Author: France 24

Issued on: 02/01/2024 – 14:04Modified: 02/01/2024 – 14:39 01:17 As its population of displaced people grows, life in the south of Gaza is becoming more desperate by the hour. Israel’s assault, now in its 13th week, has pushed almost all Palestinians across the territory toward the Rafah area. People there say everyday existence has become a struggle. Read more on related topics: Source link

Paris on Tuesday said its embassy in Niamey, Niger’s capital, was now closed, confirming previously reported plans, after relations between the two countries deteriorated following a military coup in the African country in July 2023. Issued on: 02/01/2024 – 16:38Modified: 02/01/2024 – 16:40 1 min “For five months, our embassy has been severely hampered” by obstacles that have obstructed its diplomatic mission, a spokeswoman for the French foreign ministry said in a statement. “A blockade around the embassy, travel restrictions for staff and the refusal to allow any diplomatic personnel to travel to Niger was a clear violation of the Vienna Convention…

Issued on: 01/01/2024 – 11:25Modified: 01/01/2024 – 15:20 00:45 © FRANCE 24 France is preparing for its biggest event of the year: the 2024 Olympic Summer Games in Paris. The opening ceremony will take place for the first time ever on the River Seine, FRANCE 24’s James Vasina said, reporting from the banks of the Seine in the heart of Paris.  Read more on related topics: Source link

Issued on: 01/01/2024 – 11:27Modified: 01/01/2024 – 11:56 02:00 In Tel Aviv’s “hostages square” not far from the city’s party district, the ambience is noticeably quiet as passersby pause to reflect. © FRANCE 24 In Israel as elsewhere, people rang in the new year on Sunday night, but the proceedings were markedly more muted than in previous years, given the backdrop of the war in Gaza. Even so, some Israelis hit the streets in an effort to find a moment of badly needed levity following nearly 3 months of war – and while over a hundred hostages are still being held…

The tsunami threat from a 7.5-magnitude earthquake and a series of 20 other earthquakes measuring 4.0 or stronger that struck central Japan on Monday has “largely passed”, a US agency said, after waves over a metre high had earlier hit some areas.  Issued on: 01/01/2024 – 09:08Modified: 01/01/2024 – 13:19 2 min  “The tsunami threat has now largely passed,” the Hawaii-based Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said.A succession of 21 earthquakes registering 4.0 magnitude or stronger struck central Japan in just over 90 minutes on Monday, the Japan Meteorological Agency said.The strongest jolt measured 7.6, it said. The quakes prompted the tsunami…

US Navy helicopters sank three small boats used by Iran-backed Houthi militants to attack a Maersk merchant vessel in the Red Sea, US Central Command (CENTCOM) on Sunday. The Yemen-based Houthis have repeatedly targeted vessels in the vital Red Sea shipping lane with strikes they say are in support of Palestinians in Gaza. Read our live blog for all the latest developments in the Israel-Hamas war.  Source link

Jailed former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan and most of his supporters have been rejected as candidates for the February 8 election, party officials said Sunday after nominations for the ballot closed. Issued on: 31/12/2023 – 11:11Modified: 31/12/2023 – 11:14 2 min Khan has been in prison since August, facing trial over a slew of cases he insists have been orchestrated to prevent him from contesting the election as the figurehead of his Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party.The former cricket star was found guilty of graft earlier this year, but a court suspended his three-year sentence and the conviction is being…

Issued on: 26/12/2023 – 15:26Modified: 26/12/2023 – 15:35 02:13 2023-12-26 15:01 ‘Iran-backed groups in Syria, Iraq and Yemen have launched a slew of attacks on US and allied forces’ © FRANCE 24 An Israeli strike killed Razi Moussavi, a top Iranian general, near the Syrian capital on Monday. Moussavi was the most senior commander in the Quds Force – the foreign arm of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) – to be killed outside Iran in nearly four years. Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi expressed condolences for Moussavi’s death, saying Israel “will certainly pay for this crime”.  Read more on related topics: Source…

Bolivia’s Constitutional Court has disqualified former president Evo Morales from running for re-election in 2025, reversing a ruling that had let him seek a fourth term in 2019. Issued on: 30/12/2023 – 19:05 1 min It said on its website that term limits provide “an ideal measure for ensuring that someone does not perpetuate themself in power.”Bolivia’s first Indigenous president, Morales first took power in 2006 and was extremely popular until he tried to bypass the constitution and seek a fourth term in office in 2019.He won that vote but was forced to resign amid deadly protests over alleged election…

Issued on: 26/12/2023 – 15:27Modified: 26/12/2023 – 15:47 01:47 2023-12-26 15:04 Tensions soar as Iran vows revenge on Israel for killing top general © FRANCE 24 Tensions between Israel and Iran are soaring after an Israeli air strike killed an Iranian senior general. Razi Moussavi, a top commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard’s foreign arm was killed near the Syrian capital of Damascus on Monday. FRANCE 24’s Luke Shrago reports. Read more on related topics: Source link