Moody’s keeps France’s credit rating but warns about ‘negative’ outlook

25/10/2025 05:15 France 24

Credit ratings agency Moody’s on Friday maintained France’s Aa3 sovereign rating but downgraded its outlook to “negative” from “stable,” warning that mounting political fragmentation could hinder efforts to rein in the country’s swelling deficit.

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The October 10 ceasefire between Hamas and Israel halted open war but not the violence in Gaza. Around seven armed factions and clans now battle Hamas for control while gunfights and public executions persist in the enclave, and some groups are even suspected of ties to Tel Aviv....

24/10/2025 19:38 France 24

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We assess the fallout of the Louvre heist in France. Also, Israel begins physically marking its areas of control in Gaza, deeper than its government agreed to as part of the Trump peace plan. Several Arab leaders argue that the new divide will see Gaza permanently divided into two zones. Finally, T...

24/10/2025 18:42 France 24

Liberated Ukrainians still bear the scars of time in Russian prisons

Over 6000 Ukrainian prisoners have been liberated from Russian prisons since the beginning of the war. But behind the scenes of their touching reunions with loved ones is their hidden traumas- both physical and mental. For former detainees, the long road to healing has just begun. A report by our c...

24/10/2025 17:16 France 24

Bombs pour on the city of Kherson

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24/10/2025 15:46 France 24

Cyprus has "completely turned the page" on Russian money: Cypriot Deputy Europe Minister Raouna

At a jam-packed EU summit in Brussels on 23 October, dominated by the thorny issue of using frozen Russian assets, we caught up with the Deputy Minister for European Affairs of Cyprus, Marilena Raouna. Although Belgium was at the centre of haggling over how to turn the Russian assets into a “repa...

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Sweden’s crowd-forecasting platform ‘Glimt’ helps Ukraine make wartime predictions

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Trump ends trade talks with Canada over ad

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24/10/2025 15:23 France 24

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Starmer says allies should bolster Ukraine’s long-range capability

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Trump says trade talks with Canada 'terminated' over anti-tariffs advert

US President Donald Trump has abruptly ended all trade talks with Canada after Ontario’s government aired an advert criticizing his tariffs, quoting Ronald Reagan’s warning that such measures “hurt every American.” Calling the advert “fake” and “egregious,” Trump declared negotiatio...

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Ukraine's Zelensky meets King Charles III at Windsor

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Starmer and Zelensky speak ahead of a Coalition of the willing meeting

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24/10/2025 12:59 France 24

Zelensky will meet with the coalition of the willing to seeks more arms

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24/10/2025 12:57 France 24

Israeli-Palestinian peace activist seeks to bring measure of 'sanity to her people and her country'

US President Donald Trump issued a stark warning to Israel over annexing the West Bank in an interview published Thursday, as visiting Secretary of State Marco Rubio voiced confidence that a US-backed ceasefire in Gaza would hold. All the while, Israeli lawmakers advanced two bills paving the way f...

24/10/2025 11:11 France 24

'Inequality & division: Ouattara offers 'stability at exclusion of Ivorians from electoral process'

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24/10/2025 10:08 France 24

How Belgium’s De Wever derailed the EU’s ‘insane’ €140B Ukraine loan plan

The EU’s €140 billion loan for Ukraine remains stalled after Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever resisted plans to use frozen Russian assets to fund it. Belgium, home to most of those assets, warned of major financial and legal risks. At a Brussels summit, leaders softened their language, effe...

24/10/2025 09:54 France 24

US sanctions 'will not stop Russia,' West has to 'open its negotiating position'

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24/10/2025 09:03 France 24

Hungary's Orban seeks to boost support, opposition holds rival rally on 1956 anniversary

On Thursday, nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orbán accused the European Union of seeking to install a “puppet” government in Hungary, framing next year’s election as a decision between peace and a war that would mean “dying for Ukraine.” Addressing tens of thousands of supporters gathe...

24/10/2025 08:51 France 24

‘Coalition of the willing’ meet in London as Kyiv presses for more missiles

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24/10/2025 08:29 France 24

EU tasks Commission with Ukraine funding plan, eyes loan from frozen Russian assets

EU leaders on Thursday asked the European Commission to prepare options to fund Ukraine for two more years, keeping open the possibility of a loan backed by frozen Russian assets. After a summit in Brussels, they deferred a final decision on the proposed 140-billion-euro ($162 billion) “reparatio...

24/10/2025 08:27 France 24

Live: 'Coalition of the willing' eyes push to supply Ukraine more long-range missiles

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Friday hosts a meeting of the “coalition of the willing”, comprised of more than 20 Ukraine allies, in London, where he is set to call on Europe to supply Kyiv more long-range missiles. Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky is attending the meeting, whi...

24/10/2025 05:58 France 24

Lithuania slams airspace breach after two Russian jets enter its territory

Lithuania summoned a Russian diplomat on Thursday to protest what it said was a brief incursion of two Russian military aircraft into its airspace. The defence ministry said a Sukhoi SU-30 fighter and an IL-78 tanker from Kaliningrad crossed 700 metres into Lithuania during likely refuelling traini...

24/10/2025 03:08 France 24

Maduro warns US against 'crazy war' after Trump authorises covert Venezuela action

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro appealed Thursday for calm as tensions rose with Washington, saying in English: “No crazy war, please!” His plea followed US President Donald Trump’s announcement that he had authorised covert action against Caracas amid an expanding US military campaign ta...

24/10/2025 02:52 France 24

Trump is 'sick and tired of being lied to' by Putin, analyst says

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No deal in Brussels as Belgium holds out on frozen Russian assets

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Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu 'has been put in his place quite publicly by the American visitors'

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23/10/2025 18:17 France 24

Putin says Russian response to Ukrainian use of Tomahawks would be 'overwhelming'

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that if Ukraine gets and uses US Tomahawk missiles the response from Russia would be "very serious, if not overwhelming". At the same time, the Russian president pledged to continue dialogue with the US, despite US counterpart Donald Trump shelving...

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