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The move comes as Syrian government forces take control of north-eastern areas where Kurdish-led forces have long controlled.

She has been a judge on Channel 4's baking competition alongside Paul Hollywood since 2017.

The European Union's parliament voted on Wednesday to refer a freshly signed trade deal with South American bloc Mercosur to the EU's top court, casting the hard-fought accord into legal limbo. The vote deals a blow to the European Commission, whose president Ursula von der Leyen had given a speech to parliament just hours earlier touting the "historic deal". FRANCE 24's Armen Georgian breaks it down for us.

The US president made a series of contested claims, ranging from the status of Greenland to Nato spending.

Chief Secretary to the Prime Minister Darren Jones responds to Trump’s Truth Social rant.

Iranian official media on Wednesday said 3,117 people were killed during protests which first erupted in late December and which activists say were suppressed with a deadly crackdown. here are many versions of what happened in the country during the weeks of protests. There's the regime's stance, and then there are the testimonies of those that have loved ones who were killed. FRANCE 24's Solange Mougin reports.

Hamas has agreed to “give up their weapons” and will be "blown away" if they do not follow through, Donald Trump said.

Nex Computer, a company that makes hardware designed to turn your phone into a laptop, is working on something new: the NexPhone. It's a midrange phone that's designed to double as your computer and comes with Android and Linux installed, both of which will offer desktop experiences when plugged into a monitor. But the NexPhone's […]

South Korea's former prime minister has been sentenced to 23 years in prison on charges relating to the failed martial law declaration in 2024.

Israeli forces have demolished three homes belonging to Palestinians in the village of Shuqba in the occupied West Bank.

Newcastle United clinch a Champions League last 16 play-off spot following a comfortable 3-0 win over PSV Eindhoven at St James's Park.

Behind the scenes, Sir Keir had been coming under greater pressure to change his approach to the president.

FTC will appeal ruling that found Meta has no monopoly in social networking.

Two deadly crashes in almost as many days have inflicted grief, anger and disruption. Two deadly crashes in almost as many days inflict grief, anger and disruption in Spain.

Israel kept up its bombardment of southern Lebanon after a series of daytime attacks.

"The beat is pounding as he delivers a verse, in a home-made studio built in the closet. I'm not here on a trial run - I'm going to reach the peak - streets, nights, beats, they're my oxygen."

The bill gives Congress more licence to block AI exports to China and other US political adversaries.

The European Parliament is suspending its work on an EU-US trade deal struck between US President Donald Trump and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen last July, parliamentary trade committee chair Bernd Lange said Wednesday. Lange said that Trump's tariff threat against European nations opposed to his demands to take ownership of Greenland had broken the deal.

The Swarm Garden: An array of modular robot agents that adapt to changing conditions for living architecture.

Analysts say US actions have ended the post-war order, but how much that 'order' applied to the Global South is unclear.

US President Donald Trump gave a speech at the Davos forum in which he based his desire to take over Greenland that it had been once owned by the US, and was "given" to Denmark after World War Two. But as FRANCE 24's Douglas Herbert reminds us, that is historically false. Trump also implied once again the false equivalency between Ukraine and Russia, "ignoring that Russia is the aggressor that invaded Ukraine".

A man has been sentenced to life in prison for assassinating former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe, according to public broadcaster NHK.

Elon Musk has said he could buy Ryanair amid an ongoing public spat with the budget airline's boss Michael O'Leary.

US President Donald Trump insisted he wants to “get Greenland, including right, title and ownership,” but said he wouldn’t employ force to achieve that, only a few days after threatening several European countries with tariffs if they do not agree to a US takeover of the Danish territory. FRANCE 24's Douglas Herbert looks into the issue for us.

France's far-right figurehead Marine Le Pen has maintained that her National Rally party did not have a "system" of embezzling millions of euros in European Union funds to pay its staff in France, claiming they were acting in good faith. Le Pen's ongoing appeals trial will determine whether she will remain barred from running in the 2027 presidential election.