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President Vladimir Putin warned Wednesday that Russia could provide long-range weapons to others to strike Western targets in response to NATO allies allowing Ukraine to use their arms to attack Russian territory.

Israel says it will soon decide whether to launch an offensive in Lebanon, where it has clashed with the Iran-backed group Hezbollah for months. Steven A. Cook, a senior fellow for Middle East Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, tells FRANCE 24's Monte Francis that Hezbollah's large stores of…

After delays and over $1.4 billion of cost overruns, Boeing has finally launched its first crewed spacecraft into orbit. The CST-100 Starliner capsule lifted off from Cape Canaveral in Florida, carrying veteran NASA astronauts Barry "Butch" Wilmore and Sunita "Suni" Williams. After being hit with a series of safety scandals…

Fake news, bogus websites, deepfake interviews augmented by AI: we have all, often without our knowledge, fallen foul of this kind of manipulation. And most of it is coming from Russia. With our panel, we explore the how and why behind this. We also aim to provide you with some…

In pioneering Lithuania, the first all-women list in the country’s political history has been unveiled. The Lithuanian Greens are hoping that this list will help more women get elected to the European Parliament, where men still make up around 60% of the members. The candidates are also trying to draw…

The trial on Monday of a small-town mayor and her deputy for complicity in drug trafficking appears to illustrate the scale of France's drug dealing problem, highlighting how drug barons have encroached upon some rural French communities and even held sway over their elected representatives.

EU voters head to the polls on June 6-9 to elect the next European Parliament with the 27-member bloc facing a daunting set of challenges, including deep divisions over migration management, a backlash against climate change policies, and an overhaul of Europe’s defence industries spurred by the ongoing war in…

Commemorating D-Day is crucial to remind us of the horror of war. That's the view of an historian who has spoken to FRANCE 24 about the fears that we are in a pre-war period with the threat of a third world war, and that this week's commemorations should be a…

As commemorations marking the 80th anniversary of the Allied landings take place in Normandy, film critic Lisa Nesselson tells us about her favorite D-Day classics – from star-studded extravaganza "The Longest Day" to Steven Spielberg's "Saving Private Ryan". Plus, Jessica Chastain and Peter Sarsgaard star in "Memory", a harsh tale…

On June 6, 1944, Allied troops landed in Normandy in the largest air, sea and land operation in military history. Today, very few people who experienced D-Day are still alive and able to talk about it. FRANCE 24's Claire Paccalin and Stéphanie Trouillard met three people who were children at…

As hundreds of thousands of people flock to the French region of Normandy to commemorate the 80th anniversary of D-Day, local businesses there are capitalising on tourists' passion for World War II history. FRANCE 24's Leo McGuinn and our colleagues from France 2 report on this business of souvenir sales…