Ukraine said on January 11 that it was questioning two wounded soldiers it claimed are North Koreans taken prisoner while fighting for Moscow in Russia's Kursk region. France 24's Rob Parsons gives us his analysis.
Two North Korean soldiers captured by Ukrainian troops in Russia's Kursk region are being questioned in Kyiv, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Saturday. Ukrainian authorities have vowed to provide media access to the prisoners of war because "the world needs to know what is happening"...
The US on Friday imposed a swath of fresh sanctions on Russian oil and gas which could cost the country billions of dollars per month, aimed at cutting Russia's revenue for funding the ongoing war in Ukraine. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky welcomed the action, which should improve the odds...
The past two years were the first to officially exceed the 1.5°C temperature threshold for global warming that countries in the Paris Agreement pledged to avoid. Could geoengineering provide a solution to reverse the trend and lower temperatures? ...
Talking Europe sits down with France's top diplomat in Warsaw, just as Poland takes up the rotating presidency of the EU in turbulent geopolitical times. Étienne de Poncins was previously French ambassador to Ukraine and got out of Kyiv just in time when it was encircled by the Russian army in 202...
2025 looks like a year full of dangers for the European Union. Even before US President-elect Donald Trump returns to office, his unpredictability is on full display as he tells NATO ally Denmark that he needs Greenland for US national security purposes – prompting a strong rebuke from France, wh...
Aid organisations demanded Wednesday safe and unhindered aid access in war-torn Gaza, wracked by hunger and where babies are freezing to death, even as more hospitals face closure amid fuel shortages. Heavy rain and flooding have ravaged the makeshift shelters in Gaza, leaving thousands with up to...
Coral reefs rank as some of the planet’s most vital ecosystems. Although they cover just 0.2 percent of oceans, reefs are home to a quarter of marine biodiversity. Scientists warn they could vanish in as little as a decade, unless we rapidly slow the rate of global warming. In Monaco, a team of s...
In the space of just a few years, drug trafficking and insecurity have exploded in Ecuador, with homicides rising by 800 percent between 2018 and 2023. President Daniel Noboa, who has been in power for the past year, has launched an armed campaign against the criminal groups. This war-like strategy...
Some 3.2 million children are expected to face malnutrition in Sudan this year, the United Nations Children's Fund said Friday. Aid agencies have complained of lack of access to the war-torn country, where both the army and paramilitary Rapid Support Forces are accused of using "starvation tactics"...
A study in the medical journal The Lancet estimated that 64,260 people have been killed in Gaza since the start of the Israel-Hamas war, which would mean the health ministry in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip had under-reported the number of deaths to that point by 41 percent....
The Kremlin welcomed President-elect Donald Trump’s readiness to engage in dialogue with Russian President Vladimir Putin, presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Friday. Peskov was speaking a day after Trump reiterated his wish to bring about an end to what he called the “bloody mess” of t...
Lebanese lawmakers elected army chief Joseph Aoun as president on Thursday, ending a more than two-year vacancy and marking a step towards lifting the war-battered country out of financial meltdown. FRANCE 24's Sharon Gaffney speaks to Ayman Mhanna, executive director of the Samir Kassir Foundation...
More than the final sendoff for long-gone one-term president? With Jimmy Carter’s passing, Washington marking two legacies, that of a peanut farmer-turned-governor of a southern state whose rise to power embodied a backlash after the Vietnam War and Watergate… ...
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said Thursday she viewed US President-elect Donald Trump's threats to use military force to seize Greenland as a warning to foreign competitors, such as China, to keep their hands off key strategic concerns close to the US. ...
Joseph Aoun, the Lebanese army chief who was elected president on Thursday, is a 60-year-old career soldier who kept his military on the sidelines of a recent war between Israel and armed group Hezbollah, earning widespread respect in a country ridden by sectarian divides....
Back in November, Moldova's President Maia Sandu was narrowly re-elected to a second term, despite alleged Russian interference. Sandu partly owes her victory to the vote of the largely pro-European diaspora, which represents almost a third of the Moldovan population and 20 percent of the electorat...
The world biggest humanitarian disaster continues to claim victims as the war in Sudan drags on. On Wednesday, 20 months on since the conflict began, the US called the actions of one-half of the conflict, genocidal and slapped sanctions on its leader. Mohamed Hamdan Dahl, known as Hemedti leads the...
The 128 lebanese lawmakers could elect army chief Joseph Aoun as president Thursday after more than two years of deadlock, in a much-needed step to help lift the war-battered country out of financial crisis. FRANCE 24's journalist Shirli Sitbon has more....
With uncertainty lingering over US support for Ukraine after Donald Trump's January 20 inauguration, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is set to meet with Western allies in Germany on Thursday to strategise means to secure Ukraine's battlefield position against Russia....
The body of Bedouin Arab hostage Youssef al-Zayadna was repatriated to Israel from the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, the Israeli military said, in what it termed as a "complex and difficult operation" as mediators continue to push for a ceasefire and hostage release deal. ...
The world's largest humanitarian disaster continues to claim victims as the war in Sudan drags on. On Wednesday, 20 months into the conflict, the US called the actions of one half of the conflict genocidal and imposed sanctions on its leader. Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, also known as Hemedti, leads the...
Imagine if Vladimir Putin or Xi Jinping threatened a hostile takeover of Greenland or the Panama Canal. So what about the president-elect of the United States? Is Donald Trump serious? Trump's growing fixation comes two weeks ahead of Inauguration Day. He even sent his son to Greenland, much to the...
At least 13 civilians have been killed, and around 30 injured in a missile strike on the southern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia, officials said Wednesday. Footage posted on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's Telegram channel showed civilians lying in a city street in the aftermath of the at...
The United States on Tuesday night announced sanctions against Sudanese paramilitary leader Mohamed Hamdane Daglo, also known as Hemedti. Washington accuses the head of the Rapid Support Forces, of committing genocide in Sudan. The country's civil war, which erupted in April 2023 between the Sudane...
One month after the surprisingly rapid fall of President Bashar al-Assad's government, Syrians are balancing feelings of hope and trepidation for the future. National reconciliation remains uncertain, as does the governing ability of the rebel leaders who took control of the war torn nation. Charli...
Elon Musk’s invective against major European leaders and his support for right-wing, eurosceptic parties peaked this week, sparking warnings about the US tech billionaire’s intervention in the continent’s democratic institutions. Now EU policy experts are mulling legal measures to rein him in...
The Netherlands is the world's leader in fresh flower production. Over the past decade, the sector has grown by a fifth. But NGOs have been warning about the high levels of pesticides in Dutch flowers. One study even showed that a third of the substances analysed were banned in the European Union,...
In Ukraine, a media investigation has put the French-funded and trained Anne de Kyiv Brigade under the spotlight, and Kyiv is now investigating. Mismanagement had already driven out the original brigade commander last December, and now there are allegations of mass desertion. Soldiers in the brigad...
PRESS REVIEW – Wednesday, January 8: The death of former far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen dominates headlines in France, but despite having called the gas chambers a "detail in the history of World War II" and founded his party alongside a former SS soldier, one French paper dubs him a "proph...
The Ukrainian military on Wednesday said that its forces had hit a Russian oil depot located hundreds of kilometres inside Russia. Kyiv has said it aims to erode Russian energy revenues that are used to fund the war in Ukraine....
