It was a much-anticipated evening for football fans: 18 games, played simultaneously to close off the regular season of the Champions League. The matches brought surprise victories and upsets. PSG, Real Madrid and Inter Milan will all have to go through the playoffs, while Benefica eliminated Marseille at the last second. PSG and Real Madrid will have to ...

Since August 2025 Ukraine has stepped up its campaign of strikes against targets deep inside Russia. While the countrys Western allies have been reluctant to allow the use of long-range missiles for that purpose, they have not objected to Ukraine doing it with its domestically-produced weapons - principally drones with the Americans even helping with ...

Ivory Coast says it will start buying back thousands of tons of unsold cocoa that have been sitting in warehouses and around the country's ports since November 2026. The holdup has also seen the income of farmers stagnate in the worlds largest producer of the cacao. But many worry that the last-minute intervention maybe too little too late.

Both Meta Platforms and Microsoft shared their latest quarterly results on Wednesday and showed they are still planning on sustained spending on artificial intelligence. Similarly, Telsa posted a drop in annual revenue for the first time in its history and announced a shift away from electric vehicles and towards AI and robotics. Meanwhile, hardware ...

Mozambique and TotalEnergies on Thursday relaunched a $20 billion gas project that was halted nearly five years ago after a deadly jihadist attack killed an estimated 800 people.

Kai Havertz scored on his first start for nearly a year as Arsenal completed a flawless league phase campaign, making it eight wins out of eight in the Champions League with victory over Kairat Almaty (3-2).

The Sicilian town of Niscemi has been declared a "red zone" after a four-kilometre (2.5-mile) long stretch of the hillside collapsed on January 25, forcing the evacuation of some 1,500 people. The town, built on unstable terrain, was battered by a powerful storm which hit southern Italy a few days before. Though there were no deaths or injuries, experts say ...

Speaking with FRANCE 24's Sharon Gaffney, Lynette Ong, Distinguished Professor of Chinese Politics at the University of Toronto, says that the removal of General Zhang Youxia, Senior Vice Chairman of the Central Military Commission, is just the latest in a long series of purges and calls into question President Xi Jinping's judgment. Zhang is being ...

Kai Havertz scored on his first start for nearly a year as Arsenal completed a flawless league phase campaign, making it eight wins out of eight in the Champions League with victory over Kairat Almaty (3-2).

The French Senate on Wednesday adopted a draft legislation to facilitate the return of artworks and other prized artefacts looted during the countrys colonial era. This new procedure could help address requests already submitted by various countries, including Mali, Algeria and Benin.

After noticing that attention deficit disorders had sharply increased among pupils in the past five years, a Cape Town high school decided to turn phone-free. Expecting a backlash, it got none. This comes as increasingly more countries are worrying about the impact of phone use and social media on children and teenagers' learning capacity and concentration. ...

Russia's oil giant Lukoil said on Thursday that it will sell its foreign assets to The Carlyle Group, a US investment firm. This comes as Russian drone strikes killed three people and wounded another person overnight in southern Ukraine, the Zaporizhzhia governor said. Follow ourliveblog for the latest updates.

The Confederation of African Football announced Wednesday a series of sanctions affecting both Senegal and Morocco following controversial incidents during the AFCON final, citing "unsporting" behaviour and conduct. Senegal coach Pape Thiaw was banned for five matches, and the Senegal Football Federation was fined $615,000.

Loud explosions and heavy gunfire were heard early Thursday near Niamey International Airport. The cause of the gunfire and whether there were any casualties in unclear. Like its neighbours, Mali and Burkina Faso, Niger is grappling with an armed insurgency by jihadist groups.

Texas state police used tear gas on Wednesday to disperse about 100 protesters outside a US immigration detention centre in Dilley, where demonstrators demanded the release of a 5-year-old Ecuadoran boy detained under President Donald Trumps immigration crackdown.

French lawmakers unanimously approved a bill on Wednesday to end the notion of marital duty, following criticism from womens rights groups that it undermines sexual consent and enables marital rape. Backed by more than 120 MPs, the bill clarifies that cohabitation does not oblige spouses to have sex and now heads to the Senate for approval.

Speaking with FRANCE 24's Sharon Gaffney, Lynette Ong, Distinguished Professor of Chinese Politics at the University of Toronto, says that the removal of General Zhang Youxia, Senior Vice Chairman of the Central Military Commission, is just the latest in a long series of purges and calls into question President Xi Jinping's judgment. Zhang Youxia is being ...

Danish veterans on Wednesday criticised the US embassy in Copenhagen for removing national flags put up in front of the mission to honour Danish soldiers killed in Afghanistan. The embassy later backtracked, and a US State Department spokesperson told AFP that "until an outlet reached out, we were unaware of why the flags were placed in planters outside the ...

A US Immigration and Customs Enforcement unit deployed to Italy for the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics will not conduct patrols and will serve only in an advisory role, Washingtons ambassador said on Wednesday. The deployment has angered Italians because of ICEs tough US immigration crackdown,

French President Emmanuel Macron said Wednesday a standoff with the US over Greenland was "a strategic wake-up call for all of Europe", speaking alongside the leaders of Denmark and the Danish autonomous territory. Speaking with FRANCE 24's Mark Owen, Federico Santopinto, Senior Research Fellow at IRIS, says that 'Europe has had already several strategic ...

Speaking with FRANCE 24's Mark Owen, Christina Harward, Russia Deputy Team Lead at the Institute for the Study of War, says that the 'Russian advances are coming at a literal foot-pace' and 'this is not the picture that the Russians are trying to paint', adding that Russian casualties are astronomical. She explains that Russians are trying to diplomatically ...

In tonight's edition,Nigerian police clash with crowds angry about the way that hundreds of homes have been demolished in the Makoko floating village. Also,Kigali is suing the UK for the 100 million pounds due as part of an agreement with the former British government for the African nation to take in people deported from the United Kingdom. And US YouTuber ...

An area of the Sicilian town of Niscemi was declared off limits after a four-kilometre long stretch of the hillside collapsed on Sunday, forcing the evacuation of some 1,500 people. Though there were no deaths or injuries, experts say the gulf could extend -- and topple more houses -- when it rains again. Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni visited ...