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Legendary British rock band Deep Purple have returned to Japan, a country they first toured more than half a century ago. Despite releasing an album titled “The Last Concert in Japan” in 1977, the band are currently on their “Mad in Japan” tour. Among those thrilled to see them was none other than Japan’s Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, an avid drummer herself. A drummer during her student days, Ta...
NASA celebrated late Friday as four astronauts splashed down safely off the California coast, completing the first crewed lunar flyby in more than 50 years and marking a major milestone for the US space agency’s ambitions to return humans to the moon. France 24 correspondent Wassim Cornet was in Diego, reporting the moment of the landing at the AirSpace Museum.
Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and US Vice President JD Vance met in Islamabad on Saturday as peace talks to end the broadening war in the Middle East got under way. The US delegation is set to meet Iranian officials later in the day. The latest updates with our France 24 correspondent Shazaib Wallah in Islamabad, Pakistan.
Hungary's legislative elections on Sunday are being closely watched in Moscow. Prime Minister Viktor Orban has long been Russian President Vladimir Putin's closest ally within the European Union, and a victory for the opposition Tisza party led by Peter Magyar could undermine the Kremlin's influence in the bloc.
Voters in Hungary go to the polls tomorrow, with a high-profile American endorsement looming over the campaign. Donald Trump has made no secret of his support for Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, posting on social media urging Hungarians to vote for him, while Vice President JD Vance spent two days in Budapest this week effectively campaigning on his behalf. It is part of a broader pattern: Trump has...
A pause in fighting in the Ukraine war was set for Sunday, but it does not appear to be taking hold. Russian drone strikes killed at least two people in the Ukrainian port city of Odesa overnight, just hours before a proposed Easter ceasefire was due to come into effect. Russian President Vladimir Putin has declared a 32-hour halt to hostilities through the end of Sunday. Kyiv says it is ready to...
Israel and Lebanon are due to hold talks in Washington on Tuesday, though a ceasefire remains a distant prospect. Israel says it will not discuss any halt to the fighting with Hezbollah, which it considers the main obstacle to peace. The meeting will mark the first formal contact between the two countries, which have no diplomatic relations. Meanwhile, Lebanese authorities say Israeli strikes hav...
A US government plane carrying top US officials landed in the Pakistani capital Islamabad on Saturday for peace talks with Iran. Washington and Tehran are set to begin negotiations to permanently end the six-week-old Iran war that has killed thousands of people across the Middle East. Daniel Quinlan reports.
NASA celebrated a triumphant return from the Moon late Friday as four astronauts splashed down safely off the California coast, completing the first crewed lunar flyby in more than 50 years and marking a major milestone for the US space agency’s ambitions to return humans to deep space. Caitlin Brown reports.
The NASA spacecraft carrying four astronauts splashed down as planned Friday off the California coast, capping the US space agency's successful crewed test mission around the Moon — the first such flyby in more than 50 years. Olivier Sanguy, Editor-in-Chief of Space News at the Cité de l'Espace in Toulouse, explains more about the spacecraft’s splashdown and what’s next for future missions.
A US government plane carrying top US officials landed in the Pakistani capital Islamabad on Saturday for peace talks with Iran. Washington and Tehran are set to begin negotiations to permanently end the six-week-old Iran war that has killed thousands of people across the Middle East. "These talks are supposed to begin in the coming hours", said Shazaib Wallah, France 24 correspondent...
In a week that started with US President Donald Trump threatening to wipe out a whole civilisation in Iran if the regime failed to respond to his ultimatum, pesidential decorum went out of the window, with Trump unfiltered, f-ing and jeffing on Easter Sunday as he warned Iran to open the Strait of Hormuz, followed up by surreal scenes on the White House lawn as he hammered home the message, sandwi...
Iranian media reported Saturday that negotiations to end the six-week war between Iran and the United States had begun in Islamabad, Pakistan, which is mediating the peace efforts. US Vice President JD Vance met Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif earlier in the day ahead of the three-way talks. Read our liveblog to follow the latest developments.
Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and US Vice President JD Vance met in Islamabad on Saturday as peace talks to end the broadening war in the Middle East got under way. The US delegation is set to meet Iranian officials later in the day. Read our liveblog to follow the latest developments.
Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and US Vice President JD Vance met in Islamabad on Saturday as peace talks to end the broadening war in the Middle East got under way. The US delegation is set to meet Iranian officials later in the day. Read our liveblog to follow the latest developments.
Top US officials landed in Islamabad on Saturday to meet with representatives from Iran for peace talks aimed at ending the six-week-old war that has killed thousands of people across the Middle East. Read our liveblog to follow the latest developments.
Top US officials landed in Islamabad on Saturday for peace talks with Iran. Washington and Tehran are set to begin negotiations to permanently end the six-week-old Iran war that has killed thousands of people across the Middle East. Read our liveblog to follow the latest developments.
A US government plane carrying top US officials landed in the Pakistani capital Islamabad on Saturday for peace talks with Iran. Washington and Tehran are set to begin negotiations to permanently end the six-week-old Iran war that has killed thousands of people across the Middle East, disrupted energy supplies, fed inflation and slowed the global economy. Read our live-blog to follow ...
An Orthodox Easter ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine began on Saturday. The Kremlin said it had ordered a 32-hour truce from 4pm (13:00 GMT) to midnight on Sunday.
A temporary Easter ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine is set to begin Saturday afternoon, offering a brief pause in the four-year war as US-led diplomatic efforts to end the conflict continue to falter. The Kremlin said it ordered a 32-hour truce from 4:00pm (1300 GMT) Saturday through the end of Sunday, while Kyiv said it was ready to reciprocate the pause amid ongoing strikes and battlefield t...
A temporary ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine for Orthodox Easter is set to begin on Saturday afternoon, as US-led diplomatic efforts to end the war falter.
Djibouti’s long-serving President Ismaïl Omar Guelleh claimed a landslide election victory on Saturday, securing a sixth consecutive term in office with nearly 98 percent of the vote and extending his decades-long grip on the strategically placed Horn of Africa nation.
Djibouti’s long-serving President Ismaïl Omar Guelleh claimed a landslide election victory on Saturday, securing a sixth consecutive term in office with nearly 98 percent of the vote and extending his decades-long grip on the strategically placed Horn of Africa nation.
NASA celebrated a triumphant return from the Moon late Friday as four astronauts splashed down safely off the California coast, completing the first crewed lunar flyby in more than 50 years and marking a major milestone for the US space agency’s ambitions to return humans to deep space.
Three Frenchmen who were taken to Syria by their jihadist parents as children and forced to work for the Islamic State (IS) group are seeking repatriation, their lawyer said on Friday. The men are among thousands of IS group "fighters" who are being held in Iraq after being transferred from Syria earlier this year.
The campaign for Hungary’s April 12 elections has been marred by disinformation. Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s party, Fidesz, has deployed a series of outrageous AI-generated videos to target his main rival Peter Magyar and his Tisza party, while a vast campaign orchestrated by fake accounts has emerged on TikTok and Facebook.
Ukrainian leadership on April 8 hailed the two-week ceasefire reached between the U.S. and Iran but stressed it is time to pressure Russia to end its war in Ukraine as well. Speaking with FRANCE 24's Mark Owen, Peter Zalmayev, Founder and Director of the Eurasia Democracy Initiative, says that the reluctance of Donald Trump to strongarm Russia into ending the war raises questions about the nature ...
In a series of unannounced and unexpected attacks, Israel struck Beirut and several other parts of Lebanon without warning on Wednesday, killing more than 300 people and wounding at least 1,000. Local residents, lawyers, doctors and aid workers contacted by phone describe the “bloody” day that plunged the country into chaos.
A day after intense Israeli strikes pounded Lebanon’s capital, survivors on Thursday recounted scenes of carnage as hospitals struggled to cope with a surge of casualties. Wednesday marked the deadliest day in Lebanon in more than five weeks of renewed war between Israel and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah.
