The women, aged about 20, were aboard a small boat carrying 82 people, Christophe Marx, a regional government official, told reporters. The boat set out to sea during the night from Saturday to Sunday, but "the engine wouldn't start" and the boat b...

PSG did not prepare in the best possible way for their Champions League semi-final second leg against Bayern Munich on Wednesday. With a reshuffled squad, PSG were held to a 2-2 draw at home by Lorient. The result had no impact on the title race, as...

Press freedom has fallen to its lowest level in 25 years. That warning comes from Reporters Without Borders — also known as RSF — which released its annual index ahead of World Press Freedom Day this Sunday. To mark the occasion, one of RSF’s...

Ukrainian forces have attacked two tankers from Russia’s so-called shadow fleet at the entrance to the Port of Novorossiysk on the Black Sea. The announcement was made by Volodymyr Zelenskyy on the Telegram messaging app. He added that Ukraine wou...

The fragile ceasefire may have paused the fighting, but the economic fallout in Iran continues. A US naval blockade of Iranian ports has sharply reduced the Iran’s oil exports, while the cost of everyday goods has continued to rise. Across the cou...

Iran’s imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Narges Mohammadi, has been urgently transferred from prison to hospital after what her foundation described as a severe deterioration in her health. She reportedly fainted twice on Friday. The inciden...

A senior Iranian officer on Saturday said that fresh fighting with the United States is “likely”, underscoring rising tensions after President Donald Trump dismissed Tehran’s latest negotiating proposal and issued fresh threats to attack the c...

Iran hangs man Iran hanged a man convicted of involvement in the killing of a security forces volunteer during anti-government protests, the judiciary said. "Mehrab Abdollahzadeh's death sentence was carried out this morning after completing the leg...

FRANCE 24 correspondent Jan Onoszko reports from Rio de Janeiro on Colombian superstar Shakira's free mega-concert on the Copacabana beach.

India's World Cup-winning T20 skipper Suryakumar fell for another low score of 21 in his team's defeat to Chennai Super Kings on Saturday. Suryakumar, a swashbuckling batter with an audacious range of strokes in T20 cricket, has managed just 183 ru...

The 49-year-old Colombian superstar took the stage dressed in Brazil's national colors shortly after 11 pm (0200 GMT), more than an hour behind schedule, heralded by drones overhead forming the image of a she-wolf -- Shakira's nickname. "Brazil, I ...

Convenient, full of flavour and popular among locals and tourists alike, Bangkok's street food is one of the city's signatures -- where sizzling woks and smoky charcoal grills turn boulevards and sidewalks into open-air kitchens from morning until l...

Electric microbus driver Purushottam Adhikari said he was now shuttling more passengers along the 300-kilometre (186-mile) journey between his town in Chitwan district and the capital Kathmandu. "My profession is not affected (by the conflict)," sa...

Under Japan's once-strict stance adopted following its World War II surrender and the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, it has generally restricted arms exports in recent times to non-lethal categories like rescue, transport and surveillanc...

Miami appeared to be on their way in Argentine superstar Messi's 100th match with the South Florida side. But Orlando scored the final four goals to hand the Herons their second defeat of the Major League Soccer season. Messi's brilliant strike in...