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As countries on both sides of the Atlantic ramp up deportations of undocumented migrants, Spain’s left-wing government on Tuesday prepared to give legal status to hundreds of thousands of irregular workers. Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has championed the amnesty as a way to not only give informal workers legal protections, but to also bring more money into a social security system increasingly und...
Pope Leo XIV is to arrive in Cameroon on Wednesday, the second stage of an African tour shadowed by insults from US President Donald Trump and suicide attacks in Algeria on his first day. The pontiff is to meet Cameroonian President Paul Biya at the start of his four-day visit to the mainly French-speaking country, before heading to a conflict zone where English-speaking separatists have been figh...
Peruvian right-wing presidential hopeful Rafael Lopez Aliaga gathered hundreds of supporters in Lima on Tuesday and gave authorities 24 hours to annul the first round of the country's election over allegations of fraud. Lopez Aliaga, a fan of US President Donald Trump, is locked in a tight three-way race with a leftist candidate and a social democrat for second place in Sunday's vote. The election...
Paris Saint-Germain’s grip on the Champions League trophy remains strong. The defending champion advanced to the semifinals of European club soccer’s biggest competition by dumping out six-time winner Liverpool on Tuesday. A 2-0 win at Anfield sealed a 4-0 aggregate victory and moved PSG a step closer to becoming only the second club to retain the trophy in the modern era after all-time king of Eu...
A Frenchman won a Picasso painting worth 1 million euros ($1.18 million) in a non-profit raffle on Tuesday. The winner, Ari Hodara, a 59-year-old software engineer from Paris, was selected at random at Christie's auction house in Paris from 120,000 tickets sold at 100 euros apiece. The raffle's proceeds will fund Alzheimer's disease research.
Israel and Lebanon agreed to direct negotiations following talks in Washington on Tuesday that US Secretary of State Marco Rubio had hailed as a "historic opportunity" for peace. Lebanon's ambassador to the United States Nada Hamadeh Moawad called for a ceasefire. FRANCE 24's Cyril Payen reports from Beirut, Lebanon.
France and Britain will co-host a video-conference Friday of countries ready to contribute to a "purely defensive mission" to secure the Strait of Hormuz, the French president's office said Tuesday. President Emmanuel Macron and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer are to co-chair the meeting to discuss a plan to "restore freedom of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz when security conditions allow ...
A new trial over the death of football legend Diego Maradona began Tuesday in Argentina, 10 months after a scandal involving a judge caused the first trial to collapse. Maradona, considered one of the world's greatest players, died in November 2020 at the age of 60 while recovering from surgery for a brain clot. His seven-strong medical team is accused of gross negligence causing his death over th...
Israel's military on Wednesday issued a fresh evacuation order for residents of south Lebanon as it pressed on with an offensive against Hezbollah militants. It is the first evacuation order by the military since direct talks were held on Tuesday in Washington between Lebanon and Israel's ambassadors to the United States. FRANCE 24's Noga Tarnopolsky reports from Jerusalem.
This Wednesday marks three years since the start of the civil war in Sudan, a conflict that has forced 14 million people to flee their homes. Some 4 million of them have left their country altogether. While many have fled to neighbouring countries, some have chosen Kenya. The capital Nairobi has become a hub for welcoming not only Sudanese refugees, but also political and even armed groups linked ...
The climate-denialist Trump administration is pushing the World Bank and International Monetary Fund to stop focusing on clean energy development projects. We take a closer look. But first: Russia vows to make up for any shortfall in Chinese oil supplies due to the US-Israeli war on Iran, and crude prices fall on hopes of renewed peace talks.
Stuart Norval is pleased to welcome Alon-Lee Green, National Director for Standing Together. He's advocating for a fundamentally different paradigm, one rooted in diplomacy, equality, and the end of occupation. According to Green, the ongoing military campaigns are not only strategically ineffective but morally corrosive and politically instrumentalised. And he argues the new controversial legisla...
Sudan’s government on Wednesday slammed a donor conference hosted by Germany as “surprising and unacceptable”, saying the event meddles in the country’s internal affairs and was organised without consulting Khartoum. The conference is being held as the brutal war between the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) enters its fourth year.
Antoine Griezmann hopes to bid his beloved Atletico Madrid farewell in spectacular fashion after helping his team reach the first Champions League semi-finals in almost a decade. The record-breaking scorer is leaving the Spanish club at the end of this season to join Orlando City.
Eve Irvine is pleased to welcome Simon Mabon, Professor of International Politics and Director of the Richardson Institute for Peace Studies at Lancaster University. He sees the current conflict between Lebanon and Israel as one defined more by layered, overlapping sovereignties. The talks between Israeli and Lebanese officials are, on the surface, historically significant. Yet they risk being mis...
Eve Irvine is pleased to welcome Simon Mabon, Professor of International Politics and Director of the Richardson Institute for Peace Studies at Lancaster University, specialising in Middle East studies. He is also Director of SEPAD (the Sectarianism, Proxies and De-Sectarianization Project). He sees the current conflict between Lebanon and Israel as one defined more by layered, overlapping soverei...
Paris Saint-Germain beat Liverpool (2-0) thanks to a brace from Ousmane Dembélé and have reached the semi-finals for the third year running.
US rapper Kanye West said on Tuesday he had postponed his show in Marseille, France’s second-largest city, until further notice. The 48-year-old, now known as Ye, said on X he made the decision after “much thought and consideration.” He had been due to perform on June 11.
Gaza’s civil defence agency said on Tuesday that 10 people, including a toddler, were killed in separate Israeli strikes in the north of the enclave. Violence has persisted despite an October 10 ceasefire. A strike on a police vehicle in Gaza City killed four people, including a child, and wounded others.
Israeli fire killed at least six Palestinians, including two children, in separate incidents across Gaza on Tuesday, local health officials said, in violence undermining a U.S.-brokered ceasefire. Four people, including a three-year-old boy, were killed in a strike targeting a police vehicle in Gaza City, authorities said.
Israel’s army on Wednesday struck two vehicles south of Beirut, while the Hezbollah militant group responded by sending a barrage of rockets towards Israel. The attacks come just hours after Lebanon and Israel met in Washington, where they agreed to hold direct talks. Follow our liveblog for the latest developments.
President Donald Trump said Tuesday that US-Iran peace talks could resume this week, while Israel and Lebanon agreed to launch direct negotiations, signaling movement on two key fronts in efforts to ease the Middle East conflict. The parallel diplomatic openings came even as violence persisted, underscoring both the fragility of the process and Washington's push to stabilise a region shaken by the...
Anti-gang operations in Haiti have slowed the expansion of powerful armed groups in Port-au-Prince, a UN expert report said Tuesday, though progress remains uneven. Authorities, backed by drone strikes and self-defence groups, have curbed advances, but gangs continue adapting amid a prolonged security crisis in the country.
Paris Saint-Germain beat Liverpool 2-0 at Anfield on Tuesday to reach the Champions League semi-finals with a 4-0 aggregate victory. Ousmane Dembele scored twice, netting in the 72nd minute and stoppage time. PSG, reigning European champions, will face Bayern Munich or Real Madrid next.
Today on Eye on Africa, we look at Sudan where the country nears three years of civil war. The conflict has already claimed tens of thousands of lives and displaced around 12 million people. Meanwhile, Pope Leo XIV continues his Africa tour. After spending his second day in Algeria where he celebrated mass at St. Augustine Basilica, he will then head to Cameroon.
French lawmakers on Monday passed a bill to simplify the return of artworks looted during the colonial era to their countries of origin. Speaking with FRANCE 24's Sharon Gaffney, historian Marie Cécile Zinsou, resident of the Zinsou Fondation, a contemporary art museum, explains that the restitution of artefacts looted from former colonies is "a moral obligation" and fundamental to the restoring o...
French lawmakers on Monday passed a bill to simplify the return of artworks looted during the colonial era to their countries of origin. Speaking with FRANCE 24's Sharon Gaffney, historian Marie Cécile Zinsou, President of the Zinsou Fondation, a contemporary art museum, explains that the restitution of artifacts looted in former colonies is "a moral obligation" and fundamental to the restoring of...
Amid uncertainty over the war in Iran, the International Monetary Fund has downgraded its outlook for the global economy under three different scenarios depending on how long the conflict will last. Meanwhile, the United Nations Development Programme is warning that even if hostilities were to end today, the war could push more than 32 million people around the world into poverty by a "triple shoc...
Amid uncertainty around the war in Iran, the International Monetary Fund downgraded its outlook for the global economy under three different scenarios depending on how long the conflict would last. Meanwhile, the United Nations Development Programme is warning that even if hostilities were to end today, the war could push more than 32 million people around the world into poverty by a 'triple shoc...
As the ‘meme war’ between the US and Iran continues via AI ‘slopaganda,’ an Iran-linked group named Explosive Media has been pumping out viral LEGO-style videos ridiculing the US war effort in Iran, and trolling President Donald Trump. Many of these videos depict Trump as childish and fickle, accuse him of having started the war to distract from his ties to Jeff Epstein, and have gained an audienc...
