Russian cybercriminal Alexander Vinnik returns to Moscow after prisoner swap

14/02/2025 00:23 France 24

Russian cryptocurrency kingpin Alexander Vinnik returned to Moscow on Thursday, as part of an exchange deal for US teacher Marc Fogel, a senior US official said.

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BRICS summit opens in Brazil without Xi Jinping and Putin

Leaders of the growing BRICS group of developing nations meeting in Rio de Janeiro on Sunday are expected to decry US President Donald Trump's "indiscriminate" trade tariffs, saying they are illegal and risk hurting the global economy, according to a draft summit statement obtained by AFP on Saturd...

06/07/2025 11:30 France 24

Hezbollah is considering giving up more weapons

Hezbollah has begun a major strategic review in the wake of its devastating war with Israel, including considering scaling back its role as an armed movement without disarming completely, three sources familiar with the deliberations say. The internal discussions, which aren't yet finalised and hav...

06/07/2025 08:40 France 24

Iran’s Khamenei makes first public appearance since start of Israel-Iran war

In his first public appearance since the outbreak of last month's Israel-Iran war, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei attended a religious event on Saturday, state media reported. During the 12-day war, which started on June 13, Khamenei avoided public appearances, issuing pre-taped messages f...

05/07/2025 20:21 France 24

'Dire': Kyiv badly hit by relentless Russian attacks after abrupt US halt to Patriot defence support

Waves of drones and missiles targeted Kyiv overnight in the largest aerial assault since Russia's invasion of Ukraine began more than three years ago, amid a renewed Russian push to capture more of its neighbour's land. Hours after the barrage that killed one person and wounded at least 26 others,...

05/07/2025 06:56 France 24

Trump agrees to strengthen Ukraine's air defence, Zelensky says

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday said that US President Donald Trump had agreed to boost Ukraine’s air defences. Russia has stepped up its attacks on Ukraine in recent weeks, on Friday hitting Kyiv with the largest aerial attack since its full-scale invasion of Ukraine began in 20...

05/07/2025 06:06 France 24

Hamas says it is ready to start Gaza ceasefire talks 'immediately'

Hamas on Friday said it had given a positive response to a proposal for a ceasefire with Israel mediated by Egypt and Qatar and that it was ready to start talks "immediately". Earlier this week, US President Donald Trump said Israel had agreed to the terms of a 60-day truce proposal and urged Hama...

04/07/2025 20:46 France 24

Gaza, Trump V Musk, Boualem Sansal, A year of Keir

This week, the war in Gaza appeared to get closer to a 60 day truce. Meanwhile, this week saw a corruption trial facing Benjamin Netanyahu postponed by an Israeli court, coming hours after President Trump took to social media claiming the case was a witch-hunt and would interfere with the Israeli p...

04/07/2025 18:26 France 24

In Poland, Ukrainian refugees help drive economic growth

Since the start of the war in Ukraine, Poland has taken in around one million Ukrainian refugees. While the far right continues to push a stigmatising narrative, recent reports show that Ukrainians are, in fact, making a strong contribution to the country’s economic growth and integrating well in...

04/07/2025 15:31 France 24

Telegram boss Durov speaks out before French hearing, hopes to get charges lifted

Pavel Durov, the enigmatic Russian-born billionaire boss of messaging app Telegram, has his third audience with a French investigating magistrate in the coming days, following his dramatic arrest 10 months ago on wide-ranging charges including complicity in terrorist content, drug trafficking and c...

04/07/2025 15:28 France 24

Trump agrees to work with Kyiv on strengthening air defences, Zelensky says

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday announced that he and US President Donald Trump had agreed to boost Ukraine’s air defences. The agreement comes amid rising concern in Kyiv after Washington said it was halting some shipments of critical weapons, raising fears about Ukraine’s abi...

04/07/2025 15:11 France 24

Russia pounds Kyiv with largest drone attack, hours after Trump-Putin call

Russia pummelled Kyiv with the largest drone attack of the war, killing one person, injuring at least 23 and damaging buildings across the capital hours after U.S. President Donald Trump spoke to Russia's Vladimir Putin, officials said on Friday. Air raid sirens, the whine of kamikaze drones and bo...

04/07/2025 14:45 France 24

Thirty years after end of war in Bosnia-Herzegovina, tensions remain

Three decades after the signature of the Dayton Accords put an end to the devastating war in Bosnia-Herzegovina, the nation remains deeply divided. To what extent are the different communities in this small Balkan country managing to live side by side? FRANCE 24’s Karim Yahiaoui and Mohamed Farha...

04/07/2025 14:19 France 24

‘Everyone is scared’: Iran ramps up arrests and executions in wake of Israel war

Weakened by the recent war with Israel, the Iranian regime has launched a wave of arrests and executions, with many accused of spying for Israel. Hundreds, potentially thousands, have been arrested. Our colleagues at France 2 managed to speak to some of the young Iranians living in Tehran, who tell...

04/07/2025 13:25 France 24

Russia becomes first country to recognise Taliban govt in Afghanistan

Afghanistan's government said on Thursday that Russia had become the first country to officially recognise its rule, calling it a "brave decision". The Taliban swept back to power in 2021 after ousting the foreign-backed government and have imposed an austere version of Islamic law....

04/07/2025 13:24 France 24

Exclusive investigation: Is the Russian Orthodox Church in Sweden a platform for espionage?

From espionage to hybrid warfare, FRANCE 24 has been investigating a Russian Orthodox church in Sweden that's suspected of being a platform for Russian intelligence. Our reporters have discovered at least three cases of battles for influence around churches and have spoken to key witnesses. ...

04/07/2025 12:35 France 24

'You'll never walk alone': Football world mourns Diogo Jota

PRESS REVIEW – Friday, July 4: We look at reactions to US President Donald Trump's "Big, Beautiful Bill", which he will sign today. Also: Russia recognises the Taliban as Afghanistan's government, becoming the first country to do so. Tributes in the football world pour in for Diogo Jota, a star...

04/07/2025 09:51 France 24

What we know so far about Gaza ceasefire proposals

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday it would probably be known in 24 hours whether the Palestinian militant group Hamas has agreed to accept what he has called a "final proposal" for an Israel-Hamas ceasefire in Gaza. A source close to Hamas, meanwhile, said the group was seeking guarantees...

04/07/2025 09:50 France 24

British rock band Oasis kick off comeback tour in Cardiff

Oasis, the biggest British rock band of the 1990s, kick off their reunion tour in Cardiff on Friday, bringing the warring Gallagher brothers back together on stage for the first time in nearly 16 years. The band, whose hits "Live Forever" and "Wonderwall" helped define "Britpop", announced the show...

04/07/2025 09:24 France 24

Russia hits Ukraine with largest missile and drone barrage since war began

Waves of drone and missile attacks targeted Kyiv overnight into Friday in the largest aerial attack since Russia's invasion of Ukraine began more than three years ago, injuring 23 people and inflicting severe damage across multiple districts of the capital in a seven-hour onslaught. The attack bega...

04/07/2025 08:51 France 24

Zelensky says Russia's record aerial attack on Ukraine shows Putin's 'disregard' for US, peace

Russian drones pummelled Kyiv in an all-night attack that wounded at least 23 people, set buildings and cars ablaze and damaged railway infrastructure across the city, Ukrainian authorities said Friday. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said the massive aerial assault shows Putin's "disregard...

04/07/2025 06:19 France 24

The church by the airport: Inside Russia’s suspected spy activities in Sweden

Just about everything about the onion-domed Russian Orthodox church near the otherwise unassuming Swedish city of Vasteras seems odd: its close proximity to the airport, its taller-than-planned spire, and its elusive priest allegedly commended by the Kremlin’s foreign spy agency, SVR. Swedish int...

04/07/2025 05:30 France 24

Russia’s ambassador to Sweden dismisses hybrid war accusations as ‘ridiculous’

Sweden’s domestic intelligence agency has singled out Russia as the “biggest threat to Sweden’s security” and warned it is using the Russian Orthodox Church as a platform to conduct hybrid war operations in the form of influence and espionage activities. FRANCE 24 spoke to Russia’s Ambass...

04/07/2025 05:20 France 24

Russia becomes first country to recognise Afghanistan's Taliban government

Afghanistan said on Thursday Russia had become the first country to officially recognise its Taliban-led government, calling it a "brave decision". The Taliban regained power in 2021 after toppling the Western-backed administration and have since enforced strict Islamic law....

03/07/2025 22:06 France 24

Deputy head of Russian Navy killed in Kursk 'combat'

The Russian Navy's deputy commander Mikhail Gudkov was killed during "combat operations" in the Kursk region bordering Ukraine, officials in Moscow said Thursday. Gudkov, who was promoted by President Vladimir Putin earlier this year, is one of the most senior Russian military officers to have b...

03/07/2025 20:50 France 24

M23 says it wants ceasefire deal with DR Congo's government

In tonight's edition: M23 rebels are laying out their demands in eastern DR Congo, including the release of prisoners and the dropping of arrest warrants, as peace talks continue in Doha. Also, PM Narendra Modi's visit is the first to Ghana by an Indian leader in three decades. And Ethiopia's Gr...

03/07/2025 20:47 France 24

Too late to win over Trump? Europe frets as US freezes some weapons for Ukraine

Remember last week and that collective sigh of relief among allies that Donald Trump had a) showed up at the NATO summit and b) agreed to a sidebar meeting with his Ukrainian counterpart, after which the US president gushed that Volodymyr Zelensky "couldn't have been nicer". It was quite the contr...

03/07/2025 18:21 France 24

Putin says he won't back down from Ukraine goals in hour-long call with Trump

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday told his US counterpart Donald Trump that Moscow would not give up on its war aims in Ukraine during a lengthy phone call – their sixth publicly disclosed chat this year – that also touched on Iran and the Middle East....

03/07/2025 17:54 France 24

Arms deliveries, sanctions loopholes: How Trump's recent moves benefit Russia

Two recent decisions by US President Donald Trump have directly benefitted Russia, both in the war in Ukraine and in its economic standoff with Europe. The White House halted a planned shipment of arms to Kyiv and deliberately bypassed existing sanctions to offer economic relief to Russia’s nucle...

03/07/2025 16:18 France 24

Netanyahu vows to uproot Hamas as ceasefire proposals discussed

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday vowed to eradicate Hamas, even as the Palestinian militant group said it was discussing new proposals from mediators for a ceasefire in Gaza. The Israeli leader had yet to comment on US President Donald Trump's claim that Israel had backed a pl...

03/07/2025 15:30 France 24

Russians and Belarusians trapped in administrative limbo in Serbia

Serbia is home to a large Russian and Belarusian community, which has increased in number since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. But the small Balkan country was already a popular destination for Russians and Belarusians looking to move abroad. Among this older population of Russian and Belarusi...

03/07/2025 13:58 France 24

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