France 24 Live News

Mon, 08 Jun 2026 08:27:12 GMT
Armenia PM wins vote, cementing Westward tilt
Pashinyan's push to forge closer ties with the West and move Armenia out of the orbit of its former imperial ruler has angered the Kremlin and drawn rebukes from President Vladimir Putin. The election comes after years of turmoil since Pashinyan wa...

Mon, 08 Jun 2026 08:17:14 GMT
'Liberation' and 'Schmigadoon!' top Tony Awards
The ceremony, held at Radio City Music Hall, reflected the political climate of President Donald Trump's America, with host Pink taking a stand in support of transgender people and freedom of expression. The awards honored socially conscious works...

Mon, 08 Jun 2026 07:57:09 GMT
Perez re-elected at Real Madrid paving way for Mourinho return
The 79-year-old Perez, president for 23 years across two spells, took 65 percent of the votes to vanquish his 37-year-old challenger, Enrique Riquelme, the club announced late Sunday. "We have won the elections and will continue working to keep win...

Mon, 08 Jun 2026 07:41:11 GMT
Israel, Iran trade fire for first time since truce
The flare-up, which also drew in other countries in the region, saw Israel striking Iran after the Islamic republic targeted it in vengeance for an airstrike on Beirut's southern suburbs, where its proxy Hezbollah holds sway. It followed weeks of n...

Mon, 08 Jun 2026 06:39:09 GMT
World Cup star 'really sorry' after missing daughter's birth
The 35-year-old stopper is hoping to add to his 86 caps when South Korea face the Czech Republic on Thursday's opening day of the tournament in North America. But it has come at a personal price, missing the birth of his daughter. "I am really sor...

Mon, 08 Jun 2026 06:35:07 GMT
Armenia PM Pashinyan's ruling party wins landslide election victory

Mon, 08 Jun 2026 05:55:12 GMT
Suthar takes six wickets on debut as India make Afghanistan follow on
Starting the day on 113-5 in response to India's first-innings 564-8 declared, Afghanistan resisted through Rahmat Shah's 60 before they folded late on in the first session in New Chandigarh. Afghanistan were 18-0 in their second innings at lunch, ...

Mon, 08 Jun 2026 05:29:14 GMT
As climate shifts, malaria gains ground in southern Africa
Her teenage grandson fell critically ill last year from malaria, the disease that kills more than a quarter of a million people annually and is surging in southern Africa as the climate shifts. Before this spraying, the family's "only defence" agai...

Mon, 08 Jun 2026 05:25:15 GMT
Swiss healthcare united against immigration cap plan
Swiss healthcare facilities like this one, in Cheseaux-sur-Lausanne in the west of the country, are heavily reliant on foreign workers amid chronic staff shortages. Now the sector fears that a popular vote on June 14 on a proposal to dramatically s...

Mon, 08 Jun 2026 05:19:35 GMT
French Open: Zverev defeats Cobolli to win first Grand Slam title
⁠Germany's Alexander Zverev has won the French Open final against Flavio Cobolli, and with it his first Grand Slam title.

Mon, 08 Jun 2026 04:45:14 GMT
South Korea should not give up on North's denuclearisation: president
Lee made the remark at a press conference marking his first year in office, which he took after months of political upheaval triggered by his predecessor's martial law declaration. "We should not give up on the goal of denuclearisation because we c...

Mon, 08 Jun 2026 04:07:10 GMT
China's Xi in North Korea for rare visit
Xi's trip to Pyongyang was his first since 2019, and came after he hosted a series of world leaders including US President Donald Trump and Russian leader Vladimir Putin in Beijing. China, Washington's chief geopolitical rival, has been North Korea...

Mon, 08 Jun 2026 03:13:13 GMT
'There's no E': Blackout-plagued Nigeria pursues EVs
The first is that it's beyond folly to own an EV in a place where power outages are a fixture of daily life: the few EV drivers around are known to occasionally charge their vehicles off diesel-guzzling, black-smoke-puffing building generators that ...

Mon, 08 Jun 2026 03:09:19 GMT
ECB to hike rates as Mideast war pushes up inflation
The ECB has kept borrowing costs on hold for some time as eurozone price rises had been largely under control. But the US-Israeli war against Iran and near total closure of the Strait of Hormuz has sharply pushed up global energy costs, feeding int...

Mon, 08 Jun 2026 02:59:09 GMT
Nvidia unveils AI infrastructure deals in South Korea
Nvidia, the world's most valuable company, also said it would work with chipmaker SK hynix to develop the advanced memory components that help run AI systems and are currently in short supply. The tie-ups were unveiled after CEO Jensen Huang spent ...

home