An Iranian went on trial in France Tuesday accused of promoting "terrorism" on social media in a case linked to a possible prisoner swap with two French citizens held by the Islamic republic for over ...
US President Donald Trump delivers a speech during the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP via Getty Images President Donald Trump gave his 70-minute-long speech in Dav...
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Former Corsican nationalist leader Alain Orsoni, who also served as the president of soccer club AC Ajaccio, was shot dead in Corsica on January 11 during his mother’s funeral. He was 71. Alain Orsoni...
US President Donald Trump made an unexpected appearance at the White House briefing room ahead of his trip to the World Economic Forum in Davos, as tensions rise over Greenland and threats loom of a d...
Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado said she presented her Nobel Peace Prize medal to President Donald Trump at the White House on Thursday even as he has questioned her credibility to t...
Military personnel from several NATO countries including Germany, France, Sweden and Norway headed to Greenland on Thursday as Denmark and its allies prepared for exercises to try to assure US Presid...
TikTok finally closed a deal meant to bring it into compliance with the law that should have banned it a year ago, and the lawmakers who passed that law still don't seem to know what's going on . The ...
The UK goverenment on Tuesday approved a 20,000-square-metre plot of land, known as Royal Mint Court, for China's new embassy in London. The decision has stoked heated controversy, mostly over nationa...
Speaking with FRANCE 24's Mark Owen, Gavin Bade, reporter on trade and economic policy at The Wall Street Journal, says that Donald Trump's tariffs policy may be 'already coming back to bite the US' a...
TikTok is officially under new ownership in the US, and that could spell big changes for the video-sharing app. On January 22nd , ByteDance - TikTok's Chinese parent company - and a group of investors...
Civilians fled a Kurdish-held region of northern Syria on Friday before a deadline set by the army, which seeks to expand its control over the area after driving Kurdish forces from Aleppo. The govern...
French farmers on Tuesday drove hundreds of tractors to stage a protest outside the National Assembly. Farmer anger in France and other European countries has escalated over a rash of challenges. The ...
François Picard welcomes Norwegian-Iranian neuroscientist Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam, Director of Iran Human Rights NGO. He offers a rare quantified data-driven-account of fatalities in the current Irani...
Syria's government and the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces agreed a new ceasefire on January 20 as Washington said the SDF's purpose in fighting Islamic State group jihadists was largely over. Th...
French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu survived two votes of no-confidence from the far left and the far right after three months of political deadlock over the budget. The PM had triggered these vot...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Thursday criticised what he called the EU’s lack of “political will” towards his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin at Davos. Meanwhile, Denmark said NATO chi...
The US military has started transferring up to 7,000 Islamic State (IS) detainees from prisons in northeastern Syria to Iraq, as Syria’s new government asserts control over territories long governed a...
"In politics as in business – a deal is a deal. And when friends shake hands, it must mean something.” Ursula von der Leyen's comments came amid growing tension between Europe and the US over Greenlan...
French far-right leader Marine Le Pen softened her tone while answering judges' questions during her appeal trial in Paris but denied wrongdoing, after being barred from public office over a convic...