Author: France 24

Palestinian health officials and Hamas media said an Israeli airstrike had also killed 11 Palestinians, including children, in the Al-Maghazi refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip. “My brothers were sitting by the door, my brother was injured, and his cousin too, and I lost my son, I do not have a house, nor a husband, nor anything anymore,” said Wafaa Issa al-Nouri, whose son Mohammad and husband were killed in the strike. Source link

Thousands of German soldiers moved in on southeastern France’s Vercors Plateau in July 1944 in a bid to crush a regional uprising led by a rural French Resistance group. Over 100 Resistance fighters died in the bloody battles on the mountainside. Many of them were of African origin but who they were and why they decided to join the French Resistance has only recently begun to come to light. When France on Tuesday inaugurated the commemorations for the 80th anniversary of the French liberation, President Emmanuel Macron’s very first visit went to the tiny pre-Alps village of Vassieux-en-Vercors, in the…

Heavy thunderstorms lashed the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on Tuesday, dumping the heaviest rain ever recorded in the country in the span of several hours that flooded portions of major highways and Dubai’s international airport. Unexpected rain also fell in Bahrain, Qatar and Saudi Arabia. Source link

Leaders around the world are calling for restraint on Israel’s part as the nation’s war cabinet meets on Wednesday to discuss a potential response to Iran’s attack Saturday. “Israel is not looking for a regional escalade,” said Hen Feder, spokesperson for the Israeli embassy in France. Sanctions on Iran, however, are “imperative” and should “come sooner than later”, he said. Source link

Issued on: 17/04/2024 – 16:32 A few days after Iran’s unprecedented drone and missile attack against Israel, FRANCE 24 spoke to former Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak. The Iranian attack was largely repelled and as such is a “dramatic failure”, Barak said. As a result, he believes “there is no need and no will to go into full-scale war” with Iran. “Israel will very probably respond on Iranian soil”, he predicted, but “in a way that will be calibrated in order to avoid it from deteriorating into full-scale war”. Ehud Barak, who was prime minister from 1999 to 2001, also served as…

In the latest speculative fiction from British director Alex Garland, Kirsten Dunst stars as a war reporter documenting a conflict she once never thought possible: a new civil war in the United States. With the US in the midst of another divisive election year, the scenario may seem cliché, but FRANCE 24 film critic Lisa Nesselson says the film is engrossing, entertaining and unsettling. Source link

Issued on: 17/04/2024 – 14:20Modified: 17/04/2024 – 14:40 02:36 © FRANCE 24 The Israeli war cabinet is set to meet for a fourth consecutive day since Iran’s unprecedented direct strike on Israel, ABC News Correspondent Jordana Miller told FRANCE 24. A decision has not yet been made on Israel’s response, “not the type, nor the timing,” Miller said. Read more on related topics: Source link

Russia but not President Vladimir Putin will be invited to the French ceremony in June to mark 80 years since the D-Day landings during World War II, organisers said Tuesday. Issued on: 16/04/2024 – 15:51Modified: 16/04/2024 – 16:35 1 min In February 2022, Putin sent troops to Ukraine, shredding ties with the West. And in 2023, the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for Putin on the war crime accusation of unlawfully deporting Ukrainian children.In June, France marks the 80th anniversary of the 1944 Normandy landings. A host of world leaders are expected to attend, including US President Joe…

The talk before the opening ceremony of the Paris Games ideally should be about its grandiose backdrop: a summer sun setting on the Seine River as athletes drift by in boats and wave to cheering crowds. But behind the romantic veneer that Paris has long curated, mounting security concerns already have had an impact on the unprecedented open-air event. In January, the number of spectators allowed to attend the ceremony was slashed from around 600,000 to around 320,000.Tourists were told they won’t be allowed to watch it for free from riverbanks because the French government scaled back ambitions amid ongoing security…

Issued on: 17/04/2024 – 11:16Modified: 17/04/2024 – 11:30 01:23 US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen warned Tuesday of further sanctions targeting Iran following its unprecedented weekend attack on Israel, saying she expects Washington will take added action “in the coming days.” The EU is also weighing new sanctions against Iran according to foreign policy chief Josep Borrell. Read more on related topics: Source link