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A fragile two-week truce between Iran and the United States hung in the balance on Wednesday as Tehran threatened renewed hostilities and Israel launched heavy strikes on Lebanon. Both sides claimed victory, but at least 182 people were killed and nearly 900 wounded, Lebanese authorities said.
Confederation of African Football (CAF) president Patrice Motsepe said on Wednesday he would welcome a corruption investigation, adding the body had nothing to hide after meeting Senegalese officials in Dakar. Senegal last month called for a probe after CAF stripped it of the 2025 AFCON title and awarded it to Morocco.
US President Donald Trump held talks with NATO chief Mark Rutte on Wednesday, the White House said, as he weighed leaving the alliance after it did not join the US in its war against Iran. The Wall Street Journal reported that Trump was also considering withdrawing US troops from some NATO countries.
US President Donald Trump held talks with NATO chief Mark Rutte on Wednesday, the White House said, as he weighed possibly leaving the alliance after it did not join the Iran war. The Wall Street Journal reported Trump was also considering withdrawing US troops from some NATO countries.
US President Donald Trump held talks with NATO chief Mark Rutte on Wednesday, the White House said, as he weighed possibly leaving the alliance after it did not join the Iran war. The Wall Street Journal reported Trump was also considering withdrawing US troops from some NATO countries.
Lebanon’s health ministry says Israeli strikes on Wednesday killed 182 people – the deadliest single day since the start of the Israel–Hezbollah war. Israel launched a wave of strikes on central Beirut and other parts of the country, even as a fragile ceasefire between the United States and Iran came into effect. Iranian officials say the deal was meant to include Lebanon, but both Israel and Wash...
Lebanon’s health ministry said that Israeli strikes on Wednesday killed 182 people, the highest single-day death toll in the Israel-Hezbollah war. Israel launched a barrage of strikes in central Beirut and elsewhere in the country as a shaky ceasefire took effect between the U.S. and Iran. Iranian officials have maintained that the deal was supposed to include Lebanon, while Israel and the U.S. ha...
Nadia Massih is pleased to welcome Ali Vaez, Director of Iran Project & Senior Advisor at the International Crisis Group. While the US sees the outcome as a decisive military victory, Vaez argues that the more consequential story lies in the reconfiguration of power within Iran. From Tehran’s perspective, survival in the face of overwhelming force constitutes a form of victory. At the same time, t...
Oil prices have plunged and stock markets soared after the announcement of a two-week ceasefire between the US and Israel and Iran. But regardless of whether the deal holds, the energy crisis unleashed by the war is far from over. Damage to infrastructure in the region means it could take years for oil and gas production to get back to pre-war levels. Meanwhile, global aviation group IATA says sup...
In tonight’s edition, Djibouti heads to the polls this weekend in a presidential election widely expected to extend President Ismaïl Omar Guelleh’s rule. Meanwhile, Pope Leo is set to become the first head of the Catholic Church to visit Algeria. And the Bijagos Archipelago in Guinea-Bissau has been added to UNESCO’s World Heritage List.
In tonight's edition, Djibouti heads to the polls this weekend in a presidential election widely expected to extend the rule of President Ismaïl Omar Guelleh. Also, Pope Leo is set to become the first head of the Catholic Church to visit Algeria. And the Bijagos Archipelago in Guinea Bissau is now part of UNESCO’s World Heritage List.
François Picard is pleased to welcome Mumtaz Zahra Baloch, Ambassador of Pakistan to France and Permanent Delegate to UNESCO. According to Ambassador Zahra Baloch, this is less about victory in the conventional sense and more about the survival and recalibration of power. What we are witnessing is not the end of a war, but the emergence of competing narratives that each side must sustain for polit...
No apocalypse. Instead, an eleventh-hour ceasefire between Iran and the United States – one that is still being tested – with both sides claiming victory after five and a half weeks of war that may reshape how the world views them.
No apocalypse. Instead, an eleventh-hour ceasefire between Iran and the United States – one that is still being tested – with both sides claiming victory after five and a half weeks of war that may reshape how the world views them.
No apocalypse. Instead an eleventh hour ceasefire between Iran and the United States, one that is still being tested, two sides that are both claiming victory, and five and-a-half weeks of a war that may change the way the rest of the world looks at both Iran and the United States.
France plans to add a further 36 billion euros to its defence spending between now and 2030 under an updated military planning law that expands its nuclear arsenal and boosts missile and drone stocks. The increase reflects mounting security pressures from wars in Ukraine and the Middle East and growing uncertainty over U.S. commitments to NATO under President Donald Trump. FRANCE 24's Luke Shr...
A British-American dealer dubbed the "Ketamine Queen" who sold the drugs that killed "Friends" star Matthew Perry, and boasted she supplied an elite circle of Hollywood VIPs, was jailed for 15 years on Wednesday.
A British-American dealer dubbed the "Ketamine Queen" who sold the drugs that killed "Friends" star Matthew Perry, and boasted she supplied an elite circle of Hollywood VIPs, was jailed for 15 years on Wednesday.
Speaking with FRANCE 24's Jennie Shin, Barbara Slavin, Distinguished Fellow at the Stimson Center, says that "the Trump administration is desperately seeking a way to end the war and declare victory. The US can stop its attacks for a while but its claims of victory are really quite hollow".
France Cricket, the former governing body for the sport in France, is fielding a senior men’s team at an international ranked tournament in Portugal despite having lost its official status on January 1. France's sports ministry warned that doing so would be against the law, and legal experts said those responsible risk civil and criminal liability.
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Wednesday that Israel remains prepared to confront Iran if necessary, despite a truce reached between the United States and Iran. Lebanon's civil defence service said 254 people had been killed in Israel's strikes across Lebanon on Wednesday. FRANCE 24's Noga Tarnopolsky reports from Jerusalem.
Donald Trump may have announced a last-minute ceasefire agreement with Iran, but it’s done little to quieten the growing wave of Democratic lawmakers calling for his removal by invoking the 25th Amendment.
Reporting from Doha for FRANCE 24, Hoda Abdel-Hamid explains that Iran's demands regarding the control over the Strait of Hormuz and the departure of US combat troops from the region are unlikely to be acceptable to Gulf countries.
Air defense systems were activated in Tehran and in some areas of Alborz province in Iran less than 24 hours after the announcement of a ceasefire with the United States and Israel. FRANCE 24's correspondent in Tehran Reza Sayah says that "we are seeing the first signs of the fragility and the complexity and the confusion surrounding this ceasefire".
Nadia Massih is pleased to welcome Rania Abouzeid, Lebanese Australian independent journalist and veteran war reporter. Ms. Abouzeid describes "chaotic scenes" in the Lebanese capital. Israel's attacks on Beirut have been extensive and they are now targeting areas well beyond the southern suburbs: "crowded, mixed sectarian residential areas that are full of the displaced". Women and parentless chi...
Israel carried out its heaviest strikes on Lebanon since the conflict with Hezbollah broke out last month, even as the Iran-aligned group paused attacks on northern Israel and Israeli troops in Lebanon under a two-week US-Iran ceasefire.
Greece will ban access to social media for children under the age of 15 from January 1, 2027, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Wednesday, citing rising anxiety, sleep problems and the addictive design of online platforms.
Two French nationals who returned home Wednesday after being held for almost four years in Iran said they had never given up hope and would speak out about the "daily horror" of their Iranian prison. Cecile Kohler, 41, and Jacques Paris, 72, landed in Paris earlier Wednesday, with President Emmanuel Macron hailing "the end of a terrible ordeal" before he greeted them at the Elysee Palace.
US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Wednesday that the United States has had a decisive military victory over Iran and that Tehran's missile program has been functionally destroyed a day after the two countries agreed a two-week ceasefire to hold talks on ending the war. But much about the agreement remains unclear with the sides presenting vastly different visions of the terms.
Lebanon's government said Wednesday Israeli strikes killed dozens and wounded hundreds across the country, with the capital Beirut hit by the most violent bombardment since the start of the war with militant group Hezbollah. It came despite a deal for a two-week ceasefire between the United States and Hezbollah's backer Iran.
