France reported the first human case of the Shamonda virus. This is usually found in livestock in a hospital patient who died, though authorities said there was no risk to the general population. It is suspected that the victim was bitten by a midge carrying the virus in eastern France where it had circulated among […]
A gunman firing from his car has killed one person and wounded four others in the Paris suburb of Trappes, authorities said.
Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators took to the streets of France as a vastly reinforced security presence appeared to have averted a repeat of last weekend's unrest, despite isolated clashes in several cities.
The UN has sounded the alarm on Israeli action in the West Bank city of Hebron after hundreds of families were displaced at the weekend. Israel has ordered the military to demolish homes after soldiers were killed there.
Israel has imposed widespread closures across the occupied West Bank and displaced residents following attacks by Palestinian gunmen that killed two Israeli soldiers. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited the site of the attack near Hebron and instructed security forces to immediately cordon off the city. Morgan Ayre reports.
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, a vocal critic of U.S. President Donald Trump, was re-elected on Sunday. But opponent Flávio Bolsonaro refused to concede defeat late Sunday, calling the move to extend voting hours unprecedented.
Defeated Brazilian presidential candidate Flavio Bolsonaro and his family landed in Florida early on Wednesday. Facing money laundering allegations, he fled just days after refusing to concede defeat to incumbent Lula.
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, nearly 81 years old, clinched a fourth term in a tight runoff against Flavio Bolsonaro on Sunday (October 26). The leftist leader won 51.7% of the vote, compared to 48.2% for the son of former president Jair Bolsonaro, official results showed. Bolsonaro has refused to accept the loss and said he would seek to annul the vote.
Defeated Brazilian presidential candidate Flavio Bolsonaro and his family landed in Miami on Wednesday (October 28) after fleeing Brazil. The stunning move came after 48 hours in which Bolsonaro refused to concede to Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and then threatened to attempt to annul the election result. Details by FRANCE 24's correspondent Tim Vickery.
At least 64 people died when two Spanish high-speed trains collided on Wednesday, with rescue workers scouring the wreckage for more bodies after Spain's second deadly rail accident this year.
Defeated Brazilian presidential candidate Flavio Bolsonaro and his family landed in Florida early on Wednesday. Facing money laundering allegations, he fled just days after refusing to concede defeat to incumbent Lula.
Former US president Barack Obama delivered scathing criticisms of his successor, Donald Trump, at rallies in Ohio and Michigan to support Democratic candidates ahead of the 3 November midterm elections.
Donald Trump has been ordered to sit for a deposition for his lawsuit against the BBC over edited clips of a speech he made.
The warning to US officials comes as at least three people die in the latest strikes at an airport and an oil field.
A truce between Ukraine and Russia aimed at allowing humanitarian aid into the Russian-occupied city of Oleshky has entered into force, having been announced by US First Lady Melania Trump last week.
Serbia's Aleksandar Vučić conceded defeat to a student-led protest movement in a historic election on Sunday that ends his long grip on power and heralds a new political era in the Balkan country.
Opposition leader and Nobel laureate María Corina Machado reappeared in Venezuela Sunday for the first time since December, about a month before the U.S. military deposed the country's then-President Nicolás Maduro.
Exit polls suggest neither has secured a clear path to a parliamentary majority.
Next week, Israelis vote for the first time since the 7 October 2023 attacks and, in many ways, it is being treated as a referendum on one man: Benjamin Netanyahu.
Two Arab-majority parties are set to win a historic 19 seats in total, amid a record turnout at the polls in Israel on Tuesday. Voters from the community, descendants of Palestinians who stayed after Israel's creation and who make up around 20 percent of the population, have been enraged by the Netanyahu government's ultra-nationalist Jewish vision for the country and the Palestinian territories. FRANCE 24's Emerald Maxwell reports.
Israelis are voting in a pivotal election Tuesday (October 27) as their country wrestles with unresolved wars, continues to reel from Hamas' 2023 attack and is deeply divided over the character of the state and the right person to lead it. FRANCE 24's Clovis Casali tells us more from the ground. He spoke with voters.
Kenya has recorded a second Ebola death. The health ministry confirmed this late on Friday, adding that the 65-year-old woman had developed symptoms during quarantine and was a close relative of a Kenyan man who died of Ebola earlier this month. The outbreak, which started in the Democratic Republic of Congo, has now been reported […]
People are feared to be trapped after a large, unfinished building in Nairobi collapsed during construction. Rescue operations have proven complicated as police fired tear gas to disperse looters.
The attack on a village in Syria killed five people, including women and children, Syrian health officials said.
A 7.0 magnitude earthquake has killed at least 16 people and injured dozens in Tibet, according to Chinese state media.
One person has died after being swept away by waves in Taiwan's Liuqiu island, authorities say.