NATO secretary-general Mark Rutte was in Rome on Thursday where he will attend the "Weimar Plus” ministerial meeting on Ukraine and EU security. France 24's correspondent Seema Gupta has the latest.
Israel on Friday conducted massive missile and drone strikes on Iran, targeting the country's nuclear programme and raising the potential for an all-out war between the two bitter Middle East adversaries. It appeared to be the most significant attack Iran has faced since its 1980s war with Iraq, wi...
UN member states voted overwhelmingly Thursday for an immediate Gaza ceasefire, Hamas' hostage release, and urgent aid access for 2 million Palestinians. The 193-nation General Assembly passed the Spanish-drafted resolution 149-12, with 19 abstentions, condemning starvation as a war tactic. The mov...
The U.N. General Assembly is expected to vote Thursday on a resolution demanding an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, the release of all hostages held by Hamas, and the opening of all Israeli border crossings for deliveries of desperately needed food and other aid. The resolution, drafted by Spain and o...
A death spiral in Gaza with no end in sight; a Middle East peace process that’s been moribund for years. What’s the point of talking solutions when not even a truce is in sight? In New York next week, France is slated to co-chair with Saudi Arabia what's officially billed as a "UN Internationa...
Since arriving in Mali in 2021, Russian Wagner mercenaries have abducted and detained hundreds of civilians in former UN bases and military camps shared with the Malian army. Our investigation, as part of the Viktoriia project, reveals secret prisons where abuse and torture are carried out with tot...
Russia and Ukraine carried out a prisoner of war exchange on Thursday, according to statements by the Russian defence ministry....
An Air India flight with at least 242 people on board crashed shortly after takeoff in India's Ahmedabad, police and the airline said on Thursday, with rescue workers reporting at least 30 dead and warning that the toll is expected to rise. The airline said passengers included 169 Indian nationals...
The number of people displaced by war and persecution around the world remained "untenably high" at above 122 million this year due to longstanding conflicts such as those in Sudan and Ukraine, the UN refugee agency said on Thursday, though the return of almost two million Syrians displaced by the...
US President Donald Trump has attempted to one-up California Governor Gavin Newsom in their war of words, by releasing his own screenshots to Fox News to "prove" the pair had spoken on the phone on Monday. However his own call log proved he was in the wrong, with no phone call occurring on that dat...
How to stop our needless overconsumption of cheaper and cheaper clothes that pollute the planet? France's Senate has just passed a bill to curb advertising and tax pollution of fast fashion, with lawmakers even talking up the distinction of ultra-fast fashion: garments made in a hurry – increa...
Speaking together on FRANCE 24, former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert and former Palestinian foreign minister Nasser al-Qudwa defended their vision of a two-state solution despite the devastating war in Gaza. Olmert accused Israel of waging a war with "no legitimacy" since expanding the conflic...
Iran said on Wednesday it would target US military bases if conflict breaks out between the two countries over Iran's nuclear enrichment program. Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Washington "cannot have a say" on the issue, as US President Donald Trump threatened that the US could...
Amid ongoing tensions between the world's two biggest economies, the US and China on Tuesday announced that two days of high-level talks had yielded a "framework" to reach an agreement on trade, centering rare earth minerals and their escalating tariffs war....
Russia kept up its relentless air offensive over Kharkiv early Wednesday, killing three people and injuring at least 60, as Kyiv reiterated its plea for Western allies to pressure Russia into accepting an unconditional ceasefire. Ukrainian officials said Moscow had returned the bodies of more than...
Britain, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and Norway on Tuesday ordered sanctions against two hard-line Israeli ministers, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, for "repeated incitements of violence" against Palestinians, upping their condemnation of Israel...
The European Union has proposed a new round of sanctions against Russia, which include a ban on the use of the Nord Stream underwater pipelines between Russia and Germany and the addition of 77 more vessels to the blacklist of the so-called "shadow fleet" of tankers carrying Russian oil. Plus, Euro...
Colombia was shaken Tuesday by 19 coordinated bomb and gun attacks across the southwest, leaving at least seven dead and escalating the nation's security crisis. The violence followed an attempted assassination of a presidential candidate in Bogotá, stoking fears of a return to the brutal era of t...
FRANCE 24's Mark Owen speaks to Peter Zalmayev, Director of the Eurasia Democracy Initiative, about the latest developments in the war in Ukraine. He says that Russian President Vladimir Putin is 'not feeling any heat from Washington' and that he fears that any plans to boost defense systems with E...
Britain and four allies joined forces Tuesday to sanction two Israeli ministers for "repeated incitements of violence" against Palestinians, upping their condemnation of Israel's actions around the war in Gaza. The move comes as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faces a vote to dissolve par...
A contractor found an underground Byzantine tomb believed to be more than 1,500 years old beneath the rubble of a war-damaged house in northern Syria. Since the fall of former Syrian president Bashar Al-Assad, residents are now returning and beginning to rebuild the places looted and demolished dur...
Russia and Ukraine on Tuesday exchanged more prisoners of war as part of a large-scale swap agreed by both countries at peace talks in Istanbul. Neither side said how many soldiers were freed in the second round of the exchange....
Russia launched more than 300 drones on Ukraine overnight, killing at least two people according to local officials. The strikes, which damaged parts of the capital and hit a maternity ward in Odesa, followed on from Moscow's biggest drone assault on its neighbour on Monday. The Kremlin says it's i...
The war in Sudan has led to the total or partial destruction of clinics and hospitals, but health professionals are determined to rebuild what has been lost. Among them are scientists researching and treating mycetoma, a rare but devastating fungal disease. The Mycetoma Research Centre (MRC) in Kh...
Israel deported activist Greta Thunberg on Tuesday, the country's Foreign Ministry said, a day after the Gaza-bound ship she was on with other activists was seized by the Israeli military. She left on a flight to France and was then headed to her home country of Sweden. Thunberg was one of 12 passe...
The Maldives, a dream destination in the Indian Ocean that's popular with tourists from around the world, is threatened by rising sea levels – a direct consequence of climate change. Scientists warn the archipelago could even disappear by the end of the century. The country is building artific...
Russia launched almost 500 drones at Ukraine in the biggest overnight drone bombardment of the three-year war, the Ukrainian air force said Monday, as the Kremlin presses its summer offensive amid direct peace talks that have yet to deliver progress on stopping the fighting. For in-depth analysis a...
Despite the recent war with Israel and political tensions in Lebanon, activity at Beirut Airport is on the rise, the highest in years. Security measures have been significantly enhanced to ensure the safety of travelers, tourism is therefore resuming, as explained by FRANCE 24's correspondent in th...
This Monday, following a delay over the weekend, the large-scale prisoner of war exchange agreed upon by Russia and Ukraine last week in Istanbul began to take place. Approximately fifty soldiers, all aged 25 and under, were released. While this brought moments of joy to them and their families, ou...
Days after it launched its largest drone offensive since the start of its three year-long invasion of Ukraine, Russia pummeled the Ukraine capital Kyiv and the port city of Odesa early Tuesday, killing one person, as talks between the two countries fail to yield a path towards a ceasefire....
In tonight's edition: Authorities claim that a Kenyan man, who died in a police station after criticising a senior police officer, hit his own head. Also, days after pulling Wagner mercenaries out of Mali, Russia says it wants to deepen security ties with Africa. Plus world leaders, scientists a...
