Ukraine said Thursday it was in contact with Elon Musks SpaceX over allegations that Russian drones were using Starlink satellite internet during attacks on Ukrainian cities, raising concerns that Western technology may be aiding Moscows strikes.

Donald Trumps so-called Border Czar made his first public comments on January 29 since arriving in Minneapolis. Tom Homan is striking a much more subdued tone than others in the administration saying he doesnt want to see anyone die. In spite of that, there are no signs of major changes by ICE on the ground and the public outrage surrounding the operation ...

French MPs on Wednesday unanimously approved a bill seeking to end "marital duty", after criticism about its use to ignore sexual consent in marriage and marital rape. Michele Goodwin, Professor of Constitutional Law and Global Health Policy at Georgetown University, says that "legislatures have played a significant role in keeping women far behind" and ...

The US Senate edged closer to a vote on a funding deal to avert a government shutdown following a bitter standoff. Democrats have said they are prepared to pass five of six spending bills immediately but have drawn a red line around funding for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), demanding it be stripped out and renegotiated to impose new constraints ...

Syrias government and Kurdish-led forces struck a sweeping deal on Friday to integrate Kurdish fighters and their administration into the central state, after weeks of fighting that shrank Kurdish control across the country.

Transylvania isnt only about Dracula and his castle although another countrys leader has been trying to establish a rather vampiric hold on it. This region of Romania is home to one of the biggest ethnically-Hungarian communities in Europe, and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has attempted to influence it for votes. In this new episode of "Growing up ...

Aston Villa fought back from (2-0) down to beat Red Bull Salzburg.Jamaldeen Jimoh-Aloba, 19, scored a late winner for hosts despite losing Ollie Watkinsforced off with hamstring injury in first half.

Iranians still daring to defy the regime chant "death or freedom". Very little information and few videos have been coming out of Iran with the internet blackout, but chilling images from a few days ago show the regime's brutal crackdown. Click on the video by Emerald Maxwell and Nomie Roche for more.

From Lagos to Paris, the beat is getting louder. Nine French composers recently joined forces with Nigerian Afrobeats artists at the headquarters of the prestigious Nigerian label Mavin Records in an effort to create 60 tracks that could become the genres next international breakout hits.

EU foreign ministers on Thursday unanimously decided to list Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist organisation. The EUs foreign policy chief, Kaja Kallas, said the designation will put the regime on the same footing with al-Qaida, Hezbollah, Hamas and the Islamic State group. The decision comes amid a brutal crackdown by the Iranian regime on ...

Aston Villa fought back from (2-0) down to beat Red Bull Salzburg.Jamaldeen Jimoh-Aloba, 19, scores late winner for hosts despite losing Ollie Watkinsforced off with hamstring injury in first half.

Venezuelas acting President Delcy Rodriguez signed a law on Thursday opening the oil sector to privatisation, reversing two decades of socialist policy. Lawmakers approved the overhaul earlier as Washington eased sanctions, expanding US firms operations weeks after President Nicolas Maduro was seized in a US military raid in Caracas capital.

Olympique Lyonnais clinched top spot in the Europa League with a 4-2 home win over PAOK on Thursday, while AS Roma squeezed into eighth and direct qualification for the last 16. Lyon recovered from an early goal and a red card to PAOK, while Roma endured a nervy night after Gianluca Mancini was sent off early.

Nadia Massih is pleased to welcome Dr. Omar Mohammad, Professor of Middle East History at Sciences Po. Throughout his childhood, he was not even aware a Jewish community ever existed in Iraq. As a historian, he now sees Jewish heritage as inseparable from their national identity. The Jewish presence in Iraq is part of the very fabric of this region and ...

In tonight's edition,extreme flooding in Southern Africa has submerged towns and killed at least 200 people as scientists say climate change will make supercharged rainfall more likely in the years to come. Also, healthcare fraud undermines Kenya's already fragile system. And it is a first in the history of Beninese cycling: at just 18, Georgette Vignonfodo ...

Emmy Award-winning Nigerian director Joel Katchi Benson is Georja Calvin-Smith's guest this week. He is still journeying alongside the families marked by the horrifying abduction of their daughters 12 years ago. The violation has faded from international headlines, but Bensonhas kept the community in his spotlight. He speaks of the dignity offered by ...

French MPs on Wednesday unanimously approved a bill seeking to end "marital duty", after criticism about its use to ignore sexual consent in marriage and marital rape. Michele Goodwin, Professor of Constitutional Law and Global Health Policy at Georgetown University, says that 'legislatures have played a significant role in keeping women far behind' and ...

Russia has stepped up its strikes against Ukraine's power and heating infrastructure, plunging residents into darkness and cold as temperatures have dropped as low as -20C. The EU is looking to step up support for Ukraine's power grid and is preparing a new round of sanctions on Moscow for the fourth anniversary of its invasion next month. FRANCE 24's ...

Islamic State-aligned militants killed dozens of people, including soldiers, in an overnight attack in northeast Nigerias Borno state on Thursday, local sources said. The assault in Sabon Gari underscores persistent violence in a region where an Islamist insurgency since 2009 has killed over 40,000 and displaced nearly two million.

Speaking with FRANCE 24's Mark Owen, Simon Mabon, Professor of International Politics and Middle East Studies at Lancaster University, says that the latest Iranian unrest 'seems qualitatively different in terms of the size of the protests, the breadth of groups involved in the protests and in terms of the sheer ferocity of the regime's response' adding that ...

A Buddhist monk influencer has amassed millions of followers on social media, sharing spiritual guidance videos and selling e-books on healing. The catch is, he's AI-generated. Vedika Bahl explains in Truth or Fake.

Sexual and gender-based violence "is being used systematically to terrorise the population" in Haiti's stricken capital Port-au-Prince, Doctors Without Borders said Thursday in a report based on 10 years of data from its clinic there. The medical charity, which goes by its French acronym MSF, said the number of victims it treated had almost tripled since ...

French lawmakers on Wednesday unanimously approved a bill seeking to end "marital duty", after criticism from women's rights groups about its use to ignore sexual consent in marriage and marital rape. The text -- backed by more than 120 MPs in the lower house National Assembly -- clarifies in the civil code that cohabitation does not create any obligation ...

Making Ukrainians freeze in winter wasnt enough.

The crackdown continues in Iran, as shock and fear sweep the country after the regime crushed the bloodiest unrest since the 1979 Islamic Revolution. Security forces have rounded up thousands of people in a campaign of mass arrests to deter further protests. The internet remains largely cut off, but a few Iranians have managed to circumvent censorship to ...