Serbians stage mass rally to mark first anniversary of deadly train station collapse

Tens of thousands of Serbians on Saturday demonstrated to mark the first anniversary of a deadly railway station roof collapse that killed 16 people in Novi Sad, the country’s second largest city. T...

Donald Trump announces US to start nuclear weapons testing again

US President Donald Trump said he has ordered the Pentagon to start nuclear weapons testing to equal China and Russia, a significant change in the US's weapon strategy. The move comes after Russian Pr...

"There are no winners" in the US-China deal

The US-China deal has prompted questions as to what each country has managed - or not - to get from the other, with the world's two biggest economy promising a year-long trade truce. But in truth "the...

Andrew Mountbatten Windsor, the commoner formerly known as 'prince', faces an uncertain future

Andrew Mountbatten Windsor has been stripped of his remaining royal titles in the wake of mounting scandals over his relationship with late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and allegations of sexual abuse...

France's National Assembly rejects proposals for taxing the ultra-wealthy

France's lower house on Friday rejected two proposals for taxing the ultra-rich after earlier approving a new tax on assets kept in holding companies. A popular proposal from economist Gabriel Zucman ...

Caribbeans reckon with aftermath of Hurricane Melissa

Caribbean islands hit by Hurricane Melissa are now reckoning with the aftermath of the Category 5 storm's passage. Dozens have died and hundreds of thousands are without electricity, as authorities de...

Ivory Coast: Ouattara re-elected with 89.77% of the vote, calm prevails after election

With 89.77% of the vote, President Alassane Ouattara has been re-elected for a fourth term, pending validation by the Constitutional Council. Despite fears of eruptions following the election, the sit...

Jihadists enforce a blockade on fuel in Mali

The U.S. Embassy in Mali told American citizens Tuesday to leave the country by plane because of the threats of terrorism and a severe fuel crisis stemming from a jihadi group's blockade of fuel tanke...

Halloween celebrations underway in the US and UK

Tis the season for spooks and scares as halloween approaches. Across the US fans of the holiday are getting ready with elaborate house displays and decorations. While across the pond - England's York ...

Tanzania President Hassan wins disputed election amid deadly protests

Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan won a landslide election victory, official results showed Saturday. The opposition Chadema party, barred from taking part in the poll, said that hundreds of peo...

Tough coalition talks ahead as Dutch centre left and far right tie in election

The centre-left party D66 and the far-right Party for Freedom are neck-and-neck in the Dutch snap election, but regardless of the winner there will have to be talks to build a coalition. Yet it is lik...

Israeli PM Netanyahu orders immediate 'powerful strikes' on Gaza

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered his army on Tuesday to immediately carry out "powerful strikes" on Gaza. This comes as Tel Aviv reported that Hamas fired on its forces in the souther...

Texas sues Tylenol makers, claiming they hid drug's autism risks

The makers of Tylenol, Johnson & Johnson and Kenvue, were sued on Tuesday by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who accused them of knowingly hiding the drug's supposed links to autism and attention d...

Hamas returns partial hostage remains, Israel slams breach of truce

The office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday accused Hamas of a "clear violation of the agreement" after the remains returned on Monday were found to have belonged to a hostage w...

Public concern for climate change drops amid war and conflict

A new survey shows a sharp slide in public concern for climate change, with war and conflict now dominating public worries. FRANCE 24's Yuka Royer speaks with Subhra Bhattacharjee, Director General of...

Has the United States gotten the deal it wanted from China?

As a one-year trade deal seems to have been reached between the US and China, it seems like the US has had to make concessions on some fronts and has not gotten wished results on others. FRANCE 24's F...

Can Musk's AI-generated 'Grokipedia' be trusted?

In this edition of Truth or Fake we look at Elon Musk’s new website Grokipedia, which he has just launched to compete with Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia that he and others on the American right...

Kherson Under Fire: The Reality Behind the Russian Drone Strikes

On October 14, 2025, a UN humanitarian convoy carrying vital supplies to the village of Bilozerka in southern Ukraine came under a coordinated drone attack. Striking just a kilometre west of the villa...

The bone-chilling story of the Paris Catacombs

☠️ 20 metres under the street of Paris, lie the remains of millions of Parisians... From figures of the French Revolution to antique poetry, we give you a tour in the catacombs of the French capit...

Low turnout mars Tanzania's presidential election as opposition barred from race

The presidential election in Tanzania is being marred by low turnout as the main challengers to President Samia Suluhu Hassan’s grip on power have either been jailed or disqualified from the race. P...

US food assistance faces funding shortfall amid shutdown

Food banks and pantries, already struggling after cuts to federal programs, are bracing for a surge in demand as a federal food aid pause looms due to the ongoing government shutdown.

Grokipedia, Elon Musk’s challenge to Wikipedia, offers his own version of the truth

Billionaire Elon Musk this week launched Grokipedia, an online encyclopaedia aimed at challenging Wikipedia – which he considers too left-wing. Musk claims to be freeing knowledge from ideology, but...

Fears of mass atrocities after Sudan's El-Fasher falls to paramilitaries

In tonight's edition: Fears are mounting in Sudan after paramilitaries seized the key city of El-Fasher, amid reports of mass atrocities. Also, French media giant Canal Plus recently finalised its t...

Sudanese missing in El-Fasher after paramilitary takeover in ‘grave danger’, aid groups warn

International aid groups on Thursday warned that the trickle of people arriving at a refugee camp in Sudan from El-Fasher after it was seized by a paramilitary group is a sign of the extensive atrocit...

US alleged drug boat strikes 'push a dangerous boundary in international law', analyst says

Speaking with FRANCE 24's Mark Owen, Sergio Guzmán, Director and Co-Founder of Colombia Risk Analysis, says that with the strikes on boats accused of transporting illegal drugs, the US is pushing a d...

Sudanese refugees recount RSF violence in El-Fasher

#Refugees who fled #Sudan’s #El-Fasher recount brutal #RSF attacks, hunger and #shelling that killed their families. Aid groups call it war crimes, with around 2,000 people feared dead as the scale ...

Gaza: Israeli army says Hamas has transferred the remains of two hostages to the Red Cross

Award-winning Swedish author Linnea Axelsson on the plight of the Sami people

An award-winning author has spoken of her verse novel which centres around the lives and traditions of her own Sami people. The Sami are indigenous to northern Scandinavia, including Sweden, Norway, F...

UN warns of climate crisis as most countries fail to update carbon plans

A recent UN report reveals that most countries have failed to update their carbon-cutting plans as part of the Paris Agreement, and even those that have, will only reduce emissions by 10% by 2035, far...

Mali closes schools due to fuel shortage

Malian authorities announced on Sunday the suspension of classes in schools and universities for two weeks nationwide due to a fuel shortage. Since September, jihadists from JNIM have imposed a blocka...

Humanitarian crisis deepens in Sudan after RSF take over el-Fasher

Fears that the Sudan region of Darfur is plunging into genocidal violence are reviving. U.N officials have warned of a rampage after the RSF took hold of the city of el-Fasher, reportedly killing more...

Historic tie in Dutch election leaves political landscape polarised

The historic tie finish in the Dutch election is expected to lead to delays in starting the process of forming a new coalition. The splintered political landscape means talks could take a long time, b...

Wealth tax debate is a key day for French government as bill divides MPs

French MPs are set to debate the "Zucman tax", a blanket tax on the ultra-rich named after the economist which theorised it. It is an important day for the French government, as the Socialist party co...

Israel returns remains of 30 Palestinians to Gaza as part of exchange deal

Israel has handed over the remains of another 30 Palestinians to Gaza as part of an exchange deal, a hospital official said Friday. The bodies belong to Palestinians who died while imprisoned by Israe...

How French video game developers work on creating unique visuals

Paris Games Week is underway in the French capital. It's a major rendez-vous for the industry, with hundreds of thousands of attendees keen to try out the latest games. To create unique visuals for pl...

What is the "Zucman tax", the wealth tax that is dividing French MPs?

Two topics are dominating the National Assembly on October 31. One of them is wealth taxation, which lawmakers will be debating amid an ultimatum from the Socialist Party calling for greater "tax just...

UN accuses Iran of widespread arrests, abuses after 12-day war with Israel

United Nations fact finders on Thursday condemned Iran for intensifying repression since its 12-day war with Israel in June, reporting more than 21,000 arrests and widespread mistreatment of minoritie...

Hurricane Melissa death toll rises as storm strengthens toward Bermuda

Hurricane Melissa’s death toll rose to 49 on Thursday after it tore through the northern Caribbean and gained strength en route to Bermuda, officials said. Jamaica’s information minister told Reut...

Hurricane Melissa death toll rises as storm strengthens en route to Bermuda

Hurricane Melissa’s death toll rose to 49 on Thursday after it tore through the northern Caribbean and gained strength en route to Bermuda, officials said. Jamaica’s information minister said at l...

Trump-Xi meeting brought back 'relative calm' on trade, expert says

Speaking with FRANCE 24's Mark Owen, Rana Mitter, S.T. Lee Chair in US - Asia relations at the Harvard Kennedy School, says that the meeting between US president Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jin...

UN Security Council condemns 'atrocities' in Sudan's El-Fasher as RSF advances

Sudanese fleeing the RSF paramilitary's takeover of the city of El-Fasher on Sunday continue to bring accounts of mass atrocities with them. Hundreds were killed in the fighters' wresting of the north...

'A huge fall from grace': Prince Andrew stripped of title, residence in wake of Epstein scandal

FRANCE 24's Bénédicte Paviot reports from London as Buckingham Palace announces that Prince Andrew has been stripped of his remaining titles and told to leave his royal residence. She says that the ...

Jamaica: IFRC launches emergency appeal in response to Hurricane Melissa

Hurricane Melissa smashed into Jamaica as a ferocious top-level storm, with sustained winds peaking at nearly 300 km per hour while drenching the nation with torrential rain. Melissa tied the 1935 rec...

Netherlands nailbiter as far-right, centrists in election dead-heat

The Dutch election climaxed in an unprecedented cliffhanger Thursday, with only a few thousand votes separating the far-right party of firebrand Geert Wilders and a pro-European centrist party. Speaki...

Times of London duped by Bill de Blasio 'imposter' critical of Mamdani

A Times of London story which supposedly quoted former New York mayor Bill de Blasio criticising the Democratic candidate for mayor, Zohran Mamdani, was deleted after it emerged that de Blasio had nev...

Is New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani the future of US Democrats?

With a rent freeze, free buses and universal healthcare among his hugely popular campaign promises, Zohran Mamdani's meteoric rise to frontrunner in the New York mayoral election has been propelled by...

Tale of two Bills: UK paper mistakes NY wine importer for ex-mayor de Blasio

British newspaper the Times of London apologised for mistaking former New York City mayor Bill de Blasio with a wine importer with a near-identical name. The exclusive article about his thoughts on ...

Trump caps refugee admissions to record low, prioritising white South Africans

The Trump administration on Thursday said it would slash the number of refugees admitted to the United States to a record low of 7,500 for fiscal year 2026, down from more than 100,000 under president...

Latvia's parliament votes to withdraw from treaty protecting women from violence

Latvia’s parliament voted on Thursday to withdraw from the Istanbul Convention on preventing violence against women, claiming it promotes “gender” theories. The decision would make Latvia the fi...

Cyberbullying led to a 'deterioration' in Brigitte Macron's health, her daughter says

Brigitte Macron's daughter Tiphaine Auziére told a French court on Tuesday that cyberbullying had led to a "deterioration" in the French first lady's health. Auziére spoke on the second day of the...