2026 World Cup: La Roja celebrates title with victory parade in Madrid
More than one million people took to the streets of Madrid to welcome La Roja after their World Cup triumph. 🇪🇸
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Trump signs order imposing new 50% tariffs on certain Canadian goods
US President Donald Trump signed orders on Monday imposing new 50% tariffs on some Canadian goods, citing what the White House called Canada’s “discriminatory treatment” of US alcohol, automobiles and dairy products. The tariffs take effect in 30 days, with…
Lebanese army deploys to three southern villages under US-backed security framework
The Lebanese army began assuming security responsibilities in three southern villages on Monday under a US-backed pilot initiative, the State Department said. Operations in Froun, Srifa and Zawtar al-Gharbiya mark the first implementation of a framework aimed at enabling a…
World Cup 2026: Pedro Sanchez and King Felipe VI welcome La Roja
Spain’s newly crowned World Cup champions were welcomed by King Felipe VI and Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez.
Senegalese president assumes ECOWAS leadership
In tonight’s edition, the Senegalese President Bassirou Diomaye Faye takes the helm of ECOWAS. Also, in Nigeria nearly 19 million Nigerian children are out of school, with the threat of kidnapping keeping many classrooms empty. And Tangier is celebrating the art of…
Spain PM Sanchez visits Algeria for first time in four years as ties thaw
Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez on Monday visited Algeria for the first time in four years in a bid to mend diplomatic ties between the two countries after they were frayed by a row over Western Sahara. In 2022, Madrid…
Senegal changes course to back ex-leader Macky Sall as UN chief
The Senegalese government on Monday made a U-turn, announcing it would back former president Macky Sall’s candidacy to replace UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres when his term expires. The government had previously declined to throw its weight behind Sall, whom it…
‘Labour thinks it has responsibility to prevent the rise of Reform UK’, historian says
Speaking with FRANCE 24’s Sharon Gaffney, Martin Farr, Senior Lecturer in Contemporary British History at Newcastle University, explains that “the Labour Party members and its MPs think that it’s their responsibility to prevent” the rise to power of right-wing populist…
Mary Honeyball praises forward-looking PM ‘prepared to inject some optimism’ into United Kingdom
François Picard is pleased to welcome Mary Honeyball, former Labour Member of the European Parliament from 2000 to 2019 representing London. She offers a cautiously optimistic assessment of the arrival of Andy Burnham to 10 Downing Street. She frames the…
Two French diplomats subjected to ‘extremely serious act of intimidation’ in Iran, FM Barrot says
France’s Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot on Monday said two French embassy officials had been subject to an “extremely serious act of intimidation” by Iranian security services in Iran the day before, having been held and interrogated for hours. One of them was…