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Pro-regime Iranians celebrate ceasefire

Supporters of Iran's Supreme Leader have been taking to the streets in Tehran to celebrate following the two week ceasefire announcement in the war with the US and Israel. US President Donald Trump has repeatedly claimed "regime change" has already happened in the country despite hardliners remaini...

Oil prices fall after ceasefire deal as questions over Hormuz Strait linger

A two-week ceasefire agreement between the United States and Iran on Wednesday led to a steep drop in oil prices and a rebound in Asian and European equities. In this edition, we see what the various stakeholders are saying the deal means for the future of the Hormuz Strait through which a fifth of...

Hungary's Orban plays on energy price fears in re-election bid

Much of Hungary's electoral campaign has centred around energy policy, at least in incumbent Viktor Orban's camp, as he seeks re-election amid the world's worst energy crisis in decades. Orban promises to keep prices low with energy subsidies and warns of unaffordable power bills should he lose. Bu...

What we know about Iran’s 10-point plan for ending war with US, Israel

Iran proposed a 10-point plan for ending the war with the US and Israel early Wednesday after the establishment of a two-week ceasefire just before a US-imposed deadline and threats to destroy Iranian "civilisation". US President Donald Trump said the plan was "workable", despite several points whi...

How Pakistan brokered a two-week ceasefire deal between Iran and the US

Pakistan cast itself as an unlikely diplomatic broker on Wednesday, saying it had helped secure a two-week ceasefire between Iran and the United States. Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif also said he would host talks in Islamabad aimed at ending the Middle East war beginning on April 10....

How did Pakistan broker a temporary truce between Iran and the US?

Pakistan has emerged as a key intermediary between Iran and the United States to secure a temporary ceasefire and host negotiations to end the war in the Middle East....

US-Iran ceasefire ‘a major problem domestically’ for Netanyahu

Reporting from Jerusalem, FRANCE 24’s Noga Tarnopolsky says the US-Iran ceasefire is likely to be “a major problem domestically” for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The right-wing Israeli prime minister’s base “was expecting regime change, was expecting something very dramatic...

French arms exports to Israel ‘a continuous pipeline of military hardware’

Throughout the war in Gaza, France maintained that its exports of military equipment to Israel were solely for defensive purposes or intended for re-export to other countries. A new report by two pro-Palestinian groups argues that French firms and transport hubs have continued to arm...

Trump repeats falsehoods claiming he predicted 9/11 and demanded Bin Laden's death

During a press conference on Monday about the war in Iran, US President Donald Trump made a series of false claims about Washington’s progress in the conflict, his own past foreign policy, and that his book released in 2000 predicted 9/11....

Qatar warns Iran war can now 'spiral out of control'

As Donald Trump threatened to wipe out an entire civilisation in Iran ahead of his latest deadline for Tehran to open up the Strait of Hormuz, Qatar's foreign ministry official warned that the world was nearing a point beyond which the war would be out of anyone's control. Oil markets continue to b...

Are war crimes being committed in the Middle East war?

With US and Israeli strikes on Iran's critical infrastructure already underway Tuesday amid threats of more to come, the UN and other organisations have warned that such attacks could constitute war crimes....

French nationals leave Iran after more than three years in detention

Two French nationals, who spent more than three years in an Iranian prison on espionage charges, headed home from the war-stricken country on Tuesday, President Emmanuel Macron said. Cecile Kohler, 41, and Jacques Paris, 72, had been under house arrest at the French embassy in Tehran ever since th...

Trump warns a 'whole civilization will die tonight' if a deal with Iran isn't reached

U.S. President Donald Trump threatened Tuesday that a “whole civilization will die tonight” if Iran fails to meet his latest deadline to strike a deal that includes reopening the Strait of Hormuz, while the Islamic Republic urged young people to form human chains around power plants and other p...

Europe's future on the ballot? Hungary's Orban in tight re-election race

Is Europe’s future on the ballot in Hungary? In Budapest, the US vice president actively stumping for far-right incumbent Viktor Orban who trails in the polls ahead of Sunday’s general election. European politicians sometimes campaign for likeminded peers from neighboring nations but here, it...

Why Viktor Orban wants energy prices at the heart of Hungary’s elections

Faced with the very real prospect of defeat in Sunday’s parliamentary elections, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has built his campaign around cheap and secure energy and outspoken opposition to EU support for Ukraine. An alleged plot to blow up a pipeline bringing Russian gas into Hungary...

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War in the Middle East: Will deal be struck before Trump's deadline?

US President Donald Trump warned "a whole civilization will die" in Iran if the country does not heed his midnight cutoff to open the Strait of Hormuz, while Vice President JD Vance said the United States has "tools in our toolkit that we so far haven't decided to use" against Iran, without explain...

Trump: 'A whole civilisation will die tonight'

Airstrikes hit two bridges and a train station in Iran on Tuesday, and Iranian officials urged young people to form human chains to protect power plants, as U.S. President Donald Trump warned that a “whole civilisation will die tonight” if Tehran does not meet his latest deadline for the Islami...

Exiled for a drawing: The Russian father and daughter who stood up to Putin

In March 2022, Maria Moskaleva, who goes by Masha, was 12 years old. At her school in a small town in western Russia, she drew a picture protesting the Russian offensive launched a month earlier in Ukraine. Immediately denounced to the police by those around her, the FSB came to her school and home...

Trump threatens to take out Iran in 'one night' as deadline looms

US President Donald Trump said Monday he’s “not at all” concerned about committing possible war crimes as he again threatened to destroy Iran’s bridges and power plants if Tehran does not meet his Tuesday 8pm ET deadline to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. ...

NGO on Gaza: 'We don’t share the same definition of ceasefire'

As another ten people have been killed in an airstrike in central Gaza, an NGO speaks to FRANCE 24 about the ongoing catastrophic situation for Palestinians, both in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. The latest incident comes despite a fragile ceasefire put in place last October. As the world's att...

Trump says can take out Iran 'in one night' as deadline ticks closer

US President Donald Trump expanded his threat against Iran to include all power plants and bridges Monday as his ultimatum to make a deal ticked closer, after Tehran rejected a 45-day ceasefire proposal and said it wants a permanent end to the war. “The entire country can be taken out in one nigh...

Ukraine hits major oil terminal in southern Russia in drone strike

Ukrainian drones attacked the Caspian Pipeline Consortium's marine terminal in southern Russia early Monday, damaging a mooring point and setting four oil tanks ablaze, the Russian defence ministry said. However, the Ukrainian army said it had attacked a different terminal in the port of Novorossiy...

Trump's Tuesday deadline: Will he really ‘bomb Iran into the Stone Age’?

PRESS REVIEW - Tuesday, April 7: Donald Trump's blatantly disregards accusations of war crimes as he vows to bomb Iran's energy infrastructure if it does not reopen the Strait of Hormuz. Australia's most decorated military veteran is arrested and charged with alleged war crimes during the war in Af...

‘Remarkable resilience’ in Iran as Trump deadline looms

With just hours left to a deadline given to Iran by US President Donald Trump to reopen the Strait of Hormuz or face massive strikes on infrastructure, there is tension on the streets on Tehran among ordinary Iranians, reports France 24’s correspondent Reza Sayah. But many have also shown “rema...

Trump's threatened destruction of Iranian infrastructure could be a war crime, legal experts say

US President Donald Trump said Monday that he was “not at all” concerned about the risk of committing war crimes in Iran if he carried out his threat to bomb bridges and power plants. Experts in military law, however, say that deliberately bombing civilian infrastructure is a violation of inte...

Taiwan opposition leader makes rare visit to China

Taiwan's main opposition leader landed in China on Tuesday for a rare visit aimed at building cross-strait "peace", as the government warns Beijing will seek to stop US arms sales to the democratic island....

Live: JD Vance visits Viktor Orban ahead of Hungary's high-stakes parliamentary elections

US Vice President JD Vance flew to Hungary on Monday to back nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban ahead of a closely contested parliamentary election. Vance said talks would cover bilateral ties, Europe and Ukraine. He is due to meet Orban and deliver a speech highlighting US-Hungary relations,...

Trump operates in 'carnival framework' that allows rule-breaking in domestic and foreign policy

US President Donald Trump's mixed messaging and conflicting signals have characterised the war in Iran. For more on the American leader's increasingly bombastic rhetoric, and what is likely to happen next, FRANCE 24's Sharon Gaffney speaks to Lisa Gaufman, assistant professor at the Centre for Demo...

Israel attacks Iran's South Pars gas field again

Israeli airstrikes have hit two petrochemical plants in Iran's South Pars gas field complex.  It is the second time Israel has targeted the key energy complex since the war started.  The previous attack, on March 18, triggered retaliatory strikes by Iran on energy infrastructure across the region...