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Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba granted an interview to FRANCE 24 on the sidelines of the G7 summit in Italy, where Ukraine and the US are signing a ten-year bilateral security agreement. Kuleba called the deal a “landmark event”, noting that it’s the first of its kind between the two countries since Ukraine gained independence in 1991. Kuleba […]

Yemen’s Houthi rebels late on Wednesday attacked a commercial ship in the Red Sea with a “drone boat”, authorities said, the latest escalation despite a US-led campaign trying to protect the vital waterway. A senior Hamas leader insisted that the amendments the group has suggested for a Gaza ceasefire proposal presented by the United States

FRANCE 24 spoke to Dennis Ross, a former US Middle East chief negotiator, who is now a fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. The ex-US envoy said he believes that “Israel is pretty close to completing the dismantling of Hamas as a military”, which is “back to being a militia and engaging

French President Emmanuel Macron will on Wednesday face scrutiny in a televised press conference to explain his decision to dissolve the lower house of parliament and call for snap elections after his centre-right alliance suffered a humiliating defeat to the far right in European parliamentary elections on Sunday. During his exchange with journalists, Macron is

An Israeli strike on the village of Jouya in southern Lebanon late Tuesday killed a senior field commander of Hezbollah and three fighters for the Lebanese armed group, three security sources said. Hezbollah confirmed the death of the commander and said in a statement that he was Taleb Abdallah, also known as Abu Taleb. Abu Taleb was the most senior member of the

Scientists are warning of the growing risk of tropical illnesses spreading due to global warming. As temperatures rise, many places are becoming more hospitable to Asian tiger mosquitoes, which are known to carry and transmit dengue fever, Chikungunya but also Zika. In France, record cases of dengue fever have been reported since the start of 2024. Most

Twenty-two years ago, the Indian state of Gujarat erupted in violence. For several weeks from the end of February 2002, inter-communal violence led to the deaths of around 2,000 people, most of them Muslims. Entire neighbourhoods were burnt down and families massacred. This outpouring of hatred was sparked by a fire on a train on

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday is set to address the French parliament. His speech comes a day after world leaders marked the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings in World War II, and after French President Emmanuel Macron announced his country would provide Ukraine with an unspecified number of Mirage-2000 fighter jets. Macron also

In 1944, more than 13,000 paratroopers jumped from planes into the skies over Normandy as part of the D-Day landings that began the liberation of Europe from Nazi Germany. This year, as part of the 80th anniversary of the Normandy landings, the Round Canopy Parachuting Team used several antique C-47 aircraft, the same as those

Between the D-Day landings on June 6, 1944 and the liberation of Paris on August 25 lies the Battle of Normandy. For three months, the Allied forces fought fiercely against the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany. From heavily bombed towns, to relentless artillery fire and hand-to-hand combat in the “Falaise pocket”, Normandy was ravaged and civilians