An oil tanker seized by US forces off Venezuelas coast will be taken to a US port, the White House said on Thursday, heightening tensions between the two countries. Washington said it took control of the vessel in a helicopter raid targeting assets linked to President Nicolas Maduros government.

Thailands Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul received royal approval on Friday to dissolve parliament, paving the way for a general election early next year. Voting for the House of Representatives will be held 45 to 60 days after a royal decree, with Anutin leading a caretaker government barred from approving a new budget.

Soccer fans on Thursday accused FIFA of a monumental betrayal after fresh World Cup ticket prices surfaced, showing steep increases. Germanys soccer federation said national associations receive 8% of tickets, with group-stage seats priced at $180$700 and final tickets ranging from $4,185 to $8,680.

Walt Disney and OpenAI agreed a three-year licensing deal on Thursday allowing users to generate short videos featuring Disney characters with artificial intelligence. It is the first time a major studio has permitted such broad generative-AI use of its protected characters, from Mickey Mouse to Marvel heroes and Star Wars icons.

The US' motives are unclear after it seizes a sanctioned oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela. France's last major home appliance maker goes bust. Disney strikes a deal with OpenAI. And, Lidl gets creative with its advertising, with a competition to win its "Eau de croissant".

In tonight's edition,Regional officials say over 400 civilians have been killed since December 1st in the area of Uvira in the Democratic Republic of Congo: we speak to the DRC Minister of Communication, Patrick Muyaya. Also,Kenya has pulled the brakes on a landmark health pact with the United States, over data privacy concerns. And in Ivory Coast the story ...

As the festive season gets into full swing in France, a video showing people seizing Christmas trees has gone viral on social media. Some, including the spokesperson for Eric Zemmour's far-right Reconquete party, are falsely claiming that the footage is proof that immigrants are destroying Christmas trees across the country. However, as Charlotte Hughes ...

Tens of thousands of people were under evacuation orders on Thursday in western North America after days of heavy rain caused rivers to overflow. Storms have lashed Washington state and Canadas British Columbia for several days, with authorities warning that water levels are still rising and flooding risks remain high.

The US is still trying to convince Kyiv to concede territories to Russia, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Thursday. Washington wants for Ukraine and not Russia to withdraw its troops from parts of the Donetsk region, where a "free economic zone" would be installed, Zelensky told reporters.

French supermarket Intermarch went viral after posting a charming Christmas cartoon ad about a vegetarian wolf. The clip has been watched tens of millions of times worldwide.

Austria's lower house of parliament on Thursday passed a law banning headscarves in schools for girls under the age of 14. Rights groups consider the move as discriminatory in the context of growing anti-immigration sentiment in the country.

NATO chief Mark Rutte on Thursday urged alliance members to realise that they are Russia's next targets, urging them to step up defence efforts to prevent a possible war with Moscow "on the scale our grandparents endured". Rutte also argued that a peace plan in Ukraine would be a test of whether Russia "really wants peace".

British activists have made multiple visits to the beaches of northern France in recent weeks, saying they want to stop undocumented migrants from crossing the channel in small boats. Migrant support groups say the activists are encouraging violence and xenophobia.

They buy, hoard and sell the Earth's resources. In this episode, journalist Javier Blas helps us shed some light on the shadowy realm of billionaire commodity traders. He co-wrote with Jack Farchy "The World for Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth's Resources", about the power concentrated in the hands of a small number of commodity ...

He's currently on screens as "Jay Kelly", an ageing movie star on an existential quest in Europe. And its not too far from George Clooney's own reality, as the actor tells journalists how he's enjoying his new life in the south of France. We also look back at the impressive legacy left by "starchitect" Frank Gehry, after the death of the visionary architect ...

Time magazine chose "Architects of AI" as its annual "person of the year" for 2025. One of the two covers released on Thursday plays on the famed 1932 "Lunch atop a Scryscaper" photograph, this time portrayingUS tech titans Elon Musk, Open AI's Sam Altman and other prominent figures on a beam above New York City.

In an interview with FRANCE 24, Russian opposition figure Vladimir Kara-Murza, who survived two suspected poisoning attempts and spent two and a half years in jail before being released in a 2024 prisoner swap, said Russian President Vladimir Putin was "not only a dictator" but "also a murderer in a very direct and literal sense of this term". He accused ...

This week we turn the spotlight onto prostitution in France. For years, prostitution laws were chaotic, but in 2016 there was a major change in French legislation. Lawmakers decided to shift the criminal burden from prostitutes to clients: selling sex is legal, but buying it is now illegal. While many anti-prostitution groups hailed the new law, others ...

"Killing the journalist won't kill the story." That's the message from the organisation Forbidden Stories. The group's mission is to take over investigations from journalists who can no longer carry on, either because of extreme intimidation or because they have actually been killed over their stories. Much of the group's work these days is linked to ...

The end-of-year holidays are now just two weeks away, and for many people around the world, late December is synonymous with bubbles. Here in France, the crme de la crme is champagne.But in this Entre Nous, we're focusing on another sparkling wine that is absolutely booming out of England. Several months ago, an English fizz became the first non-champagne ...

A few days ago, Aonishiki became the first Ukrainian wrestler to win a professional sumo tournament in Japan. At just 21 years old, he has risen up the ranks at record speed since he arrived in Japan in 2022, following the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Our Japan correspondents report.

Bulgarias prime minister announced on Thursday that his government was resigning after less than a year in office, bowing to sustained anti-graft protests that had intensified in recent weeks.

Israel on Thursday vowed that Hamas will be disarmed under the US-backed Gaza peace plan, rejecting a proposal by senior Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal, who said the group might accept a weapons "freeze" but not full disarmament.

Paris Saint-Germain were frustrated at San Mams on Wednesday, held to a goalless draw by a spirited Athletic Bilbao side on Matchday 6 of the Champions League. Still, the Parisians inched closer to securing a spot in the round of 16.

The Federal Reserve, the US central bank, lowered its benchmark interest rate by 25 basis points on Wednesday. The move comes as the US economy deals with sticky inflation, slowing jobs figures and a lack of official data because of the government shutdown. Stock markets reacted favourably to the news initially, but were then weighed down by concerns ...