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.
Officials representing Ukraine, Russia and the United States are set to meet in Abu Dhabi on Friday for their first trilateral talks on security issues in a bid to end the war in Ukraine. Diplomatic efforts to end the near four-year-long war have gained momentum in recent months, but Moscow and Kyi...
Ukrainian, US and Russian officials will hold security talks in the United Arab Emirates on Friday, the Kremlin said. This comes after senior US negotiators met President Vladimir Putin in Moscow to discuss a Washington-drafted plan to end the war in Ukraine....
The commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards warned Washington on Thursday that the force had its “finger on the trigger” after mass protests, even as US President Donald Trump said Tehran appeared open to talks. The death toll from nationwide protests has topped 5,000 people killed, accordin...
US President Donald Trump's threats over the vast Arctic island plunged relations between Europe and its key ally Washington to a historic low. But Greenland is only part of the picture, as Trump zig-zags on the war in Ukraine and wages a broader attack on the EU's laws, politics and values after...
In tonight's edition, an unspoken crisis emerges in Sudan, as the country faces one of the world's longest school closures. Also, South Africa’s iconic Kruger National Park reels from devastating floods, with damage of over $30 million, and 15 camps shut. And IShowSpeed celebrated his 21st birthd...
A new report sheds light on the scope of the resistance in occupied Ukraine. FRANCE 24's Mark Owen speaks with the author of that report, Dr Jade McGlynn, Head of Ukraine and Russia programme at the CSNS at King's College London. She explains that resistance fighters in occupied Ukraine are 'pretty...
Speaking with FRANCE 24's Mark Owen, Grégoire Roos, Director of Europe, Russia and Eurasia programme at Chatham House, says that there is a 'convergence in messaging to Donald Trump' among EU leaders, who 'have bought time by, at last, taking the full measure of the power on which they have been s...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Thursday blasted the EU's lack of "political will" in countering Russian leader Vladimir Putin, during a fiery address criticising some of Kyiv's top allies at the World Economic Forum. FRANCE 24's Eliza Herbert reports....
François Picard is pleased to welcome Aaron David Miller, Diplomat, and Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. In Gaza, where fundamental and irreconcilable differences remain between the warring parties, the former US Mideast negotiator offers a scathing assessment of Tr...
Rochelle FERGUSON BOUYAHI welcomes Dafydd Townley, Teaching Fellow in US politics and International Security at the University of Portsmouth, joining us from Davos. He dives right into Donald Trump’s arctic exploits: from soliciting leaders to join his “Board of Peace” to his relentless pursu...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Thursday he and US President Donald Trump had agreed on post-war US security guarantees for Ukraine, without providing further details. The deal, which awaits signatures and parliamentary approval, would be a key step in plans to end the Russian invasion....
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky criticised what he called the EU’s lack of “political will” towards his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin at Davos....
Ryan Coogler’s vampire epic "Sinners" dominated Oscar nominations on Thursday with a record 16 nods. The Academy also rewarded international films and handed a strong showing to Warner Bros....
After a week of twists and turns, US President Donald Trump delivered a highly anticipated speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Wednesday. Earlier at Davos, French President Emmanuel Macron decried bullying on the global stage and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney warned that "the ol...
France’s navy on Thursday intercepted an oil tanker suspected of belonging to Russia’s sanctioned "shadow fleet" in the Mediterranean Sea. French President Emmanuel Macron said the operation, which took place between Spain and Morocco, was carried out with the help of several allies....
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Thursday criticised what he called the EU’s lack of “political will” towards his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin at Davos. Meanwhile, Denmark said NATO chief Mark Rutte could not negotiate over Greenland after the head of the transatlantic alliance...
A Ukrainian woman has spoken to FRANCE 24 about how she's written a book about her family history to try to help her people's efforts in the war against Russia. Olia Hercules is a Ukrainian-born, London-based chef, cookbook writer and activist. In her latest book "Strong Roots: A Memoir of Food, Fa...
US President Donald Trump is scheduled to meet Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky in Davos, while his special envoy, Steve Witkoff, travels to Moscow for another meeting with Russia’s Vladimir Putin. Ahead of his departure, Witkoff stated that progress is being made toward ending the war in Ukraine....
PRESS REVIEW – Thursday, January 22: We look at reactions from the international press after US President Donald Trump's flip-flopping on taking Greenland by force. One analysis warns that Trump is undermining US diplomacy on the world stage. Elsewhere, French daily Libération looks at the grow...
Crew 11- comprising US astronauts Zena Cardman, 38, and Mike Fincke, 58, Japanese astronaut Kimiya Yui, 55, and Russian cosmonaut Oleg Platonov, 39 - safely returned to Earth on January 15 from the International Space Station. After a medical issue forced one crew member to end the mission early, t...
Donald Trump says he is moving toward a deal on Greenland following discussions with NATO chief Mark Rutte. The US president had earlier declined to rule out the use of military force to acquire the territory from Denmark, a NATO member—a stance many experts warned could threaten the alliance’s...
The president of Ukraine heads to Davos as NATO-backed Greenland deal takes center stage at The World Economic Forum. Meanwhile, the leaders of the EU’s 27 member states are set to gather in Brussels later today for an informal emergency meeting on transatlantic relations. France24 International...
While in Davos, Donald Trump is expected to elaborate on his newly proposed "board of peace," reportedly established to oversee the US-brokered ceasefire in Israel's conflict with Hamas. The initiative has invited participation from around 60 countries, including Russia and China, and some, like Is...
From windmills to NATO, Donald Trump let the world have it from the podium of the World Economic Forum. For more than an hour, the president of the United States took on all-comers in his first return to Davos in six years. We ask about the latest threatening language on tariffs and grabbing Greenl...
In his lengthy speech at Davos, Donald Trump falsely claimed the US 'gave back' Greenland to Denmark after World War II. In reality, Greenland has never been America's to give back at all. Vedika Bahl goes through the facts - and falsehoods - surrounding Greenland in Truth or Fake....
Sudan's army has reportedly received and is considering a new proposal from the United States and Saudi Arabia for a truce with its rival paramilitary. FRANCE 24's Mark Owen speaks with former Sudanese Prime Minister Abdallah Hamdok. He says that the latest proposal is 'the light at the end of the...
Delano D'Souza is pleased to welcome Larry Sabato, Director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics. Mr. Sabato dissects Trump’s combative unpredictable foreign policy and strained transatlantic relationships. With the US president in Davos, Mr. Sabato offers insight into a presidency d...
While in Davos, Donald Trump is expected to provide more details about his "Board of Peace". Ostensibly created to oversee the US-brokered ceasefire in Israel's war with Hamas, the US president has invited some 60 countries to join, including to Russia and China. Some, including Israel, have alread...
US President Donald Trump gave a speech at the Davos forum in which he based his desire to take over Greenland that it had been once owned by the US, and was "given" to Denmark after World War Two. But as FRANCE 24's Douglas Herbert reminds us, that is historically false. Trump also implied once ag...
US President Donald Trump gave a lengthy speech at the Davos World Economic Forum, where he praised his achievements with the US economy and addressed issues like NATO, Greenland and Ukraine, lambasting US allies like Canada and France. Watch FRANCE 24's Fraser Jackson's debrief and analysis of Tru...
