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The United States and Iran on Monday each warned they were ready for war as the clock ticked on a ceasefire, with uncertainty on talks that President Donald Trump had announced would resume in Pakistan. Follow our liveblog for the latest updates.
Victor Wembanyama became the first player to unanimously win the NBA Defensive Player of the Year award, receiving all 100 first-place votes, the league said on Monday. The San Antonio Spurs center led the NBA in blocks for a third straight season and is the youngest recipient at 22.
The 2027 Tour de France Femmes will feature a demanding Grand Depart in Britain, ending with a historic team time trial in London, organisers said. Both men’s and women’s races will start in Britain, marking the first joint foreign launch, with early stages set across northern England’s challenging terrain.
A Canadian woman was shot dead and five other people injured by a gunman on Monday at Mexico's famed Teotihuacan archaeological site, authorities said. The gunman killed himself after opening fire at the popular tourist destination, home to pre-Aztecan pyramids, said Cristobal Castaneda, the security secretary for Mexico state, where the site is located. FRANCE 24's Ioan Grillo reports from Mexico...
Cuba’s government on Monday confirmed that it had recently met with U.S. officials on the island as tensions between the two sides remain high over the U.S. energy blockade of the Caribbean country. FRANCE 24's Ed Augustin reports from Havana.
Apple CEO Tim Cook will step down on Sept. 1 after nearly 15 years leading the iPhone maker, handing the role to hardware chief John Ternus. Cook, 65, will become executive chairman. Under his tenure, Apple’s market value rose by more than $3.6 trillion, marking a period of sustained growth.
Apple CEO Tim Cook will step down on Sept. 1 after nearly 15 years leading the iPhone maker, handing the role to hardware chief John Ternus. Cook, 65, will become executive chairman. Under his tenure, Apple’s market value rose by more than $3.6 trillion, marking a period of sustained growth.
Apple CEO Tim Cook will step down on Sept. 1 after nearly 15 years leading the iPhone maker, handing the role to hardware chief John Ternus. Cook, 65, will become executive chairman. Under his tenure, Apple’s market value rose by more than $3.6 trillion, marking a period of sustained growth.
Elon Musk did not appear Monday for a voluntary interview with Paris prosecutors, who had issued the summons in February as part of an investigation into allegations that X's algorithm was used to interfere in French politics. The probe was later expanded to include dissemination of Holocaust denial and sexual deepfakes by X's AI chatbot Grok. FRANCE 24's Sharon Gaffney speaks with Professor Julia...
Governments and regulators are assessing potential implications and urging critical sectors to beef up their defences after a powerful new AI model sent shockwaves around the world. Mythos showed the ability to find previously undetected bugs and to exploit the vulnerabilities by itself, prompting its developer Anthropic to decide not to release it to the general public. Aleksandr Yampolskiy, Co-f...
François Picard is pleased to welcome Tim Bale, Professor of Politics at Queen Mary, University of London. According to Professor Bale, Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer appears to have unwittingly misled Parliament, as a consequence of not being not being 'apprised' of Peter Mandelson's failed vetting.
A Canadian woman was killed and several other people were injured Monday at the archaeological site of the Teotihuacan pyramids, a major tourist attraction north of Mexico City. The gunman killed himself after opening fire, Mexico state's security secretary said.
A Canadian woman was killed and 13 other people were injured Monday at the archaeological site of the Teotihuacan pyramids, a major tourist attraction north of Mexico City. The gunman killed himself after opening fire, Mexico state's security secretary said.
A Canadian woman was killed and four other people were injured Monday at the archaeological site of the Teotihuacan pyramids, a major tourist attraction north of Mexico City. The gunman killed himself after opening fire, Mexico state's security secretary said.
A Canadian woman was killed and four other people were injured Monday at the archaeological site of the Teotihuacan pyramids, a major tourist attraction north of Mexico City. The gunman killed himself after opening fire, Mexico state's security secretary said.
EU member states will discuss their cooperation agreement with Israel, EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said Monday, though she remained cautious about the outcome of the talks. Spain is leading the call to suspend the deal as attitudes towards Israel among key EU member states are hardening over its conduct in the Gaza Strip, Lebanon and the occupied West Bank.
François Picard is pleased to welcome Tim Bale, Professor of Politics at Queen Mary, University of London. According to Professor Bale, Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer appears to have unwittingly misled Parliament, as a consequence of not being not being 'apprised' of Peter Mandelson's failed vetting. And while accountability remains elusive, Starmer's US Ambassador appointment was widely se...
François Picard is pleased to welcome Tim Bale, Professor of Politics at Queen Mary, University of London. According to Professor Bale, the British Prime Minister appears to have unwittingly misled Parliament, as a consequence of not being not being 'apprised' of Mandelson's failed vetting. He says what we are witnessing is the clash between political authority and bureaucratic constraint. The Pri...
The Israeli military confirmed a viral photo of one of its soldiers smashing a statue of Jesus with a sledgehammer in southern Lebanon is "authentic," and said its launched an investigation into the incident. Taken in the Christian village of Debel, close to the Israeli border, it's one of the few villages where residents remained during Israel's campaign in southern Lebanon. Locals say the statue...
Speaking with FRANCE 24's Jennie Shin, Rosemary Kelanic, Director of the Middle East programme at the think tank Defense Priorities, says that US President Donald Trump "has boxed himself into a corner", explaining that "this war has failed, the war has put the United States in a weaker position relative to Iran than it was before the war started, because now Iran has closed the Strait and demonst...
Iran said it had yet to decide whether to attend a new round of peace negotiations with the United States, as Washington's delegation prepared to depart for Pakistan on Monday. The uncertainty over the talks on ending the war that engulfed the region came as US President Donald Trump suggested he could resume attacks should the current temporary ceasefire -- now in its final days -- lapse. FRANCE ...
A container ship seized in the Gulf, a ceasefire deadline that's running out fast and plenty of bargaining table brinkmanship between the U-S and Iran. With the price of oil back on the rise, de-escalation would certainly offer relief to Donald Trump's constitutents. So what's the plan of a U.S. president who’s proved impulsive – at times threatening civilizational erasure, at others floating the ...
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer acknowledged Monday that he made the wrong judgment when he appointed Peter Mandelson as UK ambassador to Washington, but said he would not have done so if he had known Mandelson failed security checks. Starmer is facing calls to resign after the revelation that Mandelson was given the job despite failing security vetting. Mandelson was fired nine months into th...
Carys Garland is pleased to welcome Nadim Houry, Executive Director of the Arab Reform Initiative (ARI). In this interview on France 24, he examines what Israel has termed the “Yellow Line doctrine” and argue that it represents not a legitimate security measure, but a systematic transformation of military practice into a tool for territorial control. Drawing on recent developments in Gaza, Syria, ...
#China's technological developments were on full display, and at full speed, in the robot half-marathon in #Beijing on April 19. The winning robot beat the human half-marathon record by nearly seven minutes, finishing in 50 minutes and 26 seconds.
The US Customs and Border Protection announced Monday that its refund portal for tariffs which were struck down by the US Supreme Court in mid-February is now open to applications from businesses.
Timmy, a humpback whale, first became stuck off Germany's Baltic coast in late March. The animal’s plight has since gripped the public and raised questions about whether humans should intervene to save wild animals. While a rescue mission funded by two German millionaires is underway, marine biologists warn the whale has no chance of survival and are urging the public to reflect on humanity's role...
A ceasefire between the United States and Iran appeared in jeopardy on Monday after the US said it had seized an Iranian cargo ship that tried to run its blockade and Tehran vowed to retaliate, refusing for now to join new peace talks. Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei said Washington has shown it was "not serious" about pursuing the diplomatic process and Tehran would not change...
A man shot dead eight children -- seven of them his own -- early Sunday in the southern US state of Louisiana in an incident of domestic violence that spanned three locations, police said. The early morning massacre at a gray house in the city of Shreveport was the deadliest mass shooting in the United States in more than two years, according to data from the Gun Violence Archive. Two women were s...
French-American artist Crystal Murray rose to fame on social media, a decade before the term influencer was "a thing". She was already making alternative R'n'B and soul, which led her to get signed and release a first album in 2024. A couple of years ago, she moved to London to find her voice on her own terms and became an independent artist. She popped by arts24 to tell Marjorie Hache about her n...
