Author: France 24

Switzerland’s Loïc Meillard led a commanding display in men’s alpine skiing at the Milan–Cortina Winter Olympics on Monday, securing a fourth Swiss victory in five events. China’s freestyle skiing star Eileen Gu claimed silver in the big air, and Japan celebrated a historic pairs figure skating triumph.

India has kicked off the 4th edition of the AI Summit, the first such event in the global south. The five-day event will draw world leaders including the French and Brazilian presidents, as well as tech bosses like Google’s Sundar Pichai and OpenAI’s Sam Altman, serving as an opportunity for New Delhi to showcase its burgeoning AI industry. Also in the segment, a Pokemon card owned by wrestler Logan Paul has fetched a whopping $16.5 million in an online auction. 

Oscar-winning US actor Robert Duvall died Sunday at the age of 95, his wife said on Monday. Duvall was known for legendary roles including soft-spoken mob loyalist Tom Hagen in the first two installments of “The Godfather” and the maniacal Lieutenant Colonel William Kilgore in Francis Ford Coppola’s 1979 Vietnam War epic “Apocalypse Now”.

Israel’s cabinet on Sunday approved a process to register land in the West Bank, a move far-right Finance Minister ​Bezalel Smotrich hailed as “continuing the revolution of settlement”. The Palestinian Authority condemned what it called “a ​de-facto annexation of occupied Palestinian territory” and several Arab countries criticised the measure as illegal under international law.

France have earned their 15th medal at Milano Cortina, tying their all-time winter Olympic record.

The Wall Street Journal has reported that the Pentagon used Anthropic’s AI model, Claude, as part of its operation to capture Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.

From the helmet that got a Ukrainian athlete banned from the Olympics to the start of Carnival to US Attorney General Pam Bondi’s disastrous Epstein testimony, FRANCE 24 looks back at the week’s most striking images.

Gaza’s civil defence says Israeli airstrikes killed at least 11 people on Sunday, including strikes on a tent camp for displaced families in the north and another in Khan Younis in the south. Israel and Hamas have repeatedly accused each other of violating a US-brokered ceasefire reached in October. France24 correspondent Noga Tarnopolsky reports from Jerusalem.

Rennes returned to winning ways in emphatic fashion on Friday, claiming a 3-1 win over Paris Saint-Germain and handing Lens the chance to reclaim top spot.

Ever since Donald Trump’s return to the White House and the appointment of Robert F. Kennedy Jr as Secretary of Health, the United States has become the scene of a growing clash between science and politics. One field in particular is paying the price of this ideological battle: health. FRANCE 24’s Pierrick Leurent and Valerie Defert report from Texas.