Author: France 24

The United States said Wednesday it will snap back sanctions on Venezuela’s crucial oil industry after President Nicolas Maduro’s government continued its repression of opponents. Issued on: 17/04/2024 – 23:31Modified: 18/04/2024 – 01:57 3 min President Joe Biden’s administration suspended some sanctions after Maduro’s government and the opposition agreed in Barbados last October to hold a free and fair vote in 2024 under the watchful eye of international observers.But the thaw ended when Maduro’s opponents were not allowed to run against him in elections, and the United States said Caracas had now failed to make progress ahead of an April…

Israel’s armed forces chief has vowed to respond to Iran’s unprecedented attack against the country, even after appeals for restraint poured in from world leaders fearing wider regional conflict. The news came after Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu convened with his war cabinet for the second time in less than 24 hours to discuss a response to the weekend’s drone and missile attack. Source link

Real Madrid exacted revenge on Manchester City to reach the Champions League semi-finals 4-3 on penalties after withstanding a barrage at the Etihad on Wednesday. Source link

Global attention has set its focus on Israel, awaiting its response to an unprecedented attack carried out by Iran on Saturday in retaliation for a deadly April 1 air strike on the Iranian consulate in Damascus. The Israeli military said it intercepted 99 percent of the aerial threats with the help of the United States and other allies, and that the attack caused only minor damage, including to a military base in the country’s south. Source link

Iran’s missile strike on Israel late on Saturday was its first ever direct attack on the country. Fears are continuing to mount of an escalation of violence in the region. After analysing the images shared by both Iran and Israel, we found inconsistencies in the footage published by authorities on both sides. FRANCE 24’s Vedika Bahl explains in this edition of Truth or Fake. Source link

Israeli strikes in southern Lebanon on Tuesday killed three people including a Hezbollah field commander, Lebanese security sources said, an uptick in violence after at least a week of relative calm in more than half a year of hostilities. The Israeli military said Ismail Baz, killed in a strike on a car near the southern town of Ain Ebel, was the commander of Hezbollah’s coastal sector and was involved in planning rocket and anti-tank missile attacks on Israel. Source link

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