Qatar's foreign ministry on Wednesday ordered Iran's military and security attaches along with their staff to leave the country within 24 hours, following an attack on its massive natural gas facility. FRANCE 24's Hoda Abdel-Hamid reports from Doha.

Around 90% of global goods are transported by sea. And while just approximately 5% of that travels directly through the Strait of Hormuz, Iran's effective closure of the key passage is having a ripple effect, disrupting trade routes world wide. FRANCE 24's Sharon Gaffney speaks with Ebru Surucu-Balci, Assistant Professor in Circular Supply Chains at the ...

More than two weeks after the US and Israel launched military strikes on Iran, a rumour has sprung up that American soldiers are refusing, en masse, to fight. There is no evidence for it. However, the number of conscientious objectors in the US military is on the rise, according to the Centre on Conscience and War NGO.

In tonight's edition,Senegal is demanding a corruption investigation, after the Confederation of African Football stripped the Lions of Teranga of their 2025 Africa Cup of Nations title. Also, Nigerian President Bola Tinubu meets King Charles and the royal family at Windsor Castle for a 2-day visit. Andwe learn more about "the right of salt" -- an age-old ...

Weeks before crucial parliamentary elections, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbans campaign has characterised his main rival as a stooge of Kyiv and Brussels. As part of this strategy, Orbans government has sought to escalate tensions between Hungary and Ukraine, alleging that Kyiv and its European allies are conspiring to drag Hungary into war with ...

Iran suffered major blows on Wednesday with the killing of its intelligence minister, Esmail Khatib, in an Israeli strike and an attack on the South Pars natural gas field, one of the world's largest gas resources and a pillar of the country's energy supplies. Tehran vowed retaliation for the attacks, targeting facilities in Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Oman, ...

Speaking with FRANCE 24's Yinka Oyetade, Zaid Al-Ali, Visiting Fellow at Princeton University and Former UN Advisor in Iraq, explains that until the war in Iran broke out, Iraq had been able to "straddle between US-aligned interests and Iranian-aligned interests" but there's an "acute risk" that it will become the victim of internal conflict once again as ...

The Iranian women's football team crossed the Turkish border into Iran on Wednesday to complete a fraught return journey from Australia, after five members withdrew asylum claims they had lodged there.

Saudi Arabia intercepted and destroyed four ballistic missiles that were launched toward Riyadh on Wednesday, the Defence Ministry said, just ahead of a meeting of regional and Islamic foreign ministers in the Saudi capital. FRANCE 24's Hoda Abdel-Hamid reports from Doha.

Ukraines second-largest city, Kharkiv, is just 30km from Russia and suffers almost daily bombardment from across the border. But as the years of war have gone by, the citys cultural institutions have adapted in order to keep working despite the dangers. The national opera and ballet theatre in the city centre stages regular performances. Most recently, to ...

Sincethe killing of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali KhameneionFebruary 28, US and Israeli strikes have decimated the regime's top ranks, from the commander of the Revolutionary Guards,to the country's security and intelligence chiefs.But even as the heads of the Iranian leadership roll, regime change remains unlikely anytime soon. FRANCE 24 spoke to ...

Delano D'Souza is pleased to welcome Elisa Catalano Ewers, Senior Fellow for Middle East studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. Our guest sees Israeli strategy as driven by a perceived window of opportunity to destabilize the Iranian regime from within. Their approach is not one of immediate collapse, but of calculated and sustained pressure, ...

President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday said France's next-generation aircraft carrier set to replace the Charles de Gaulle in 2038 will be named Free France" in tribute to the spirit of the French resistance against the World War II era Nazi resistance.

Senegalese reacted with anger and dismay on Wednesday after their national team was sensationally stripped of its Africa Cup of Nations title in favour of tournament hosts Morocco. African football authorities said Senegal was "declared to have forfeited the match" after a protest walk-off during the final.

Senegal football fans Wednesday slammed the decision to strip the country of its Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) title and give it to Morocco, calling the move a "disgrace for Africa" as their country demands an investigation.

Pakistan on Wednesday announced a "temporary pause" in hostilities with Afghanistan ahead of the Eid al-Fitr feast marking the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. The decision was made at the request of Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey, said a senior Pakistani official. It came hours ahead Afghans held a mass funeral in Kabul for the victims ofPakistani ...

A mass funeral for some of the hundreds of victims of a Pakistani strike on a Kabul drug treatment centre was held in Afghanistan on Wednesday, with the Taliban government promising retribution but leaving the door open for talks to end the conflict.

French director Xavier Giannoli's latest film sees Jean Dujardin embody the moral slide from pacifism to collaboration, as the Academy Award-winning actor helms the historical drama "Les Rayons et les Ombres". Film critic Manon Kerjean tells us why the complexity of its characters gives the film a powerful sense of nuance and why at over three hours long ...

The former president of Columbia University in New York, which was at the centre of sometimes violent protests against the war in Gaza, has spoken to FRANCE 24 about the importance of free speech and how universities have to teach it. Lee C. Bollinger is president emeritus of Columbia University; he ran it until just a year before the protests broke out. ...

At the Joussieh border crossing near the Syrian city of Homs, thousands of Syrian refugees are fleeing the devastating war in Lebanon between Israel and Hezbollah. Driven out by Israeli air strikes after years of exile in Lebanon, families and children wait for hours before returning to a country where 90 percent of the population is surviving in post-Assad ...

In this edition of Entre Nous we're pleased to speak to Candace Bushnell, creator of "Sex and the City",the book that was the basis for the hit HBO show about four New York friends Carrie, Miranda, Charlotte and Samantha living and dating in the Big Apple.Candace has a one-woman show coming up at the Folies Bergre in Paris on April 26.She tells us what to ...

An Antarctic mission is shining a light into the depths of the waters of the South Pole.Conservation group Under the Pole have been conducting marine research and raising awareness for almost 20 years.They've recently made some stunning discoveries by diving deep under the ice. Our France 2 colleagues report.

Israel has said it is reopening the Rafah border crossing between the Gaza Strip and Egypt on Wednesday. Israeli authorities had partially opened the crossing on February 2 as part of the peace plan agreed with Hamas in October, but closed it on February 28 when Israeli and US missiles and planes began striking Iran.

As Volodymyr Zelensky meets with European leaders to strengthen Ukraine's alliances, Mark Owen is pleased to welcome Dr. Iryna Mudra, Deputy Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine. According to Dr. Mudra, Ukraines struggle goes beyond defending its own territory; it remains a frontline of European security. Amid a complex global environment where ...

The long-awaited return to the stage of K-pop sensation BTS is set to boost South Korea's tourism and consumer economy. Our regional correspondents report. But first: the war in Iran upends the spring travel season for airlines and passengers alike, and investors await the latest rate call from the US Federal Reserve.