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.
Cities around the globe are clearing their billboards of adverts for flights, cruise ships and petrol cars in a bid to reduce global warming. Amsterdam is the latest city to join the movement, becoming the first capital in the world to approve a legal ban on fossil fuel advertisements. Following th...
Lebanon's health ministry said Israeli strikes on the country's south on Sunday killed 14 people, the deadliest day since a ceasefire in the Israel-Hezbollah war came into force over a week ago. It came as Israel and the Iran-backed group traded fresh accusations of breaching the fragile truce, wit...
Israeli strikes killed 14 people and wounded 37 on Sunday, Lebanon's health ministry said, as the Israeli military warned residents to leave seven towns beyond the "buffer zone" it occupied before a ceasefire that has failed to fully halt hostilities. France 24's correspondent in Jerusalem Noga...
King Charles' state visit to the U.S. will go ahead as planned on Monday despite a shooting at a White House dinner attended by President Donald Trump, Buckingham Palace said after discussions with U.S. officials. The four-day trip - which is to include a private meeting with Trump and an addres...
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un reaffirmed support for Russia's invasion of Ukraine and vowed to help Moscow achieve victory in its "sacred war", state media reported Monday, after Russian Defence Minister Andrey Belousov met with Kim on Sunday. Pyongyang has sent missiles, munitions and thousands...
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has reaffirmed Pyongyang's support for Russia's invasion of Ukraine, vowing to help Moscow achieve victory in its "sacred" war, state media reported on Monday....
China on Monday criticised European Union plans to shield key industries from Chinese competition, warning it would take countermeasures if the measures are adopted. The EU’s proposed “Made in Europe” rules would require companies seeking public funds in sectors including cars, green technolo...
Iran has offered to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and asked the US to end its naval blockade of the country as part of a proposal to the US, two regional officials said on Monday. The new proposal does not address Iran's nuclear program and likely won't be supported by US President Donald Trump, who...
Britain's King Charles III begins a state visit to the United States on Monday, as transatlantic tensions simmer over the Iran war, and despite a shooting two days earlier at a dinner attended by his host, President Donald Trump....
Britain's King Charles III and Queen Camilla began a four-day visit to the United States on Monday to honour historic ties between the two countries as the US marks its 250th anniversary. The trip will take place despite simmering transatlantic tensions over the Iran war, and a shooting two days...
Global military spending climbed to nearly $2.9 trillion in 2025, marking an 11th straight year of growth as rising insecurity and rearmament boosted defence budgets, researchers said on Monday. The United States, China and Russia accounted for $1.48 trillion, over half the total, SIPRI said....
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi on Sunday squeezed in a trip to Oman before returning to Pakistan and then heading to Moscow for talks in a frantic diplomatic shuffle as mediators pressed to reignite talks between Tehran and the US. But President Donald Trump stuck with his decision to scra...
Forty years ago, one reactor in the Chernobyl power plant, in Ukraine, exploded, leading to the worst-ever nuclear catastrophe....
Russian paramilitary forces deployed in Mali have achieved limited gains in the fight against jihadist groups, according to Philip Obaji, Nigerian journalist and Daily Beast correspondent. Obaji pointed to ongoing insecurity and mounting allegations of abuses, raising questions over the effectivene...
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Ukraine marked the 40th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster on Sunday. FRANCE 24 spoke with Michael Bluck, Director of the Centre for Nuclear Engineering at Imperial College London, to look back at the tragic event that marked history. Pointing to various factors that caused the explosion...
Ukraine on Sunday marks the 40th anniversary of the explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant – the worst civilian nuclear disaster in history. It comes four years into the Russian invasion that has put the plant once again under threat and raised risks of another radioactive catastrophe....
Tuareg rebels fighting Mali's army on Sunday announced an agreement allowing Russian Africa Corps forces to withdraw from Kidal, leaving the northern town "totally" under their control. Jihadist fighters coordinating with Tuareg rebels killed the junta's Defence Minister General Sadio Camara with a...
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi returned to Pakistan on Sunday following a brief visit to Oman, state media reported, for more peace negotiations after leaving Islamabad the previous day. US President Donald Trump told his envoys not to travel to Pakistan as Islamabad attempts to reignite c...
A member of the French Resistance who was deported to Dachau concentration camp, 102-year-old Jean Lafaurie continues to share his story with generations of students – and warn them about the hard right’s return in Europe. Ahead of France’s National Day of Remembrance for Victims and Heroes o...
Since the beginning of the Iran-US war, Pakistan has tried to host talks between the two countries, aiming at finding peace....
Russian strikes across Ukraine killed at least six people, officials said Saturday, most of them in an attack on a residential building in the eastern city of Dnipro....
The coordinated attacks on Mali's capital of Bamako represent a "dramatic setback" for the junta-led government, said Andrew Lebovich, Research Fellow with Clingendael's Conflict Research Unit. Lebovich said the attacks also showed how tenuous the security situation in Mali is with authorities alon...
Palestinians in the West Bank and central Gaza voted Saturday in municipal elections, the first since the war in Gaza erupted, with low turnout and a limited political field. Nearly 1.5 million people are registered to vote in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, as well as 70,000 people in Gaza's Deir...
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez on Friday refused to be drawn into a dispute with the United States over reports that the Pentagon is weighing whether to punish members of NATO that fail to support American operations in the Iran war. Among those in the firing line is Spain, which has refused...
Russia launched more than 660 drones and missiles at Ukraine overnight on Friday killing six people and injuring more than 30, Ukrainian officials said. Major strikes hit buildings in the eastern city of Dnipro where, on Saturday morning, rescue teams were searching for people trapped under rubble...
Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghch left Pakistan on Saturday evening without meeting US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner for planned talks in a bid to end the Middle East war. Earlier, Iran's military said it would respond if the US maintained its blockade of Iranian ports, calling it "b...
Palestinians take to the polls on Saturday, for the first time since the Gaza war, to vote in municipal elections. There are no Hamas candidates on electoral lists, which are mostly aligned with president Mahmoud Abbas's secular-nationalist Fatah party or independents....
In a week where a stalemate appears to have developed after nearly two months of asymmetric conflict between the US and Iran, President Trump’s Truth Social posts have swung between belligerent maximalism and breezy deal-making—one minute suggesting a within-reach deal, and that Iranian forces...
In Ukraine, a Russian drone attack in the coastal city of Odesa killed a married couple in their seventies when their home was struck early in the morning, with several apartment buildings damaged—one nearly split in two—while separate drone strikes in the frontline region of Kherson also left...
