Author: France 24

France bid a reluctant farewell on Monday to an “enchanted” fortnight of Olympic sport as athletes headed home from Paris praising a dazzling edition of the Games that has breathed new life into the biggest show on earth. FRANCE 24 Sports Editor Leo McGuinn recaps the event of the year that took place in the City of Light.

Israeli strikes across Gaza killed 24 people overnight and into Sunday, including a woman and her six children, local health officials said, as U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken headed to the region to try to seal a cease-fire deal after months of negotiations. FRANCE 24’s Irris Makler reports.

Alain Delon, the internationally acclaimed French actor who embodied both the bad guy and the policeman in movie pictures died at age 88. Born to charm with his handsome looks and tender manner, Delon made hearts throb around the world through his films and interviews.

India’s medical workers began a countrywide strike Saturday to protest the rape and killing of a trainee doctor at a state-run hospital in the eastern West Bengal state. Saturday’s strike was called by the country’s largest group of doctors, the Indian Medical Association, saying all non-essential services at hospitals would be shut down across the country for 24 hours.

French champions PSG got their post-Kylian Mbappé era off to a winning start with a 4-1 defeat of Le Havre on Friday, capitalising on a late collapse by the hosts who had two goals disallowed.

An Israeli airstrike Saturday killed at least 18 people, all from the same family, in the Gaza Strip. The attack came days after the Health Ministry in Hamas-run Gaza announced the death toll surpassed 40,000 in the 10-month-old Israel-Hamas war, and just hours after officials from the United States, Egypt and Qatar wrapped up two days of cease-fire talks with a message of hope that a deal could be reached.

The European Union health agency on Friday (August 16) urged its member states to get ready for more cases of a deadly strain of mpox, a day after Sweden announced the first case outside Africa.

France’s Ligue 1 kicks off a new season on Friday stripped of star player Kylian Mbappé and crippled by a broadcast deal that secured a far lower price than initially hoped, leaving it further behind Europe’s other leading domestic leagues. 

Dozens of Israeli settlers attacked a Palestinian village in the occupied West Bank, killing at least one person on Thursday (August 14), authorities said. Since Oct. 7, violence has flared in the occupied territory. Palestinian health officials say 633 Palestinians, including 147 children and teenagers, have been killed by Israeli fire and over 5,400 injured. FRANCE 24’s Rob Parsons gives us more analysis.

The World Health Organization on Thursday said a first case of mpox linked to an outbreak in Africa has been identified outside the continent after an infection was confirmed in Sweden. The news comes a day after the WHO declared mpox, also known as monkeypox, a global public health emergency.