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As the conflict in the Middle East engulfs Lebanon, with air strikes and evacuation orders once again shaking the foundations of society, we hear from Wissam Charaf and Zeid Hamdan, two Lebanese artists grappling with this moment of crisis. Filmmaker Wissam Charaf joins us by video link from Beirut to reflect on the past seven years and how they have driven many artists to flee the country.
Iran's council of 88 clerics appointed Mojtaba Khamenei, son of late Ayatallah Ali Khamenei, as new supreme leader of the country. This as US-Israeli strikes keep pounding the country, targeting oil, civilian and military infrastructure. Now, US President Donald Trump is 'gauging' whether the new ayatollah is 'a leader he can work with', Nega Angha, Visiting Fellow at King's College London, tells ...
Iran’s choice of Mojtaba Khamenei to replace his slain father, Ali Khamenei, as supreme leader signals the entrenchment of hardline cleric power and a continued resistance amid the US-Israeli military onslaught. It also underscores US President Donald Trump’s policy failure to detail the goals of the war.
The supply of weaponry and drone interceptors could shape the future of the war with Iran, as the US and Gulf nations are trying to find cheaper ways to intercept Iranian drones, before they hit their targets. And it's actually Ukraine actually may have role to play here.
One week after hostilities resumed between Israel and Hezbollah, UNICEF has sounded the alarm over the situation for children in Lebanon. According to the health ministry, more than 80 children have been killed in the fighting. Christophe Boulierac, UNICEF Lebanon’s chief of advocacy and communication, told FRANCE 24 that Lebanese children have suffered “deep psychological and emotional scars” tha...
Istanbul's jailed mayor Ekrem Imamoglu went on trial on Monday in a widespread corruption case which critics say is a politically motivated bid to eliminate his chances of challenging President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
In Colombia's congressional elections, preliminary results show President Gustavo Petro's left wing block has come out on top in the senate with the right wing Democratic Center party, founded by former President Álvaro Uribe edging ahead in the House of Representatives. Voters had to fill 102 Senate seats and 182 House seats, as well as choosing presidential candidates from the major parties in a...
Twelve years ago, 116 people died when an Air Algeria flight from Ouagadougou to Algers crashed. Following years of investigation, an “involuntary manslaughter” trial against the Spanish airline Swiftair, who had leased the aircraft and crew to Air Algeria, opens on Monday before the Paris Criminal Court.
Finance Ministers from the G7 group of the world's leading economies are meeting on March 9 to discuss a potential release of stocks from Strategic Petroleum Reserves. The talks will be joined by the executive director of the International Energy Agency. The organisation was formed in the wake of the 1973 oil crisis to coordinate to use of member states' reserves, the better to offset supply shock...
"When Cyprus is attacked it is Europe that is attacked" said French President Emmanuel Macron as he spoke during a visit to Cyprus after it was targeted by Iranian-made drones. He also mentioned that France and its partners are preparing a 'purely defensive' mission to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. FRANCE 24's Kethevane Gorjestani tells us more about Europe's reaction to the conflict in the Middle ...
Rewatch as French President Emmanuel Macron addresses the threat posed by Iran to Cyprus, an EU member.
Venezuela continues to burn natural gas produced as a byproduct of oil extraction in a process called gas flaring, which wastes a valuable resource and also has negative consequences for the environment and poses health risks. We spoke to people in Venezuela with knowledge of gas flaring and its effects in the northeast of the country, where the practice is particularly prominent.
French President Emmanuel Macron travelled to Cyprus on March 9, days after dispatching a warship to the east Mediterranean island nation, where a Shahed drone struck a British air base on its southern coast last week during the Iran war. The goal is to show the 'French military might' to defend partners in the region, among other messages, says FRANCE 24's Kethevane Gorjestani.
Lebanese officials say nearly 400 people have been killed and more than half a million displaced amid fresh Israeli strikes on Beirut and in the south of the country. In the meantime, Hezbollah says it is fighting Israeli forces that have landed in eastern Lebanon by helicopter, while the Israeli army says two of its soldiers have been killed in southern Lebanon.
Speculation has been growing surrounding the fate of a high-ranking Iranian commander, Esmail Qaani as some unconfirmed reports allege the general has been executed by Iran for spying for Israel. The report circulating in Arab media that he was arrested and executed for Israeli espionnage have not been confirmed by Tehran.
France will send two warships as part of the European Union's naval mission Aspides in the Red Sea, French President Emmanuel Macron said on Monday. "We are in the process of setting up a purely defensive, purely escort mission, which must be prepared together with both European and non-European states," Macron said after meeting with Cypriot and Greek leaders.
French President Emmanuel Macron arrived in Cyprus on Monday amid French efforts to bolster security in the Mediterranean as the war in the Middle East continues. Paris deployed warships to the region last week after Cyprus was targeted by Iranian-made drones.
French President Emmanuel Macron arrived in Cyprus on Monday amid French efforts to bolster security in the Mediterranean as the war in the Middle East continues. Paris deployed warships to the region last week after Cyprus was targeted by Iranian-made drones.
French President Emmanuel Macron arrived in Cyprus on Monday amid French efforts to bolster security in the Mediterranean as the war in the Middle East continues. Paris deployed warships to the region last week after Cyprus was targeted by Iranian-made drones.
Iran's ruling clerics on Sunday appointed the slain leader's son, Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, as the country's new supreme leader, defying threats from the United States and Israel to oppose him. This comes nine days after US-Israeli strikes killed the elder Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and plunged the Middle East into war.
Militant group Hezbollah said on March 9 its fighters clashed with Israeli troops in eastern Lebanon during an Israeli airborne raid overnight, in what would be the second such operation in the area in recent days. Meanwhile half a million Lebanese have been displaced and 400 were killed as a result of Israeli strikes. FRANCE 24's Catherine Norris Trent has more from Beirut.
China said that Iran's decision to name Mojtaba Khamenei as its new supreme leader following the killing of his father was a domestic matter, and it opposed any attempt to target him. The conflict has threatened global energy security and trade, as well as China's oil supplies. An instability that the economic giant does not see fit to its interests, as FRANCE 24's Yena Lee reports from Beijing.
Iran named Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, a son of the country's late supreme leader, the Islamic Republic’s new ruler on Monday. Rouzbeh Parsi from Sweden’s Lund University said the choice of "going full dynasty" was not surprising, even for a regime that overthrew the Pahlavi monarchy in 1979 since "revolutions tend to replace what they destroyed with something very similar".
As Israeli strikes intensified in Lebanon on the second week of the conflict, hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced in areas targeted by the attacks. Rents have exploded, with many not being able to afford going to safer areas. FRANCE 24's Renée Davis spoke to people on the ground.
With Iran’s theocracy under assault by the United States and Israel for more than a week, the country’s Assembly of Experts chose the secretive, 56-year-old cleric with close ties to the country’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard as the new supreme leader. FRANCE 24's Noga Tarnopolsky tells us more about reactions to the nomination
Iran has launched a new wave of missile and drone attacks on Gulf neighbours hosting US forces after Iranian president Masoud Pezeshkian's initial apology to neighbouring countries on March 7 was pushed back by Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps. The UAE, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, Oman, Saudi Arabia and Iraq have all reported drone or missile attacks over the past week.
Iranian state TV announced that Mojtaba Khamenei, son of the country’s late supreme leader, has been named his successor. He had long been considered a contender, even before an Israeli strike killed his father at the start of the war. U.S. President Donald Trump told ABC News he wants a say in who comes to power once the war is over and he said a new leader “is not going to last long” without his...
PRESS REVIEW – Monday, March 9: The new Supreme Leader embodies both continuity with his father’s hard-line rule and a departure from what was intended to be a non-hereditary system of governance. In other news, Greenpeace has warned of “rogue companies trying to sidestep international law” in the deep seas, while the BBC has published photos from a recent expedition to the Caribbean’s deep waters...
Air raid sirens ring out across Israel, alerting residents of Iranian missile launches, a sound that now dictates the daily lives of Israelis. The population has grown accustomed to taking shelter as soon as they hear it. But it doesn't stop some in Jerusalem from enjoying outdoor activities and when it comes to the war, opinions are divided.
Crude oil prices have hit their highest levels since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. International benchmark brent crude jumped some 20% to more than $120 per barrel on March 9. The spike in energy prices will be felt across the global economy - notably in Asia, which imports most of its oil from the Middle East. But - despite being the world's top oil producer and a net exporter...
