Turkish strikes Wednesday targeted Kurdish forces controlling northern Syria's Al-Hol detention camp, home to over 50,000 people including relatives of suspected jihadists, Kurdish forces and a war monitor said.
Ukraine's leader Volodymyr Zelensky said he was hoping for Moscow's answer on Wednesday to the latest version of a draft proposal to end the war agreed between Washington and Kyiv. Ukraine won some concessions in the latest version of the US-led plan, but key questions remain over territory and wh...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has revealed details of the latest US-led plan to end the war in Ukraine, saying it had been agreed between negotiators from Kyiv and Washington and sent to Moscow for feedback. Zelensky said he was hoping for Moscow's answer on Wednesday. Story by Bryan Quinn...
The European Union, France and Germany have slammed US visa bans on European citizens combating online hate and disinformation, with Brussels saying it could "respond swiftly and decisively" against the "unjustified measures". The highest profile person targeted by the visa restrictions is former E...
The city of Bethlehem prepares to hold Christmas as celebrations are slowly returning to the holy land after celebrations were called off in the past two years due to the Israel-Hamas war. Details by FRANCE 24 correspondent in Jerusalem, Noga Tarnopolsky....
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has revealed details of the latest US-led plan to end the war in Ukraine, saying it had been agreed between negotiators from Kyiv and Washington and sent to Moscow for feedback. Analysis by Stefan Wolff, professor of international security at the University of...
France condemned on Wednesday a US visa ban on Thierry Breton, a former European Union commissioner who helped drive landmark online regulation that Washington believes censors free speech and unfairly targets US tech giants. The Trump administration imposed visa bans on Tuesday on Breton, one of t...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday revealed details of the latest US-backed 20-point plan to end the war in Ukraine, saying it has been sent to Moscow for feedback. Zelensky gave a point-by-point briefing to journalists in Kyiv, including details on the creation of demilitarised z...
Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky says he's hoping for an answer from Moscow on Wednesday to the draft peace plan hashed out between Washington and Kyiv. Meanwhile, the president's compatriots are preparing to celebrate yet another Christmas under Russian invasion. After nearly four years of war, the...
Christmas celebrations in Bethlehem, Jesus’ traditional birthplace, are slowly returning, as the city in the Israeli-occupied West Bank emerges from the shadow of war to celebrate its first festive Christmas in more than two years. Story by Bryan Quinn....
In southern Moscow three people, including two police officers, were killed by an overnight explosion, Russian authorities said on Wednesday. Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky said a new 20-point plan, agreed on by US and Ukrainian negotiators, was being reviewed by Moscow. Follow our liveblo...
Venezuela accused Washington of “the greatest extortion" known in the country's history at the UN Security Council on Tuesday, during a meeting in which Russia and China sharply criticized the US for putting military and economic pressure on Venezuela as tensions over sanctions and a naval blocka...
Ukraine said on Tuesday it had pulled its forces out of the hard-fought eastern town of Siversk as Russia stepped up air strikes that killed civilians, knocked out power supplies and underlined the lack of progress in diplomatic efforts to end the war ahead of Christmas....
Pope Leo XIV on Tuesday renewed his call for a worldwide truce on Christmas Day, expressing sadness that Russia had apparently rejected the appeal as fighting in Ukraine raged, civilians were killed in Russian air strikes, and diplomatic efforts involving the United States and Europe showed little...
France's internal intelligence services are investigating a cyberattack on the country's national postal service that has disrupted deliveries during the busy Christmas season. The attack was claimed by Noname057(16), a pro-Russian group of hackers that has previously targeted Ukrainian media websi...
In tonight's edition, Sudan's prime minister urged members of the United Nations Security Council to stand "on the right side of history" as he laid out his plan to end the war in Sudan. Also, voters gear up to head to the polls in the Central African Republic for historic elections. And in Kenya,...
Russia fired more than 650 drones and three dozen missiles at Ukraine in a large-scale attack that began during the night and stretched into daylight hours Tuesday, officials said. At least three people were killed, including a 4-year-old child, two days before Christmas....
Sudan’s prime minister on Monday proposed a wide-ranging peace initiative to end a nearly 1,000-day war with a rival paramilitary force, but the United States urged both sides to accept the Trump administration’s call for an immediate humanitarian truce....
Douglas Herbert gives us his analysis....
Gavin Hall, Lecturer at University of Strathclyde, is our guest....
Russia launched more than 600 drones and dozens of missiles to strike Ukraine's energy sector in overnight attacks on Tuesday. "It's mainly the Western part of Ukraine which has been targeted [including] the regions of Rivne, Ivano-Frankivsk, as well as the central region of Ch...
Several Ukrainian regions suffered power outages amid frigid winter weather on Tuesday after Russia carried out a massive attack with drones and missiles. The strikes killed at least three people, including a four-year-old child, according to officials. Follow our liveblog for the latest updates....
Day two was packed with drama. Mali saw their three points slip away after a late equaliser from Zambia. Bafana Bafana meanwhile managed to beat a tough Angola side, scoring a second goal to make it 2-1. There was more excitement during the final game of the day as the Pharoes faced the Warriors, ...
A senior Russian general was killed Monday morning after an explosive device detonated underneath his car in southern Moscow. According to investigators, the attack on Lt. Gen. Fanil Sarvarov, who led the Operational Training Directorate of the Russian Armed Forces General Staff, may have been "lin...
A car bomb killed a senior Russian general in southern Moscow on Monday morning as officials reported "slow progress" in talks with the United States on how to end the war in Ukraine. Lieutenant General Fanil Sarvarov, 56, head of the Russian General Staff's training department, was killed when the...
A car bomb killed a Russian general on Monday, the third such killing of a senior military officer in a year. Investigators said Ukraine may be behind the attack. Details and analysis by Douglas Herbert, FRANCE 24 international affairs editor....
A Russian general was killed after an explosive device detonated underneath his car in Moscow on Monday. Investigators said Ukraine could be behind the attack, the third such killing of a senior military officer in a year....
Denmark said Monday it will summon the US ambassador after US President Donald Trump announced he had appointed a special envoy to Greenland, the Danish autonomous territory he has threatened to annex. Danish Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen said he was "deeply angered" by the move and warne...
A Russian general was killed by a car bomb in southern Moscow on Monday, Russian investigators said, adding that they suspected Ukrainian special services could have been behind the attack....
A senior Russian general was killed Monday morning after an explosive device detonated underneath his car in southern Moscow, according to investigators. The possibility that the attack on Lt. Gen. Fanil Sarvarov, who led the Operational Training Directorate of the Russian Armed Forces General Staf...
US special envoy Steve Witkoff called weekend talks in Florida “productive and constructive” as officials from the US, Europe, and Ukraine worked to align positions. President Donald Trump pushes for a quick end to the nearly four-year conflict, but Russia wants to keep seized Ukrainian land....
