On the trail of migrant smugglers 3/3: Gang war shootouts on a trafficking highway

03/11/2025 05:59 France 24

EXCLUSIVE. A motorway rest stop near Dijon became the site of a deadly bid for vengeance between migrant trafficking gangs in February 2025. An Iraqi migrant was killed and a police officer from France’s elite tactical unit wounded in a shootout that sparked an ongoing investigation into a major migrant trafficking group.

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Israel maintains military presence in Southern Lebanon amid Hezbollah tensions

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned on Sunday that Hezbollah is attempting to rearm and threatened that Israel would attack if Lebanon does not disarm the militant group. This warning comes as the Israeli military reported killing four Hezbollah members overnight. Sporadic Israeli stri...

03/11/2025 11:43 France 24

Tehran faces water crisis as dam nears drying point

Tehran faces a critical water shortage as the Amir Kabir dam, a major source of the capital’s drinking water, holds only 8% of its capacity. Authorities warn the dam can supply water for just two more weeks due to a historic drought. FRANCE 24's Saeed Azimi has the details from Tehran....

03/11/2025 10:42 France 24

Trump threatens Nigeria over religious violence

US President Donald Trump on Saturday said he's ordered the Pentagon to begin planning for potential military action in Nigeria as he stepped up his allegations that the government is failing to rein in the persecution of Christians in the West African country. The president also warned that he 'w...

03/11/2025 10:02 France 24

French MPs vote against wealth tax, setting scene for more political instability

French PM Sébastien Lecornu's second government may well be hanging by a thread after France's lower house of parliament rejected a wealth tax, as expected. Proposed by the left, the so-called Zucman tax would have imposed a minimum 2 percent levy on wealth of over €100 million and responded to...

03/11/2025 09:35 France 24

Trump downplays US war threat in Venezuela, says Maduro’s days are ‘numbered’

President Donald Trump on Sunday downplayed the prospect of US military action in Venezuela but warned that President Nicolas Maduro’s “days are numbered”. The comments come as Washington boosts its military presence in the Caribbean and targets alleged drug-trafficking operations....

03/11/2025 03:58 France 24

Israel warns of intensifying attacks in Lebanon against Hezbollah

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned Beirut on Sunday to disarm Iran-backed Hezbollah, signalling that Israel could intensify operations in Lebanon against the militant group. Despite a November 2024 ceasefire with Hezbollah, Israel maintains troops in five areas in southern Lebanon a...

02/11/2025 19:19 France 24

Russia fires wave of drones and missiles at Ukraine: At least 6 killed

Russia launched a barrage of drones and missiles at Ukraine overnight, killing at least six people, including two children, and leaving tens of thousands without power, officials reported Sunday. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky condemned the attacks, which also injured a dozen others, saying...

02/11/2025 13:40 France 24

Russian blitz on Ukraine kills six people, including two children

A wave of drones and missiles were fired into Ukraine by Russia overnight on Saturday and Sunday, killing at least six people including two boys aged 11 and 14. Russia's strikes on Ukraine's energy grid cut power to the entire eastern Donetsk region, as well as almost 58,000 households in the so...

02/11/2025 11:29 France 24

Ukraine deploys special forces to the eastern city of Pokrovsk after a Russian assault

Ukraine on Saturday deployed special forces to the eastern city of Pokrovsk, which is under an intense Russian assault. The city has been in Moscow's sights for over a year and lies on a major supply route for the Ukrainian army. Russia's army fired 270 missiles over October, up 46 percent on the p...

02/11/2025 09:39 France 24

French journalist banned from Russia: "They made me pay for my reporting"

As we mark the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists, France 24 speaks to former Moscow correspondent Julian Colling. In September he was expelled from Russia and banned for five years. He'd been in Moscow since 2017 and he says that while there was always pressure on j...

02/11/2025 09:34 France 24

On the trail of migrant smugglers 2/3: Shipwreck survivor to stand trial for involuntary homicide

Ibrahim A., a Sudanese migrant fleeing the civil war, boarded a small inflatable boat hoping to cross the English Channel in August 2023. When the boat sank, killing seven people, French authorities arrested the 31-year-old, who they suspected of piloting the deadly voyage. He now faces 10 years i...

02/11/2025 07:13 France 24

Ukraine sends special forces to Pokrovsk as Moscow tightens grip

01/11/2025 21:22 France 24

Ukraine says army holding out in Pokrovsk amid intensifying Russian offensive

Ukraine's top military commander said on Saturday his troops were still holding out in the embattled eastern city of Pokrovsk, which Moscow said its forces were at last enclosing in a pincer movement after more than a year of fighting. Russia has been trying to capture Pokrovsk, dubbed "the gateway...

01/11/2025 21:21 France 24

Ukraine sends special forces as Russia closes in on Pokrovsk

Ukraine has deployed special forces to the eastern city of Pokrovsk, where it is under pressure from an intense Russian assault involving thousands of troops, Kyiv's top commander said Saturday. Pokrovsk, in Ukraine's Donetsk region, lies on a major supply route for the Ukrainian army and has been...

01/11/2025 20:32 France 24

USA China Superpower Showdown, Who can help Sudan, Prince no more

It’s been a week that saw Britain’s king strip his brother Andrew - formerly Prince Andrew - of his last title, and ask him to leave the Royal Lodge, just days after the release of Virginia Giuffre’s posthumous memoir.A week where Donald Trump and Xi Jinping met - Trump calling their 100-minu...

01/11/2025 10:26 France 24

China to ease export ban of Nexperia semiconductors to Europe

China said Saturday it will exempt some Nexperia computer chips from an export ban that threatened to seriously disrupt EU car production. European automakers had warned that shortages of chips supplied by Nexperia would force stoppages at production lines in Europe....

01/11/2025 03:25 France 24

42 million Americans facing hunger as shutdown enters second month

The US government shutdown barrelled towards its second month on October 31 and the pain is spreading fast -- with food aid vanishing and 42 million Americans caught in the crossfire on November 2nd. Republicans warned that millions will begin feeling the full force of the shutdown, while Democrats...

31/10/2025 16:36 France 24

Alleged Russian-linked hate attacks in France "are a double blow to those targeted"

Three Bulgarian men are on trial in Paris for alleged involvement in spray-painting blood-red hands on the city's Holocaust Memorial, with courts expected to give their verdict. French intelligence services link the act of vandalism to a campaign by Russia to destabilise France and other Western so...

31/10/2025 14:37 France 24

Sudan's RSF says it arrested fighters accused of El-Fasher abuses

Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces said they had arrested several of their fighters accused of committing abuses during the capture of the city of El-Fasher. Although the goal is to show that the RSF follows the rules of war, it's probable those arrests "are not significant at all" FRANCE 24...

31/10/2025 14:06 France 24

EU has a 'moral obligation' to developing countries on emissions: Sweden's ex-environment minister

The EU Council insists that the EU must leave next month's COP30 climate summit in Brazil with a clear path forward to keeping a lid on 1.5°C of warming. But is that target already out of reach? Our guest says that the world is actually on course for 2.9°C of warming, and that the international c...

31/10/2025 12:15 France 24

Ukraine's invisible wounds of war: Soldiers seek solace at Greece's Mount Athos

Mount Athos, in northern Greece, is the beating heart of the Orthodox Christian faith and home to 2,000 monks. But for the past year, it has also become a place of refuge and pilgrimage for Ukrainian soldiers. For these men, wounded at war and suffering from deep trauma, Mount Athos's retreats of...

31/10/2025 12:09 France 24

Rhetoric ramp-up around US nuclear weapons testing is reminiscent of Cold War

US President Donald Trump announced that the US would restart nuclear weapons testing. The move elicited shock and confusion, coming right before his meeting with his Chinese counterpart on October 29 -- and right after their Russian Counterpart had revealed two new nuclear-powered weapons earlier...

31/10/2025 10:59 France 24

'Final humiliation': Andrew stripped of 'prince' title is his 'biggest fall from grace'

PRESS REVIEW – Friday, October 31: American papers discuss US President Donald Trump's nuclear reset that "revives a Cold War debate". Next: the British tabloids are on fire after Andrew is stripped of his royal "prince" title. Finally, how much is too much when it comes to Halloween decorations...

31/10/2025 10:55 France 24

Humanitarian crisis deepens in Sudan after RSF take over el-Fasher

Fears that the Sudan region of Darfur is plunging into genocidal violence are reviving. U.N officials have warned of a rampage after the RSF took hold of the city of el-Fasher, reportedly killing more than 450 people in a hospital and carrying out ethnically targeted killings of civilians and sexua...

31/10/2025 10:14 France 24

UN accuses Iran of widespread arrests, abuses after 12-day war with Israel

United Nations fact finders on Thursday condemned Iran for intensifying repression since its 12-day war with Israel in June, reporting more than 21,000 arrests and widespread mistreatment of minorities and journalists. ...

31/10/2025 02:53 France 24

A truce on whose terms? Trump hails pause in trade war with China

After launching a trade war with China, Donald Trump is now declaring a deal is at hand for a one-year truce. With nothing yet signed, we ask about the South Korean sit-down between the US president and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping, promises of reduced tariffs and computer chip exports by the...

30/10/2025 19:27 France 24

Sudanese missing in El-Fasher after paramilitary takeover are in ‘grave danger’, aid groups warn

International aid groups on Thursday warned that the trickle of people arriving at a refugee camp in Sudan from El-Fasher after it was seized by a paramilitary group is a sign of the extensive atrocities committed in the major Darfur city and the difficulties of trying to get to safety. The UN Secu...

30/10/2025 18:00 France 24

Sudanese refugees recount RSF violence in El-Fasher

#Refugees who fled #Sudan’s #El-Fasher recount brutal #RSF attacks, hunger and #shelling that killed their families. Aid groups call it war crimes, with around 2,000 people feared dead as the scale of atrocities committed when the RSF seized the city comes to light....

30/10/2025 17:06 France 24

RSF killed hundreds at Darfur hospital, aid workers say, as thousands others flee

More than 36,000 civilians have fled el-Fasher since the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces captured the army's last stronghold in the Darfur region. The UN and other NGOs have been warning about possible mass killings and ethnic cleansing, after hundreds were found dead in a hospital. Some that fle...

30/10/2025 16:04 France 24

Pokrovsk part of last major defensive arc stopping Russia from seizing Donbas

Ukraine's army chief said Thursday that Russian troops are intensifying its attacks on the eastern stronghold of Pokrovsk and that they are strengthening its defences to repel the attacks - but that the military's main priority is to save the lives of its soldiers. Alongside the Ukrainian controlle...

30/10/2025 16:00 France 24

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