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Putin, in call with Trump, put forward ideas on Iran, Kremlin says

France 24 • 4 months ago

Vladimir Putin and ​Donald Trump held a phone call on Wednesday ​in which the Russian leader put forward ideas on resolving the conflict over Iran's nuclear programme, a Kremlin aide ​said. Putin ‌also proposed a repeat of ⁠a temporary ceasefire in Ukraine to mark the anniversary of the end ‌of World War Two next month, the aide ⁠said. FRANCE 24's International Affairs Commentator Douglas Herbert ...

Tuareg rebels urge Russian forces to leave Mali

France 24 • 4 months ago

Russian forces must withdraw from "all of Mali" and the ruling junta will "fall sooner or later", a spokesman for Tuareg rebels told AFP, after Islamist insurgents and separatists launched attacks destabilising the west African country. FRANCE 24's Juliette Brown reports.

Pakistan in the middle: What benefits and risks from US-Iran mediator?

France 24 • 4 months ago

There are those who want the US and Iran to settle and those who want regime change. Among the latter, there’s Israel of course and then there’s the United Arab Emirates who’ve signaled OPEC’s cautious response as a reason for quitting the cartel. The end of OPEC? How will its biggest producer Saudi Arabia respond? The Emirates also seem to have it in for Saudi ally Pakistan, suddenly demanding th...

London police say stabbing of 2 Jewish men is declared a terrorist incident

France 24 • 4 months ago

Two Jewish men were stabbed and injured in a London street on Wednesday, in what police called an act of terrorism. Police arrested a 45-year-old man on suspicion of attempted murder in the city's latest antisemitic attack. The Metropolitan Police said the attack in the Golders Green area left two men, aged 34 and 76, hospitalized with knife wounds.

How Iranian diplomats turned embassy accounts into viral meme machines

France 24 • 4 months ago

Memes, humour, and trolling of American politicians: This is how a handful of Iranian embassies have become superstars on “X”, attracting millions of views. But how did the old-fashioned and largely ignored accounts of Iran’s diplomats in South Africa, Thailand, and the United Kingdom suddenly turn into Gen Z-style viral feeds, with millions of views?

Genius & Gadgets: Discovering Paris’s annual invention competition

France 24 • 4 months ago

France has a long, slightly eccentric tradition of invention…did you know some of the revolutionary items you use everyday were first introduced to the public at Paris’s annual invention competition?

Libya ‘corruption pact’: Sarkozy returns to court as his former right-hand man turns against him

France 24 • 4 months ago

Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy was back in court Wednesday to answer questions regarding documents written by Claude Guéant, his onetime right-hand man and former interior minister. Guéant’s statements – and Sarkozy’s denials – are the latest chapter in a public falling-out as Sarkozy appeals his conviction for illegally accepting Libyan funds for his 2007 presidential campaign.

REPLAY: US lawmakers grill Pentagon chief Hegseth over Iran war

France 24 • 4 months ago

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is facing questioning from lawmakers for the first time since US President Donald Trump launched the war against Iran, which Democrats have contested as a costly conflict of choice waged without congressional approval. Watch our replay.

Genius & Gadgets: Discovering Paris’s annual invention competition

France 24 • 4 months ago

France has a long, slightly eccentric tradition of invention…did you know some of the revolutionary items you use everyday were first introduced to the public at Paris’s annual invention competition?

United States: Limited-edition Trump passport unveiled 🇺🇸

France 24 • 4 months ago

🇺🇸 No sitting president has ever appeared on a #US passport. Yet the US State Department has unveiled a limited-edition version bearing Donald #Trump’s portrait to mark the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of #Independence. 🪙 A commemorative gold coin featuring his image is also set to be minted for the occasion.

France's public holidays: The art of the long weekend

France 24 • 4 months ago

France has a reputation, among some, of being a vacation nation. Is this warranted? In this edition of Entre Nous, we dive into France's public holidays during the month of May. We discuss the country's infamous long weekends or "ponts", an ongoing political fight over the May 1 bank holiday and what researchers say is the ideal number of "jours fériés" or public holidays. 

King Charles’s US visit ‘about future generations, not just the current administration’

France 24 • 4 months ago

Angela Diffley is pleased to welcome Dr. Garret J. Martin, Hurst Senior Professorial Lecturer, and the Co-Director of the Transatlantic Policy Center, in the School of International Service at American University. The US-UK transatlantic relationship is navigating a period of unprecedented friction. While diplomacy through a state visit from King Charles can help sustain dialogue, it cannot repair...

King Charles’s US visit ‘about future generations, not just the current administration’

France 24 • 4 months ago

Angela Diffley is pleased to welcome Dr. Garret J. Martin, Hurst Senior Professorial Lecturer, and the Co-Director of the Transatlantic Policy Center, in the School of International Service at American University. The US-UK transatlantic relationship is navigating a period of unprecedented friction. While diplomacy through a state visit from King Charles can help sustain dialogue, it cannot repair...

Russia will not display military equipment at Victory Day parade due to Ukraine threat

France 24 • 4 months ago

Russia ​will hold a scaled-back version of its Victory Day parade marking the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II, the Kremlin said on Wednesday. For the first time in nearly two decades, the annual parade on Moscow's Red Square will not feature a military hardware display. The Kremlin said it was due to Ukraine's "terrorist activity". 

Abuse at French after-school programmes: Parents sound the alarm

France 24 • 4 months ago

In Paris, parents are now dropping their children off at school in a climate of anxiety. For several months, reports of physical and sexual abuse involving nursery school children have been mounting. These cases are said to have taken place during after-school care and lunch breaks, when the children are supervised by non-teaching staff. In 2026 alone, 78 youth workers were suspended in Paris, 31 ...

Last Kenyan police officers leave Haiti after unsuccessful security mission

France 24 • 4 months ago

All of the Kenyan police officers deployed to gang-plagued Haiti as part of a security support mission have left the country, a Haitian source confirmed Tuesday, as another UN-approved operation gets up and running. Kenya took the lead in the Multinational Security Support Mission (MSS), greenlit by the UN Security Council in late 2023 to help Haiti's overwhelmed police secure the country from pow...

Former French president Sarkozy testifies in Libya appeals trial

France 24 • 4 months ago

Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy arrived at the Paris Court of Appeal on Wednesday, where he is to be questioned about two documents written by his former right-hand man, Claude Gueant – documents that effectively mark a break with the defence in the appeals trial regarding allegations of Libyan funding of his 2007 presidential campaign. FRANCE 24's Carys Garland reports.

US forces board ship suspected of heading to Iran port

France 24 • 4 months ago

US Marines on Tuesday boarded a commercial ship in the Arabian Sea that was suspected of trying to violate the American blockade of Iranian ports, the US military said. The M/V Blue Star III was released by US forces "after conducting a search and confirming the ship's voyage would not include an Iranian port call," Central Command, which is responsible for American forces in the Middle East, said...

As war nears two months, displaced Lebanese families sink into despair

France 24 • 4 months ago

It has been nearly two months, ​but Rabih Khreiss still has trouble recognising his new life. The father-of-nine could once put food on the table through his car workshop in southern Lebanon, but is now barely surviving in a tent in the capital Beirut. Like so many others, the Khreiss family fled their southern hometown of Khiyam in the early ​hours of March ‌2, moments after learning that the Hez...

Nearly all of Europe had above-average heat last year, as climate records toppled

France 24 • 4 months ago

Almost all of Europe experienced above-average heat in 2025, a year that broke records for wildfires, sea temperatures ​and heatwaves ‌as climate change worsens, EU scientists and the World Meteorological Organization said ⁠on Wednesday. The findings set out how climate change is having increasingly severe consequences in ​Europe, at a time when some governments seek to weaken emissions-cutting po...

Social media abuzz as bees colonise bike outside the Louvre Museum

France 24 • 4 months ago

Social media is all abuzz over a video shot in Paris over the weekend. It was posted by a cyclist who found his bike parked in front of the Louvre Museum… colonised by a swarm of tens of thousands of bees. But this kind of phenomenon is less unusual than you might think in Paris.

French film show: 'The Silent Run' tells a tragic migrant story

France 24 • 4 months ago

We discuss the harrowing incident at the centre of Marta Bergman's poignant new film, as critic Manon Kerjean tells us why "The Silent Run" is a powerful, haunting take on the terrifying scenarios that many refugees face. We also review Alain Gomis's atmospheric journey through family rites and rituals in Guinea-Bissau in "Dao". Plus Laure Calamy and Vincent Macaigne negotiate belly laughs and bit...

Mali junta chief makes first appearance since rebel attacks

France 24 • 4 months ago

Mali's military leader on Tuesday made his first public appearance since unprecedented large-scale weekend attacks destabilised his ruling junta, visiting the wounded and meeting the ambassador of key ally Russia. Jihadists and Tuareg separatists are still positioned in the vast Sahelian country's north, three days after launching a stunning wave of attacks, in what Moscow said remained a "difficu...

Indian Muslims say they're being targeted as millions of voters deleted from rolls

France 24 • 4 months ago

Last year, the Election Commission of India launched a "Special Intensive Revision", or SIR, describing it as an exercise to eliminate duplicate or deceased voters. So far, 13 states and federally administered territories have completed the task, leading to the deletion of over 55 million voters from the electoral rolls. But this exercise has become a political flashpoint in West Bengal, where 9 m...

Mali's Tuareg rebels vow regime 'will fall', urge Russian forces to withdraw

France 24 • 4 months ago

A spokesperson for Mali's Tuareg rebel group Azawad Liberation Front pledged on Wednesday that the country's ruling junta "will fall" and said the group wanted to see Russian forces withdraw "from all of Mali" after weekend attacks by Islamist insurgents and Tuareg separatists targeting major cities.