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At least 200 people are feared dead after Nigerian military jets struck a village market while pursuing Islamist militants in the northeast of the country on Saturday night, a councillor for the area and residents said on Sunday.
Pope Leo XIV embarked Monday on the first-ever papal trip to Algeria, aiming to promote Christian-Muslim coexistence at a time of global conflict and honor the locally born inspiration of his religious spirituality, St. Augustine.
As Israel and Lebanon sit down for US-Mediated talks in Washington on Tuesday, expectations are running low. The Israeli side has already dismissed the idea of a potential truce, saying the priority is to get Iran-backed Hezbollah disarmed. France 24's Delano D'Souza takes a look at what each side is hoping to get from the negotiations.
A new exhibition opens this Tuesday at Paris's City of Sciences and Industry. It's called Frontier and it focuses on borders. Concrete walls, military checkpoints, surveillance algorithms: borders have a thousand faces, and none of them are truly alike. In this edition of Entre Nous we speak to the curator of the show, Delphine Heyndrickx. She tells us how her team came up with the idea and what t...
Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's government has suspended Italy's defence cooperation agreement with Israel amid rising tensions between the two countries after Rome accused Israeli forces of firing warning shots at a convoy of Italian UN peacekeepers in Lebanon.
Lebanon and Israel are set to hold the first direct diplomatic talks in decades on Tuesday in Washington following more than a month of war between Israel and the Hezbollah militant. But while the talks may be historic, the Israeli government has been mostly “ambivalent” towards their outcome, says France 24’s correspondent Noga Tarnopolsky, although there are some signs that has started to shift ...
There is a sense of "very cautious optimism" in Lebanon, reports France 24's Cyril Payen in Beirut, as the country gets ready to hold its first direct diplomatic talks with Israel in decades on Tuesday in Washington, following more than a month of war between Israel and the Hezbollah militant group that has rocked the tiny Mediterranean country.
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez's wife, Begona Gomez, has been formally charged after a years-long corruption investigation, according to a court ruling published Monday. Gomez was charged with embezzlement, influence peddling, corruption in business dealings and misappropriation of funds, the ruling added.
Pope Leo XIV pushed back Monday on President Donald Trump’s broadside against him over the US-Israel war in Iran, telling reporters that the Vatican’s appeals for peace and reconciliation are rooted in the Gospel, and that he doesn’t fear the Trump administration.
The Strait of Hormuz carries a significant share of the world’s energy and agricultural inputs. Disruptions since the outbreak of hostilities between the US and Iran are constraining flows of oil, gas and fertilizer, with ripple effects reaching far beyond the Middle East. As the US begins its naval blockade of Iran’s ports, America's farmers are already feeling the repercussions, a few weeks out ...
Pope Leo XIV arrived Tuesday in the city of Annaba on the second day of his Algeria trip, following in the footsteps of his spiritual father St. Augustine, who wrote some of the most important works in early Christian thought in the ancient Roman city formerly known as Hippo.
Pope Leo XIV arrived Tuesday in the city of Annaba on the second day of his Algeria trip, following in the footsteps of his spiritual father St. Augustine, who wrote some of the most important works in early Christian thought in the ancient Roman city formerly known as Hippo.
After a month and a half spent living under the threat of drones, residents of Iraqi Kurdistan are exhausted. Just 24 hours before the ceasefire, a civilian was killed in a drone attack blamed on Iran by Kurdish authorities. In total, around 700 drone and missile attacks have targeted US positions and certain Kurdish interests. Victims' loved ones are devastated by the war between Iran and the Uni...
PRESS REVIEW – Tuesday, April 14: There's outrage after Donald Trump's vitriolic critique of Pope Leo and a now deleted Jesus-like AI image of him. The Washington Post suggests that this latest controversy will alienate Trump's staunchly religious base. Also in the press: Amazon is accused of ignoring the death of a worker for several hours in a distribution centre in Oregon. Plus: an independent ...
Colombian officials on Monday authorized a plan to cull dozens of hippos roaming freely through a region in the center of the country, where they threaten villagers and displace native species years after notorious drug lord Pablo Escobar brought in the first ones.
A new trial over the death of Argentine football legend Diego Maradona will begin on Tuesday, with seven members of his medical team charged with negligent homicide nearly a year after a previous case collapsed in a mistrial.
Peruvians waited Monday to see who will face conservative Keiko Fujimori in a presidential runoff, after a chaotic first round of voting that sparked criminal proceedings against top election officials. Sunday's vote saw a series of logistical foul-ups in delivering election materials that caused polling centers to open hours late. Police raided the headquarters of the National Office of Electoral...
US President Donald Trump posted an AI-generated image of himself as a Jesus-like figure on Sunday, drawing widespread criticism even from some religious conservatives who typically support him, before deleting the post on Monday. It came amid his escalating feud with Pope Leo, who has criticized the war that started with US-Israeli strikes on Iran as inhumane. France 24’s correspondent in Italy S...
French former hostages Cecile Kohler and Jacques Paris have given their first television interview since returning to France from Iran. They had been detained in Iran on espionage charges for almost four years. The pair spoke in detail about their ordeal, and how they managed to maintain hope while imprisoned.
Nearly 700 civilians have been reported killed in drone strikes so far this year, the United Nations aid chief Tom Fletcher said Tuesday, lamenting that "the world has failed to meet the test of Sudan" after three years of a gruesome civil war that has killed tens of thousands and displaced more than 11 million.
China's exports grew only 2.5% in March from a year earlier, a significantly slowdown caused by the war in Iran. The closure of the Strait of Hormuz has pushed up the cost of materials, and many Chinese factories saw their profits squeezed last month. Also in this edition: hundreds of Hollywood stars have come out in opposition to the acquisition of Warner Brothers Discovery by Paramount. Plus, th...
Lebanese and Israeli representatives are set to meet in Washington Tuesday for US-mediated talks on ending the war in Lebanon. However, Lebanese militant group Hezbollah has said will not abide by any agreements that may result from the negotiations and called for them to be cancelled and the prospects of a deal appear slim. France 24's Oliver Farry takes a closer look.
President Donald Trump warned on Monday that any Iranian "fast-attack" ships that go near a US maritime "blockade" on Iran would be eliminated. The US blockade on vessels entering and departing Iran went into effect at 1400 GMT on Monday.
Lebanese and Israeli representatives are set to meet in Washington Tuesday for US-mediated talks on ending the war in Lebanon, although Lebanese militant group Hezbollah has said will not abide by any agreements that may result from the negotiations and called for them to be canceled.
Eurosceptics may come and go... but there's only one Viktor Orban. It took 16 years and Sunday's record turnout in Hungary to vote out the seemingly unbeatable far-right leader who once boasted of building an illiberal state. Why did the far-right idol of Magaworld finally fall out of favor? And not just by a nose: “The Hungarian people didn’t vote for a simple change of government, but for a comp...
US President Donald Trump on Monday deleted a social media image depicting him as Jesus after an outcry from religious leaders that he was being blasphemous. The outrage added to widespread dismay among US Catholics over Trump’s unprecedented verbal assault on Pope Leo XIV, the first American to lead their church.
Following the landslide victory of Peter Magyar over Hungary's long standing autocratic ruler Viktor Orbán, Genie Godula is pleased to welcome Ian Bond, former Senior British Diplomat and Deputy Director of the Centre for European Reform. Bond sees this election within broader European political dynamics, particularly the limits of right-wing populism, the legacy of hardline governance, and the im...
Lebanese and Israeli envoys meet in Washington on Tuesday for the first face-to-face talks in decades between representatives of the two countries, mediated by US Secretary of State Marco Rubio. The Lebanese militant group Hezbollah has warned it will not abide by any agreements that may result from the talks, describing them as "futile".
Lebanese and Israeli representatives are scheduled to meet in Washington Tuesday for US-mediated talks on ending the war in Lebanon, but the prospects of an agreement appear slim.
The Parisians head to Anfield for the second leg of their Champions League quarter-final against Liverpool. After a 2–0 first-leg win, the Paris club arrive with a strong advantage and are targeting a place in the Champions League semi-finals.
