Author: France 24

Israeli missiles struck Lebanon’s third-largest city of Saida on Saturday, according to Lebanese security sources, amid fears of a regional spillover of the Israel-Hamas war. Reporting from Beirut, FRANCE 24’s Rawad Taha explains that Saida is the main city in southern Lebanon, located far from the Israel-Lebanon border, where fighting has intensified in recent days. Source link

Suffering from gunshot wounds to the leg and buttocks, 31-year-old Olivier Vilminio sought treatment in a hospital in Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince. But even there, he was not safe from a surge of gang violence that has upended life in the impoverished Caribbean nation and made medical care even more difficult to attain. As the necessary treatments are either too expensive or unavailable, the father of two young daughters says his wounds have left him in constant pain. Source link

Health officials in Gaza said Israeli air strikes on Saturday killed at least 24 people in the territory’s north, a day after the International Committee of the Red Cross said 22 people were killed in shelling that damaged its office. Source link

FRANCE 24 spoke to Kerry Kennedy, president of the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights organisation. She’s one of the 11 children of Robert F. Kennedy, who was assassinated in 1968 – five years after his brother, then president John F. Kennedy. Kerry Kennedy’s brother, Robert F. Kennedy Jr, is now running for president as an independent candidate. Like most of the Kennedys, Kerry supports President Joe Biden’s re-election bid. Warning that the “world order” would be at risk with a new Trump presidency, she called the November vote “the most important presidential election in our lifetime”. “There is no chance that…

Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant headed to Washington on Sunday for “critical” talks on the next phase of the Gaza war and the escalating hostilities against Hezbollah on the Lebanon border. His visit comes as Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu again claimed there was a “dramatic drop” in US arms deliveries for the war effort. Read our liveblog to see how all the day’s events unfolded. Source link

With Group E delicately poised before the last round of group stage matches, Ukraine have a chance to qualify for the last 16 at Euro 2024. For the Ukrainians, going far in Germany is about more than football – it’s about giving hope to those back home in a country at war.     Source link

Rescue teams examined the remains of a charred vehicle in the Bekaa district in eastern Lebanon. It’s the aftermath of an Israeli strike on Saturday, which according to a security source in the country, killed a commander from Jamaa Islamiya, a Lebanese group close to Hamas. Click on this video report by Charlotte Hughes for more.  Source link

We discuss “Kinds of Kindness”, Yorgos Lanthimos’ latest collaboration with Emma Stone and Willem Dafoe. Film critic Lisa Nesselson tells us why the Greek director has set himself up as a hard act to follow after 2023’s award-winning “Poor Things”. We also take a look at a new documentary charting the life and music of American folk icon Joan Baez and discover the dark comedy at the heart of French film “Plastic Guns”, which revisits a horrifying and unresolved true crime. Plus, Pierre Niney plays the title role in the “The Count of Monte Cristo” as Alexandre Dumas’ beloved adventure…

Thousands of Israelis rallied in Tel Aviv on Saturday to mark the 20th birthday of Naama Levy, who has been held hostage in Gaza since Oct. 7, and to call for an immediate ceasefire in the war with Palestinian militant group Hamas. Source link

Iran’s Supreme Court overturned the death sentence of a government critic and a popular hip-hop artist, Toomaj Salehi – who came to fame over his lyrics about the death in police custody of Mahsa Amini in 2022 – his lawyer Amir Raisian said Saturday. Story by Camille Knight. Source link