Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky sought European backing Thursday after vowing to resume strikes on Russian oil refineries despite US President Donald Trump’s demands to stop. Tensions between Kyiv and Washington have escalated in recent days over sanctions, energy infrastructure attacks…
Irish author Sally Rooney can no longer sell her books in the UK because of her support for the activist group Palestine Action, her publisher Faber said Wednesday. Rooney has previously expressed her support for the group, which was banned…
Irish author Sally Rooney can no longer sell her books in the UK because of her support for the activist group Palestine Action, her publisher Faber said Wednesday. Rooney has previously expressed her support for the group, which was banned…
François Picard is pleased to welcome Layla Abdelké Yakoub, Tax Justice and Inequality Advocacy Officer at Oxfam France. “Today in France a billionaire pays less taxes proportionally than a nurse or a firefighter,” explains Yakoub. She challenges the foundations of…
European lawmakers have kicked off what’s likely to be a long and fierce negotiation over the bloc’s seven-year budget. Member states are divided on spending priorities, and pending elections in countries including France and Italy are adding pressure to the…
Several major sporting events in Saudi Arabia have been cancelled or postponed as a result of repeated deadly attacks from Iran-backed Houthi rebels against the Kingdom’s airports and infrastructure. FRANCE 24’s Mark Owen speaks with Guy Barton, Visiting Fellow at…
In tonight’s edition, as Joseph Kabila returns to centre stage with a new alliance with the M23 rebels, political leaders in Congo are having to choose sides. Also, the US is calling for restraint in Ethiopia as a rights group…
Rescuers searched on Thursday for seven missing sailors after drones struck two chemical tankers near Romania’s Black Sea coast, setting them ablaze and raising fresh security concerns along a vital shipping route used by Ukraine. Speaking with FRANCE 24’s Europe…
At least five people were killed and 16 wounded Thursday in a Houthi missile and drone attack on the palace located in Yemen’s interim capital – the southern port city of Aden, used by the country’s internationally recognised government, an official…
Speaking with FRANCE 24’s Mark Owen, Nobel Peace laureate Oleksandra Matviichuk, Director of the Centre for Civil Liberties, says that with the diesel-supply deal with Moscow Donald Trump “is openly financing this war, by lifting sanctions is providing Russia with…