland is a benchmark for Europe on defence': France's ambassador to Warsaw

Talking Europe sits down with France's top diplomat in Warsaw, just as Poland takes up the rotating presidency of the EU in turbulent geopolitical times. Étienne de Poncins was previously French ambassador to Ukraine and got out of Kyiv just in time when it was encircled by the Russian army in 202...

10/01/2025 16:56 France 24

Security, competitiveness, Trump: Will 2025 be make-or-break for Europe?

2025 looks like a year full of dangers for the European Union. Even before US President-elect Donald Trump returns to office, his unpredictability is on full display as he tells NATO ally Denmark that he needs Greenland for US national security purposes – prompting a strong rebuke from France, wh...

10/01/2025 16:22 France 24

Red Cross, MSF urge unhindered aid access to flood-hit and freezing Gaza

Aid organisations demanded Wednesday safe and unhindered aid access in war-torn Gaza, wracked by hunger and where babies are freezing to death, even as more hospitals face closure amid fuel shortages. Heavy rain and flooding have ravaged the makeshift shelters in Gaza, leaving thousands with up to...

10/01/2025 15:40 France 24

'We're keeping them safe': Scientists build 'Noah's Ark' for endangered corals

Coral reefs rank as some of the planet’s most vital ecosystems. Although they cover just 0.2 percent of oceans, reefs are home to a quarter of marine biodiversity. Scientists warn they could vanish in as little as a decade, unless we rapidly slow the rate of global warming. In Monaco, a team of s...

10/01/2025 14:33 France 24

Criticism mounts of Ecuador president's war-like strategy against drug traffickers

In the space of just a few years, drug trafficking and insecurity have exploded in Ecuador, with homicides rising by 800 percent between 2018 and 2023. President Daniel Noboa, who has been in power for the past year, has launched an armed campaign against the criminal groups. This war-like strategy...

10/01/2025 13:19 France 24

UN says 3 million children facing acute malnutrition in war-torn Sudan

Some 3.2 million children are expected to face malnutrition in Sudan this year, the United Nations Children's Fund said Friday. Aid agencies have complained of lack of access to the war-torn country, where both the army and paramilitary Rapid Support Forces are accused of using "starvation tactics"...

10/01/2025 12:53 France 24

Gaza death toll 40 percent higher than recorded, Lancet study estimates

A study in the medical journal The Lancet estimated that 64,260 people have been killed in Gaza since the start of the Israel-Hamas war, which would mean the health ministry in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip had under-reported the number of deaths to that point by 41 percent....

10/01/2025 08:33 France 24

Putin ready for dialogue with US, Kremlin says, as Trump vows to end Ukraine war

The Kremlin welcomed President-elect Donald Trump’s readiness to engage in dialogue with Russian President Vladimir Putin, presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Friday. Peskov was speaking a day after Trump reiterated his wish to bring about an end to what he called the “bloody mess” of t...

10/01/2025 07:15 France 24

Military defeat has 'significantly weakened' Hezbollah's ability to impose its will in Lebanon

Lebanese lawmakers elected army chief Joseph Aoun as president on Thursday, ending a more than two-year vacancy and marking a step towards lifting the war-battered country out of financial meltdown. FRANCE 24's Sharon Gaffney speaks to Ayman Mhanna, executive director of the Samir Kassir Foundation...

09/01/2025 21:55 France 24

A different kind of President: How will history remember Jimmy Carter?

More than the final sendoff for long-gone one-term president? With Jimmy Carter’s passing, Washington marking two legacies, that of a peanut farmer-turned-governor of a southern state whose rise to power embodied a backlash after the Vietnam War and Watergate… ...

09/01/2025 19:08 France 24

Trump’s threats to acquire Greenland 'a warning to China', says Meloni

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said Thursday she viewed US President-elect Donald Trump's threats to use military force to seize Greenland as a warning to foreign competitors, such as China, to keep their hands off key strategic concerns close to the US. ...

09/01/2025 16:20 France 24

Joseph Aoun: Lebanon’s respected army chief becomes new president

Joseph Aoun, the Lebanese army chief who was elected president on Thursday, is a 60-year-old career soldier who kept his military on the sidelines of a recent war between Israel and armed group Hezbollah, earning widespread respect in a country ridden by sectarian divides....

09/01/2025 12:40 France 24

Moldova torn between European aspirations and nostalgia for Soviet era

Back in November, Moldova's President Maia Sandu was narrowly re-elected to a second term, despite alleged Russian interference. Sandu partly owes her victory to the vote of the largely pro-European diaspora, which represents almost a third of the Moldovan population and 20 percent of the electorat...

09/01/2025 11:29 France 24

Sudan: Blinken says ethnic hatred drives group to murder and rape

The world biggest humanitarian disaster continues to claim victims as the war in Sudan drags on. On Wednesday, 20 months on since the conflict began, the US called the actions of one-half of the conflict, genocidal and slapped sanctions on its leader. Mohamed Hamdan Dahl, known as Hemedti leads the...

09/01/2025 10:30 France 24

Lebanon meets to finally elect president after two-year vacancy

The 128 lebanese lawmakers could elect army chief Joseph Aoun as president Thursday after more than two years of deadlock, in a much-needed step to help lift the war-battered country out of financial crisis. FRANCE 24's journalist Shirli Sitbon has more....

09/01/2025 09:52 France 24

Ukraine allies plan final defence meeting ahead of Trump inauguration

With uncertainty lingering over US support for Ukraine after Donald Trump's January 20 inauguration, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is set to meet with Western allies in Germany on Thursday to strategise means to secure Ukraine's battlefield position against Russia....

09/01/2025 05:21 France 24

Israel-Hamas war: Israeli troops recover body of hostage from Gaza

The body of Bedouin Arab hostage Youssef al-Zayadna was repatriated to Israel from the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, the Israeli military said, in what it termed as a "complex and difficult operation" as mediators continue to push for a ceasefire and hostage release deal. ...

08/01/2025 22:50 France 24

US accuses RSF paramilitary of Sudan genocide and sanctions its leader

The world's largest humanitarian disaster continues to claim victims as the war in Sudan drags on. On Wednesday, 20 months into the conflict, the US called the actions of one half of the conflict genocidal and imposed sanctions on its leader. Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, also known as Hemedti, leads the...

08/01/2025 22:25 France 24

Is he serious? Allies wary as Trump threatens Greenland, Panama, Canada

Imagine if Vladimir Putin or Xi Jinping threatened a hostile takeover of Greenland or the Panama Canal. So what about the president-elect of the United States? Is Donald Trump serious? Trump's growing fixation comes two weeks ahead of Inauguration Day. He even sent his son to Greenland, much to the...

08/01/2025 19:22 France 24

Several killed in Russian missile attack on Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia

At least 13 civilians have been killed, and around 30 injured in a missile strike on the southern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia, officials said Wednesday. Footage posted on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's Telegram channel showed civilians lying in a city street in the aftermath of the at...

08/01/2025 17:26 France 24

United States sanctions Sudan's Rapid Support Forces' leader

The United States on Tuesday night announced sanctions against Sudanese paramilitary leader Mohamed Hamdane Daglo, also known as Hemedti. Washington accuses the head of the Rapid Support Forces, of committing genocide in Sudan. The country's civil war, which erupted in April 2023 between the Sudane...

08/01/2025 16:31 France 24

Syria: One month after the fall of Bashar al-Assad's regime

One month after the surprisingly rapid fall of President Bashar al-Assad's government, Syrians are balancing feelings of hope and trepidation for the future. National reconciliation remains uncertain, as does the governing ability of the rebel leaders who took control of the war torn nation. Charli...

08/01/2025 16:06 France 24

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