Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky arrived in Paris on Thursday for talks which the French president said would reaffirm France's "unwavering support" for Ukraine.
A major study published on Wednesday warns that even temporarily exceeding the 1.5°C global warming limit could lead to irreversible consequences, including rising sea levels and mass biodiversity loss. With global emissions still rising, scientists stress that hopes of reversing climate overshoot...
Anticipating a potential shortage of US military support after the US presidential elections in November, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will follow up a Ukraine-Southeast Europe summit with a tour of meetings with multiple European leaders, he announced on Wednesday. Russia has made key ad...
French President Emmanuel Macron will reaffirm France's "unwavering support to Ukraine" the Élysée Palace said, during talks on Thursday with Ukraine's President, Volodymyr Zelensky....
Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) said on Monday that it has opened criminal cases against foreign journalists for "illegally" crossing the border between Ukraine and Russia's Kursk region....
Hungary's nationalist leader Viktor Orban made his case for "change" in Europe in a headline address to the EU parliament on Wednesday. His speech was greeted by denunciations as lawmakers took turns to lambast Orban's democratic backsliding and pro-Russian positions. ...
US nationals David Baker and John Jumper, together with Briton Demis Hassabis, shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry on Wednesday for work revealing proteins' secrets through computing and artificial intelligence. ...
Former US president Donald Trump secretly sent Covid tests to Vladimir Putin in 2020 when he was in the White House and spoke multiple times to the Russian president after leaving office, an explosive new book by US journalist Bob Woodward reveals. The Kremlin on Wednesday denied reports in the upc...
A large-scale Israeli operation in northern Gaza killed dozens of people and threatened to shut down three hospitals, Palestinian officials and residents said Wednesday. Thousands more were trapped in the area, particularly in the Jabaliya refugee camp, as UN officials warned of shortages of basic...
Hours after he was declared a co-winner of the 2024 Nobel physics prize, John Hopfield said the speed of advances in the field of artiticial intelligence (AI) was unnerving and warned of the possibility of such systems taking over human oversight. ...
Successive murders in France’s second-largest city have cast a grim light on the growing use of teenage contract killers by rival drug lords in Marseille, the subject of a new book by a trio of French journalists that explores an alarming development in the port city’s deadly drug wars....
Ukrainian media reports that six North Korean military officers were killed alongside Russian troops in a missile attack near occupied Donetsk are "highly likely" to be true, Seoul's defence minister said Tuesday. Defence Minister Kim Yong-hyun told lawmakers that he expected North Korea to send mo...
Seven civilians were killed in an Israeli air strike in Damascus on Tuesday, the Syrian government said, with a UK-based war monitor saying the strike had targeted a building used by Iran's Revolutionary Guards and Lebanon's Hezbollah. Syria's defence ministry said women and children were among the...
Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris said she would not meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin for peace talks if Ukraine was not also represented. She also reiterated criticism of her rival Donald Trump's policies on Ukraine, describing them as a "surrender"....
Monday marks one year since the Hamas-led series of attacks on Israel and the beginning of Israel’s retaliatory war in Gaza, which has unfolded along with a rise in settler attacks in the occupied West Bank. The spiralling violence has spurred renewed calls for a two-state solution. FRANCE 24 s...
A Russian court sentenced 72-year-old US citizen Stephen Hubbard to nearly seven years in prison on charges of fighting as a mercenary for Ukraine, following a trial largely held behind closed doors. This sentencing comes amid a string of recent detentions of Westerners in Russia, including another...
Two new Israeli strikes struck Beirut's southern suburbs on Monday evening, Lebanese state media said, after Israel's military issued a warning to inhabitants of the area. An AFP correspondent saw smoke rise from the suburbs, and the country's National News Agency reported that the area had been "t...
One year after the October 7 attacks, war continues to rage between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip. Despite efforts to reach a diplomatic solution, the fighting has now expanded into neighbouring Lebanon. FRANCE 24 looks back on the timeline of this unprecedented escalation in the Middle East....
Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant warned Iran on Sunday that it might end up looking like Gaza or Beirut if the Islamic republic was considering an attempt to harm Israel. This comes after an Israeli strike on a mosque sheltering displaced people in Deir al-Balah in central Gaza early Sunday ki...
From Jakarta to Los Angeles, protesters in cities in Asia, Africa, Europe and the Americas kicked off a weekend of demonstrations calling for ceasefires in Gaza and Lebanon. Security has been tightened in many cities amid planned protests and commemorations ahead of Monday's anniversary of the Octo...
Hezbollah fighters were engaged in ongoing clashes with Israeli troops in the Lebanon border area, the group said early Saturday, as massive explosions ripped the southern suburbs of Beirut for another night. The death toll from Israel's escalation of its war against Hezbollah has surpassed 2,000 p...
A year after Palestinian armed groups breached Gaza's security fence and led a simultaneous wave of assaults on Israeli communities and outposts, FRANCE 24 looks at the intelligence failures that led to the October 7 attacks. There was plenty of warning that Hamas was planning a large-scale assaul...
It's the deadliest conflict that Lebanon has experienced since the end of the civil war in 1990. In the space of just a few days, Israeli air strikes have killed more than 1,000 people and left thousands wounded, with civilians making up a large part of the casualties. The violence has also forced...
French President Emmanuel Macron opened the two-day "Francophonie" summit on Friday, and called on the international community to avoid "double standards" in world conflicts. ...
Forty years after his death, Ahmed Sékou Touré, the father of Guinea's independence, is more popular than ever. For young people across West Africa in search of a hero, Sékou Touré could be what they're looking for. But this rehabilitation of the country's past dictator glosses over the tens o...
Israel bombarded the southern suburbs of Beirut with a new salvo of air strikes early Friday, hitting an apartment building in the Lebanese capital and causing large explosions near the international airport. An Israeli strike near Lebanon's Masnaa border crossing blocked vehicles from using the ma...
Israel’s assassination of longtime Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, its elimination of most of the group's top commanders and the destruction of its communications system – spectacularly illustrated by exploding pagers and walkie-talkies – has crippled the Shiite group, leaving it...
Iran launched a retaliatory missile barrage on Israeli military infrastructure Tuesday in response to Israel’s killing of Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah last week and Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh in July. The largely thwarted attack was seen by many as an attempt to restore the Islamic...
During his maiden trip as NATO Secretary General, Mark Rutte met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Kyiv and pledged support to Ukraine in its war with Russia. Ukraine faces a critical few months over the winter as Russian forces continue advancing through the east, while targeting the...
More than 30,000 Orthodox Jewish pilgrims are thought to have congregated in the Ukrainian city of Uman for Rosh Hashanah, a key holiday in the Jewish calendar, some leaving war in the Middle East to brave the conflict still raging in eastern Europe....
Israel's military said Thursday it had hit Hezbollah's intelligence headquarters in the Lebanese capital of Beirut, as its troops battled militants near the border and warplanes bombarded their strongholds around the country. The strike came after the Lebanese health minister said that at least 1,9...