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Multiple victims reported in shooting at Brown University in US

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Two dead, several injured in mass shooting at Brown University in US

Two people were killed on Saturday and eight were critically injured in a shooting at Brown University, the mayor of Providence, Rhode Island said. The suspect remains at large, according to police.

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Six UN peacekeepers killed in drone attack in Sudan’s South Kordofan

Six United Nations peacekeepers from Bangladesh were killed and several others wounded on Saturday when a drone struck their camp in Sudan’s South Kordofan region, the UN mission said. The attack was strongly condemned by the UN chief and Bangladeshi aut

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Nobel laureate Machado feared for her life during secret escape from Venezuela

Venezuelan opposition figure and 2025 Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Corina Machado said she feared for her life during a clandestine journey out of Venezuela to reach Norway for the award ceremony, describing a high-risk sea escape carried out with US s

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Two US troops and an American civilian killed in Syria, Trump vows to 'retaliate'

Two US soldiers and an American civilian were killed in central Syria on Saturday after an alleged Islamic State gunman opened fire on a joint US-Syrian patrol in Palmyra, US Central Command said. Three other troops were wounded before the attacker was k

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Israel says it killed top Hamas weapon commander in Gaza strike

Israel said Saturday it had killed top Hamas commander Raed Saad in a strike in Gaza after an explosive device wounded two Israeli soldiers in the south of the territory as both sides accused each other of violating the ceasefire that took effect on Octo

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Belarus frees 123 prisoners in exchange for lifting of US sanctions

Europe • 4:48 PM

In exchange for the lifting of US sanctions on certain exports, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko freed 123 prisoners on Saturday including Nobel Peace Prize winner Ales Bialiatski and leading opposition figure Maria Kalesnikava after two days of

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First climate migrants from Tuvalu arrive in Australia

The first group of climate migrants from the Pacific island nation of Tuvalu has arrived in Australia under a landmark visa scheme, as rising sea levels threaten to make parts of the low-lying country uninhabitable and force long-term relocation.

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Comedy legend Dick Van Dyke turns 100 years old

Comedy icon Dick Van Dyke celebrated his 100th birthday on Saturday, hitting the century mark some six decades after he sang and danced with Julie Andrews in “Mary Poppins” and starred in his self-titled sitcom. Van Dyke became one of the biggest actors

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Civilians caught in crossfire as Thailand-Cambodia fighting continues

Cambodia shut its border crossings with Thailand on Saturday, after Bangkok denied US President Donald Trump's claim that a truce had been agreed to end days of deadly fighting. Violence between the Southeast Asian neighbours, which stems from a long-run

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Trump's approval rating slides: US president 'significantly underwater', expert says

Only 31% of U.S. adults approve of how President Donald Trump is handling the economy, down from 40% in March, according to a new AP-NORC poll – the lowest economic rating he has recorded in either term. SUNY-Empire State University history professor Ian

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Belarus frees opposition figure Kolesnikova, Nobel laureate Bialiatski in US-brokered deal

Europe • 1:49 PM

Belarus on Saturday released 123 political prisoners, including protest leader Maria Kolesnikova and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Ales Bialiatski, in a US-brokered deal involving a partial lifting of Western sanctions, according to rights groups and state

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French farmers protest as veterinarians cull diseased cows

French farmers are protesting against the culling of cows infected with nodular dermatitis – widely known as lumpy skin disease – after veterinarians slaughtered a herd under police protection on Friday. Several unions, including the left-wing Peasant Co

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Zelensky visits troops as Ukraine claims gained ground near key city

Europe • 10:38 AM

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Friday he had visited troops fending off Russian advances near the embattled city of Kupiansk that Moscow claimed to have captured last month, which Kyiv denies. Ukraine said earlier its army had retaken two se

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France to vaccinate cattle against lumpy skin disease as farmers protest mass culling policy

France’s agriculture ministry said on Saturday that one million head of cattle would be vaccinated against lumpy skin disease in the coming weeks, as farmers blocked roads to protest mass culling measures ordered after multiple outbreaks of the virus.

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Rising crime boosts far-right presidential hopeful in Chile

Anxiety over immigration and violent crime has carried Jose Antonio Kast to the steps of Chile's presidential palace. On Sunday, he is tipped to be elected the country's first hard-right leader since dictator Augusto Pinochet three decades ago.

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California sues Trump administration over $100,000 H-1B visa fee

California and 19 other US states filed a lawsuit on Friday seeking to block President Donald Trump's $100,000 fee on new H-1B visas for highly skilled foreign workers. The H-1B program allows US employers to hire foreign workers in specialty fields. The

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EU agrees to indefinitely freeze Russian central bank assets

The European Union agreed on Friday to indefinitely freeze Russian central bank assets held in Europe, removing a big obstacle to using the cash to help Ukraine defend itself against Russia. A first big step is to immobilise 210 billion euros ($246 billi

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Salah saga takes new turn as forward returns to Liverpool squad

A week on from his controversial public criticism of manager Arne Slot and his club, Mohamed Salah is set to be reinstated into the Liverpool squad, according to media reports in England. The Egyptian, who was dropped from the squad entirely for the Cha

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Lionel Messi's GOAT tour in India descends into chaos as fans vandalise stadium

Angry fans on Saturday stormed a stadium in eastern India after football star Lionel Messi left early during a packed event in Kolkata, sparking chaos, vandalism and arrests.

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Ukraine says it received 114 prisoners from Belarus under US-brokered deal

Kyiv received 114 prisoners released by Belarus under a US-brokered deal on Saturday, including Ukrainian citizens accused of working for intelligence services and Belarusian political prisoners. Meanwhile, US President Donald Trump’s special envoy Steve

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'Kind of a black swan event': SpaceX set for record-breaking stock market debut

Billionaire and tech guru Elon Musk plans to take SpaceX public more than two decades after its creation. The move, coming amid a boom in the space industry, could raise more than $30 billion and value the company at up to $1.5 trillion, marking what ana

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Cambodia says Thailand still bombing despite Trump ceasefire claim

Cambodia said on Saturday that Thai jets continued bombing its territory hours after US President Donald Trump said the two neighbours had agreed to halt border fighting. The conflict, which stems from a long-running dispute over the colonial-era demarca

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Thailand vows to keep fighting Cambodia despite Trump's ceasefire claim

Pacific Asia • 12:25 AM

Thailand’s leader vowed on Saturday to continue fighting along the disputed border with Cambodia, as fighter jets struck targets just hours after US President Donald Trump said he had brokered a new ceasefire. The escalation follows Thai Prime Minister A

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The Bright Side: Paris region unveils first urban cable car linking isolated suburbs

Gondolas floated above the southeastern suburbs of Paris on Saturday as officials inaugurated the first urban cable car in the French capital’s region, a project aimed at cutting travel times and improving links between isolated neighbourhoods and the me

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Friday, december 12, 2025

At the UN, the US has accused Rwanda of leading the region towards war

Fighting and insecurity continue in the eastern part of the DRCongo, amid rising diplomatic anger over the latest offensive by the M23 rebels, backed by Rwanda. According to regional officials, more than 400 civilians have been killed in South Kivu Provi

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'They have no border': Ukraine's integration into EU by 2027 deemed unlikely by diplomats

The US plan to end the war in Ukraine allows for Kyiv to join the EU in 2027, a senior official said Friday. Even if the bloc's Moscow-friendly governments such as Hungary were to agree to Ukraine's accession, complex questions would need to be quickly r

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'It's a mistake for Ukraine to make concessions': Former Trump security adviser John Bolton

"I don't think [US President] Donald Trump is really motivated by US national security interests, or NATO, or Ukrainian interests. I think he wants the Nobel Peace Prize – I think it's been on his mind since the first term," argues former US national sec

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2025 in review and what's in store for 2026

In a year that started with a political tempest in the US. A chaotic, unpredictable diplomatic circus, by White House design: friends are foes, foes are friends as the art of the deal went global, and the 45th president Donald J Trump became the 47th.

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'A glimpse into deep shadows' behind the art of kabuki: 'Kokuho' director on his Japanese megahit

It's a story of art, rivalry and bloodlines. Japan's megahit and Oscar hopeful "Kokuho" is coming to the French box office at Christmas. It follows the life of a man born the son of a yakuza boss who goes on to become a "living national treasure" in the

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UN warns of 'regional conflagration' over eastern DR Congo

UN peacekeeping chief Jean-Pierre Lacroix warned Friday of the risk of "conflagration" in DR Congo's Great Lakes region as M23 rebels make territorial gains there. The US ambassador accused Rwanda, which supports the M23, of leading the region toward war

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Thailand's high-risk election: Anutin rolls dice on 'wave of nationalism'

Pacific Asia • 5:35 PM

As Thailand moves toward early elections against the backdrop of one of the most volatile sociopolitical periods in its recent history, William Hilderbrandt welcomes Japhet Quitzon, Associate Fellow in the Southeast Asia Programme at the Center for Strat

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US House Democrats release new photos of Trump, other prominent figures from Epstein's estate

Democratic lawmakers on the House Oversight Committee on Friday released a selection of 19 photos from the estate of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, including some of Donald Trump before he became president and other prominent figures like former

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Thailand and Cambodia agree to stop border clashes, Trump says

Pacific Asia • 5:19 PM

Thailand and Cambodia agreed to halt border clashes along their disputed border, US President Donald Trump said on Friday. The two countries had brokered a ceasefire in July but Thailand suspended the agreement the following month after Thai soldiers wer

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'We'll concentrate on European military equipment and improve our defence': Romanian president

Romania is on NATO's eastern flank, and it is feeling the heat from drone incursions attributed to Russia, and from the Trump administration's strategic shift away from Europe. We speak to Romanian President Nicușor Dan about how his country is faring wi

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Berlin summons Russian ambassador over increase in hybrid attacks

Europe • 5:01 PM

Germany said Friday it had summoned Moscow’s ambassador after it accused Russian-linked groups of hacking its air traffic control system and attempting to influence the 2024 general election. Dubbing such operations, including drone flights near European

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France: Police use tear gas to clear farmer protests

Veterinarians arrived at a French farm on Friday under police escort to cull cows infected with lumpy skin disease, after officers used tear gas to clear farmers protesting the slaughter. Demonstrators had blockaded the farm in Ariège for two days, accus

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'They're no longer hiding': How Russia is shipping liquefied natural gas to China despite sanctions

A cargo of liquefied natural gas (LNG) from Russia's Portovaya plant was delivered to the Beihai terminal in China on December 8. This marks the first delivery since the facility was placed under US sanctions in January 2025. The development highlights d

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EU inches closer to trade deal with Latin America: Fair prices or Mercosur crisis?

Europe • 4:31 PM

The European Parliament is set to adopt its negotiating mandate on Mercosur, after which talks on the final shape of a trade deal can begin. The accord with Latin American countries would create a free trade area of more than 700 million people, at a tim

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Will France be next to introduce an Australian-style social media ban for children?

Australia this week implemented a world-first ban on social media for under-16s, and France could soon introduce a similar measure. French lawmakers will in January debate a bill whose aim is to protect children’s mental health.

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Embracing a multicultural identity: Bianca Costa's 'bossa trap' sound

Bossa Nova rhythms, trap, rap and reggaeton all go into Bianca Costa's musical palette, and the results have got her tens of millions of streams. As the artist releases her first full-length album, "Gringa", she joins us to talk about making peace with h

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France: Supermarket chain’s wolf ad goes viral

Intermarché’s AI-free Christmas ad about a vegetarian wolf goes viral, hitting 600M+ views.

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Benin police arrest former defence minister turned opposition leader Candide Azannai

Africa • 3:22 PM

Benin's opposition figure and former defence minister Candide Azannai was arrested on Friday in Cotonou, according to a police source. It has yet to be confirmed whether his detention is linked to Sunday's foiled coup attempt.

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Our journalists pick their top stories of 2025

It's the final episode of the year for FRANCE 24's media show, Scoop. Choosing the top stories of 2025 is nearly impossible, but that was the task at hand. Three FRANCE 24 journalists had to whittle down their choices to just two or three pieces of journ

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Israeli women rush to buy guns after October 7 attacks

Since the October 7, 2023 terror attacks, Israel has issued some 217,000 new firearms licences to civilians. Among the new permit holders are a growing proportion of women. Whether religious or secular and living in settlements or affluent villages, they

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US still pushing big territorial concessions from Ukraine

US President Donald Trump is "extremely frustrated" with Russia and Ukraine, his spokeswoman said on Thursday, as Kyiv said Washington was still pushing it to make major territorial concessions as part of its plan to end the nearly four-year war. France2

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Disney to invest $1bn in OpenAI to let fans create AI videos

Culture • 1:57 PM

Walt Disney and OpenAI agreed a three-year licensing deal on Thursday allowing users to generate short videos featuring Disney characters with artificial intelligence. It is the first time a major studio has permitted such broad generative-AI use of its

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Thailand's PM sets course for early election amid border and parliamentary unrest

Thailand appeared headed for a snap election as early as February after Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul secured royal approval to dissolve parliament, avoiding a possible no-confidence vote amid an intensifying border conflict with Cambodia. The vote,

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Iran 'violently' arrests Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi

Iran "violently" arrested Nobel Peace Prize 2023 laureate Narges Mohammadi at a memorial ceremony on Friday, her supporters said. Mohammadi, who was granted temporary leave from prison in December 2024, was detained along with several other activists.

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UAE seeks to hire more Emirati nationals in private sector

In the United Arab Emirates, the government has imposed quotas for hiring Emirati citizens across the private sector, with the aim of having them make up 10 percent of the workforce by 2026. So how are companies complying with these new rules and how can

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US - Europe rift: Further deepening transatlantic divide would only benefit Russia and China'

NATO country's military intelligence agency (FE) is warning that Denmark faces more external threats than ever amid rising geopolitical conflicts and doubts over US commitment to Europe's security. For in-depth analysis and a deeper perspective, Peter O'

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Venezuela: 'Does US care, are they here to help, or are sins of US playing out in their backyard'?

Nobel Peace laureate Maria Corina Machado publicly confirmed that the US helped her get to Norway from hiding in Venezuela, expressing support for US military action against her country and vowing to return home. Machado emerged on a hotel balcony in Osl

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How 'Clair Obscur: Expedition 33' became a gaming tour de force

PRESS REVIEW – Friday, December 12: A US defence news website reports on leaks from the National Security Strategy, which reveal how the Trump administration is trying to pull four EU nations away from the bloc. Also: World Darts champion Luke Littler be

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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 takes top prize at annual video games awards

French indie sensation "Clair Obscur: Expedition 33" on Thursday stole the spotlight at the Game Awards in Los Angeles, taking home a record nine prizes including Game of the Year. Created by Montpellier-based studio Sandfall Interactive, the post-apocal

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Amnesty accuses Hamas of 'crimes against humanity' for October 7 attach

For the first time, Amnesty International has accused Hamas and its allies of committing crimes against humanity, following an investigation into the 7 October 2023 attacks on Israel. The organisation found that 1,221 people were killed and said the mass

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