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• Iran will have 'no choice' but to get nukes if attacked, says Khamenei adviser April 1, 2025
  Iran complained to the United Nations Security Council on Monday about "reckless and belligerent" remarks by US President Donald Trump, who threatened Iran on Sunday with bombing and more tariffs if Tehran did not come to an agreement with Washington over its nuclear program. An adviser to the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, warned that Iran would have […]
• South Sudan: peace on brink of collapse as crisis deepens March 31, 2025
  Concerns have ratcheted up about security in South Sudan since fighting broke out between forces loyal to the two men behind the devastating civil war that only ended in 2018. That fragile peace between President Salva Kiir and Vice-president Riek Machar has been pushed to breaking point by Machar's house arrest last week. On Monday, […]
• French far-right leader Le Pen slams verdict as 'political decision' March 31, 2025
  Marine Le Pen, the figurehead of France's far-right movement, has been barred from office after being found guilty of embezzlement by a Paris court. It ruled that Marine Le Pen had played a “central role” in a scheme to siphon funds from the European Parliament to finance her National Rally party. The decision has prompted […]
• Turkey's CHP trying to find a model of 'sustainable resistance' against Erdogan, analyst says March 31, 2025
  FRANCE 24's Sharon Gaffney speaks to Aslı Aydıntaşbaş, Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution, about the mass protests in Turkey. She says that Turkish authorities understand that there won't be much of a pushback from the West against the crackdown on the opposition, due to the current geopolitical environment. She adds that the CHP is […]
• Macron urges 'mercy' for jailed writer Sansal in call with Algeria's Tebboune March 31, 2025
  French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday called for a "gesture of mercy and humanity" towards jailed French-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal in a phone call with his Algerian counterpart Abdelmadjid Tebboune. The author was sentenced to five years in prison last week in a case that has damaged already-strained ties between France and its former colony.
• 'Again and again humanitarian workers not respected' in Gaza, IFRC spokesman says March 31, 2025
  The bodies of eight Palestine Red Crescent (PRCS) medics who came under fire in Gaza just over a week ago have been recovered, though a ninth worker is still unaccounted for, the Red Cross said. FRANCE 24's Sharon Gaffney speaks to IFRC spokesman Tommaso Della Longa. He says that it is shocking and sad to […]
• Marine Le Pen rhetoric follows Sarkozy's, Trump's playbook, researcher says March 31, 2025
  French far-right leader Marine Le Pen on Monday slammed a "political decision" after being convicted for embezzlement and banned from standing in an election for five years with immediate effect. FRANCE 24's Mark Owen speaks to Ariane Bogain, a lecturer in French at the University of Northumbria. She says that the far-right's harsh rhetoric against […]
• Paris-Milan train resumes service 19 months after its interruption March 31, 2025
  After a 19-month interruption due to a landslide in the Maurienne Valley in the French Alps, the rail link between Paris and Milan resumed Monday morning, with almost full trains departing from the French capital. The first two TGV trains left the Gare de Lyon in Paris for Milan at 6:46 a.m. and then at […]
• Myanmar quake: economic losses from the disaster could exceed the nation's GDP March 31, 2025
  The USGS has warned that the final death toll from the magnitude 7.7 quake in Myanmar could top 100,000 and economic losses may exceed the country's GDP.  Since the 2021 coup, the nation of 51 million people has been facing an unprecedented "polycrisis" marked by economic collapse, civil war, climate hazards and deepening poverty.  Plus, […]
• 🔴 French far right’s Marine Le Pen vows to fight election ban, says verdict ‘violates rule of law’ March 31, 2025