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.
North Korea on Friday warned of a “terrible response” if more drones cross its border from the South, escalating tensions despite Seoul’s efforts to improve ties. Pyongyang said it shot down a surveillance drone last month. Kim Yo Jong cautioned that further incursions would trigger severe co...
European Union leaders on Thursday agreed on an action plan to overhaul the bloc’s economy and boost competitiveness amid pressure from US President Donald Trump, China and Russia. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said the March plan would upgrade energy grids, deepen financial...
Ukraine’s skeleton athlete Vladyslav Heraskevych was disqualified from the Milano Cortina Games for wearing a helmet commemorating Ukrainian athletes killed in the war with Russia. Ukraine’s Sports Minister Matvii Bidnyi called the decision “unjust,” but confirmed the team would continue co...
At Thursday's NATO meeting in Brussels, US Secretary of State Pete Hegseth was absent, highlighting concerns about America stepping back from the alliance. European allies announced Arctic Sentry, a new mission to strengthen Arctic security amid Russian and Chinese activity. While analysts see it l...
NATO allies say tensions over Greenland have eased after the launch of the Arctic Sentry mission aimed at boosting security in the Arctic and reassuring President Donald Trump, who had raised concerns over Russian and Chinese influence in the region. The dispute had briefly strained the alliance, m...
WhatsApp has been fully blocked in Russia after authorities said the Meta-owned messaging app failed to comply with local laws. The Kremlin is now encouraging users to switch to a state-backed “national messenger”, a move widely seen as tightening control over online communication and free expr...
Ukrainian skeleton athlete Vladyslav Heraskevych was disqualified from the Olympic race for wearing a “helmet of remembrance” honouring athletes killed since Russia’s invasion, breaching IOC rules banning political messages in competition. He can remain at the Games after a last-minute interv...
NATO defence ministers are meeting in Brussels to discuss Ukraine’s defence amid almost four years of war with Russia and to strengthen security in Greenland and the Arctic. Dafyyd Townley, Teaching Fellow in US politics and international security at the University of Portsmouth, notes Russia’s...
NATO defence ministers hold a key meeting on Ukraine and Greenland this Thursday. Leaders discuss keeping weapons flowing to Ukraine while pressuring countries that haven’t contributed enough, and launch the ‘Arctic Sentry’ mission to strengthen security in Greenland and the Arctic. FRANCE 24...
Donald Trump plans to roll back a key climate rule linking greenhouse gases to health risks and is pushing coal, including for military use and AI data centres. His policies reverse progress on renewable energy despite warnings from scientists about environmental harm....
On a day when NATO has promised new help for Ukraine, while thousands more people in the country have been left without power after Russian attacks, a Ukrainian analyst has offered his hopes to FRANCE 24. Peter Zalmayev, director of the Eurasia Democracy Initiative, says he is not very hopeful that...
The Kremlin said on Thursday said that US messenger app WhatsApp has been completely blocked in Russia for failing to comply with local law, suggesting Russians turn to a state-backed "national messenger" MAX instead. Critics say MAX is a surveillance tool, something the authorities deny. ...
The controversial Duplomb law, which previously aimed to ease regulations on farmers but was blocked from reintroducing certain neonicotinoid pesticides, is back in the French National Assembly for debate. The revised bill could allow these pesticides for crops like sugar beets and hazelnuts, spark...
France faces declining birth rates, with deaths outnumbering births for the first time since World War II. A parliamentary report proposes longer paid parental leave, interest-free housing loans, and a universal monthly child allowance of €250 to make it easier for families to have children....
Ukrainian skeleton racer Vladyslav Heraskevych was disqualified from the Winter Olympics by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) on Thursday for his insistance on wearing a helmet depicting Ukrainian sportsmen and women killed during the war with Russia. The IOC said that the athlete had not...
Ukrainian skeleton racer Vladyslav Heraskevych was disqualified from the Winter Olympics on Thursday after refusing to back down over his banned helmet, which depicts victims of his country's war with Russia....
Russia's attack on Ukraine's southern city of Odessa left nearly 300,000 people without electricity and water supply amidst below freezing winter temperatures. Close to 200 buildings in the city were left without heating, while 10,000 consumers were also left without heating i...
For Spotlight, François Picard is pleased to welcome Emily Morris, live from Havana, Honorary Senior Research Associate at University College London's Institute of the Americas. The fuel embargo has shifted from an abstract policy dispute into something felt in the grain of everyday life. This is...
Multiple social media users - many of them pro-Russian accounts - shared a photo montage of a teenage boy carrying portraits at multiple funerals, falsely claiming he'd buried "eight fathers" and that it was proof of Ukrainian 'wartime staging' to rack up sympathy from Western media. In reality, t...
Presidential elections in Ukraine will only happen once a ceasefire has been reached with Russia and Kyiv has received the security guarantees it needs, President Volodymyr Zelensky said Wednesday, rejecting a report suggesting he was considering calling Ukrainians to the ballots within the next th...
In an interview with FRANCE 24, UN Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories Francesca Albanese dismissed recent accusations of anti-Semitism against her as "shameful and defamatory". She also warned that "the plan to fully destroy Gaza continues" and denounced Israeli measures in...
Ukrainian skeleton racer Vladyslav Heraskevych vowed Tuesday that he would wear a helmet that carries pictures of Ukrainian sportsmen and women killed since Russian forces invaded in 2022 despite a ban imposed by Olympic chiefs. "I used it in all trainings I used it today, I will use it tomorrow...
Kenya's foreign minister has announced he's to visit Russia, as outrage grows over Kenyan nationals being lured by promises of lucrative jobs when in fact they're then being used as soldiers on the front in the war with Ukraine. Solange Mougin has more on the devastation of Kenyan families that hav...
Eve Irvine is very pleased to welcome Glaciologist Dr. Heïdi Sevestre and Explorer Matthieu Tordeur. They made the treacherous journey across Antarctica using wind power only: “it’s nature who decides in Antarctica.” They recorded “thousands of kilometres worth of data” that can help ans...
Mark Owen is pleased to welcome Yossi Mekelberg, Senior Consulting Fellow for the MENA Programme at Chatham House. The “truce” in Gaza reads more like a reduction in intensity, while the conditions of civilian life remain precarious: Ongoing military operations, persistent hunger, inadequate sh...
Canada is undergoing a historic demographic shift: according to Statistics Canada, the country is experiencing its sharpest population decline since World War II. Behind this phenomenon is an unprecedented tightening of migration policy, after years of openness under former prime minister Justin Tr...
Nadia Massih is pleased to welcome Renaud Douci, Field Coordinator for Solidarité Internationale in Tawila in Sudan, on the edges of Al-Fasher. It was “impossible to reach” during the brutal 500-day siege. Mr. Douci argues that Al-Fasher was not an unforeseen tragedy. “Everybody knew” the...
The island economy was already struggling under the burden of decades of US sanctions, but the situation in Cuba has rapidly deteriorated since Donald Trump signed an executive order threatening to impose tariffs on countries that sell or provide oil to the Caribbean nation. As airlines suspend fli...
Imagine having to mourn a loved one in secret. One month on, that seems to be the lot of many inside a shellshocked Iran, this after seeing the regime shut the internet and start shooting at unarmed protesters across the country in towns big and small. When the lights came back on, the Islamic Rep...
The atrocities unleashed on Sudan's El-Fasher last October were a "preventable human rights catastrophe", the UN rights chief said Monday, warning they now risked being repeated in Kordofan. Giving the UN Human Rights Council an update on the situation in El-Fasher, Volker Turk decried the horrific...
