'Russians prefer to sit at negotiating table and deal with Trump directly without involving Ukraine'

06/02/2025 06:11 France 24

Volodymyr Zelensky would now agree to direct talks with Vladimir Putin to end almost three years of war. His comments come amid high anticipation of talks to begin with Donald Trump who has pledged to end the fighting. All the while, the Kremlin calls Zelensky comments on direct talks with Putin 'empty words'. For in-depth analysis and a deeper perspective, FRANCE 24's Yinka Oyrtade welcomes Natia Seskuria, Associate Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute & Lecturer in Russian Politics.

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France 24 embedded with Ukraine’s troops inside the embattled city of Chasiv Yar

Could Russian forces in Eastern Ukraine be on the verge of a major breakthrough? While most of their efforts are still focused on surrounding the town of Pokrovsk, they have progressed in recent weeks in Chasiv Yar. Using drones in the air and infantry on...

06/02/2025 09:26 France 24

Trump's USAID shutdown halts life-saving programmes, threatens global security

US President Donald Trump's 90-day freeze on US foreign aid and overhaul of the US Agency for International Development (USAID) has halted critical humanitarian efforts, leaving global health workers stranded and life-saving programmes in limbo. The fallout could impact malaria treatment in Africa,...

06/02/2025 06:14 France 24

🔴 Live: Israel orders army to plan for 'voluntary' departure of Palestinians from Gaza

Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz said Thursday that he had ordered the army to formulate a plan to allow Palestinians to leave Gaza, a day after US President Donald Trump floated a proposal to "take over" the war-ravaged enclave and resettle its residents elsewhere, sparking global condemnation...

06/02/2025 06:09 France 24

January sets 'surprising' heat record, defying La Nina cooling expectations

Europe's climate monitor reported last month as the hottest January on record, with temperatures 1.75C above pre-industrial levels, extending a trend of record-breaking highs through 2023 and 2024. Climate scientists are debating additional factors that may be driving persistent, unprecedented glob...

06/02/2025 03:46 France 24

Photo of Elon Musk, Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu is AI-generated

An AI-generated photo of Musk, Trump and Netanyahu is making the rounds on social media, following the meeting between the Israeli and US leader in The White House to discuss the war between Israel and Hamas. In other news, some claim that President Donald Trump is holding talks with Albania to pot...

05/02/2025 21:35 France 24

How serious is he? Trump's plan for Gaza

Donald Trump telling the world in the company of a beaming Benjamin Netanyahu that 'the US will take over the Gaza Strip" Should we take at face value what he's selling as a grand development scheme and what critics denounce as a quixotic pipe dream that can only lead to ethnic cleansing of the...

05/02/2025 19:20 France 24

Kremlin calls Zelensky's readiness for Putin talks 'empty words'

The Kremlin on February 5 dismissed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky saying he was ready for direct talks with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin as 'empty words'....

05/02/2025 16:48 France 24

Trump resistance? A 1940s US sabotage manual goes viral

Since the inauguration of Donald Trump in January, tens of thousands of people have downloaded the “Simple Sabotage Field Manual”, a guide written by a US intelligence agent in 1944 to help the allied resistance during World War II. Its newfound popularity comes amid an emerging grassroo...

05/02/2025 16:27 France 24

'Majority' of Ukrainians want ceasefire with Russia, Zelensky's ex-spokesperson says

FRANCE 24 spoke to Iuliia Mendel, who was the spokesperson for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky from 2019 to 2021. She is the author of "The Fight of Our Lives: My Time with Zelenskyy, Ukraine's Battle for Democracy, and What It Means for the World". In an interview with British journalist...

05/02/2025 15:40 France 24

Trump's proposal for Gaza: Palestinians and Israelis react

Palestinians, their allies and other nations reacted strongly to President Donald Trump’s proposal that the United States 'take over' the Gaza Strip and permanently resettle its residents.Trump’s suggestion came at a White House news conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, wh...

05/02/2025 15:16 France 24

300 prisoners of war freed in latest exchange between Russia and Ukraine

Russia and Ukraine engaged in a swap of 300 prisoners of war on Wednesday in the latest prisoner-of-war exchange between the two warring countries. The deal was brokered by the United Arab Emirates, which has been behind numerous other prisoner exchanges. ...

05/02/2025 14:59 France 24

'Building a future that's more promising, stable' for Israelis, Palestinians & all people of region

President Donald Trump's proposal that the United States “take over” the Gaza Strip, redevelop the war-torn territory into “the Riviera of the Middle East.” and permanently resettle its Palestinian residents was swiftly rejected and denounced on Wednesday by American allies and adversaries...

05/02/2025 11:39 France 24

Ukraine's Zelensky says he is ready for direct talks with Putin

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said he is ready to sit at the negotiating table with Russian President Vladimir Putin in order to end the war between Russia and Ukraine. He made the comments in an interview with British journalist Piers Morgan posted on YouTube on Tuesday....

05/02/2025 02:51 France 24

'What is Gaza?': Trump says Palestinians would 'love' to leave devastated enclave

US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that Palestinians would "love" to leave Gaza and live anywhere else if given an option, calling the war ravaged territory "a demolition site". Trump previously touted a plan for Palestinians to move to Egypt or Jordan. He spoke as he was due to meet Israe...

04/02/2025 21:49 France 24

What Trump’s transatlantic trade war would mean for Europe

US President Donald Trump has promised to slap sweeping tariffs on the European Union’s US-bound exports. The move would hammer major manufacturers already tangled up in Washington’s threatened tariffs on products from Canada and Mexico, but ultimately it will be ordinary consumers around the...

04/02/2025 20:37 France 24

Russian missile kills five, wounds more than 50 in Ukraine's Izium

A Russian ballistic missile killed five and injured more than 50 in the town of Izium in Ukraine's northeastern Kharkiv region. The missile also partially partially destroyed the city council building....

04/02/2025 18:39 France 24

Erdogan hails Syrian leader's 'commitment' to fighting terror during his visit to Turkey

Syria's interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa arrived in Turkey on Tuesday for talks with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to discuss Turkey's offer to help with Syria's recovery after its devastating 13-year civil war. Erdogan hailed Sharaa for his "strong commitment" to fighting terror and said that T...

04/02/2025 15:29 France 24

M23 rebels declare unilateral ceasefire in DR Congo’s war-torn east

The Rwandan-backed armed group M23 announced a unilateral humanitarian "ceasefire" from Tuesday in the DR Congo's (DRC) perennially explosive east, following calls for a safe corridor for aid and hundreds of thousands of displaced people....

04/02/2025 12:11 France 24

Civilians caught in crossfire of Israeli military operation in West Bank's Jenin

On January 21, less than 48 hours after a ceasefire came into effect in Gaza, the Israeli military launched an operation dubbed "Iron Wall" in Jenin, in the north of the occupied West Bank. Its stated aim is to destroy armed Palestinian groups operating there. Civilians have been asked to evacuate,...

04/02/2025 11:30 France 24

China-US trade war erupts again after Beijing slaps retaliatory tariffs on US goods

The Trump administration's 10 percent tariffs on Chinese imports came into effect this Tuesday, leading to immediate retaliation from Beijing. In this special edition, we look at the different ways China retaliated to the US president's measures, which are supposed to stop the flow of the drug fent...

04/02/2025 11:08 France 24

China hits back against Trump tariffs with retaliatory measures, renewing trade war

China on Tuesday countered US President Donald Trump's tariffs on Chinese products with a series of retaliatory measures, including tariffs on multiple US imports, announcing an antitrust investigation into Google and filing a complaint with the WTO. ...

04/02/2025 07:11 France 24

Trump pauses Mexico, Canada tariffs for one month after last-ditch talks

US President Donald Trump paused tariffs on Mexico and Canada for one month Monday after they struck last-minute deals to tighten border measures against the flow of migrants and the drug fentanyl. Global stock markets had slumped as Trump's threat of sweeping levies sparked fears of a global trade...

03/02/2025 16:26 France 24

Greek PM calls for calm as hundreds of 'very intense' tremors hit Santorini

Hundreds of tremors have hit the Greek island of Santorini in the past week, leading more than a thousand people to flee the tourist hotspot. Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis called for "calm" on Monday as the government advised people to avoid large gatherings in enclosed spaces and expe...

03/02/2025 13:39 France 24

'Arctic split into two: Greenland finds itself geographically, politically, economically in middle'

EU leaders are gathering amid Europe’s biggest land conflict since World War II. All the while, European confidence in Trump has been waning as he threatens allies with tariffs and land grabs targeting Greenland and Panama. For in-depth analysis and a deeper perspective on the...

03/02/2025 11:49 France 24

EU braces for new US tariffs as Trump launches trade war

EU leaders say they're prepared to respond if and when US President Donald Trump imposes new tariffs on European imports to the US. But first, we take a closer look the US-Canada trading relationship. Meanwhile, North America's highly integrated auto manufacturing sector is threatened by Trump's la...

03/02/2025 10:29 France 24

'Shocking, franchise-altering and bizarre': Doncic-Davis trade shocks NBA world

PRESS REVIEW – Monday, February 3: The papers in the United States react to President Donald Trump's new tariffs, as Canada responds with measures of its own. Meanwhile, residents of Kyiv are forced to withstand nightly Russian drone attacks. Also, a Ukrainian unit in Kursk is tasked with trying...

03/02/2025 06:54 France 24

Israeli army denies issuing evacuation orders during Jenin operation

The Israeli army has intensified its military raid in the West Bank’s Jenin refugee camp, the third such operation since the Gaza war began in October 2023. Reporting from Jerusalem, FRANCE 24’s Noga Tarnopolsky says the Israeli army continues to deny that it has issued evacuation orders for ca...

03/02/2025 06:28 France 24

EU leaders hold ‘triple first’ talks with NATO chief amid uncertainties over Trump’s policies

EU leaders and the head of NATO gathered in Brussels on Monday for talks dubbed a "triple first": the first time the bloc’s 27 leaders met since US President Donald Trump's inauguration, their first-ever dedicated talks on defence and their first with a British prime minister since Brexit. ...

03/02/2025 03:07 France 24

Canada, Mexico retaliate with tariffs on US goods amid trade war

Canada and Mexico have implemented retaliatory tariffs against US goods following President Trump's new tariffs—25% on imports from both nations, except Canadian oil at 10%. The Canadian measures affect $30 billion in American products, escalating to $125 billion. Trudeau and Sheinbaum discussed...

02/02/2025 23:56 France 24

US top diplomat warns Panama to reduce Chinese business interests in Canal

US top diplomat Marco Rubio on Sunday warned Panama's leader to take immediate steps to reduce Chinese business interests on the Canal, which President Donald Trump sees as a threat to US national security. ...

02/02/2025 21:18 France 24

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