Author: France 24

Despite enjoying a 20-minute numerical advantage, Olympique de Marseille lost 2-1 away to Real Madrid. Kylian Mbappé scored twice from the penalty spot.

One year after releasing a far-reaching report on European competitiveness, former ECB chief Mario Draghi warned the EU was falling further behind its peers and sharply criticised member states for their slow response and complacency. With Donald Trump’s tariffs biting and trade deficit with China widening, Draghi says that every challenge he had pointed out in his report has worsened, with no clear path to financing necessary investments. 

In this episode of arts24, Eve Jackson sits down with one of the most celebrated British-Turkish novelists of our time, Elif Shafak. With over 20 books translated into more than 50 languages, Shafak believes fiction remains one of the last truly democratic spaces, where stories can build empathy, challenge polarisation and create connections across cultures. Her latest novel, “There Are Rivers in the Sky”, takes readers on a sweeping journey through history and geography, tracing a single drop of water from ancient Mesopotamia to modern-day Iraq, against the urgent backdrop of climate crisis and cultural loss.

A team of independent experts commissioned by the United Nations’ Human Rights Council has concluded that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, issuing a report Tuesday that calls on the international community to end the genocide and take steps to punish those responsible for it.

Armand ‘Mondo’ Duplantis said a raucous Tokyo crowd was “the difference maker” as he set yet another world pole vault record on Monday, four years after triumphing at the pandemic-troubled Olympics in the same stadium. FRANCE 24’s Caroline Baum reports.

Larry Ellison, the 81-year-old co-founder of US business software company Oracle, briefly became the world’s richest man on Wednesday after shares in Oracle surged over 40 percent. The company is predicting that its cloud infrastructure business will grow from $10 billion to $144 billion by 2030, thanks to AI-driven demand for its services. Also in this edition: Cuba suffers another island-wide blackout – the fifth in the past year.

The director and producer of a new television series here in France has spoken of her delight at being able to feature France’s LGBTQ+ community in a place where they feel safe. Amandine Gay is the woman behind “Ballroom” – a series that features the artistic competition of New York’s ballroom culture, where the LGBTQ community combines fashion, dance and self-expression. She says the series shows how people get to know themselves and decide who they are going to be. She spoke to us in Perspective.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio vowed Washington would provide unwavering support to Israel in achieving its goals in Gaza as he called for the eradication of Hamas. Meanwhile, leaders from Arab, Muslim countries are gathering for an emergency summit in Doha, following Israel’s unprecedented strike on Hamas in Qatar..For deeper analysis, Carys Garland welcomes Dr H A Hellyer, Senior Associate Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute for Defence & International Security Studies in London.

Germany has won its first EuroBasket title since 1993, narrowly beating Turkey 88-83 to secure the gold. Greece took away the bronze medal with a win against Finland.

It’s crunch time for “chat control”, the European Commission’s plan to scan private messages and report content suspected of being child sexual abuse.