Who needs soft power? Trump threatens neighbours with tariffs

• 7:17 PM

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Forget soft power, it is all about hard bargains. Donald Trump making good his campaign promise of tariffs and starting with his closest neighbors, Canada and Mexico. We will ask if it is all a big made-for- reality TV drama that ends at the negotiating

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'US driving South Africa and other Global South, non-aligned countries into the arms of China'

• 6:50 PM

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President Cyril Ramaphosa is rejecting Donald Trump's assertions that South Africa was "confiscating" land and said he was ready to explain his government's land reform policy to his US counterpart. For in-depth analysis and a deeper perspective on land

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Flemish nationalist Bart de Wever sworn in as Belgium's new prime minister

• 6:03 PM

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Conservative Bart De Wever was sworn in Monday as Belgium's new prime minister after seven months of tortuous negotiations to reach a coalition deal that shifts the country to the right. De Wever has pledged to crack down on irregular migration and has p

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Trump pauses Mexico tariffs as Sheinbaum agrees to send 10,000 troops to US border

• 4:26 PM

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Mexico will put an extra 10,000 troops on its border with the US in a bid to stymie the flow of illegal drugs travelling north in exchange for a one-month pause on the heavy tariffs the US was set to impose on its southern neighbour, the presidents of bo

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🔴 French PM Bayrou uses special constitutional powers to force 2025 budget through parliament

• 3:35 PM

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Far right normalised: Populist parties becoming stronger with strong headwind by mainstream parties

• 3:21 PM

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Demonstrators descended on Berlin Sunday to protest last week's decision by Germany's conservatives to make overtures to the far right ahead of this month's legislative election, drawing at least 160,000 people, according to police. For in-depth analysis

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Grammy Awards: 'Cowboy Carter' finally earns Beyoncé Album of the Year

• 3:04 PM

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On this week's arts24 music show, Marjorie Hache takes a look at the highlights of the 67th Grammy Awards, with author and journalist Morgane Giuliani. They discuss everything from Queen B making history, to Kendrick Lamar's risqué diss track "Not Like U

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Canada's Ontario bans US firms from government contracts in response to Trump tariffs

• 2:57 PM

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The Canadian province of Ontario on Monday announced a ban on US companies bidding on tens of billions of dollars' worth of government contracts in response to punishing tariffs imposed by US President Donald Trump.

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'Cowboy Carter': Beyoncé's big win at the Grammys and its political weight

• 2:54 PM

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In this edition of Entre Nous, we take a look at Beyoncé’s big win at the Grammy Awards. Not only did she finally take home Album of the Year, she also became the first Black woman to win Country Album of the Year. We discuss how her winning album, "Cowb

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Beyonce's big win and its political weight

• 2:18 PM

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On this edition of Entre Nous, we take a look at Beyoncé’s big win at the Grammy Awards. Not only did she finally take home Album of the Year, but she became the first Black woman to win Country Record of the Year. We also discuss how her album, Cowboy C

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Greek PM calls for calm as hundreds of 'very intense' tremors hit Santorini

• 1:39 PM

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Hundreds of tremors have hit the Greek island of Santorini in the past week, leading more than a thousand people to flee the tourist hotspot. Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis called for "calm" on Monday as the government advised people to avoid l

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The complete schedule for the 2025 AFCON in Morocco

• 1:26 PM

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The 35th edition of the Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON), organised in Morocco, will take place from December 21, 2025, to January 18, 2026. The African Football Confederation (CAF) has released the complete schedule along with the list of matches and stadi

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'#MeToo in sports': European football has fuelled 'atmosphere of sexism' for years

• 1:17 PM

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Spanish women's World Cup winner Jenni Hermoso confronted former soccer federation boss Luis Rubiales at his trial, saying she did not agree to the kiss that triggered a national backlash against sexism in sport. For in-depth analysis and a deeper perspe

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'Arctic split into two: Greenland finds itself geographically, politically, economically in middle'

• 11:49 AM

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EU leaders are gathering amid Europe’s biggest land conflict since World War II. All the while, European confidence in Trump has been waning as he threatens allies with tariffs and land grabs targeting Greenland and Panama. For in-depth analysis and a de

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Kenya's Sengwer community refuses to leave Embobut Forest

• 10:57 AM

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Kenya's Sengwer community is one of the last to live in the Embobut Forest, in the North Rift Valley. But the government accuses this Indigenous people of damaging the forest and has asked them to leave. Hundreds of families have been forcibly evicted. T

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French PM Bayrou uses special constitutional powers to force 2025 budget through parliament

• 10:41 AM

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French Prime Minister François Bayrou used special executive powers on Monday to force his government’s 2025 budget through parliament without a vote. France's hard-left France Unbowed (LFI) party has said it will put forward a no-confidence motion which

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EU braces for new US tariffs as Trump launches trade war

• 10:29 AM

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EU leaders say they're prepared to respond if and when US President Donald Trump imposes new tariffs on European imports to the US. But first, we take a closer look the US-Canada trading relationship. Meanwhile, North America's highly integrated auto man

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Israeli army operation in West Bank’s Tulkarm ‘like a smaller-scale Gaza’

• 9:15 AM

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The Israeli military has expanded its operation, dubbed “Iron Wall”, from the West Bank’s Jenin refugee camp to Tulkram, further north in the occupied Palestinian territory. The IDF says it has found what it calls terrorist infrastructure in Tulkarm. But

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'Shocking, franchise-altering and bizarre': Doncic-Davis trade shocks NBA world

• 6:54 AM

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PRESS REVIEW – Monday, February 3: The papers in the United States react to President Donald Trump's new tariffs, as Canada responds with measures of its own. Meanwhile, residents of Kyiv are forced to withstand nightly Russian drone attacks. Also, a Ukr

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Israeli army denies issuing evacuation orders during Jenin operation

• 6:28 AM

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The Israeli army has intensified its military raid in the West Bank’s Jenin refugee camp, the third such operation since the Gaza war began in October 2023. Reporting from Jerusalem, FRANCE 24’s Noga Tarnopolsky says the Israeli army continues to deny th

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Beyonce crowned queen at 2025 Grammys with country album 'Cowboy Carter'

• 5:10 AM

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Beyoncé won her first Album of the Year Grammy for "Cowboy Carter" at the 2025 awards, making her the first Black woman this century to claim the honor. Previously snubbed, she joins Lauryn Hill, Natalie Cole, and Whitney Houston in this historic achieve

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Rescuers identify 55 victims in fatal Washington air crash

• 3:16 AM

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Rescue operations persist following a midair collision over the Potomac River involving a US Army helicopter and a passenger jet, with 55 identified victims. Authorities continue to work to find victims in the icy waters and lift the plane's wreckage, in

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EU leaders hold ‘triple first’ talks with NATO chief amid uncertainties over Trump’s policies

• 3:07 AM

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EU leaders and the head of NATO gathered in Brussels on Monday for talks dubbed a "triple first": the first time the bloc’s 27 leaders met since US President Donald Trump's inauguration, their first-ever dedicated talks on defence and their first with a

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Spain's ex-football chief goes on trial over forced kiss at Women's World Cup

• 1:51 AM

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Spain's former football chief Luis Rubiales went on trial on Monday on charges of assault and coercion after kissing star forward Jenni Hermoso without consent following Spain's win at the 2023 Women's World Cup in Australia.

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French filmmaker Ruggia found guilty of assaulting actress Haenel when she was a child

• 12:44 AM

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A French court on Monday found film director Christophe Ruggia guilty of sexually assaulting actress Adéle Haenel when she was a child in what is seen as a #MeToo landmark trial in France.

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British composer Leo Geyer on documenting the lost music of Auschwitz

• 12:26 AM

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It's being called the lost music of Auschwitz. A British composer has spoken to FRANCE 24 about his chance discovery of pages of compositions by prisoners at the Auschwitz death camp in Nazi-occupied Poland. The works were often put together by people wh

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Israeli army operation in West Bank’s Tulkarm ‘like a smaller scale Gaza’

• 12:22 AM

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The Israeli military has expanded its operation, dubbed “Iron Wall” from the West Bank’s Jenin refugee camp to Tulkram, further north. The IDF says it has found what it calls terrorist infrastructure in Tulkarm. But residents of a Tulkarm neighbourhood s

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