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Family members pin photos of Nepal’s missing to hospital wall as people try not to give up hope on loved onesNepal-Tibet flash flood – latest updatesPosters of the missing line the wall of the hospital, the glue still fresh beneath. A schoolgirl smiling in her uniform; a beaming, chubby-cheeked baby; a couple smiling on their wedding day; a young man, hands on hips, atop a mountain peak; a young g...
Al Jazeera asked people on the Benin-Agbor-Asaba road how they view this infrastructure crisis.
A Chinese coastguard ship is shielding a cluster of fishing boats when several small, fast vessels begin circling – sometimes darting closer, sometimes backing off. Are they just curious fishermen? Or are they probing for a weak spot, trying to lure the patrol ship into a trap? In the real world, a split-second decision could escalate a tense maritime stand-off into something far more dangerous. T...
A group of soldiers in Niger rebelled against officers at a key military base and fired at sensitive locations in the capital, Niamey, in an apparent mutiny marked by gunfire and explosions, authorities said Saturday, in what was seen as a major threat to the country's struggling junta. FRANCE 24's Wassim Nasr brings you this analysis.
Three vessels and a helicopter deployed to monitor four ships travelling through the North Sea to the ChannelThe Royal Navy spent three days tracking Russian vessels as they passed through UK waters, it has emerged.The “intense” 72-hour operation took place last week, with radars used to monitor four ships that made their way from the North Sea through to the Channel. Continue reading...
Ukraine correspondent Dan Johnson reports from Kyiv after the deadly strike, which authorities said killed more than 30 people.
Countries signatories of the UN Convention to Combat Desertification agree with banks and private investors on financing scores of projects in 23 countries across 5 continents.
An elderly South Korean waits to see a brother in the North one last time, while a North Korean defector risks it all.
Attack on depot owned by Ukraine military causes detonations and huge fire, damaging residential buildingsAt least 37 people have been killed after a Russian drone struck a warehouse near Kyiv’s western suburbs that was storing “explosive objects”.The attack damaged at least 50 residential buildings, including a care home for elderly and disabled people, and sparked a huge fire and explosions in t...
Commodity Futures Trading Commission said Gabriel Perez wagered on Kalshi about words president used in speechesA White House teleprompter operator who left his post amid accusations that he used inside knowledge to make bets on Donald Trump’s speeches on an online prediction market has been fined $172,000, according to federal regulators.Gabriel Perez exploited “material, nonpublic information” t...
He fought for fascism to triumph. And it did.
Bridget Phillipson says government would not have to consider releasing prisoners early if Tories had created more capacityCells to hold newly arrested people could run out without the early prison release scheme, a government minister has said.Bridget Phillipson defended the plan to address the prison capacity crisis in England and Wales by releasing thousands of prisoners early, which has been c...
At least four Palestinians are trapped inside the home, while settlers have set fire to nearby Palestinian land.
Rescuers raced to clear roads leading to the mudslide-hit border port of Gyirong, China's Tibet Autonomous Region.
After Nepali authorities updated their figures Saturday, the combined toll in Nepal and Tibet rose to 676 dead and nearly 3,000 people missing.
An UNRWA vocational centre in the occupied West Bank has been raided by Israeli forces and ordered to close.
Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian leader Vladimir Putin are expected to discuss the Power of Siberia 2 project in a meeting in Bishkek on Monday, according to the Kremlin. The meeting in Kyrgyzstan’s capital will be their second face-to-face talks this year, following Putin’s trip to Beijing shortly after a visit there by US President Donald Trump. “The issue will be discussed bilaterally,”...
Rescue efforts in Nepal, high inflation six months after the Iran war started, plus Dolly Parton's Imagination Library brings books to young readers.
Israel threatens the Qalandiya Training Centre, one of Jerusalem's oldest still-operational educational institutions.
Israel threatens the Qalandiya Training Centre, one of Jerusalem's oldest still-operational educational institutions.
After nearly three years of war, a farmer returns to Sheikh Ijlin’s renowned grape fields.
An investigation has begun into the storage of weapons for Ukraine's military near a residential area.
The vessel, which was in international waters near Ecuador, was allegedly used as a floating refueling station for drug boats belonging to the Los Choneros organization.
Nominated in three previous years, the rambunctious standup – one half of The Delightful Sausage – wins the prize for his show Rewilding while Marty Gleeson is named best newcomerThe annual Edinburgh comedy award has been won by the standup Chris Cantrill, two years after his comedy partner Amy Gledhill – in the raucous northern double act The Delightful Sausage – won the same prize.Cantrill, 42 a...
As Icelanders head to the polls on Saturday to vote in a referendum on whether the country should resume talks with the EU over membership, FRANCE 24 speaks to Eiríkur Bergmann, Professor of Politics at Bifröst University, for more insight into the vote.
Indonesia sets up shelters for babies, children affected by wildfire smoke
