FRANCE 24's Douglas Herbert breaks down what could be Putin's strategy and ultimate goal, following the proposal accepted by Ukraine of an immediate 30-day ceasefire.
Russia is sending a second oil tanker to Cuba as the island struggles with a deepening energy crisis under a US fuel blockade, Energy Minister Sergei Tsivilev said Thursday. The move follows a first delivery this week amid widespread blackouts and shortages after Washington cut off key supplies, pr...
Nadia Massih is pleased to welcome Dr. Wouter Dewulf, professor at the University of Antwerp AMS where he serves as Academic Director for the Master of Maritime/Air Transport Management. According to Dr. Dewulf, the current crisis facing global airlines must be understood as a convergence of geopol...
If long-time Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban emerges victorious from this month's general election it will have consequences far beyond the central European country, analysts say. Since his return to power in 2010, Orban has repeatedly tussled with the European Union, with Polish and Irish le...
Tehran will press on with the Middle East war until the United States and Israel face "permanent regret and surrender", the spokesperson of its armed forces' unified command said on Thursday, according to the semi-official Tasnim news agency. The threat followed comments by...
Global air travel remains severely disrupted, with many people still unable to fly as planned to destinations after the Iran war forced the closure of major Middle Eastern hubs, including Dubai, Doha and Abu Dhabi....
Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam said on Thursday there was no end in sight to a war that had already displaced a million people over the last month, as families fleeing Israeli strikes said they were exhausted by repeated rounds of conflict. Lebanon is entering the second month of conflict b...
Sexual violence has become a hallmark of conflict in Sudan, according to a new report from MSF, as the country approaches the fourth anniversary of its civil war. The report highlights the scale of devastation inflicted on civilians in Darfur, set against an even longer history of repeated cycles o...
In Lebanon, the reach of the war is stretching far beyond the front lines. For those with chronic illnesses, the conflict has created a silent, secondary crisis - cutting off access to the life-saving medicine they need to survive. In Beirut’s oncology wards, the cost of treatment is too much for...
French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday said it would be unrealistic to launch a military operation to force open the Strait of Hormuz after US President Donald Trump challenged allies to work towards reopening it. In unusually strong criticism, Macron accused Trump of constantly contradicti...
Iran responded to US President Donald Trump’s address to Americans on the war with new missile attacks targeting Israel and the Gulf Arab states Thursday, underlining Tehran’s insistence that it rejected Washington’s outreach for a ceasefire while maintaining its grip on the Strait of Hormuz....
US President Donald Trump delivered his first nationwide address since the start of the war in the Middle East on Wednesday. Trump claimed the US was “very close” to achieving its objectives in Iran and vowed to hit the country “extremely hard” in the coming days....
President Donald Trump sought Wednesday to explain his rationale for the war against Iran at a pivotal moment at home and abroad, but he offered few new details. Notably missing from Trump’s primetime address was his oft-repeated assertion that negotiations with Iran were underway. He did not ind...
Critical aid supplies to Sudan are being disrupted by the 'ripple effect' of the Iran war, the World Food Program (WFP) warned on Wednesday. While gas, oil and fertilisers are stuck in the Persian Gulf due to the war, urgent food aid destined to Sudan and other countries are facing severe delays, a...
Iran on Thursday threatened "crushing" attacks on the US and Israel, firing missiles at Tel Aviv after US President Donald Trump vowed to bomb the Islamic republic "back to the Stone Ages". The war, which erupted more than a month ago with US-Israeli strikes on Iran, has spread throughout the Middl...
Oil prices rose and stocks fell on Wednesday following US President Donald Trump’s speech in which he warned he would hit Iran “extremely hard” over the next two to three weeks. Meanwhile, Iran has reportedly begun collecting tolls from ships seeking safe passage through the Hormuz Strait. We...
PRESS REVIEW – Thursday, April 2: Donald Trump hails what he calls the successes of the war in Iran in a televised address. Earlier, he once again threatened to pull the United States out of NATO – a move the Wall Street Journal has described as the “dumbest” in history. Also, Gizmodo cel...
More than 1,800 civilians have been killed in violence-wracked Burkina Faso since 2023, Human Rights Watch said in a report released on Thursday that accuses the army and civilian militias of killing more civilians than jihadists do. The NGO called on prosecutors at the International Criminal Court...
Iran's military on Thursday threatened "more destructive" attacks on the US and Israel, firing missiles at Tel Aviv after US President Donald Trump vowed to bomb the Islamic republic "back to the Stone Ages". Trump's remarks in a televised address Wednesday dimmed hopes of a swift end to the war in...
President Donald Trump said US forces would keep hitting Iran "very hard" in the next two or three weeks and bring the country "back to the Stone Ages" in a televised address on Wednesday night, even as he argued that Washington had accomplished its goals but offered no clear timeline for ending th...
Donald Trump will give an “important update” on the Iran war in a prime-time televised address to the American nation on Wednesday evening, which is expected to reiterate the president's timeline for rolling back US military operations in the region....
Speaking to FRANCE 24’s Sharon Gaffney, Dr David Brown, Senior Research Fellow in the Astronomy and Astrophysics Group at Warwick University, said he hopes the Artemis II mission marks “the start of a new era of human spaceflight”, adding that “it is incredibly exciting and inspiring to see...
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Wednesday that the global instability caused by the Iran war means Britain should pivot to focusing on closer economic and defence ties with Europe, following repeated criticism from Trump. Quentin Peel, Associate Fellow on the Europe Programme at Chatha...
US president Donald Trump has once again branded the NATO alliance a 'paper tiger' in an interview with Britain's Daily Telegraph, saying he had moved "beyond reconsideration" of U.S. membership. FRANCE 24's Brussels correspondent Dave Keating explains that "Donald Trump has no intention of defendi...
Are we witnessing globalisation’s biggest turning point since the end of the Cold War? With Asia feeling the impact of US President Donald Trump’s war against Iran, and steadfast American allies such as the Philippines forced to declare an energy emergency, the immediate consequences are rippli...
President Donald Trump has said he is strongly considering pulling the US out of NATO, ratcheting up his criticism of European allies and exposing a wider rift in the transatlantic alliance — this time over America's war alongside Israel against Iran....
Coaches and trucks travelling at less than 30 kilometres per hour: French lorry drivers are taking part in a go-slow operation across the country to protest against soaring fuel prices caused by the war in the Middle East and to demand more substantial support from the government....
Moscow is demanding that Russian-French national Anna Novikova be freed after she was detained in France last year on suspicion of espionage. Novikova is suspected of trying to obtain information about French economic interests. ...
The European Commission on Tuesday urged EU member states to make "timely and coordinated preparations" to secure oil supplies in the face of surging energy prices caused by the Middle East war. US-Israeli attacks on Iran and Tehran's retaliatory strikes have roiled markets and triggered a surge in...
US President Donald Trump said the military could end its Iran offensive in two to three weeks and will shift responsibility for the Strait of Hormuz to countries that rely on it for oil and shipping as the White House announced a prime-time presidential address Wednesday evening on the war. FRANCE...
Gulf allies of the United States, led by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, are urging President Donald Trump to continue prosecuting the war against Iran, arguing that Tehran hasn't been weakened enough by the monthlong US-led bombing campaign, according to US, Gulf and Israeli officials....
