Israeli sniper shoots and kills a Palestinian boy in the Balata camp east of Nablus in the occupied West Bank, while the boy’s friend flees unharmed from the sniper’s bullets. Subscribe: Livestream:...
Stone tablet engraved with Ten Commandments sells for $5 million • FRANCE 24 English
A stone tablet carrying engravings of the Ten Commandments sold for $5 million at auction on Wednesday, Sotheby’s announced. The high figure was notched despite questions around the tablet’s authenticity: no...
Russian President Putin ready to talk with Donald Trump over Ukraine war
"Politics is the art of compromise. And we have always said that we are ready for both negotiations and compromises." Russian President Vladimir Putin stated that he was willing to compromise on the Ukraine...
Gisèle Pelicot speaks outside court after ex-husband jailed in mass rape trial | BBC News
Gisèle Pelicot has thanked supporters in a speech outside a court in France, after her ex-husband Dominique Pelicot was jailed for 20 years for drugging her and recruiting strangers to rape her. Gisèle told a crowd of...
‘Damascus became a mass grave’: Syria uncovers more horrors of Assad regime • FRANCE 24 English
A Syrian civil defence official said Wednesday that White Helmets rescuers discovered unidentified bodies and remains in a medicine warehouse in a Damascus suburb, one of just a number of mass graves uncovered in the...
Pelicot trial: ‘Rape has been banalised by our society’ • FRANCE 24 English
A court in France on Thursday sentenced the ex-husband of Gisèle Pelicot to 20 years in prison for drugging and raping her and allowing other men to rape her while she was unconscious, in abuse that lasted nearly a...
US faces possible government shutdown after Trump rejects stopgap bill • FRANCE 24 English
US President-elect Donald Trump has upended bipartisan efforts to avert a government shutdown, after he rejected a stopgap bill and pressed Republican lawmakers to either renegotiate it or risk their political careers...