Israel is rejecting a ruling by the International Court of Justice that orders it to ease the passage of aid into Gaza. The UN aid agency has been effectively barred from operating in the enclave since January. The decision comes as humanitarian organizations scramble to scale up desperately needed aid to the territory. Meanwhile, funerals are being held ...

French authorities have issued a new arrest warrant for Syrian ex-president Bashar al- Assad over the suspected Syrian government chemical attacks on Adra and Douma outside Damascus and in Eastern Ghouta in August 2013. Nearly 1,500 people were killed or injured in the attacks, US intelligence sources say.

The election campaign in Ivory Coast has come with an upsurge in disinformation on social media. Supporters of both the ruling and opposition parties have circulated fake news about presidential candidates and Abidjan is concerned about destabilisation attempts from abroad, including from its neighbour Burkina Faso. As a response, the Ivorian government has ...

His latest exhibition, Dedicated to the One I Love, reflects what Jeffrey Gibson describes as a journey much like a loving relationship marked by ups and downs, moments of great joy, and times of difficulty. As the first Indigenous artist to represent the United States at the Venice Biennale, Gibson talks about bringing Native American practices and ...

French MPs on Thursday voted to change the legal definition of rape to include anynon-consensual sexual act,bringing France in line with other European nations that have introduced consent-based legislation. The bill is expected to be passed by the French Senate next week.

From Montjuic in Barcelona to Montmartre in Paris, the 2026 Tour de France presents champion Tadej Pogacar and his rivals with a plethora of mountain passes and peaks, including two stages tackling the revered Alpe d'Huez.

From our correspondent in Abidjan In the Abidjan district of Yopougon, a historic stronghold of former Ivorian president Laurent Gbagbo, some residents reject politics, which they see as a divisive force. Others have decided to get involved, convinced that an alternative to President Alassane Ouattara, who is seeking a fourth term in office,is possible.

The Deputy Director and Chief Curator of one of the worlds leading art museums the Guggenheim in New York has spoken to France 24 about how her new exhibition in Paris is her love letter to France. Naomi Beckwith is currently in Paris, working temporarily at the Palais de Tokyo on her exhibition 'Echo Delay Reverb American Art Francophone Thought.' She ...

A Belfast judge on Thursday acquitted a former British paratrooper known as Soldier F of murder in the 1972 Bloody Sunday killings, citing insufficient evidence he fired on unarmed civilians. The verdict dealt a heavy blow to victims families who have spent more than a half-century seeking justice for one of Northern Irelands darkest days.

Syrian authorities on Thursday negotiated a ceasefire with a group of foreign jihadists led by Frenchman Oumar Diaby in northwestern Syria, according to sources.

When the Islamic State group was defeated in 2019, more than 40,000 men, women, and children were held in the al-Hol camp in northeastern Syria. Alongside civilians fleeing the fighting, families of Islamic State group members were also detained. Faced with the ongoing challenge of managing this sprawling camp, authorities have begun implementing a ...

A French court on Thursday ruled oil and gas giant TotalEnergies had engaged in "misleading commercial practices" by overstating its climate pledges in the first decision applying France's greenwashing law to an energy company.

On his visit to the Vatican, Britain's King Charles III on Thursday is set to pray publicly with Pope Leo XIV, marking the first ever joint prayer meeting between the heads of the Church of England and the Roman Catholic Church sinceEnglish monarch Henry VIII broke with Rome in 1534.

Shortly before leaving for Israel,US Secretary of State Marco Rubio warned that the Knesset's vote on Wednesday advancing an Israeli annexation of the occupied West Bank "potentially" threatens the Gaza ceasefire deal. Rubio is the latest US official to visit Israel in a bid toshore up the shaky, US-brokered truce.

For a third day in a row, drones targeted the army-held Sudanese capital and the Khartoum international airport in attacks blamed onthe paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), which the country's regular military has been battling since April 2023.

Despite a valiant second half, Marseille were caught off guard by Sporting Portugal in the dying moments. "It's scandalous," said Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, OM's Gabonese striker. Marseille had been on such a high after a first half that was almost perfect, but the turning point of the match came when Emerson Palmieri was shown a red card. This was ...

European leaders meeting at an EU summit in Brussels on Thursday aim to shore up support for Ukraine by approving sanctions against Moscow and advancing a plan to use frozen Russian assets to fund a massive reparation loan for Kyiv. Follow our live blog for the latest developments.

Polands militarisation of the border zone with Belarus is threatening the exceptional biodiversity of Europes last primeval forest, a UNESCO World Heritage site since 1979. Human relationships with nature may also be impacted by the fortification of the zone, putting the future stewardship of the forest at risk, say researchers.

French prosecutors have launched an investigation after a video surfaced showing an inmate at Paris' La Sant prison making death threats against former president Nicolas Sarkozy, who began serving a five-year sentence there this week for illegal campaign financing.

Iranian citizen Mahdieh Esfandiari, detained in France since February on charges of promoting terrorism online, was conditionally released Wednesday under judicial supervision, as Tehran pushes for her return in a potential exchange for two French nationals held in Iran.

The Assad family ruled Syria for more than five decades. But since last December, Bashar al-Assad has vanished after a lightning rebel offensive toppled his regime. Online, memes and fake news now claim to have spotted the ousted president in the most unlikely places. In reality? Assad and his family are believed to be living in Moscow, in luxury ...

In tonight's edition,dozens are killed in northern Nigeria in a gasoline tanker blast. Also, Ivorian authorities say their pre-election tightening of security is a bid to keep Saturday's vote smooth, as opposition voices say the dozens of convictions are a deliberate crackdown. And in Nigeria, inflation has seen many property owners ramp up the rent ...

It's been three years since Giorgia Meloni became Italy's prime minister. During her tenure, she has cut public deficit by more than half and brought unemployment down. But beneath the surface, Italy's economy is still struggling, with weak growth, persistent structural weaknesses and an aging population. We take a closer look. Also in the segment, a row ...

Second-half substitutes Geny Catamo and Alisson Santos scored to lift Sporting to a dramatic 2-1 comeback victory over Marseille in the Champions League on Wednesday, ending the French sides five-match winning streak.