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US actor James Earl Jones, voice of Darth Vader and CNN, dies at 93

US Actor James Earl Jones, most famous as the voice of Darth Vader in the Star Wars franchise, has died at home at the age of 93.

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No, Kamala Harris did not pledge to shut down X if elected President

Some users on social media, including Robert F. Kennedy Junior, are claiming that Kamala Harris will ban X if she wins this year’s presidential election. We tell you more in this edition of Truth or Fake.

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Fuel tanker explosion in Nigeria kills dozens

Africa • 8:30 PM

In tonight's edition, a fuel tanker collides head on with a truck carrying passengers and cattle in northern Nigeria, killing at least 48 people. Also, at least four people died off the coast of Senegal after their boat sank as they tried to get to Europ

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Israeli military says it detained UN convoy in northern Gaza to question 'Palestinian suspects'

Israel's military has detained a United Nations convoy in the northern Gaza Strip, saying that it has intelligence that several "Palestinian suspects" are in the vehicles. A UN spokesperson said he was aware of an "ongoing incident" and said that he was

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The Trump effect: How much does populism drive policy?

As Europe waits on France to form a government, as the world waits on the US to pick a president, who drives the agenda? In the wake of the January 6th 2021 storming of the US Capitol, the rest of the world thought there is no way Americans would ever a

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EU relies too much on the US and other military suppliers abroad, report says

The European Union is failing to invest enough in military projects and relying too much on the US and other countries, according to a landmark report released Monday. Almost two-thirds of the EU's defense orders between mid-2022 and mid-2023 were placed

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More than 50 killed in Vietnam after Typhoon Yagi triggers floods, landslides

Pacific Asia • 2:56 PM

Dozens of people have been killed in northern Vietnam after Asia's most powerful storm this year triggered floods and landslides on its way west. Typhoon Yagi cut power to millions of homes and companies, with factories across the country's northeast rep

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Poll finds 52% are satisfied with Macron's choice of Barnier as French PM

France • 1:50 PM

An Ifop poll commissioned by the French weekly Journal du Dimanche found that 52 percent of respondents said they were satisfied with newly appointed Prime Minister Michel Barnier, who was named by Emmanuel Macron after two months of political deadlock.

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Paralympic closing ceremony: ‘Huge', 'fast' and ‘amazing’, artists say

Culture • 1:40 PM

Fresh from her performance at the Stade de France, award winning electronic artist Irene Dresel joins us this week on Arts24 to share her impressions of the 2024 Paralympics closing ceremony and how she's looking forward to touring her recent album "Rose

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Speed limit on vital Paris ring road falls to 50km per hour on October 1

France • 1:33 PM

The speed limit on the ring road that surrounds and delineates the city of Paris will be limited to 50 kilometres (30 miles) per hour starting on October 1, the city's mayor announced on Monday. The decision, which immediately drew criticism for having b

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Local journalism in crisis amid growing polarisation in US

The decline of local journalism in the United States is becoming a more pressing issue by the day. Since 2005, the country has lost more than 2,500 newspapers and 43,000 journalists, primarily due to a drop in revenue from advertising amid strong online

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Lebanon's ex-central bank chief Salameh to remain detained amid investigation

A Lebanese judge ruled Monday that the country's former central bank chief Riad Salameh will remain in jail while facing charges of embezzling tens of millions of dollars from state offices. Salameh is widely seen as a key culprit in Lebanon's economic c

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Eiffel family calls for removing Olympic rings from iconic Paris tower

Europe • 9:23 AM

The family of the legendary engineer behind the Eiffel Tower has said they have spoken to a lawyer about blocking Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo’s plans to leave the Olympic rings on the Paris landmark. Gustave Eiffel’s descendants argue that the rings would g

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Saving the snot otter: How scientists are working to bring the hellbender to safety

PRESS REVIEW - Monday, September 9: The Paris Olympics have come to a close and it's not quite national mourning, but it's a teary goodbye for the host nation. In other news, as Georgia prepares for parliamentary elections in late October, are voters cho

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Chile’s Palestino soccer club captures local Palestinian community's pride and grief

Chile's legendary Club Deportivo Palestino is a place for the world's largest Palestinian community outside the Middle East to connect with their ancestral home, thousands of miles away. As the war in the Gaza war rages, the club's game atmosphere and po

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Google faces new antitrust trial over advertising tech business

A new antitrust trial for Google parent Alphabet gets underway, this time over its ad services following a judge's ruling last month that its search engine business is a monopoly. Also in this edition, France asks the EU for more time to deliver a plan t

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Paris's plan to ditch ACs and expand urban cooling system

Around the world, record-shattering temperatures are feeding demand for air conditioning. 135 million individual ACs are sold every year, a figure set to triple by 2050 according to the International Energy Agency. This rush to cool air could in turn bec

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The '13 keys': How one historian has predicted almost every recent US election

Historian Allan Lichtman, who has an almost perfect record in predicting US election results, has said that Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris will win the November poll. The American University professor has correctly predicted

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Kenya starts DNA testing to identify victims of school blaze

Kenya prepared to conduct DNA testing on Monday to identify the 21 young victims of a school dormitory fire last week. Thursday's blaze has highlighted the issue of safety at schools in Kenya, after numerous similar incidents over the years, many of them

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Curtain is drawn on Paris Paralympics, ending French capital's Olympic summer

Europe • 5:15 AM

The Paris 2024 Games came to a close just like they started, in the rain, but amid a festive atmosphere with an electro-party at the Stade de France on Sunday to conclude the Paralympics – and put an end to six weeks of thrilling sport in the French capi

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Pope Francis speaks out against ‘every kind of abuse’ of children in East Timor visit

Pope Francis spoke out against child sexual abuse during his visit to East Timor on Monday, indirectly acknowledging a long-running abuse scandal involving independence hero Bishop Carlos Ximenes Belo. Thousands of devotees journeyed from remote areas an

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A year on, politics plague rebuilding efforts in Libya’s flood ravaged Derna

A year after devastating floods in eastern Libya killed nearly 4,000 people, reconstruction efforts have bolstered the influence of military strongman Khalifa Haftar, experts say. The 2023 disaster, triggered by extreme rainfall from the hurricane-streng

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Israeli airstrikes kill more than a dozen in Syria, state media says

Israeli air strikes on Syria's Masyaf region late Sunday killed at least 16 people, Syrian state media reported. The strikes, which destroyed military facilities, wounded at least 36 others, according to a local health official cited by the SANA news age

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EU says it received 'credible' reports that Iran sent ballistic missiles to Russia

The European Union is looking into "credible" reports from allies that Iran has supplied Russia with ballistic missiles to use in its war in Ukraine. Tehran has rejected the allegation while the US State Department warned that such a move would mark a "d

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Yesterday

Torrential floods leave several people dead in southeastern Morocco

Africa • 11:44 PM

Torrential rains caused floods that killed at least 11 people and left nine still missing in Morocco's southern provinces of Tata, Tiznit, and Errachidia, authorities said Sunday. The floods destroyed 40 homes, damaged 93 roads, and disrupted electricity

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Republicans slam Biden over chaotic Afghanistan withdrawal in new report

House Republicans will release a report Monday criticising President Joe Biden’s administration over the chaotic August 2021 Afghanistan withdrawal. The report, led by Rep. Michael McCaul, accuses officials of delaying evacuation orders, poor interdepart

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Jannik Sinner beats Taylor Fritz in straight sets to win US Open title

Italy's Jannik Sinner beat American 12th seed Taylor Fritz 6-3 6-4 7-5 in the US Open men's final on Sunday, claiming his second Grand Slam title after he won the Australian Open earlier this year.

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Paris 2024: Eleven days of Paralympic action comes to an end

After eleven days of fierce action, the Paralympics are finally coming to an end in Paris. In today's edition of Paris Games, FRANCE 24 journalist Leo McGuinn is joined in the studio by Jean-Emile Jammine, James Vasina, Camille Knight and Gemma Stevenson

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Curtain is drawn on Paris Paralympics, ending French capital's Olympic summer

The Paris 2024 Games came to a close just like they started, in the rain, but amid a festive atmosphere with an electro-party at the Stade de France on Sunday to conclude the Paralympics – and put an end to six weeks of thrilling sport in the French capi

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Algeria's President Tebboune elected for second term in landslide win

President Abdelmadjid Tebboune has been named the winner of Algeria's presidential election, granting him another term leading the gas-rich North African nation five years after pro-democracy protests led to the ouster of his predecessor.

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Morocco’s El Idrissi wraps up Paris Paralympics with marathon world record

Fatima Ezzahra El Idrissi of Morocco set a new world record in the women’s marathon for runners with visual impairments as the Paris Paralympics wrapped up on Sunday with China topping the medals table, ahead of Britain and the United States.

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Opposition figure flees Venezuela for exile in Spain

Opposition candidate Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia had no choice but to flee Venezuela for exile in Spain to save his own life amid a "brutal wave of repression" after disputed presidential elections, the leader of the opposition Maria Corina Machado said Sun

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Russia claims new gains in east Ukraine push, launches deadly strikes

Europe • 2:28 PM

Russia claimed on Sunday that its forces had taken full control of a town in eastern Ukraine as they advance on the strategically important city of Pokrovsk. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky again urged Kyiv's partners to give him more scope to use

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2024 Paralympics: US women's team aims for wheelchair basketball gold

The USA women's team will aim to emulate the men in winning the wheelchair basketball title on the last day of the Games. Meanwhile the 2024 Paralympics closing ceremony will be held Sunday evening at the Stade de France. FRANCE 24's James Vasina reports

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Rebuilding slow as Morocco marks one year since deadly High Atlas quake

Africa • 1:14 PM

Reconstruction has been slow in the year since a deadly earthquake struck Morocco's High Atlas region, with only a fraction of the damaged homes rebuilt, authorities said. “The reconstruction started many months ago, in some villages it’s advancing well,

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Almodovar wins Venice's Golden Lion with 'The Room Next Door'

Europe • 1:05 PM

Spain's Pedro Almodovar won Venice's Golden Lion award Saturday for his pro-euthanasia film "The Room Next Door", with the acting prizes going to Nicole Kidman and Frenchman Vincent Lindon. The female friendship end-of-life film starring Tilda Swinton an

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Venezuela opposition candidate granted asylum in Spain

Former Venezuelan opposition presidential candidate Edmundo Gonzalez has fled into exile after being granted asylum in Spain. "This was brokered partly through the former prime minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero ... it was his [Gonzalez] idea to seek

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Algeria sees low voter turnout in presidential election

Africa • 10:20 AM

Less than half of Algeria's eligible voters cast a ballot in the country's presidential poll, preliminary figures from electoral authorities showed early Sunday, despite incumbent Abdelmadjid Tebboune's hopes for a high turnout. Tebboune, 78, is heavily

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Allenby Bridge Crossing closed as Jordan investigates border shooting

Three Israelis were shot and killed Sunday at the border crossing between the West Bank and Jordan, Israeli officials said, in what appeared to be an attack linked to the 11-month-old war in Gaza. The military said the gunman approached the Allenby Bridg

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Three Israelis killed in shooting at West Bank-Jordan border crossing

A gunman crossing from Jordan killed three Israeli civilians on Sunday at the Allenby Bridge border between the West Bank and Jordan, Israeli officials said, in what appeared to be an attack linked to the 11-month-old war in Gaza. The assailant was kille

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Venezuela revokes Brazil's right to oversee Argentinian embassy

Venezuela said Saturday it was revoking permission for Brazil to represent Argentina's diplomatic interests in the country in the messy aftermath of President Nicolas Maduro's disputed reelection. Brazil responded quickly and insisted it would maintain t

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CIA, MI6 chiefs laud Ukraine's incursion into Russia

Europe • 8:49 AM

The heads of the British and American foreign intelligence agencies said Saturday that Ukraine’s surprise incursion into Russia is a significant achievement that could change the narrative of the grinding 2 1/2-year war, as they urged Kyiv's allies not t

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Israelis rally to protest govt failure to secure ceasefire deal

Huge numbers of Israelis again poured into the streets to protest the government's failure to secure the return of remaining hostages in Gaza, a week after one of the largest demonstrations of the war following the discovery of another six dead hostages

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Sporting a feathered headdress, Pope Francis finds 'Eden' in Papua New Guinea

Pope Francis traveled to the remote jungles of Papua New Guinea on Sunday to celebrate the Catholic Church of the peripheries. While 90 percent of Papua New Guinea's 12 million residents call themselves Christian, religion sits longside a panoply of loca

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Hezbollah fires rockets, Israel strikes after attack kills Lebanese emergency workers

Hezbollah announced retaliatory rocket fire targeting a town in northern Israel early Sunday in response to an Israeli attack that killed three civil defence personnel in the country's south. The Iran-backed Lebanese movement has exchanged near-daily fir

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Algeria's Tebboune expected to breeze to a second term in election

Africa • 5:45 AM

Voting stations across Algeria closed Saturday night after an hour's extension for the presidential election expected to bring a second term for incumbent Abdelmadjid Tebboune. The country's election authority said that vote counting so far suggested vot

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Venezuela opposition candidate Gonzalez arrives in Spain after month in hiding

Venezuelan opposition candidate Edmundo Gonzalez arrived in Spain on Sunday after a month in hiding in the crisis-hit South American country, the Spanish government has said, pledging to grant him political asylum.

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Le Pen denies playing a part in Macron's choice of Barnier as French PM

France • 12:52 AM

French far-right leader Marine Le Pen on Sunday said she played no part in the appointment of veteran conservative Michel Barnier as French PM, denying media reports that she assured President Emmanuel Macron her party would not back a no-confidence moti

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Saturday, september 7, 2024

AFP photographer Mahmud Hams wins top award for Gaza war coverage

Gaza-based photographer Mahmud Hams won the prestigious Visa d'Or News prize on Saturday for his coverage of the conflict in the war-torn Palestinian territory. In a statement released by AFP, Hams spoke of a war "unlike any other", in which journalists

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French delight as hosts beat Argentina to Paralympic gold in blind football

Hosts France defeated Argentina in a penalty shootout on Saturday to win their maiden Paralympic gold medal in blind football, sparking boisterous celebrations at the Eiffel Tower Stadium in Paris.

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US and UK spy chiefs praise Ukraine for 'audacious' Russia incursion

The heads of the CIA and Britain's spy service said in an op-ed on Saturday that "staying the course" in backing Ukraine's fight against Russia was more important than ever as they warned that the world order was "under threat in a way we haven't seen si

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Almodovar’s ‘The Room Next Door’ wins top prize at Venice Film Festival

Culture • 7:13 PM

"The Room Next Door", Pedro Almodovar’s English-language debut starring Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton, won the Venice Film Festival’s Golden Lion award Saturday. The Spanish director said dying with dignity should be a "fundamental right" as he accept

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Algeria presidential election sees low turnout as Tebboune poised for victory

Africa • 7:03 PM

Algerians voted Saturday in an election to decide whether army-backed President Abdelmadjid Tebboune gets another term in office – five years after pro-democracy protests prompted the military to oust the previous president after two decades in power.

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French protesters rage at ‘stolen election’ as Macron picks conservative Barnier for PM

France • 4:54 PM

Two months after snap parliamentary elections that threw France into political turmoil, tens of thousands of left-wing demonstrators rallied in central Paris on Saturday in protest at French President Emmanuel Macron’s decision to name conservative Miche

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2024 Paralympics: Judokas Cyril Jonard, Jason Grandry win bronze medals

French Paralympic Judokas Cyril Jonard and Jason Grandry both secured bronze medals in men's judo Saturday. FRANCE 24's James Vasina reports from Paris.

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'Denial of democracy': Protesters rally against Macron across France

Europe • 2:39 PM

Thousands of protesters gathered Saturday in Paris and across France to protest against President Macron and his recent rejection of New Popular Front candidate Lucie Castets in what they call a "denial of democracy", FRANCE 24's Yinka Oyetade said, poin

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