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Paris Saint-Germain crush Chelsea to reach Champions League quarter-finals

The French team swept into the quarter-finals of the UEFA Champions League on Tuesday with a 3-0 win at Chelsea FC, sealing an emphatic 8-2 aggregate victory in their last-16 tie.

'Shocking' ruling strips Senegal of AFCON title, declares Morocco winner

Morocco was stunningly awarded the Africa Cup of Nations title on Tuesday by appeals judges who overturned Senegal’s victory in a chaotic final in January. The Confederation of African Football said its appeals board ruled that Senegal is “declared to have forfeited the final” and its 1-0 win in extra time becomes a 3-0 default win for host nation Morocco. FRANCE 24's James Vasina and sports journ...

Senegal to appeal being stripped of AFCON title, handing 2025 championship to Morocco

The Senegalese national football team said they will appeal after they were stripped of their Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) victory on Tuesday, with Morocco declared the new 2025 champions over a protest walk-off during the final in January. African football authorities said Senegal was "declared to have forfeited the match" by leaving the pitch.

Senegal to appeal being stripped of AFCON 2025 title, handing championship to Morocco

The Senegalese football team said they would appeal after the Confederation of African Football controversially stripped them of their Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) 2025 title on Tuesday over a protest walk-off during the final in January and instead declared Morocco the champions.

Senegal will appeal decision that gives AFCON title to Morocco

The Senegalese football team says Tuesday they will appeal after Confederation of African Football controversially stripped them of their Africa Cup of Nations title over a walk-off during the final in January and instead declared Morocco continental champions.

Senegal stripped of Africa Cup of Nations title, Morocco declared champion by CAF appeal board

Senegal was on Tuesday stripped of its Africa Cup of Nations title and Morocco declared champion, after the CAF appeal board ruled that the Senegalese team had forfeited the final when its players walked off the pitch before the match was over. In its ruling, the appeal board judges handed Morocco a 3-0 win.

Morocco declared winner of 2025 Africa Cup of Nations, CAF Appeal Board rules

Iran using cluster munitions in retaliatory strikes on Israel

Iran is continuing its retaliatory strikes against Israel, with some damage to homes in central Israel this Tuesday. Israel says Tehran is using cluster munitions, which explode mid-air and indiscriminately scatter bomblets across a wide area. FRANCE 24's Carys Garland reports.

At least 23 killed in Nigeria suicide attacks

Fresh violence is sweeping across Nigeria. Fifteen people have been killed in Katsina state, while deadly explosions rock the northeastern city of Maiduguri, leaving at least 23 dead. Also, in the DR Congo, talk of a third term for President Félix Tshisekedi is growing louder. As allies openly back the idea, tensions are rising with an opposition that says the constitution must be respected. And i...

23 killed in Nigeria suicide attack

First, fresh violence is sweeping across Nigeria. Fifteen people killed in Katsina State while deadly explosions rock the northeastern city of Maiduguri, leaving at least 23 dead. Also, in the DR Congo, talk of a third term for President Félix Tshisekedi is growing louder. As allies openly back the idea, tensions are rising with an opposition that says the constitution must be respected. And in So...

Top Iranian officials killed in Israeli airstrike in wartime blow to country's leadership

Iran has confirmed the deaths of two senior security officials, considered among the most powerful figures in the country, in overnight strikes: Ali Larijani, secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, and General Gholamreza Soleimani, head of the Revolutionary Guard’s Basij force. It's a major blow to Iran’s complicated security apparatus. FRANCE 24's Emerald Maxwell takes a look at h...

Iran confirms security chief Ali Larijani killed, state media says

Congo-Brazzaville’s Sassou Nguesso reaps landslide re-election win, provisional results suggest

Congo-Brazzaville’s incumbent President Denis Sassou Nguesso has been re-elected for a fifth term in a landslide win, provisional results showed Tuesday. Sassou Nguesso, 82, is one of Africa’s longest-serving leaders, and has been at the helm for a total of 42 years. The main opposition boycotted the vote, describing it as a farce.

Trump team applying pressure to media: Tell the war's story the way we see it

Speaking with FRANCE 24's Monte Francis, Robert Corn-Revere, Chief Counsel for the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, explains that the FCC pressure on news organisations "is simply a threat being wielded by a powerful regulator to try to condition the behaviour of broadcast stations" because television licences are not supposed to be up for renewal until after the current administra...

War in Iran exposes cracks in Trump's MAGA coalition

Joe Kent, the director of the National Counterterrorism Center, announced his resignation on Tuesday, citing his concerns about the justification for military strikes in Iran and saying he “cannot in good conscience” back the Trump administration’s war. Kent, a former Green Beret and political candidate with connections to right-wing extremists, was in charge of an agency tasked with analyzing and...

War on Iran: As top leaders and commanders are killed, 'regime will harden and close ranks'

As Israel announces it has killed Iran's security chief, Ali Larijani, Annette Young is joined by Negah Angha, Visiting Fellow at King's College London. In assessing the reported killing of senior Iranian leadership figures, Ms. Angha argues that such developments represent a serious shock to the Iranian political system but not an existential threat to the regime itself. The Islamic Republic was ...

Larijani was 'key to Iran's reach in the Gulf region'

Reporting from Doha for FRANCE 24, Hoda Abdel-Hamid explains that Iranian security chief Ali Larijani "was key to Iran's reach to the Gulf region" adding that "the GCC and Iran were two parties deeply suspicious of each other, it took decades for them to get close to each other and Larijani played a big role in that". Ali Larijani was reported to have died in an Israeli airstrike on Tuesday.

Trump says NATO's refusal to help on Iran is "very foolish mistake"

US President Donald Trump lashed out Tuesday at "foolish" NATO over Iran, saying the United States needs no help after allies rebuffed his calls to join efforts to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. FRANCE 24's international affairs editor Kethevane Gorjestani explains.

Indian tankers carrying LPG arrive at port after safe passage through Strait of Hormuz

Two Indian-flagged tankers together carrying over 92,000 metric tonnes of liquefied petroleum gas have arrived at ports in Gujarat state after safely passing through the Strait of Hormuz.  New Delhi has been negotiating with Iran, but the government denies discussing the possible release of Iranian tankers it seized in February as part of the bargain. Meanwhile, global crude prices jumped again am...

France’s ex-president Sarkozy maintains innocence in Libya funding appeal trial

France’s former president Nicolas Sarkozy on Tuesday maintained his innocence as he returned to court to appeal his conviction for seeking financing from Libya’s late dictator Muammar Gaddafi to fund his 2007 presidential campaign. If Sarkozy loses his appeal, he faces up to 10 years in prison.

Fearing Israeli strikes, a Druze village screens for Hezbollah militants among Lebanon’s displaced

In the predominantly Druze city of Aley, located on Mount Lebanon, authorities scrupulously check the identity documents of the many displaced who seek refuge there. They hope the measures will reassure a population fearful of inciting Israeli strikes because of the potential presence of Hezbollah militants among the arrivals fleeing southern Lebanon.

Cuba restores electricity network, vows 'unbreakable resistance' to US pressure

Cuba widely restored its electricity network on Tuesday after more than 24 hours of blackouts across the Caribbean island, which is under increasing pressure from the US to change its communist government. Cuba's leader Miguel Diaz-Canel on Tuesday said the US would face "unbreakable resistance" if Washington tried to impose reforms.

Cuba vows 'unbreakable resistance' as US pressure mounts

Cuba's leader on Tuesday said the US would face "unbreakable resistance" if it tries to take over the impoverished island nation, as communist authorities scrambled to fix a nationwide electricity blackout.

REPLAY: Trump accuses NATO of 'foolish mistake' over Strait of Hormuz

President Donald Trump on Tuesday said the United States ​had been informed by most of its NATO allies that they did not want to get involved with the country's military ​operation ‌in Iran, a move he described ⁠as a "very foolish mistake". Trump's remarks came as he hosted Irish Prime Minister Micheál Martin in the Oval Office to mark St Patrick's Day.

Cubans abroad will be able to invest, own businesses on island

Cubans living abroad will now be allowed to invest and own businesses on the island, a senior government official said Monday, unveiling a key reform as the economy struggles under intense US pressure.