An area of the Sicilian town of Niscemi was declared off limits after a four-kilometre long stretch of the hillside collapsed on Sunday, forcing the evacuation of some 1,500 people. Though there were no deaths or injuries, experts say the gulf could extend — and topple more houses — when it rains again. Italian Prime […]
Continue ReadingMore than 1,000 people were evacuated in Sicily after a five-kilometre section of cliff crumbled during a storm, leaving houses perched perilously on the edge, authorities said Monday. Land was continuing to give way due to rain that has soaked the area in recent days, said the mayor of the southern hill town of Niscemi. […]
Continue ReadingSpeaking with FRANCE 24’s Mark Owen, Christina Harward, Russia Deputy Team Lead at the Institute for the Study of War, says that the ‘Russian advances are coming at a literal foot-pace’ and ‘this is not the picture that the Russians are trying to paint’, adding that Russian casualties are astronomical. She explains that Russians are […]
Continue ReadingFrench President Emmanuel Macron said Wednesday a standoff with the US over Greenland was “a strategic wake-up call for all of Europe”, speaking alongside the leaders of Denmark and the Danish autonomous territory. Speaking with FRANCE 24’s Mark Owen, Federico Santopinto, Senior Research Fellow at IRIS, says that ‘Europe has had already several strategic wake […]
Continue ReadingAs countries on both sides of the Atlantic ramp up deportations of undocumented migrants, Spain’s left-wing government is preparing to give legal status to hundreds of thousands of irregular workers. Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has championed the amnesty as a way to not only give informal workers legal protections, but to also bring more money […]
Continue ReadingSince August 2025 Ukraine has stepped up its campaign of strikes against targets deep inside Russia. While the country’s Western allies have been reluctant to allow the use of long-range missiles for that purpose, they have not objected to Ukraine doing it with its domestically-produced weapons – principally drones – with the Americans even helping […]
Continue ReadingEuropean powers have sought to join forces after US President Donald Trump roiled the transatlantic alliance by threatening to seize strategically-located and mineral-rich Greenland. France’s Emmanuel Macron, one of the staunchest defenders of a united European front, hosted the Greenlandic and Danish PMs in Paris to show that despite the threat of a US takeover […]
Continue ReadingAs Russia seeks to replenish its forces in nearly four years of war — and avoid an unpopular nationwide mobilization — it’s pulling out all the stops to find new troops to send into the battlefield. This includes duping foreign nationals from Kenya, South Africa, Iraq and South Asian countries into signing up to fight […]
Continue ReadingAfter nearly four years since Russia’s full scale invasion of Ukraine, the war has caused nearly two million military casualties — killed, wounded or missing — on both sides, according to a study published by a US think tank. Moscow’s forces have borne the brunt of the losses, suffering as many as 325,000 killed out […]
Continue ReadingUkraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy denounced as “terrorism” a Russian drone strike on a train in northeastern Kharkiv region on January 27 and said four people had been killed. Meanwhile, a new report estimates Ukraine’s dead and wounded around 500,000, while Russia’s are twice as high. FRANCE 24’s Gulliver Cragg tells us more from Kherson.
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