Donald Trump's health secretary pick faces critical Senate grilling
• Jan 29, 2025, 4:18 PM
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s confirmation hearings began Wednesday before the Senate Finance Committee. He appears before the Health, Education, Labor and Pension committee on Thursday. For more, FRANCE 24's correspondent, Fraser Jackson.
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Next phase requires 'building trust & accepting this war should come to an end'
• 1:12 PM
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Hamas-led militants freed eight hostages on Thursday as part of the ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, but the chaotic handover of some of the captives, who masked militants shuttled through a rowdy crowd of thousands, drew an angry protest from Israel. For in
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US Federal Reserve pauses rate cuts, angering Trump
• 11:56 AM
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America's central bank has held its main interest rate steady as President Donald Trump's trade policies threaten to rekindle inflation in the world's largest economy. The Federal Reserve resisted pressure from Trump to continue with cuts, in its first r
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Upset in German Bundestag as wall comes down between conservatives and far right
• 11:41 AM
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PRESS REVIEW – Thursday, January 30: Friedrich Merz, Germany's conservative CDU leader and candidate for chancellorship, receives votes and applause from the far-right AfD party in the Bundestag – we look at the press reaction to the centre right breakin
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Hamas hands over Israeli soldier Agam Berger to Red Cross under Gaza ceasefire deal
• 8:51 AM
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FRANCE 24's Mark Owen reports from Tel Aviv on the release of Israeli soldier Agam Berger and the upcoming release of the remaining two Israelis held in Gaza as part of the third hostage-prisoner exchange under the ceasefire. Five Thai nationals are also
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🔴 Follow live: Hamas hands over Israeli soldier Agam Berger to Red Cross under Gaza ceasefire deal
• 8:23 AM
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Live: Netanyahu suspends release of Palestinian prisoners after Israeli hostages freed
• 7:12 AM
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Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has suspended the release of Palestinian prisoners until the “safe release” of hostages is assured after a group of Israelis and Thai nationals freed by militant groups were led through a raucous crowd in Gaza's
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DR Congo's Tshisekedi says troops mounting 'vigorous' response to M23 advance
• 6:44 AM
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Democratic Republic of Congo President Felix Tshisekedi said Wednesday that the international community's failure to respond to the worsening security crisis in the country's east was "an affront", saying that Congolese troops were mounting a "vigorous"
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🔴 Passenger jet collides midair with military helicopter in Washington DC
• 4:18 AM
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No survivors from flight that collided with Army helicopter over Washington, fire chief says
• 3:11 AM
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Everyone on board an American Airlines plane carrying 60 passengers and four crew that collided with a military helicopter over Washington on Wednesday is feared dead, a fire chief said Thursday. At least 28 bodies have so far been pulled from the icy wa
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War in the DRC's east: Will there be a 'push for diplomatic means to end this conflict'?
• 12:19 AM
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DR Congo President Felix Tshisekedi insisted his troops were mounting a "vigorous" response to Rwanda-backed fighters advancing in the country's perennially troubled east and slammed the international community's "silence and inaction". All the while, Pr
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