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.
Genie Godula is pleased to welcome Bryce Warner, Canadian virologist and Research Scientist at Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization. When reports emerged of suspected human to human transmission of the Andes virus, memories of the early days of COVID-19 were never far from public consciousne...
Annette Young is pleased to welcome Matt McKee, Professor of European Public Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. As health authorities race to contain an emerging cluster of hantavirus infections, McKee offers a measured but sobering assessment of the risks, and the lesson...
US President Donald Trump's highly anticipated visit to Beijing on Wednesday comes at a restless moment for a world worried about war and trade disputes. Trump has said he will have a "long talk" about Iran with Chinese leader Xi Jinping and will also discuss US arms sales to Taiwan. Here's what...
Israeli strikes targeted two cars on Wednesday on a major highway linking Beirut to southern Lebanon, state media reported, a day after 13 people were killed in attacks on towns in the south. Earlier, US President Donald Trump said he expected to have a "long talk" about the Iran war with his Ch...
Iran’s chief negotiator said on Tuesday that Washington must accept Tehran’s latest peace plan or risk the collapse of the Middle East truce, after President Donald Trump warned the ceasefire was near failure. The war, triggered by US-Israeli strikes on Iran more than two months ago, has destab...
Acting US Attorney General Todd Blanche on Tuesday defended issuing subpoenas to journalists as part of investigations into leaks of classified information. Blanche did not name any outlet in a post on X, but his remarks came a day after The Wall Street Journal reported receiving grand jury subpoen...
In tonight's edition: Sovereignty was the buzzword of Kenyan President William Ruto at the close of the Africa Forward summit in Nairobi. Also, in the biggest change on the ground in months, Rwanda-backed M23 rebels have retreated from seized territory in DR Congo. And as the war in Iran continue...
Global oil prices rose further on Tuesday with Brent crude climbing near $110 a barrel, as a standoff over the Strait of Hormuz continues with the US and Iran both rejecting the other's ceasefire proposal. Meanwhile, Japanese snack giant Calbee has decided to temporarily switch to black and white p...
As the 79th Cannes Film Festival opens on the Croisette, politics is competing with glamour for attention. Hundreds of figures from the French film industry have signed an open letter warning about what they describe as the growing influence of the far right within French cinema and media. At the c...
Israel's parliament has passed a law to set up a special military tribunal to try hundreds of Palestinians accused of taking part in the October 7 2023 attack, under which the death penalty could be handed down. Lawmakers said the step would help heal national trauma, though some rights groups have...
Here in France, wholesale prices for grocery products are typically negotiated at the start of the year between the agricultural and supermarket sectors. This year, those negotiations wrapped up just as the war in Iran was getting underway. Now, with the cost of fuel and fertilizer soaring due to t...
China says it is ready to work with the United States in the pursuit of "more stability" globally, ahead of this week's meeting between leaders Xi Jinping and Donald Trump. The White House has said the visit - the first of an American president to China since 2017 - is of "tremendous symbolic signi...
As Donald Trump rejects Iran's counterproposals, Tehran has reacted saying that the Iranian government doesn't care if the United States aren't happy with the proposals. The United States had agreed to lifting such sanctions and freeing funds, but it first wants Iran to halt uranium enrichment and...
It remains the deadliest single attack in the war on Iran so far. On the 28th February, a missile strike hit a school in Minab in Hormozgan Province. 155 people died, including 120 children. According to US media, a preliminary American military investigation found that the strike was made in error...
Oil prices continued to climb on Tuesday, as US President Donald Trump said the ceasefire with Iran was "on massive life support". Meanwhile, the CEO of Saudi Aramco, the world's largest oil company, told analysts the closure of the Strait of Hormuz has generated a loss of 100 million barrels every...
French Defence Minister Catherine Vautrin and her British counterpart John Healey will co-chair a multinational meeting Tuesday on military plans to restore trade flows through the blocked Strait of Hormuz after the Iran war ends. The virtual meeting of dozens of defence ministers comes as Presiden...
The European Union on Monday imposed sanctions on more than a dozen Russian officials suspected of helping Moscow to abduct thousands of children from Ukraine. ...
The 2026 Cannes Film Festival opens Tuesday with 22 films vying for the prestigious Palme d'Or. The off-screen discourse this year is dominated by a dispute over AI, with festival director Thierry Frémaux and thousands of French actors and filmmakers warning about its effects on the industry. Des...
Nadia Massih is pleased to welcome Dr. Douglas Yates, Author, Political Scientist and Professor and at the American Graduate School of International Relations and Diplomacy. President Emmanuel Macron is co-hosting the Africa Forward Summit alongside Kenyan President William Ruto. entering what Dr....
Russia and Ukraine on Monday reported fighting along their long front line despite a US-mediated ceasefire, and each accused the other of launching drone and artillery strikes. Ukraine and Russia agreed on Friday to a ceasefire from May 9 to May 11 as part of a US-led push for peace und...
Iran and the United States were at an impasse again Monday over how to end their war while their ceasefire grew increasingly shaky, with the two sides exchanging fire in recent days, ships and Gulf states being targeted, and fighting flaring between Israel and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah....
US President Donald Trump on Sunday branded Iran's terms for ending the Middle East war "totally unacceptable," raising the likelihood of renewed conflict after weeks of negotiations. Iran had responded to Washington's latest peace proposal earlier in the day, while warning it would not hold back f...
Iranian authorities on Sunday released Nobel peace prize winner Narges Mohammadi on bail following growing alarm over her health and she has already been transferred to Tehran for medical treatment, her supporters said. They had last week warned that Mohammadi, who won the 2023 prize in recognition...
Iran and the United States reached an impasse again Monday over how to end their war while their ceasefire grew increasingly shaky. As the situation in the Middle East keeps the world on edge, many regional observers say Iran’s resilience is thanks in part to the lifeline extended by two key alli...
More than two months into the US-Israel war on Iran, the continued disruption of the Strait of Hormuz deepens global economic strain. But beyond the shipping lanes, other industries are also taking a major hit. FRANCE 24's reporters travelled to Iran's Hormuz Island, where residents remain anchored...
Benchmark crude oil prices rose on Monday as US President Donald Trump rejected Iran's latest counterproposal to find an end to the war in the Middle East. The continued closure of the Strait of Hormuz is leaving its mark on economies around the world, with India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi call...
Iran's stockpile of enriched uranium must be "taken out" before the US-Israeli war can be considered over, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told a US broadcaster after President Donald Trump said Tehran's latest proposal for ending the conflict was "totally unacceptable". Iran on Monday sa...
Iranian Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi has been released on bail and transferred to Tehran for urgent medical treatment after supporters warned she was at risk of dying in prison. The activist, jailed for campaigning against Iran's clerical system, reportedly suffered two suspected heart...
Bryan Clark is a senior fellow and director of the Centre for Defence Concepts and Technology at the Hudson Institute. A retired US Navy officer and submariner with more than two decades of service, Bryan served as a chief engineer on nuclear submarines and worked on the Chief of Naval Operations s...
Vladimir Putin’s latest comments on potential ceasefire talks are being met with deep scepticism across Europe, with officials questioning both the substance of his proposals and the choice of mediator. FRANCE 24 International Affairs Editor Shirley Sitbon said repeated promises of imminent peace...
