'Middle East is craving stability, the negotiators feel the burden'

29/01/2025 12:11 France 24

Masses of displaced Palestinians streamed into the north of war-ravaged Gaza after Israel and Hamas reached a deal for the release of another six hostages. For in-depth analysis and a deeper perspective on the fragile ceasefire and hostage release deal between Israel and Hamas, FRANCE 24's Jean-Emile Jammine welcomes Israeli international researcher, lawyer and negotiator Nomi Bar-Yaacov. She is currently an Associate Fellow of Chatham House's International Security Program.

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Millions of Afghans face expulsion from Iran and Pakistan 'back to nothing', NGO warns

The head of humanitarian NGO the Norwegian Refugee Council is accusing the international community of turning its back on the Afghan people since the Taliban returned to power in 2021. Jan Egeland is just back from a long visit to the country, where he focused particularly on the thousands of Afgha...

30/01/2025 14:17 France 24

Israel-Hamas ceasefire: Next phase requires 'building trust and accepting war should come to an end'

Hamas-led militants freed eight hostages on Thursday as part of the ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, but the chaotic handover of some of the captives, who masked militants shuttled through a rowdy crowd of thousands, drew an angry protest from Israel. For in-depth analysis and a deeper perspective on t...

30/01/2025 13:12 France 24

War in the DRC's east: Will there be a 'push for diplomatic means to end this conflict'?

DR Congo President Felix Tshisekedi insisted his troops were mounting a "vigorous" response to Rwanda-backed fighters advancing in the country's perennially troubled east and slammed the international community's "silence and inaction". All the while, President Paul Kagame warns Rwanda is ready for...

30/01/2025 12:19 France 24

A US shutdown on foreign aid is hitting from Africa to Asia to Ukraine

U.S.-funded aid programs around the world were firing staff and shutting down or preparing to stop operations, as the Trump administration's unprecedented freeze on almost all foreign assistance brought their work to a sudden halt. FRANCE 24's Charli James reports...

29/01/2025 20:17 France 24

Petro Poroshenko: 'We should not only win the war, we should win the peace'

When he was Ukraine’s president, Petro Poroshenko says he knew how to get along with Donald Trump. The leader of the opposition European Solidarity party tells François Picard about how to handle the new administration in Washington and confirms that he’s ready when the time comes to throw his...

29/01/2025 18:19 France 24

‘Risks involved’: The UK school using AI teachers

At a private school in central London, a group of students have for the past six months been taking their lessons not from a teacher but from an artificial intelligence platform that takes them through the course material and monitors their progress. The trial programme is designed to explore the p...

29/01/2025 16:33 France 24

War-battered eastern Democratic Republic of Congo ravaged by new conflict

Goma, the main city in the Democratic Republic of Congo's volatile east, is set to fall to the M23 armed group and Rwandan army -- the latest upheaval in a region devastated by three decades of war....

29/01/2025 11:27 France 24

Massive Ukrainian drone attack targets Russian power, oil facilities

A massive Ukrainian drone attack targeted critical Russian energy infrastructure overnight, with Moscow saying that its air defence systems destroyed a drone attempting to hit a nuclear power facility in Smolensk on the Belarusian border. The governor of Belgorod region said that a drone attack had...

29/01/2025 08:08 France 24

Climate change made LA wildfires worse, says study

Climate change was a major factor behind the hot, dry weather that led to ferocious wildfires in LA in January, a scientific study has confirmed. Global warming made the blazes 35 percent more likely, according to the study....

29/01/2025 03:44 France 24

Italy PM Meloni under investigation for releasing Libyan warlord wanted by ICC

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and two of her government ministers were placed under investigation Tuesday for allegedly releasing and repatriating a Libyan official wanted by the International Criminal Court for war crimes....

28/01/2025 21:58 France 24

Putin says peace talks with Ukraine possible, but not with Zelensky

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday that his country could hold peace talks with Ukraine, but ruled out speaking directly with President Volodymyr Zelensky, whom he called "illegitimate"....

28/01/2025 21:23 France 24

'War must end, Ukraine couldn't agree more: The question is what do we mean by just, lasting peace?'

Forget Donald Trump’s appointments to key posts. It’ll be the president himself who ultimately decides whether to strike a deal over Ukraine’s head with Russia, argues Dmytro Kuleba. Ukraine’s former foreign minister tells France 24’s François Picard about his country’s war effort and...

28/01/2025 17:53 France 24

DeepSeek: Trump warns of 'wake-up call' as low-cost Chinese AI jolts sector

Fears of upheaval in the AI gold rush rocked Wall Street on January 27 following the emergence of a popular ChatGPT-like model from China, with US President Donald Trump saying it was a 'wake-up call' for Silicon Valley. France 24's Peter O'Brien tells us more....

28/01/2025 16:34 France 24

‘Taken for delinquents’: The French fishers refusing to hand in WWII shells

Nearly 30,000 tons of munitions were dropped in and around Brest harbour in western France during World War II, and the risk of dredging unexploded ammunition is constant for the fishing boats that operate in the surrounding waters. The fishers are supposed to collect and report any shells they fin...

28/01/2025 16:16 France 24

DR Congo's decades-long conflict: 'One of the worst humanitarian crises unfolding'

The UN has warned the humanitarian situation in the besieged DR Congo city of Goma was "extremely worrying" amid mass displacement, food shortages, looted aid, overflowing hospitals and widespread sexual violence. Aid agencies warned that attacks on water and electricity infrastructure could fuel d...

28/01/2025 14:31 France 24

UN warns of 'worrying' humanitarian crisis in Goma

The United Nations said on January 28 that food assistance in and around Goma had been "paused" and voiced concern over food shortages. France 24's Angela Diffley tells us more....

28/01/2025 13:36 France 24

Macron to visit Louvre after leaked memo warns of museum's 'poor condition'

French President Emmanuel Macron is expected to announce a multi-million euro renovation package for the Louvre on Tuesday after its director warned that the world’s most visited museum is desperately in need of repairs. Watch Macron speak live from 15:30 Paris time....

28/01/2025 06:45 France 24

Live: Trump reiterates wish to move Gazans to 'safer' locations in Egypt, Jordan

US President Donald Trump has reiterated his desire to move Palestinians from Gaza to areas "where they can live without disruption", urging Egypt and Jordan to welcome Gazans displaced by war. Trump also said he would be meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu "in the not too distan...

28/01/2025 05:31 France 24

Hundreds of thousands return to northern Gaza after 15 months of war

Over 200,000 Palestinians made the journey back to northern Gaza on January 27, with the United Nations observing a stream of people trekking northward up the road lining the Gazan coast. However, if the ongoing ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas ended a harrowing, 15-month eviction, many will...

28/01/2025 01:20 France 24

French PM Bayrou says Elon Musk is 'creating a threat to democracies'

French Prime Minister François Bayrou on Monday said that billionaire entrepreneur and owner of social media platform X Elon Musk creates a menace to democracies. His comments about Musk came after last week's warning that France and Europe must stand firm in the face of US President Donald Trump...

27/01/2025 21:55 France 24

No, these Democratic politicians did not make the same arm gesture as Elon Musk

A photomontage of four Democratic politicians – Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Elizabeth Warren and Kamala Harris – has racked up over 150 million views on X, claiming to show them making what has been likened to a "Nazi salute", similar to the arm gesture Elon Musk was criticised for at Donal...

27/01/2025 21:53 France 24

Sweden intercepts Bulgarian ship over damaged Baltic cable

The Swedish coast guard seized a Bulgarian ship after a fibre-optic cable under the Baltic Sea linking Sweden to Latvia was damaged, officials said on Monday. Latvia sent a warship on Sunday to investigate the damage, while Swedish prosecutors opened an "aggravated sabotage" investigation. Nations...

27/01/2025 21:16 France 24

Rise of anti-semitism in wake of Gaza war plays into the hands of far-right, expert says

Auschwitz survivors warned Monday of the rising antisemitism and hatred which they are witnessing in the modern world as they gathered with world leaders and European royalty on the 80th anniversary of the death camp's liberation. FRANCE 24's Gavin Lee speaks to David Lees, Associate Professor of F...

27/01/2025 20:30 France 24

Lessons from the last survivors: How to remember the Holocaust?

Some 50 former inmates of the largest of the Nazi death camps at Auschwitz-Birkinau making the trip to Poland for the 80th anniversary. How to process the collective folly of the industrial-scale mass extermination of one million Jews along with 100-thousand others in the space of a few short years...

27/01/2025 19:17 France 24

'There are a number of hostages that have lost their lives'

"There are a number of hostages that have lost their lives", noted Mark Owen, FRANCE 24's correspondent in Jerusalem. Other hostages "are coming though alive and well", he added. The Israeli government revealed in a news conference various aspects of psychological torture that some of the hostages...

27/01/2025 18:16 France 24

Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians return to devastated northern Gaza

Palestinians began returning to the northern Gaza Strip on Monday amid a fragile ceasefire in the 15-month war that has ravaged the enclave and displaced almost 2 million Gazans, some 650,000 of them from the north. Many have been displaced multiple times....

27/01/2025 15:54 France 24

Fire ravages Paris district town hall, leaving spire 'in danger of collapsing'

A fire in Paris’s 12th district town hall broke out overnight from Sunday to Monday, ravaging the roof and bell tower of the 19th-century building. Paris police prefect Laurent Nunez warned the 36-metre spire was ‘in danger of collapsing’ after firefighters extinguished the fire Monday mornin...

27/01/2025 14:39 France 24

Nick Winton, son of 'Britain's Schindler': 'For him, it wasn't about recognition'

The son of the man often described as "Britain's Schindler" has spoken of his pride at what his late father achieved. On the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, we spoke to the son of Sir Nicholas Winton, who with his small team is credited with saving t...

27/01/2025 13:57 France 24

Roadblocks open in Gaza: both Israel and Hamas try to turn the story to their advantage

Masses of displaced Palestinians began streaming towards the north of the war-battered Gaza Strip after Israel and Hamas said they had reached a deal for the release of another six hostages. Details by FRANCE 24 journalist in Jerusalem, Mark Owen....

27/01/2025 13:53 France 24

DR Congo: Hundreds of thousands displaced as conflict rages in the east

Rwanda-backed rebels claimed they captured eastern Congo’s largest city, Goma, as the United Nations described a mass panic among its two million people and Congo’s government said the rebel advance was a “declaration of war". Story by Emily Boyle and Nina Masson....

27/01/2025 11:12 France 24

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