Several of Donald Trump’s cabinet picks, including Elise Stefanik and Lee Zeldin, faced bomb threats and “swatting” this week, the transition team said Wednesday. Threats…
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Israel and Lebanon-based Hezbollah militants have begun a ceasefire in a major step toward ending nearly 14 months of fighting. As a region on edge…
It’s hard to believe she’s only been out of power for three years. While no one expects Angela Merkel’s supporters to rally behind calls to “make…
Displaced people living in Sudan’s North Darfur state cheer at the arrival of the first convoy of food and supplies in months, but the glimmer…
Rumours about the US returning nuclear weapons to Ukraine have been circulating since November 21, when The New York Times published an article citing several…
A US-France-brokered ceasefire agreement to the 14-month conflict between Israel and Lebanese militant group Hezbollah came into power on Wednesday morning, but Israel’s vow to…
Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City remains winless in six consecutive games after blowing a three-goal lead to Feyenoord on Tuesday, while Arsenal, Atlético Madrid, and Atlanta…
Citing “concern” for his country’s farmers and food security, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said his government “will not accept” the prospective free trade deal…
Ambassadors from Ukraine and NATO’s 32 members meet Tuesday in Brussels over Russia’s firing last week of an experimental hypersonic intermediate-range missile.
Russia on Thursday carried out a strike on the Ukrainian city of Dnipro which President Vladimir Putin said was a test of its new Oreshnik missile.
Putin said the missile attack was in response to Ukraine firing weapons supplied by the United States and Britain into Russia.
Trump said that on the first day of his presidency, he will charge Mexico and Canada a 25% tariff on all products coming into the U.S. He added in a separate social-media post that he would impose an additional 10% tariff on all products that come into the U.S. from China.
Thousands marched to Islamabad Tuesday, demanding ex-PM Imran Khan’s release, defying tear gas and roadblocks. Clashes left one officer dead and nine critically injured. Khan, barred from February elections amid rigging allegations, faces multiple legal cases he claims are politically motivated to block his return to power. The government said one police officer had been killed and nine were critically wounded in two days of clashes with demonstrators as they closed in on Islamabad.
FRANCE 24 correspondent Rawad Taha reports on the EU’s top diplomat Josep Borrell’s visit to the Lebanese capital of Beirut on Sunday, as world leaders…
In the first round of Romania’s presidential election on Sunday, far-right leader George Simion is campaigning to replace President Klaus Iohannis, a liberal and staunch…
More than one year after October 7, Zaka volunteers, who collect the remains of the dead, including terror victims, are trying to find resilience in…
Italian Jannik Sinner completed a remarkable season on Sunday by sealing his country a second successive Davis Cup title with a 2-0 victory over Netherlands…
The UAE’s interior ministry said Sunday that it had arrested three people in connection with the murder of an Israeli-Moldovan rabbi who was living and working in the Gulf state. Israel condemned the killing as a ‘terrorist attack’.
The body of an Israeli-Moldovan rabbi who went missing in the United Arab Emirates has been found after he was killed in what Israel described…
With violence surging across Haiti, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said on Sunday that almost half of the gangs which control the vast majority of the capital are made up of children, and the recruitment of children has seen a 70% increase over the past year.
As US president-elect Donald Trump continues to nominate personalities to his cabinet, we take a look behind the scenes at how the US Secret Service…
Former history teacher Yamandu Orsi of the Frente Amplio leftist alliance defeated Alvaro Delgado of the National Party, part of the ruling Republican Coalition, in…
A final draft deal released Sunday at the UN COP29 summit proposes that developed nations commit at least $300 billion per year by 2035 to…
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s speech on Saturday was, “a declaration of war directed inside Israel”, said FRANCE 24’s correspondent in Jerusalem Noga Tarnopolsky. “The…
Ukraine was bound to lose the territory it held in Russia, said FRANCE 24’s correspondent in Ukraine Emmanuelle Chaze. “At the height of the Ukrainian…
As Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky appeals to allies for updated air-defence systems to meet the new threat from Russia, involving an experimental hypersonic missile, FRANCE…
Commenting on President Joe Biden’s decision to let Ukraine use US-provided long-range missiles to strike inside Russian territory, retired United States Army officer Ben Hodges…