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French farmers protest tough government measures to contain cattle disease outbreak

French farmers are protesting against government measures, including the culling of entire cattle herds, aimed at containing an outbreak of lumpy skin disease among livestock. If left unchecked, the disease could wipe out 1.5 million cattle in France, or

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France seeks delay in EU-Mercosur trade deal vote amid farmer protests

French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu has called for pushing back the final approval vote on the landmark EU free trade deal with the Mercosur group of Latin American countries after outbreaks of the highly contagious lumpy skin disease sparked livesto

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France reinforces security for Hannukah after Bondi Beach antisemitic shooting

Against the backdrop of an already high terror threat in France, the Bondi Beach shooting sounded alarm bells with Hannukah celebrations planned in various French cities. Security and intelligence presence was increased at these places of celebration, on

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Australia: What we know about the Bondi Beach attack on a Jewish festival

An attack by a father and son on a Jewish celebration at Sydney's Bondi Beach killed 15 people, plunging Australia into national mourning Monday. Here is what we know.

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Bondi Beach shooters clearly motivated by extremist ideology according to PM

As Australia mourns the victims of the Bondi Beach antisemitic shooting, the identity of the two shooters is emerging. A father and son, one was killed at the scene, while the other is critically injured. According to media, both had possible links to th

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Santa events take place across the world ahead of Christmas

With less than two weeks to Christmas, Santa runs and festivals are spreading holiday cheer across the globe this weekend. From Paris to Mexico City and Romania, and even bar crawls in the United States. In recent years, Santa runs have grown, becoming a

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Flash floods kill dozens in Moroccan town of Safi

Flash flooding in Morocco caused by heavy rain hit the coastal town of Safi on December 14. At least 70 homes and businesses have been affected with dozens killed and injured. Drought-hit Morocco often faces severe weather, but Sunday's flooding in Safi

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Manhunt continues for Brown University shooter

A shooter opened fire on December 13 at the elite Ivy League university in Providence, Rhode Island, triggering a campus lockdown and launching a manhunt. The mass shooting took place during winter exams, one of the busiest moments for the campus, and is

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How the true story of a drunk raccoon was turned into a fake AI video

Social media users have been sharing footage said to come from the surveillance camera in a liquor store that shows a masked bandit who ransacked the place, drank his fill and was then discovered passed out in the store restroom: a raccoon. While the rem

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FRANCE 24 and Mother Jones report on Gaza aid whistleblower wins UN award

FRANCE 24 and Mother Jones have won a UN journalism award for their reporting on the testimony of Gaza Humanitarian Foundation contractor Anthony Aguilar. In their report he describes the "war crimes" he witnessed whilst working as a contractor for the G

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Imprisoned Iranian Nobel laureate hospitalised twice after ‘heavy’ blows, family says

In a phone call from prison, Iranian Nobel Peace Prize laureate Nargis Mohammadi said she endured blows during her incarceration that were so "heavy, forceful and repeated" that she had to be hospitalised twice, the family-run Narges Foundation said Mond

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'A difficult lover': Writer Elaine Sciolino on the Louvre Museum

As the doors of the world's most visited museum, the Louvre, remain closed amid a strike, one its greatest supporters has spoken to FRANCE 24 about its energy and its vital importance to cultural heritage. Staff there are taking action after a series of

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Media tycoon and Beijing critic Jimmy Lai found guilty in controversial security trial

A Hong Kong court has found the media mogul and pro-democracy activist Jimmy Lai guilty of conspiracy to collude with foreign forces and of publishing seditious material. The 78 year-old's tabloid newspaper was one of the most vociferous critics of Beiji

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Australia plans to tighten gun control laws following Sydney attack

Australian government leaders have agreed to immediately overhaul already-tough national gun control laws after a mass shooting targeted a Hanukkah celebration on Sydney's Bondi Beach, leaving at least 15 people dead. The action would include renegotiati

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Australia left "reeling" following Bondi Beach terror attack

Following the antisemitic terrorist attack in Sydney over the weekend, reactions have been pouring in from all over the world. On December 15, hundreds arrived near the scene to lay flowers at a growing pile of floral tributes. The horror at Australia’s

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Chile's far-right Jose Antonio Kast scores landslide win in presidential election

Third time's a charm for Chilean far-right politician Jose Antonio Kast who will become the country's next president. After two previous failed presidential bids, he secured nearly 60% of the vote in a run-off against leftist Jeanette Jara. Kast's win is

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Papers react to 'massacre of Jews' that has 'changed Sydney forever'

PRESS REVIEW – Monday, December 15: Australian and Israeli papers discuss the "bloodshed" of the Bondi Beach terror attack. Next, French papers write about the "agricultural revolt" of farmers. Finally: a sausage-dog walk in London's Hyde Park sparks the

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Zelensky to meet US negotiators in Berlin

The Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and US negotiators are meeting in Berlin on December 15, after five hours of talks the day before. As the US grows increasingly pressed to end the four-year war, the peace negotiations continue, with territorial

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Fifteen killed in Bondi Beach terrorist attack

Gunmen have killed 15 people in a mass shooting that targeted a Jewish celebration on Sydney's iconic Bondi Beach in Australia. One of the gunmen -- a 50-year-old man -- was shot. Some 42 people were injured after the men opened fire at a Jewish event on

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A look back on Rob Reiner's Hollywood career

The family of Hollywood director Rob Reiner have confirmed that he and his wife Michelle were found dead at their Los Angeles home on December 14. Police are treating the case as a homicide, saying the couple were both found with stab wounds. The 78-year

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Louvre museum workers vote to strike, denouncing overcrowding and security issues

Louvre museum workers voted to strike on December 15, causing the museum to remain closed. Workers ask for more resources to tackle overcrowding and security issues, after two months during which a spectacular heist took place and an archive room flooded

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French government calls for delay of EU-Mercosur trade deal vote

France's prime minister has called for pushing back the final approval vote on the landmark EU-Mercosur free trade deal as an outbreak of lumpy skin disease sparks a fresh crisis in its agricultural sector. Also in this edition: credit default swaps for

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Who is Chile's new far-right president Jose Antonio Kast?

Chile elected its most right-wing president in 35 years of democracy on December 14. Arch-conservative Jose Antonio Kast won on an anti-crime and anti-immigration platform. He is also an admirer of former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet. FRANCE 24's Ph

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"Much more needs to be done" for Gazan students

As Israel bombed most of Gaza's schools and universities, most people living there have been unable to attend any classes for years now. Some have found ways to continue some studies online and many hope that a scholarship could help them get out of the

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Louvre goes on strike in fresh blow to museum after jewel heist

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Louvre goes on strike in fresh blow to Paris museum after jewel heist

Louvre workers went on strike on Monday in a fresh blow to the world's most-visited museum as the vast Paris institution struggles with the fallout of a jewel heist and its workers complain of security failures, overcrowding and poor working conditions.

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A 10-year-old girl, a Holocaust survivor: what we know about the victims of the Bondi Beach shooting

A mass shooting at Sydney’s Bondi Beach on Sunday claimed the lives of 15 people, including a rabbi, a Holocaust survivor, and a 10-year-old girl, as a Hanukkah celebration turned into a scene of horror. Police say the attack left 40 injured, with the gu

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Police investigate deaths of director Rob Reiner and wife as 'apparent homicide'

Hollywood director Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele Singer Reiner, were found dead in their Los Angeles home in an apparent homicide, prompting a police investigation and an outpouring of tributes for the filmmaker behind "When Harry Met Sally" and "The

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Jose Antonio Kast: Who is Chile's new ultra-conservative president?

The ultra-conservative former congressman Jose Antonio Kast has clinched a victory in Chile's presidential election as fears over crime and immigration propel one of Latin America's wealthiest countries to the right. An admirer of Pinochet, Kast has buil

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Mother of jailed French journalist appeals to Algerian president for pardon

The mother of jailed French journalist Christophe Gleizes has appealed to Algeria’s president for a pardon, calling his seven-year sentence “incomprehensible". Arrested in May 2024 while reporting in Kabylia, Gleizes maintains he is innocent, and his cas

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Ligue 1: Lens defeat Nice and claim back top spot in standings

RC Lens beat Nice 2-0 and will spend the winter as French league leaders. This as OGC Nice suffered their sixth consecutive defeat.

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Live: EU faces a ‘very important’ week for Ukraine funding

The EU must take "very important" decisions on funding Ukraine at a crunch summit this week, said EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas on Monday, adding that talks over using frozen Russian assets were getting harder. "We are not there yet, and it is incr

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Vatican goes digital as influencer priests spread gospel on social media

During his papacy, Pope Francis encouraged the clergy to use the "digital continent" to broaden their evangelical work. They seem to have paid attention: over the last few years, a number of priests have launched themselves on social media, racking up mi

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Gun circulation "steadily increasing" in Australia despite already tight legislation

Following the Bondi Beach shooting, Australia is set on tightening gun control laws it introduced in 1996 following the shooting in Port Arthur. Despite regulation, one of the Bondi Beach shooters legally owned six firearms. Australia's proposed restrict

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Yesterday

Deadly flash floods in Moroccan coastal town of Safi after heavy rainfall

Flash-flooding caused by sudden rain storms killed at least 37 people in the Moroccan coastal town of Safi on Sunday, local authorities said, doubling an earlier toll. The downpour in Safi province, around 300 kilometres (186 miles) south of the capital

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Hard-right candidate Jose Antonio Kast wins Chile presidential election

Chilean voters elected the most right-wing president in 35 years of democracy on Sunday, as official results showed Jose Antonio Kast with a thumping 58 percent of votes and his rival conceding defeat. With more than ten million votes counted – almost 70

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Hong Kong court finds media tycoon Jimmy Lai guilty in national security trial

Hong Kong’s High Court on Monday convicted jailed media tycoon and pro-democracy campaigner Jimmy Lai of national security offences that could see him sentenced to life in prison, a verdict that has intensified global scrutiny of the city’s judicial inde

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Death toll rises to 16 in Sydney beach shooting, one French national killed. Follow live

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'Pressure works': Belarus opposition leader Tikhanovskaya reacts to release of political prisoners

Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, the exiled Belarus opposition leader, spoke to FRANCE 24 about the release from jail of fellow protest leader Maria Kolesnikova and Nobel Prize winner Ales Bialiatski along with 121 other political prisoners. "Let's not forget tha

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Israel's antisemitism criticism of Australia plays to 'domestic audience', expert says

Sunday's shooting at Sydney's Bondi Beach where a Jewish celebration was taking place was unsurprising given the long history of persecution faced by Jews, said Joseph Downing, a senior lecturer in politics and international relations at Aston University

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Netanyahu blames Australia after Sydney shooting targeting Jewish celebration

Israeli leaders condemned a shooting in Sydney that targeted a Hanukkah celebration and killed 11 people on Sunday, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accusing Canberra of fuelling antisemitism in the lead-up to the attack. Brendan Berne, a former Au

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'Genuine hero': Bystander tackles alleged gunman during Bondi Beach mass shooting

Footage captured by an eyewitness shows a man grappling with an alleged gunman during the Bondi Beach mass shooting in which at least 12 people were killed, before wrestling the weapon off him.

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French PM urged to intervene as farmers keep up road blocks over cow 'mass slaughter'

Farmers sprayed manure on government offices and kept up roadblocks in southern France on Sunday in protest against a mass cull of cows ordered to contain the spread of a skin disease. Local officials have urged Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu to urgent

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Syrian who killed Americans was part of security forces, interior ministry says

Syria's interior ministry said Sunday the gunman who killed three Americans in the central Palmyra region the previous day was a member of the security forces who was to have been fired for extremism. Two US troops and a civilian interpreter died in what

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The week in pictures: Machado's Nobel, Benin's botched coup, AI people named Time's Person of Year

Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado receives her Nobel Peace Prize, AI is named Person of the Year 2025 by Time magazine, and another massive protest in Bulgaria leads to the fall of the government. FRANCE 24 looks back at the week's most s

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Thousands march in Budapest to protest Orban's government over child abuse scandal

Thousands of Hungarians marched to Prime Minister Viktor Orban's offices on Saturday, led by opposition leader Peter Magyar, who urged the veteran nationalist to resign over an abuse scandal at a juvenile detention centre. The prosecutor's office said on

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Far right eyes comeback as Chile holds presidential election

Chileans began voting for a new president Sunday, making a stark choice between the most right-wing candidate in 35 years of democracy and the head of a leftist coalition. Polls show far-right candidate Jose Antonio Kast as the strong front-runner in the

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Syrian who killed Americans was part of security forces, interior ministry says

Syria's interior ministry said Sunday the gunman who killed three Americans in the central Palmyra region the previous day was a member of the security forces who was to have been fired for extremism. Two US troops and a civilian interpreter died in what

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Bondi Beach shooting an 'escalation' in attacks against Australia's Jewish community

Two gunmen attacked a Hanukkah celebration at Sydney’s Bondi Beach, killing 11 and drawing international condemnation. It is Australia’s deadliest shooting in nearly three decades. Citing two other attacks on the country’s Jewish community in 2024, FRANC

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Gunmen kill several at Jewish gathering in Sydney's Bondi Beach

Two gunmen attacked a Hannukah celebration on a Sydney beach Sunday, killing at least 11 people in what Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese called an act of antisemitism and terrorism. The massacre at one of Australia’s most popular and iconic bea

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Chile’s right pushes immigration as 'politicised' issue in presidential vote, expert says

The right in Chile is pushing “immigration” onto the agenda ahead of an election that could see an ultra-conservative candidate win, Rossana Castiglioni, Dean of Social Sciences and History at Diego Portales University, told FRANCE 24. Noting that Chile

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US police detain 'person of interest' in deadly shooting at Brown University

Police in Providence said early Sunday that they had a person of interest in custody after a shooting that rocked the Brown University campus during final exams, leaving two people dead and nine others wounded at the Rhode Island Ivy League school.

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Bondi Beach shooting: Rabbi killed at Jewish holiday gathering

Hundreds had gathered Sunday to celebrate a Jewish holiday at Bondi Beach where a mass shooting was carried out earlier. The event was to mark the start of the eight-day Hanukkah festival. One of the victims of the shooting was identified as Rabbi Eli Sc

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Bondi Beach shooting: Explosive device found in vehicle linked to shooters

Two gunmen shot dead at least 11 people on Sunday during a Jewish holiday celebration at Sydney’s Bondi Beach, Australian authorities said, declaring it a terrorist attack. One gunman was fatally shot by police and the second arrested. Reporting from Syd

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Zelensky and US envoys to push on with Ukraine talks in Berlin on Monday

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Sunday voiced readiness to drop his country’s bid to join NATO in exchange for Western security guarantees as he held talks in Berlin with US envoys that were set to continue on Monday. The Ukrainian leader rejec

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Israel blames Australia for ignoring antisemitism over Bondi Beach shooting

Israeli leaders on Sunday “loudly blamed” the Australian government for ignoring warnings of antisemitic threats, FRANCE 24’s Noga Tarnopolsky reported, noting that Tel Aviv has offered little condolence to Australia’s Jewish community. Tarnopolsky also

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Bondi Beach shooting a 'terrorist incident', New South Wales police force commissioner says

New South Wales Police Force Commissioner Mal Lanyon said on Sunday that the Bondi Beach shooting was a “terrorist incident”. At least 12 people were killed and 29 wounded in the attack earlier in the day, he told a press conference.

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Bondi Beach shooting 'designed to target Sydney's Jewish community', New South Wales premier says

The Bondi Beach shooting was "designed to target Sydney's Jewish community", New South Wales Premier Chris Minns said at a press conference on Sunday.

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Syrian gunman who killed three Americans was to be fired from security forces for 'extremist views'

Syria said on Sunday that the gunman who killed three Americans in the central Palmyra region was a member of its own security forces who was due to be dismissed for extremist views, a day after the deadly attack blamed by Washington on the Islamic State

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Israeli president condemns 'cruel attack on Jews' after shooting at Bondi Beach

Israeli President Isaac Herzog condemned Sunday’s shooting in Sydney as a “cruel attack on Jews” and urged Australia to step up the fight against antisemitism. Ten people were killed and about a dozen wounded when gunmen opened fire during a Jewish holid

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