It's the biggest mystery and probably the biggest scandal to hit Mexico in the past decade. On September 26, 2014, in the southern town of Iguala, police officers fired on several … Read More

As the world's top cocoa producer, Ivory Coast faces many challenges – first and foremost the fight against illegal smuggling of this "brown gold". Some cocoa farmers consider the… Read More

More than 30,000 Boeing workers in the Seattle region have gone on strike after they overwhelmingly rejected a proposed contract that included a 25 percent pay rise. Workers seeking a 4… Read More

French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday made a rare public appearance with his ex-premier Edouard Philippe in Le Havre to commemorate the port's 1944 liberation from Nazi occupation. Ph… Read More

A military court in the Democratic Republic of Congo is set to deliver its verdict Friday over an alleged coup attempt, with 51 defendants, including three Americans, facing charges and all… Read More

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday said Kyiv’s surprise incursion launched August 6 into Russia’s border region of Kursk had “slowed” Moscow’s adv… Read More

North Korea released images of its uranium enrichment facility on Friday, showing leader Kim Jong Un touring the site. Kim called for an increase in centrifuges to boost the country's nuclea… Read More

Elon Musk has slammed Australia as "fascists" in response to proposed laws aimed at fining social media platforms for failing to curb misinformation. The "combating misinformation" bill, int… Read More

The Toronto International Film Festival announced Thursday it is cancelling all screenings of the documentary Russians at War due to "significant threats" to public safety. Organiz… Read More

The US federal government is on the verge of a shutdown as Republicans in the House of Representatives struggle to agree on a spending bill. A new hurdle has emerged with former President Do… Read More

Senegal's President Bassirou Diomaye Faye dissolved parliament Thursday, just six months after he was elected president, paving the way for snap legislative elections. The elections have to… Read More

An attack that killed at least 14 Shiite Muslims in central Afghanistan was claimed by the local chapter of the Islamic State (IS) group, the group's Amaq media wing said in a statement… Read More

Former president Donald Trump on Thursday ruled out taking part in another election debate against his rival for the White House, Vice President Kamala Harris. Trump said  he thought he… Read More

Footballer Kylian Mbappé's former club Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) said Thursday that a dispute over €55 million in what the star player says are unpaid wages could now b… Read More

Mexico’s outgoing President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has used his party's overwhelming democratic mandate to pass a series of reforms that will make the country the first in the wor… Read More

The US Treasury Department has imposed sanctions on 16 senior Venezuelan officials allied to President Nicolas Maduro for preventing "a transparent electoral process" in the July 28 pre… Read More

Gaza’s economy is in ‘ruins’ and less a sixth of the size it was before Israel launched a military campaign there more than 11 months ago in response to the deadly Oct. 7 a… Read More

FRANCE 24 spoke to Nasser al-Qudwa, a former Palestinian foreign minister and nephew of the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, about the war in Gaza, which is now in its 1… Read More

A SpaceX crew made up of four non-professional astronauts on Thursday became the first civilians to perform spacewalks as NASA hailed “a giant leap forward” for the commercial sp… Read More

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Thursday said that Moscow has launched a counteroffensive in Russia’s Kursk region, which Kyiv’s troops pushed into early last month. &l… Read More

A senior Chinese military official on Thursday said Beijing will “crush” any foreign incursion into the South China Sea, which it considers its territory despite an international… Read More

Heavy downpours in war-torn Yemen over the past weeks have triggered flash flooding and landslides, killing nearly 100 people and forcing hundreds to seek shelter. The seasonal rains, which… Read More

Landslides and floods triggered by Typhoon Yagi have killed more than 200 people in Southeast Asia. The most powerful storm recorded in the region this year slammed Vietnam at the weeke… Read More

After months of trading provocations with South Korea and a recently renewed vow to keep growing its nuclear arsenal, North Korea sent its most aggressive message yet when it fired multiple… Read More

After meetings with Qatari and Egyptian mediators in Doha on Wednesday, Palestinian militant group Hamas reiterated its "readiness" to adopt US President Joe Biden's long-gestating Gaza ceas… Read More

Peru's Alberto Fujimori, a deeply divisive strongman who revamped Peru's economy, muzzled political opponents, and oversaw deadly atrocities, died on Wednesday after years of struggling with… Read More

California on Wednesday declared a state of emergency over three wildfires near Los Angeles, including one that has engulfed dozens of homes across two towns. The Bridge Fire broke out Sunda… Read More

The collapse of a dam in northeast Nigeria caused heavy flooding in the city of Maiduguri that killed at least 30 people and forced 400,000 people to leave their homes Read More

Mali's junta leaders suspended the French-language channel TV5 Monde for three, allegedly for a lack of "balance" in covering civilian drone strike deaths without providing the Malian a… Read More

The Islamic Action Front (IAF), an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan, on Wednesday topped the kingdom's parliamentary elections, tripling its representation in the House of Repres… Read More

Israeli airstrikes across Gaza on Wednesday hit a UN school sheltering displaced Palestinian families as well as two homes, killing at least 34 people, including 19 women and children, hospi… Read More

The first successful test of a hyperloop vehicle in Europe has been carried out at the European Hyperloop Center in the Netherlands, bringing the dream of passengers hurtling between the con… Read More

France's counterterrorism prosecutor said on Wednesday that authorities thwarted three plots to attack the Olympic and Paralympic Games in Paris and other cities that hosted the events. The… Read More

Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris and Republican contender Donald Trump met again on Wednesday in New York at an event commemorating the 9/11 attacks, just hours after they faced off i… Read More

Republican US presidential candidate Donald Trump on Wednesday claimed that his televised debate with Democratic rival Kamala Harris and carried by American outlet ABC had been "rigged". He… Read More

French Prime Minister Michel Barnier said on Wednesday that he will name his government next week. President Emmanuel Macron last Thursday chose Barnier, a 73-year-old conservative and forme… Read More

US Vice President Kamala Harris and former president Donald Trump clashed in a fiery presidential debate last night, with Harris frequently putting Trump on the defensive. With sharp critiqu… Read More

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Wednesday announced $717 million in new economic and humanitarian assistance for Ukraine, including $325 million in energy support to help repair and… Read More

US pop superstar Taylor Swift endorsed Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris for president on Tuesday in a message posted on Instagram immediately after the first presidential debate betwe… Read More

China continued its unrivalled supremacy in para table tennis on Friday night, taking away both of the first two gold medals in the women’s doubles. The doubles format, which returned… Read More

Brazilian Supreme Court judge Alexandre de Moraes on Friday ordered Elon Musk’s X, formerly known as Twitter, to immediately suspend its operations within Brazil. The social media netw… Read More

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky dismissed his air force chief after one of the country's F-16 fighter jets crashed while repelling a Russian air attack, killing the pilot, Oleksiy Mes… Read More

Nigeria became the first African country this week to receive a batch of vaccines against mpox, a viral disease whose rapid spread led the World Health Organization to declare a global healt… Read More

President Vladimir Putin is expected to travel to Mongolia on Tuesday, the first time the Russian leader has visited a member nation of the International Criminal Court since the court… Read More

Russian strikes killed at least six people in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, local officials said on Friday. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russia had dropped a guided bomb on t… Read More

Dotting East Africa’s Swahili coast, Zanzibar, Lamu and Mombasa are synonymous with pristine waters and white sandy beaches. But many tourists are unaware that these UNESCO World Herit… Read More

Electric power began to return in Venezuela on Friday afternoon after a widespread outage in the capital Caracas and other parts of the country that the government of President Nic… Read More

Israel has agreed to a series of three-day "humanitarian pauses" in Gaza to allow health officials to administer polio vaccinations to children in the territory, the World Health Organizatio… Read More

The opening ceremony of the Paralympic Games at Place de la Concorde on Wednesday night provided a nearly four-hour-long spectacle that was watched by around 10 million viewers in France alo… Read More

The Israeli army said it killed a local Hamas commander and two other militants in air strikes in Jenin on Friday, the third day of a major military operation in the occupied West Bank. The… Read More

Germany on Friday reversed a policy to stop returning migrants to Afghanistan due to human rights concerns after the Taliban took power in 2021. The first group of 28 Afghans who were &ldquo… Read More

Typhoon Shanshan has killed at least five people and injured dozens since making landfall in Japan on Thursday, according to the latest report given on Friday. Floods and landslides are now… Read More

Tunisian President Kais Saied is standing for a second term in an election set for October 6. Accused of authoritarianism by the opposition, the incumbent is maintaining an iron grip on the… Read More

Russian-born Telegram boss Pavel Durov was released on bail after being placed under formal investigation by French authorities following his arrest as part of a probe related to i… Read More

With rain forecast for Paris, concerns about the River Seine's water quality has prompted a change to the schedule of the swimming leg of the Paralympic triathlon, organisers said Thursday… Read More

Human rights groups have condemned a Hong Kong court ruling on Thursday, which found two former chief editors of the shuttered news outlet Stand News guilty of sedition. Chung Pui-kuen and P… Read More

France is famous for many things, but one of the first that comes to mind is food. The country boasts hundreds of cheeses, sophisticated dishes and incredible wines, but the cherry on top of… Read More