International Atomic Energy Agency chief Rafael Grossi is set to visit Tehran on Wednesday for crucial talks on Iran's nuclear programme, warning just ahead of his trip that room for manoeuvre is narrowing.
Israel has committed war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza, including pursuing a deliberate policy of forcibly displacing people and denying them the right to return home, according to a Human Rights Watch report released Thursday. The report also labelled the likely permanent dispossessio...
Hezbollah on Wednesday night claimed it had fired a series of missiles targeting "a gathering of Israeli army forces" in northern Israel, hours after the Israeli army said six of its troops were killed in one of the deadliest days of its ground offensive in southern Lebanon. Follow our liveblog for...
Kyiv was the target of its first missile attack since August on Wednesday morning, in a 2-hour Russian ballistic missile operation that targeted the entire country. FRANCE 24's Sharon Gaffney speaks to Olga Oliker, Programme Director for Europe and Central Asia at ICG. She says that Ukrainians are...
COP 29 taking place all this week, dozens of world leaders gathered to discuss how to combat the challenge of climate change and global warming. FRANCE 24's speaks to Aakash Ranison, Youth Delegate on Climate Migration at the International Organization for Migration....
A football match in Paris is raising concerns over potential clashes between Jewish and Palestinian sympathisers. Security measures have been heightened following last week's violence in Amsterdam, where Israeli supporters clashed with both local men of Arab origin and Dutch fans. Tensions fueled b...
Three decades on from independence, Kyrgyzstan is still dealing with the consequences of the Cold War nuclear arms race. Mining towns like Min-Kush provided the Soviet Union with essential uranium, leaving behind vast quantities of dangerous toxic waste that is still being cleared away, while local...
Rape is widespread in Sudan's civil war, a United Nations investigation said Tuesday, accusing paramilitaries especially of committing sexual violence on a "staggering" scale. Children are not spared the abuse, while women and girls are being abducted for sexual slavery, the UN Independent Internat...
Lebanese state media reported on Wednesday a third wave of Israeli raids on Hezbollah's south Beirut bastion in 24 hours, after the health ministry said another strike south of the capital killed six people. People hastily drove away from the area following the evacuation calls, with residents firi...
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken assured NATO on Wednesday that the Biden administration would bolster its support for Ukraine in the few months before Donald Trump's return as president and would try to strengthen the alliance in that time. Meeting NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte in Brussels...
A senior police officer warned Tuesday of calls for more rioting in Amsterdam, after dozens of people armed with sticks and firecrackers set a tram on fire Monday night and the city faces tensions following violence last week targeting fans of an Israeli football club. The Amsterdam mayor, chief of...
Russia stepped up its attacks on the Ukrainian capital early on Wednesday with its first combined drone and missile attack since the summer. Officials said one man was wounded by falling debris from a downed drone in a suburb of Kyiv....
Eight international aid groups said Tuesday that Israel has failed to meet US demands for greater humanitarian access to the war-ravaged Gaza Strip, where hunger experts say the north may already be experiencing famine. However, the Biden administration said Tuesday it won't limit weapons transfers...
Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad on Wednesday released new video footage of Israeli hostage Alexander Troufanov in Gaza, the first in several months. Earlier, the southern suburbs of Beirut were once again pummelled by air strikes after the Israeli army told residents living near buildings...
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken was set to hold emergency talks with European allies in Brussels on Wednesday to discuss how to support Ukraine in the weeks before US President-elect Donald Trump returns to the White House....
Chinese President Xi Jinping will join his US counterpart Joe Biden and the leaders of other Asia Pacific nations in Lima this week for an economic summit overshadowed by the prospect of a world embroiled in trade wars under US President-elect Donald Trump....
UNRWA said on Tuesday the amount of aid coming into Gaza had reached an "apocalyptic" new low in the 13-month Israel-Hamas war, with 2.2 million people needing "absolutely everything" to avoid dying from disease, famine, and violence....
Myanmar's conflict-torn Rakhine state is heading toward famine, the United Nations warned on Thursday, as the country's civil war squeezes commerce and agricultural production. FRANCE 24's Yinka Oyetade speaks to Kanni Wignaraja, the UN's Assistant-Secretary General and UNDP's Asia Regional Directo...
Israel announced it had delivered hundreds of packets of food to cut-off areas of northern Gaza as fighting raged ahead of a US deadline for Israel to get more aid into the Palestinian enclave. For in-depth analysis and a deeper perspective on the unprecedented humanitarian crisis in war-torn Gaza,...
International aid organizations accuse Israel of failing to meet US demands to allow greater humanitarian access to the Gaza Strip, where conditions are worse than at any point in the 13-month-old war. For in-depth analysis and a deeper perspective on the unprecedented humanitarian crisis in war-to...
Israel's army announced the opening Tuesday (November 12) of an additional aid crossing into Gaza, before a US-imposed deadline to improve humanitarian conditions for Palestinians in the war-ravaged territory.The United Nations agency supporting Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, and eight humanitarian o...
Since January, Ivory Coast has embarked on a mass eviction project. Authorities have targeted 176 neighbourhoods in Abidjan and have destroyed homes without any proper relocation plans for residents. This project was initially presented as a safety measure to deal with flooding that has ravished in...
The Israeli military announced it had delivered hundreds of packets of food to cut-off areas of northern Gaza as fighting raged ahead of a US deadline for Israel to get more aid into the Palestinian enclave or face cuts in military assistance. For in-depth analysis and a deeper perspective on the...
PRESS REVIEW - Tuesday, November 12: The Archbishop of Canterbury, the Church of England's most senior cleric, faces calls to resign. It comes after a damning review accused the Church of covering up a decades-long cycle of sexual, physical and psychological abuse by a former lawyer and member of t...
A Moscow court on Tuesday (November 12) sentenced a paediatrician to five-and-a-half years in prison for criticising the Ukraine campaign during a private appointment, after she was denounced. FRANCE 24's Nick Holdsworth tells us more....
Israel has opened an additional aid crossing into Gaza, before a US-imposed deadline to improve humanitarian conditions for Palestinians. UNRWA, and eight humanitarian organisations however said that not enough aid was reaching the territory. For in-depth analysis on the humanitarian crisis in war-...
In an exclusive interview with FRANCE 24 and RFI, French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot discussed diplomatic tensions with Israel, European trade policy in the wake of Donald Trump's re-election and support for Ukraine. He also underlined the importance of closer cooperation with Africa and the...
Joe Biden's deadline for Israel to allow aid into Gaza comes to an end this Wednesday (November 13). The situation in Gaza though remains critical. Israel has failed to meet US demands to allow greater humanitarian access to the Gaza Strip, where conditions are worse than at any point in the 13-mon...
Russia Monday (November 11) denied a reported call between President Vladimir Putin and US President-elect Donald Trump on the Ukraine conflict and said it saw no signs the West was ready for talks. The Washington Post said on Sunday that Trump had spoken by phone on Thursday with Putin, telling hi...
Ukraine said on Monday (November 11) its hard-pressed military was battling 50,000 troops in Russia's Kursk region to its north. FRANCE 24's Gulliver Cragg tells us more....
Waving Georgian and EU flags, thousands of opposition supporters rallied in Georgia’s capital, Tbilisi, to demand new elections under international supervision amid claims of Russian interference in the October 26 parliamentary vote....
