Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faces a fight for political survival in Israel’s election on Tuesday (October 27), with voters weighing his leadership after the 2023 Hamas-led attacks, wars in Gaza and with Iran, and Israel’s deepening international isolation. FRANCE24’s Douglas…
A deeply divided Israel headed to the polls on Tuesday (October 27) for the first time since the October 7, 2023 Hamas attack, with voters delivering their verdict on veteran Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the country’s rightward drift. FRANCE…
François Picard welcomes Helena Ivanov, Associate Research Fellow at the Henry Jackson Society, a London-based foreign policy and national security think tank advocating liberal democracy, strong transatlantic alliances, robust Western defence capabilities and the international promotion of democratic institutions. Ivanov describes…
Harry Kane has won the 2026 Ballon d’Or, which was awarded in London for the first time. He becomes the fifth Englishman to win the trophy, 25 years after Michael Owen.
Polls opened in Israel on Tuesday in the country’s first election since the Hamas-led attack of 7 October 2023, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu facing a close contest after three years of war and deepening political divisions.
François Picard welcomes Jean-Rémi Girard, President of the SNALC teachers’ union, who places responsibility for France’s educational difficulties not simply on demographic change or fiscal constraints, but on years of political decisions that, he argues, have weakened the public education…
Polls opened Tuesday in Israel’s critical national election viewed as a referendum on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s policies. Reporting from Jerusalem, FRANCE 24’s Noga Tarnopolsky explains that “the name of the game” after Election Day is whether the country’s fractious…
Israelis are voting Tuesday in the first general elections since the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu facing a fight for political survival. The vote follows three years of regional wars, with Netanyahu running neck and…
French football star Kylian Mbappé was dropped by two major Chinese brands on Tuesday after a video circulated online in which he appeared to joke about former leader Mao Zedong. Energy drink giant Dongpeng and dairy producer Mengniu said they…
US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer warned on Monday that a $3.4 billion European Investment Bank loan to Airbus could jeopardise a tariff truce between Washington and Brussels. Greer said his office had received no details about the financing, announced in June, and urged the EU to resolve the matter quickly.