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.

The Vatican is expected to announce it will return dozens of items "gifted" to the church by Canada's indigenous communities during the colonial period. The artifacts, most of which have been kept in theVatican Museums ethnographic collection for almost 100 years, include an Inuit kayak.

The Louvre reopening for the first time since Sundays heist of the century. Well follow leads in a daylight robbery now estimated at 88 million euros and check security at the worlds most visited museum.

The director of the Louvre on Wednesday told the French Senate there was "insufficient" security camera coverage at the instutution and that she had offered her resignation which was refused by France's culture minister after an audacious heist on Sunday saw thieves break intothe museum and steal 88 million worth of jewels.

Bolivias president-elect Rodrigo Paz inherits a country mired in economic crisis after his victory in Sundays vote. Paz wants to make lithium a strategic resource in the renewable energy transition an engine for economic recovery. But between renewing ties with Washington, resistance to privatisation, and burgeoning social and environmental protests, the ...

If we can laugh together, we can live together. The phrase serves as the leitmotif of the Styria Comedy Club stand-up collective.With the fall of the Assad regime last December, Styria comedians are enjoying newfound freedoms, touring the country to perform their shows. They are also staging Syria's first-ever stand-up festival this October, with the goal ...

In President Alassane Ouattaras stronghold of Abobo, a working-class commune in Abidjans north, the incumbents supporters are convinced that he will win Saturdays presidential election in a first-round knockout blow. FRANCE 24 spoke to some of the presidents most ardent fans about what three terms of Ouattara have done for the neighbourhood.

In this week's film show, Manon Kerjean and Dheepthika Laurent look at Nadia Melliti's performance as an Arab woman struggling with her sexual identity in "La Petite Dernire", a film for which she won best actress at the Cannes Film Festival. We also look at Franois Ozon's daring, bold adaptation of Albert Camus' masterpiece "L'tranger" and discuss the ...

Josephine Baker was the first Black female superstar.In the 1920s, she took Paris by storm with her exuberant dance performances; she was alsoa Resistance fighter in World War II and a civil rights activist. Josephine was the first Black woman to enter France's Panthon mausoleum of outstanding historical figures. "Josephine Baker, the musical" tells the ...

France's former president Nicolas Sarkozy will have two police officers stationed in prison with him to ensure his safety while he serves a five-year sentence,France's interior minister said on Wednesday. Sarkozywill be held in an isolation unit in a Paris prison, meaning he should not be in contact with other inmates.