Author: France 24

Iran and Israel say they’ve now halted attacks, after their first exchange of fire since a ceasefire in April. US President Donald Trump told them to stop fighting, as Israel reported 30 missiles from Israel and Israel struck back. Among ordinary Israelis, it stoked of a return to full-blown war.

Annette Young is pleased to welcome Laura Slimani, Director of Projects at the Women’s Foundation, a French NGO which has been very much focused on ending violence against women and girls. The killing of 11-year-old Lyhanna has ignited a wave of public anger across France, prompting demonstrations in more than 200 cities and renewed scrutiny of how the justice system handles violence against women and children. In this interview, Ms. Slimani argues that the tragedy is not simply the result of an individual failure but rather it “reveals a much broader dysfunction in the entire French justice system: she says…

The cruiseship hit by a deadly outbreak of hantavirus has finally docked in Rotterdam, in the Netherlands. It will be disinfected and the crew will go into quarantine. It will then be setting sail for Iceland, where it is to start another trip on May 29. FRANCE 24’s Fernande Van Tets tells us ore from Amsterdam

Alexander Zverev won the French Open final against Flavio Cobolli. He wins first career grand slam title.

With SpaceX set to become the first AI-era giant to go public on Friday, governments on both sides of the Atlantic are racing to define their relationship with the industry. Washington is in talks with OpenAI about a government equity stake; Brussels has unveiled a new tech sovereignty package. On this week’s Tech 24, we lay out the two very different visions of how to shape artificial intelligence’s future.

French-Iranian author and illustrator Marjane Satrapi, best known for the book and film “Persopolis”, has died of “sadness”, members of her entourage said Thursday. She was 56.

A Palestinian man with Israeli citizenship went on a shooting rampage in several towns in central Israel on Sunday, killing one person and wounding five others, according to Israeli police. The attacker was killed by police. The attack came at a time of heightened tensions following a spate of Israeli settler attacks, and the deadly shooting of a Palestinian baby over the weekend, in the nearby West Bank. Police identified the attacker as a resident of the nearby Arab town of Taybeh in his 20s, but his precise motives were not immediately known.

Annette Young welcomes Julie Drouet, DRC Director for Action Against Hunger. She offers a sobering assessment of the early Ebola outbreak response in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Speaking from the frontline of a rapidly evolving health emergency, Drouet describes a humanitarian system racing against time in one of the world’s most fragile and conflict-affected regions. They are not only facing epidemiological challenges of containing Ebola, but also the deeper structural vulnerabilities that make outbreaks in eastern DRC uniquely perilous. 

Russian ​eighth seed ​Mirra Andreeva beat Polish qualifier ​Maja ‌Chwalinska ⁠6-3 ‌6-2 to win the ⁠French Open and capture ​her maiden ‌Grand Slam title on ‌Saturday. The 19-year-old ​became the first teenager to win ​the ​Roland Garros ​crown since Poland’s Iga Swiatek in 2020.

South ​Korea’s ​labour minister will personally mediate talks ​between ‌Samsung ⁠Electronics and ‌its South Korean ⁠union, the ministry announced Thursday after the union threatened a strike following the collapse of talks on bonus payouts.