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 ...

French IT services giant Capgemini has been in the spotlight for days over a deal its American subsidiary CGS signed with US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), which French media and campaign groups say involves providing tools to identify foreigners on US soil and track their locations.

French-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal has been elected to the Acadmie franaise, the prestigious French language watchdog, two months after he was released from an Algerian prison on humanitarian grounds.

Rewatch as Kaja Kallas, European Commissionner to Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, addresses journalists following the European Union putting the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps on its "terrorist list". FRANCE 24's James Andr tells us more about what it means for the EU.

The U.S. Navy has sent an additional warship to the Middle East, a U.S. official told Reuters, amid a large military buildup in the region and soaring tensions. For its part, Iran has said it could launch a pre-emptive strike or broadly target the Mideast, including American military bases in the region and Israel. FRANCE 24's James Andr and Reza Sayah ...

A Jewish family is suing France over its embassy in Baghdad. It seeks compensation for what it says is France's use of property and unproper rent pay. The house was seized alongside with other property of Jewish Iraqis in the 1950s. France argues that is this is a problem with Iraqi law and should be dealt with in an Iraqi court. But the family cannot go to ...

At the beginning of 2026, Bulgaria joined the Eurozone. It is a historic shift that comes at a moment of deep polarisation in the country and mass anti-corruption protests. They culminated in the resignation of its government and its president. FRANCE 24's Elitsa Gadeva and Juliette Prudhomme were on the ground during that first week of transition.

In this edition of Entre Nous, we take a look at child-free zones why they are popular and why they also elicit outrage. After the state-owned French railway operator SNCF announced new, kid-free train carriages, we dive into whether France really is a kid-friendly place. We also discuss how children, their rights and French demography have been hot-button ...

Is a temporary second moon really going to orbit the Earth? Thats the claim made in a number of viral social media posts that feature spectacular AI-generated visuals. Spoiler: contrary to these depictions, there is no second moon, but an interesting object, known as a quasi-moon, has been identified by scientists. Heres what we know.

Created in the aftermath of the 1979 Islamic Revolution - the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps is now the most powerful organization in Iran. A parallel military force - the regime's armed wing and a major economic player - it plays a central role in repressing demonstrations, like in the widespread protests which took place recently and were submitted to ...

For Gazans, the Rafah border crossing to Egypt is their gateway to the world. But since Israel seized it in May 2024, it has been largely shut. Now, as part of the second phase of the Israel-Hamas ceasefire plan, Israels Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says the crossing will reopen soon, raising hopes for thousands of war-wounded Palestinians seeking ...

The European Union has listed Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard as a terrorist organisation over Tehran's bloody crackdown on nationwide protests, the bloc's top diplomat said Thursday.