Year: 2025

Syrians celebrated their first New Year after the fall of Bashar al-Assad on Tuesday as fireworks lit up the night sky above Damascus. In the capital's main square, people brandished…

Israeli airstrikes on Al-Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza and on the northern town of Jabalia killed at least 17 Palestinians on Wednesday, the official Palestinian news agency WAFA reported.The Israeli military had…

A man "hellbent on creating carnage" drove a pickup truck at high speed into a crowd of New Year revellers in New Orleans on Wednesday, killing at least 10 people and injuring more than 35. The FBI is to take over the investigation to probe a "possible, improvised explosive device," The Guardian’s Washington bureau chief David Smith told FRANCE 24, citing a FBI official.

From Sydney to Mumbai to Paris to Rio de Janeiro, communities around the world welcomed 2025 with spectacular light shows, embraces and ice plunges. In Paris, the city’s emblematic Arc…

As the world greets the New Year, FRANCE 24 takes a look at major changes set to come in 2025 including Donald Trump's return to the White House, the ongoing…

Russia's gas transit to Europe via Ukraine stopped on Wednesday, Moscow and Kyiv said, ending a decades-long arrangement and marking the latest casualty of the war between the neighbours. Russian…