World News 'Gun crazy' Switzerland to vote on EU-aligned firearms controlsFrance 24 - France 24 ENSwitzerland is heading to polls on Sunday to know whether it should toughen its laws on firearms possession in order to bring it in line with the new European Union legislation on the matter. When the
Play buttonProtest Sudanese 'revolution' continues with nightly gatheringsFrance 24 - France 24 ENThe ruling military council announced that “negotiations with the Alliance for Freedom and Change” over the planned transfer of power to a new governing body would resume on Sunday. The announcement follows
Donald Trump Trump says 'Pro-Life' but with exceptions for rape, incestFrance 24 - NEWS WIRESThe US president spelled out his position on abortion, set to be a hot-button issue at next year’s election, days after Alabama’s governor signed the country’s most restrictive law - enacting a near-total
Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia calls urgent summit with Gulf and Arab League leadersFrance 24 - NEWS WIRESThe Saudi Press Agency (SPA) said King Salman had invited Gulf leaders and Arab states to two emergency summits in Mecca on May 30 to discuss recent “aggressions and their consequences” in the region.
World News Final round of voting underway in India's marathon six-week electionFrance 24 - NEWS WIRESAround 900 million Indians are eligible to vote in the seven-phase election in India, with vote counting to begin on Thursday. The gruelling, 39-day poll began in the wake of aerial clashes and escalated
World News Netherlands wins Eurovision as Madonna dancers spark flag controversyFrance 24 - NEWS WIRESThe oh-so-glamorous and famously kitschy finale gave Israel a chance to showcase its credentials as a culturally progressive nation, but politics lurked in the background as pro-Palestinian activists for
Brazilian Politics Encore! - Cannes 2019: Bacurau - a violent critique of Brazilian politicsFrance 24 - Eve JACKSONThe brilliant filmmaker is back in Cannes with his latest protest film "Bacurau". It reflects the difficult times Brazil is now enduring under the new president with a small rural community being cut and
World News Eurovision's kitsch and glitz kicks off in Tel AvivFrance 24 - NEWS WIRESThe oh-so-glamorous and famously kitschy finale gives Israel a chance to showcase its credentials as a culturally progressive nation. But pop stars sympathetic to the rival Israeli and Palestinian causes
Play buttonWar Video: Iranians fear country on brink of warFrance 24 - FRANCE 24Trump has been bolstering the US military presence in the region, accusing Iran of threats to US troops and interests.Earlier this week tensions peaked when the US pulled some diplomatic staff from its
Austria Austria's Kurz calls for snap election after vice-chancellor corruption scandalFrance 24 - NEWS WIRES"I have suggested to the president of the republic that new elections be carried out, at the earliest possible date," said Kurz. Media reports emerged on Friday alleging that Strache promised public contracts
Matteo Salvini Cheers and jeers as Europe's far-right rallies in MilanFrance 24 - NEWS WIRESThousands of flag-waving supporters of Salvini's League party packed a rain-soaked central Milan square to see far-right and anti-immigrant leaders from 11 European Union countries present a common front
Mauricio Macri Argentina's former leader Fernandez announces vice presidential bidFrance 24 - NEWS WIRESIn a video posted on Twitter on Saturday, Fernandez said that Alberto Fernández, who leads the left-leaning Unidad Ciudadana political party, will run for the presidency against conservative President
Play buttonScott Morrison Australian conservative PM hails 'miracle' election victoryFrance 24 - FRANCE 24Morrison had entered the election as an underdog, but after a hard-fought campaign defied the odds to extend the Liberal-National coalition's six-year rule. "I have always believed in miracles!" he told
Play buttonAsia Pacific Australian conservatives tipped to secure shock election winFrance 24 - NEWS WIRESThe results stand in stark contrast to pre-election polls, which had predicted centre-left Labor would win. The Scott Morrison-led coalition has won or is ahead in 72 seats in its quest for a 76-seat according
Play buttonWorld News Cannes 2019, Day 5: Ghosts of the past and genes of the futureFrance 24 - Benjamin DODMANAs a bastion of arthouse cinema and the world’s most glamorous film fest, the Cannes Film Festival always has to strike a balance between auteur worship and Hollywood star power -- and between devotion
European News Austria's far-right Vice Chancellor resigns over video scandalFrance 24 - FRANCE 24Announcing his resignation at a press conference, Strache said that he was illegally set up in a “political assassination", but added that his behavior in the video was “stupid and a mistake". Senior in
Matteo Salvini Salvini seeks European nationalist unity at Milan rallyFrance 24 - NEWS WIRESThe rally will see leaders of 12 far-right parties marching towards their hoped-for conquest of Brussels after next week’s European parliamentary elections. Headliners Salvini of League and Marine Le of
Play buttonWorld News Ivory Coast students forced to sleep in amphitheatres as they await dorm renovationsFrance 24 - France 24 ENAt night at the Université Nangui Abrogoua in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, classrooms and auditoriums turn into makeshift dormitories. Students curl up on benches while others lie down on the floor. A persistent
World News Austria's far-right chief faces resignation calls over video scandalFrance 24 - NEWS WIRESSenior figures in the Austiran government - a coalition of Sebastian Kurz’s conservatives and Strache’s far-right Freedom Party - held a crisis meeting on Friday night. Kurz, who has distanced himself
European News Dutch ballad bookies' favourite for Israel's controversial EurovisionFrance 24 - NEWS WIRESThe glitzy finale will give Israel a chance to showcase its credentials as a culturally progressive nation. But the choice of Tel Aviv as host has stoked months of controversy geopolitically, and consternation
World News Missouri's Republican-led Legislature passes 8-week abortion banFrance 24 - NEWS WIRESThe bill, overwhelmingly approved by the Republican-led legislature and expected to be signed by the Midwestern state’s Republican governor, would ban abortions from about eight weeks of pregnancy. Doctors
World News Australian voters tipped to elect Labor governmentFrance 24 - NEWS WIRESPrime Minister Scott Morrison has made economic management the centrepiece of the campaign for his conservative Liberal-National coalition, which has held power since 2013. Poll opened at 8 a.m. (2200
Play buttonBryce Dallas Howard Encore! - Cannes 2019: Bryce Dallas Howard on playing Elton John's mumFrance 24 - Eve JACKSON"Jurassic World" and "Into The Badlands" star Bryce Dallas Howard speaks to Eve Jackson about Elton John's sobbing reaction to his biopic "Rocketman" in which she plays his mother, how her earliest memory
Play buttonPoland Poland tightens laws on paedophiles after film on priest sex abuse goes viralFrance 24 - NEWS WIRESLawmakers voted overwhelmingly in favour of changes to the criminal code that also introduce life sentences for the most dangerous paedophiles and remove a statute of limitations on prosecution of the
Grumpy Cat Grumpy Cat, the face that launched a thousand memes, dies at sevenFrance 24 - NEWS WIRESOn Friday, the world learned that Grumpy Cat, the internet sensation whose scowl launched a thousand memes -- earning her 1.5 million Twitter followers and 8.3 million Facebook fans -- had died at the
Play buttonHonduras Inside the Americas - US jury awards couple $2 billion in Roundup cancer trialFrance 24 - Genie GODULAAlso, the Alabama Senate has passed the most restrictive abortion bill in the US: a near-total ban, even in cases of rape and incest. And we head to Honduras, where violence, poverty and corruption are
Play buttonColumbine Revisited - Twenty years on, Columbine shooting still haunts AmericaFrance 24 - France 24 ENTwenty years on, FRANCE 24 reporters met with survivors of the Columbine school shooting as well as activists who are determined to prevent similar massacres. Nevertheless, since Columbine there have numerous
Play buttonBrexit Party Labour withdraws from Brexit talks as Theresa May's premiership crumblesFrance 24 - NEWS WIRESNearly three years after the United Kingdom voted 52% to 48% in a referendum to leave the EU, it remains unclear how, when or even if it will leave the European club it joined in 1973. The current deadline
