Author: France 24

Slovenian cyclist Tadej Pogacar won the final time trial of the 2024 Tour de France in Nice on Sunday, beating defending Danish champion Jonas Vingegaard. Having secured the Giro d’Italia earlier this year, the win not only marks Pogacar’s third Tour de France win, but also sees him joining an elite club of double winners, the last of whom was Italian cycylist Marco Pantani in 1998.  Source link

The death toll from an Israeli strike on Yemen’s rebel-held port of Hodeida climbed to six, Huthi health authorities said on Sunday, as the rebel group’s leader threatened an escalation in attacks. Story by Siobhán Silke and Romain Michelot. Source link

At least 38,983 Palestinians have been killed and 89,727 others injured in Israel’s military offensive on Gaza since Oct. 7, Gaza’s health ministry said on Sunday, with 64 people killed in the last 24 hours. Story by Siobhán Silke. Source link

Israeli warplanes killed three people in the Huthi-controlled Yemeni port of Hodeida, the Iran-backed rebels said Sunday after the group’s deadly drone attack in Tel Aviv. More information with ABC correspondent in Jerusalem Jordana Miller. Source link

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is to deliver a landmark speech to the US Congress on Wednesday as he fights off intense pressure to quickly cut a Gaza war ceasefire deal with Hamas. Analysis by FRANCE 24 international affairs editor Kethevane Gorjestani. Source link

Tadej Pogacar will be firmly in the spotlight as he goes down the ramp last on Sunday’s final day individual time trial in his adopted home of Monaco, with a third Tour de France title all but secured. More information with FRANCE 24 sports journalist James Vasina. Source link

The Hamas government’s Ministry of Health for the Gaza Strip announced on Sunday a new death toll of 38,983 in the Palestinian territory since the start of the war with Israel, now in its tenth month. Source link

Ukraine is sending its smallest ever delegation to this year’s Olympics – just 140 athletes from Ukraine will be competing here in Paris from next weekend, as war rages on at home. To help support the team, Kyiv has launched a special set of six postage stamps, which feature the various sports in which Ukraine has previously won awards and medals. Story by Rachel Griffiths. Source link

The Israeli military said it intercepted a missile fired from Yemen early Sunday, hours after Israeli warplanes struck several Houthi targets in the Arabian peninsula country. Story by Charlotte Hughes and Ethan Hajji. Source link

Paris’s road to the 2024 Olympics has been anything but plain sailing. From political bickering, to last minute sponsors and nail-biting suspense over the cleanliness of the Seine river, the Games – held exactly 100 years since Paris last hosted the event – “must be a success”, an Olympic source confided. Source link