Russia and Ukraine carry out another POW exchange

19/06/2025 17:11 France 24

Russia and Ukraine on Thursday completed another exchange of prisoners of war, with officials on both sides releasing photos of soldiers wrapped in their national flags, cheering. Neither side said how many prisoners were freed in Thursday's exchange.

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If Iran truly wanted nuclear weapons they would have pursued them already, analyst says

FRANCE 24's Mark Owen speaks to Rosemary Kelanic, Director of the Middle East programme at Defence Priorities, about the war between Israel and Iran. She says that Iran has kept uranium enrichment at 60% for years, never progressing to the 90% threshold for nuclear weapons use, and by doing so is s...

19/06/2025 19:48 France 24

Iran air defences 'confront hostile targets' over Tehran: state media

Iranian state media said air defence systems were activated Thursday against "hostile targets" over the capital Tehran, a week into a war triggered by major Israeli attacks. In overnight raids, "inactive nuclear reactor" in Arak as well as the uranium enrichment facility in Natanz were targeted. FR...

19/06/2025 19:14 France 24

'Aid being deliberately engineered' to displace Palestinians, NGO says

Gaza's civil defence agency said Israeli forces killed at least 72 people on Thursday, including 21 who had gathered near aid distribution sites as famine looms after more than 20 months of war. Speaking on FRANCE 24, Super-Novae NGO president Alexandre Chatillon says that 'aid is being deliberatel...

19/06/2025 18:33 France 24

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19/06/2025 18:13 France 24

Watch out for flight tracking images showing Chinese cargo planes landing in Iran

Since the start of the Israel-Iran war, X-accounts have been claiming that several Chinese aircraft have landed in Iran to supply the country with weapons. However, the main airline involved, Cargolux, has denied the allegations, and the photos from the flight tracking website Flightradar24 have be...

19/06/2025 17:26 France 24

Israel-Iran war undermines Beijing’s Mideast diplomatic push

Beijing has said it is prepared to act as peacemaker in the escalating conflict between Israel and Iran after having successfully brokered a rapprochement between regional foes Iran and Saudi Arabia in 2023. But the war has also highlighted the gap between China's diplomatic ambitions in the Mid...

19/06/2025 15:46 France 24

Israel-Iran war: Internet blackout in Tehran

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19/06/2025 15:41 France 24

Israel-Iran conflict ‘drives the final nail into the coffin’ of postwar world order

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19/06/2025 13:41 France 24

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19/06/2025 12:58 France 24

China supports Iran, condemns Israel

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19/06/2025 10:40 France 24

Point of no return: Global carbon budget to be exhausted by 2028

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19/06/2025 09:49 France 24

Day 7 of Iran-Israel war: Southern Tel Aviv hit overnight

FRANCE 24's senior reporter Catherine Norris Trent reports live from a site in southern Tel Aviv hit by an Iranian missile overnight. According to first responders, around 20 people were injured in the strike. A hospital in southern Israel was also hit overnight....

19/06/2025 09:20 France 24

Trump says he ‘may or may not’ attack Iran

President Donald Trump warned on Wednesday that he was weighing US military action in the Israel-Iran conflict but left his intensions ambiguous, saying "I may do it, I may not do it." He added that he would meet with his national security team in two days and that next week would be “very big”...

19/06/2025 08:33 France 24

Israeli government in ‘full bore’ campaign to persuade Trump to join Iran war

As President Donald Trump weighs direct US involvement in the war, FRANCE 24’s Jerusalem correspondent Noga Tarnopolsky notes that “the Israeli government is in a very open, full bore campaign to try and persuade Donald Trump” to join Israel’s military campaign on Iran....

19/06/2025 08:29 France 24

'I may do it, I may not': Trump weighs US involvement in Israel-Iran war

President Donald Trump has left his intentions on whether the US will join the Israel-Iran conflict deliberately ambiguous, telling reporters in the White House, "I may do it, I may not do it. I mean, nobody knows what I'm going to do." Trump is set to receive an intelligence briefing later Thursda...

19/06/2025 05:25 France 24

Israel-Iran war live: Russia warns US against 'extremely dangerous' military intervention

Russia's foreign ministry on Thursday warned the US against taking military action against Iran, saying it would be "extremely dangerous" and have "unpredictable negative consequences". Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said he would attend talks in Geneva with European leaders on his country'...

19/06/2025 05:11 France 24

Iran strikes Israel as Trump weighs US involvement

Iran launched a fresh salvo of missiles at Israel on Thursday, with a hospital reported hit, as President Donald Trump warned he was weighing US military action in the conflict....

19/06/2025 03:07 France 24

Putin says NATO’s increased defence spending poses no 'threat' to Russia

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18/06/2025 23:51 France 24

M23 deported over 1,500 people from eastern DRC to Rwanda, HRW says

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18/06/2025 20:48 France 24

Israel-Iran war: Did Pakistan threaten a nuclear bomb against Israel?

A video of a former Iranian general went viral on X, in which he claimed that if Tel Aviv were to attack Tehran with nuclear weapons, Pakistan would retaliate against Israel with nuclear action. While Pakistani media denounced the English-dubbed clip as false and manipulated with AI, the original f...

18/06/2025 20:43 France 24

The age of war? Israel-Iran conflict further undermines global security

Donald Trump sold us a different kind of Pax Americana. The US-led global rules-based order was always about soft power backed by bulk military might. Trump's rules on Inauguration Day veered instead to the utilitarian: yes to the world’s top superpower staking imperial claims to parts of the pla...

18/06/2025 18:18 France 24

Ehud Barak asserts US won't battle Iran in full-scale war: 'US has not won any war in last 75 years'

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18/06/2025 17:08 France 24

Gulf states begin diplomatic scramble to end Israel-Iran conflict

Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Oman and Qatar are engaged in frantic efforts at diplomacy to end the conflict between Iran and Israel and ensure peace and stability in the wider region. Prior to the war, the Gulf nations had been pursuing a détente with Iran after years of strained ties....

18/06/2025 15:41 France 24

Radio Resistance: Remembering Charles de Gaulle's Appeal of June 18

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18/06/2025 15:31 France 24

Khamenei says Iran will 'never surrender', warns off US

Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Wednesday the nation would never surrender as demanded by President Donald Trump and warned the United States it would face "irreparable damage" if it intervenes in support of its ally. The speech came six days into the conflict, with Trump demandin...

18/06/2025 15:12 France 24

'Years in the making': Israel took initiative, went to war to destroy Iran's nuclear capabilities'

Less than a week into the conflict, Israel says its aircraft have free rein over the city’s skies. Meanwhile, fear has gripped the Iranian capital as the streets are empty, businesses closed and communications patchy at best. US President Donald Trump initially distanced himself from Israel’s s...

18/06/2025 14:21 France 24

'Trump did not have the desire, the courage, or the will to tell Israelis not to start this war'

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18/06/2025 12:55 France 24

'Simply apocalyptic' and 'too risky': Papers react to Gaza aid distribution deaths

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18/06/2025 12:55 France 24

Amid regime's 'repression and violence', Iranians 'determined' to pursue freedom, justice, democracy

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18/06/2025 12:45 France 24

MAGA split forms over US involvement in Iran

A schism has opened up among Donald Trump's supporters in the Republican party over how the US responds to the war between Israel and Iran, with some pushing for intervention and others on the isolationist wing of the party strongly opposed. But which of the two sides will Trump listen to?...

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