Retrospective: The top 10 news stories that defined 2024

30/12/2024 08:12 France 24

From the death of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny to former US president Donald Trump’s return to the abrupt collapse of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad’s regime, FRANCE 24 looks back at the key events that defined 2024.

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Last year was China’s hottest on record, weather agency says

China's average national temperature for 2024 was 1.03 degrees higher than average, making it "the warmest year since the start of full records in 1961", China Meteorological Administration said Wednesday night. The world's largest greenhouse gas emitter, China also experienced devastating floods l...

02/01/2025 03:21 France 24

New Syrian FM on first official visit to Saudi Arabia aims for regional reset

On his first official visit to Saudi Arabia since Bashar al-Assad's ouster, Syrian Foreign Minister Assaad al-Shibani said he hoped to open a "new, bright page" in bilateral relations. Syria's new leaders are focused on rebuilding their war-shattered country amid Saudi concerns over the trafficking...

01/01/2025 22:19 France 24

Russia launches deadly New Year’s Day aerial attack on Kyiv

A rare Russian aerial attack on the heart of the Ukrainian capital early on Wednesday killed two people, injured at least six and damaged a residential building in Kyiv. The strikes came hours after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, in a New Year's Day message, vowed that "no cruise missile"...

01/01/2025 12:09 France 24

Moldova declares state of emergency as Russia-Ukraine gas deal ends

Russia's gas transit to Europe via Ukraine stopped on Wednesday, Moscow and Kyiv said, ending a decades-long arrangement and marking the latest casualty of the war between the neighbours. Russian gas has been supplied to Europe via pipelines crossing Ukraine since the end of the Soviet Union in 199...

01/01/2025 10:00 France 24

World braces for major changes in 2025

As the world greets the New Year, FRANCE 24 takes a look at major changes set to come in 2025 including Donald Trump's return to the White House, the ongoing wars in Gaza and Ukraine, the political uncertainty in France and Germany and more....

01/01/2025 09:57 France 24

Forecast: A look ahead to what 2025 has in store

From Donald Trump’s return to the White House to marking 80 years since the end of World War II and 250 years since Jane Austen's birth, FRANCE 24 looks ahead to what the year 2025 may have to offer....

01/01/2025 06:59 France 24

Russia halts gas exports to Europe via Ukraine, Kyiv hails ‘historic event’

Russia on Wednesday shut down its oldest gas route to Europe, which runs through Ukraine, after a transit deal expired in the early hours of January 1, 2025, without an accord extension. Moscow's 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine accelerated Europe's efforts to end its dependence on Russian gas,...

01/01/2025 06:45 France 24

From Sydney to Paris and New York, world welcomes 2025 with fireworks and festivities

Revellers across the world watched spectacular firework displays as they welcomed 2025 and waved goodbye to a year marked by conflict in the Middle East and Ukraine. In several war zones, there were muted acknowledgments of the start of another year....

01/01/2025 06:43 France 24

Europe to end imports of Russian gas via Ukraine on January 1

European imports of Russian gas via Ukraine are set to cease on New Year’s Day after the collapse of a key transit deal between Moscow and Kyiv. After more than a decade of fraught relations with Moscow, European officials say they are confident that alternative routes will prevent any shortage f...

31/12/2024 18:27 France 24

Pro-Russian hackers target websites of several French cities

The websites of several French cities were taken down on Tuesday after being targeted by pro-Russian hackers. The NoName collective claimed the attacks, which they described as retaliation for French support for Ukraine....

31/12/2024 17:30 France 24

How visas for skilled foreign workers are splitting MAGA in two

Tesla CEO Elon Musk and other tech titans are warring with some of US President-elect Donald Trump’s staunchest supporters over immigration visas. Trump has backed Musk and praised the use of H-1B visas to bring skilled foreign workers to the United States, but the issue has become a flashpoint t...

31/12/2024 17:17 France 24

World bids farewell to 2024 and greets New Year with fireworks

The world ushered in 2025 on Tuesday, with huge crowds waving goodbye to the old year that brought Olympic glory, a dramatic Donald Trump return and turmoil in the Middle East and Ukraine. Sydney – the self-proclaimed "New Year's capital of the world" – sprayed nine tonnes of fireworks from it...

31/12/2024 17:00 France 24

‘Our farms will come to a stop’: US farmers fret over Trump's deportation plans

Donald Trump has vowed to undertake the largest domestic deportation operation in American history when his second presidential term starts, potentially affecting millions of undocumented migrants. This could be bad news for America’s agricultural industry, which depends heavily on migrant labour...

31/12/2024 16:19 France 24

2024: A year marked by violence, wars, elections and the Olympic Games

As 2024 nears its end, FRANCE 24 takes a look at world events that marked the year including the ongoing wars in Ukraine, Sudan and the Middle East, the French legislative elections and the US presidential vote. 2024 was also marked by French feminist icon Gisèle Pelicot's mass rape trial that sho...

31/12/2024 15:50 France 24

Revellers across the world welcome 2025 with spectacular fireworks

Hundreds of thousands of revellers across the world watched spectacular fireworks displays while waving goodbye to a year marked by continuing turmoil in the Middle East and Ukraine, as well as Donald Trump's dramatic comeback in the US. ...

31/12/2024 15:43 France 24

Georgia’s ruling party ‘instrumentalises’ conservative values to stay in power, expert says

Georgia’s pro-Russia governing party Georgian Dream, backed by billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvili, is instrumentalising conservative values to stay in power, former Georgian minister and professor at Science Po Tornike Gordadze told FRANCE 24, pointing to the party, which started out as a left-wing...

31/12/2024 13:15 France 24

Barrage of Russian missiles and drones hits targets in Kyiv and across Ukraine

At least 12 residential buildings, and several “social infrastructure objects” were destroyed in Ukraine on Tuesday as Russia launched a massive missile and drone attack targeting multiple regions, including the capital Kyiv. Ukraine, meanwhile, claimed it had for the first time shot down a Rus...

31/12/2024 10:43 France 24

Russia and Ukraine exchange hundreds of POWs

Russia and Ukraine have exchanged prisoners of war in the latest such swap that saw the release of hundreds of captives and was brokered with the help of the United Arab Emirates, officials said Monday....

31/12/2024 09:58 France 24

Rights, rhinos and Olympic revelry: Uplifting stories from 2024

It was another turbulent year from start to end, dominated by wars still raging in Ukraine and the Middle East. But 2024 also witnessed some breakthroughs in medical research, space exploration and human rights, while the Paris Games gave the host country and viewers around the world a summer to re...

31/12/2024 06:28 France 24

Xi pledges 'world peace' in New Year’s message to Putin

Chinese President Xi Jinping emphasized China’s commitment to "world peace and development" in a New Year’s message to Russian President Vladimir Putin, while reaffirming the strength of their partnership, Chinese state media reported Tuesday....

31/12/2024 04:41 France 24

South Korean court issues arrest warrant for impeached President Yoon

A South Korean court has issued an arrest warrant for suspended President Yoon Suk Yeol over his short-lived declaration of martial law, investigators said Tuesday. Yoon, who faces potential life imprisonment or the death penalty for insurrection, remains under constitutional court review following...

31/12/2024 02:56 France 24

Trinidad and Tobago declares state of emergency amid deadly gang violence

Trinidad and Tobago declared a state of emergency on Monday, granting police the power to conduct warrantless searches and arrests for two days, following a surge in violent crime that has left 623 people dead this year....

31/12/2024 00:32 France 24

Russia and Ukraine exchange more than 300 prisoners of war

In a deal mediated by the United Arab Emirates, Moscow and Kyiv on Monday exchanged captive soldiers, with more than 300 Russian and Ukrainian soldiers returning home ahead of New Year's Eve. ...

30/12/2024 15:33 France 24

Syria's de facto leader Sharaa meets Ukrainian foreign minister in Damascus

Ahmed al-Sharaa, Syria's new leader and head of the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) rebel group, hosted a Ukrainian delegation led by Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha on Monday. The meeting is an effort to rebuild relations between the two countries after the ouster of president Bashar al-Assad, who was a...

30/12/2024 10:37 France 24

South Korea investigators request arrest warrant for impeached president Yoon

South Korean law enforcement officials on Monday requested a court warrant to detain impeached president Yoon Suk Yeol as they investigate whether his short-lived martial law decree on December 3 amounted to rebellion....

30/12/2024 02:50 France 24

Azerbaijan's president says Russia unintentionally shot down crashed jetliner

Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev said that Russia unintentionally shot down an Azerbaijani Airlines flight that crashed in Kazakhstan on Wednesday, killing 38 people. Aliyev on Sunday called for Russia to admit guilt and pay compensation for the incident....

29/12/2024 18:35 France 24

Fifth infant dies of hypothermia as Gaza's winter cold sets in

A 20-day-old baby died of hypothermia in the Gaza Strip on Sunday – the fifth to die of cold in recent weeks according to local health officials. Thousands of displaced families in the Palestinian territory are struggling to stay warm as temperatures plummet....

29/12/2024 16:46 France 24

Salomé Zourabichvili: Georgia's first female president

Outgoing Georgian President Salomé Zourabichvili became the country's first female president in 2018 with the support of the governing party Georgian Dream. Now, six years later, with the ruling party becoming more pro-Russian despite its promises of further European integration, pro-EU Zourabich...

29/12/2024 16:38 France 24

2024: A look back at a year of war and upheaval in the Middle East

The year 2024 was marked by an escalation of armed conflict across the Middle East. Alongside the relentless bombing of Gaza, Israel expanded operations into Lebanon to target Hamas ally Hezbollah, whose militants have fired hundreds of rockets into Israel. For the first time in two decades, Israel...

29/12/2024 12:52 France 24

Georgia inaugurates far-right ruling party loyalist as new president

Former soccer player Mikheil Kavelashvili was formally inaugurated as president of Georgia on Sunday, cementing the ruling party's grip in what the opposition calls a blow to the country’s EU aspirations and a victory for former imperial ruler Russia. Outgoing pro-Western Georgian President Salom...

29/12/2024 11:22 France 24

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