Author: France 24

San Antonio Spurs lost the second match of the NBA finals to the New York Knicks on Saturday, with French star Victor Wembanyama missing a potential game-winner just before the final whistle. The defeat leaves Spurs in need of an unprecedented comeback when the best-of-seven series shifts to New York for games three and four.

After marathon five-hour talks, representatives from the EU Parliament and the EU Council agreed on Wednesday to go ahead and ratify the trade pact found with the US in July 2025. US President Donald Trump had threatened to increase tariffs on EU autos to 25 percent if the deal wasn’t implemented by July 4. Also in this edition, talks between Samsung and its workers went down to the wire ahead of a scheduled 18-day strike on Thursday.

This week on Paris des Arts, meet two artists who refuse to be put in a box. Actress Alice Taglioni shares her love of the piano, and Jessica Préalpato, named the world’s best pastry chef in 2019, reinvents afternoon tea in four different courses.

A film about Iran’s protest movement is making cinema history. “Dreams of Violets” is the first fully AI-generated feature film ever selected by a major international film festival. The 75-minute drama will premiere at New York’s Tribeca Festival next week. Created by Iranian-British director Ash Koosha from his home in London, the film took just three months to produce and cost less than 2,000 euros. There were no actors, no cameras, no sets and no film crew. Koosha says the film simply could not have been made through conventional means. Living in exile and unable to safely film inside Iran,…

France’s government had earlier asked prosecutors to investigate Israel’s alleged violent mistreatment of activists from the Gaza-bound Global Sumud Flotilla, potentially opening a route for criminal proceedings. 

In this episode we explore how the EU deals with outbreaks of disease. The latest scare for Europeans has been the hantavirus, detected on cruise ship the MV Hondius, which subsequently docked in Spain. Experts have stressed that this virus is not like Covid-19 and is much less infectious. Nevertheless, the EU’s civil protection mechanism was triggered, and several member states took part in evacuation flights from Tenerife in the Canary Islands.

It was a false start for France after losing 2-1 to Ivory Coast in their first warm-up match before the World Cup. While Rayan Cherki put on a show, France lost control in the second half, allowing the Elephants to come back and take the lead, notably thanks to an outstanding performance from Guéla Doué.

French-Italian auto group Stellantis and China’s Dongfeng have announced a plan to launch a joint venture based in Europe, with Stellantis having a 51 percent controlling stake. The deal would see Dongfeng’s new electric models assembled at Stellantis’s plant in western France to comply with the EU’s new “Made in Europe” rule that requires 70 percent of EV content to be made locally. Also in the segment: one man in the US has turned a broken pink Barbie car into a solution to combat soaring fuel prices. 

He’s been described as a prodigy of African-American art. Khalif Tahir Thompson combines vibrant colours and family photos in portraits painted for his new exhibition, “Beautiful Land” at Paris’ Zidoun-Bossuyt gallery. He talks to us about the two movements which inspired his work, Fauvism and the Harlem Renaissance and why Beauford Delaney inspired him artistically. He also talks about his upbringing and self-identity through his work.

#Kuwait released CCTV footage showing the moment its #airport was hit by a #drone on June 3. One person was killed and scores more were wounded in the #strike.