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US, Iran trade blame over fire exchanges
Iran and the US took part in tit for tat clashes this Thursday. Tehran said it fired on a US army base in the region, while the US reports striking the Bandar Abbas port in Iran. Later on Thursday, Axios reported that the U.S. and Iran had reached agreement on a memorandum of understanding to extend their ceasefire for 60 days. But President Donald Trump has yet to approve it. In an attempt to speed up the negotiations, Pakistan’s foreign minister, Mohammad Ishaq Dar, will fly to Washington on Friday to meet his US counterpart, Marco Rubio.
The Iran War Has Only Worsened Sudan’s Conflict
The country is uniquely vulnerable to regional shocks.
Israeli authorities to be added to UN sexual violence list over alleged Palestinian detainee abuse
This year's United Nations report on sexual violence in conflict zones will include Israeli authorities in an annex of entities responsible for or suspected of carrying conflict-related sexual violence, Israeli officials confirmed Thursday in comments slamming the decision. Last year's report said it had received "credible information" of sexual violence carried out by security forces in Israeli detention centres.
Erdogan Is Forcibly Designing His Own Opposition
Turkey is moving from repressing the opposition to reshaping it.
Australian woman charged over travel to Syria to join Islamic State
The arrest came eight months after she returned to Australia with her children from Lebanon.
Cubans Abandon the American Dream
As conditions on the island worsen, people are leaving—just not for the United States.
Orthodox Jewish women in Israel may now take a rabbinic exam, like men
Until now, only Orthodox Jewish men in Israel have been allowed to take exams to become rabbis. After a long campaign, women can now also take the test - but still can't become rabbis
Senegal's ousted prime minister Sonko elected parliament speaker
In tonight's edition: Senegal's parliament elects Ousmane Sonko as its speaker, three days after President Bassirou Diomaye Faye fired him as prime minister. Also, communities affected by the spread of Ebola in DR Congo are trying to navigate the economic effects of the crisis. Plus in the run-up to the major Islamic festival Tabaski, livestock markets in Abidjan have slowed down.
Space race heats up between US, China as NASA lays out Moon base plans
NASA has unveiled its plans to send humans to the Moon, which include establishing a permanent presence on Earth's nearest satellite by the 2030s. It comes as China moves ahead with its own lunar ambitions, launching three astronauts into outer space. FRANCE 24's Sharon Gaffney speaks to Michelle L. D. Hanlon, Executive Director at the Center for Air and Space Law at the University of Mississippi.
Crackdown on culture: Israel censoring Palestinian voices
A United Nations commission, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have all separately concluded that Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, where tens of thousands of Palestinians have been killed since the start of the war in October 2023. The cultural life of the enclave is also profoundly threatened, with historic buildings destroyed and writers, poets and academics among that huge death toll.
Israel carries out strike on Beirut suburbs, first near capital in weeks
An Israeli strike hit a building in the southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital on Thursday, the first strike to hit near Beirut in weeks amid a ceasefire that has failed to halt fighting between Israeli troops and Hezbollah in south Lebanon. The Israeli military said it had conducted a precise strike in Beirut but did not offer additional details.
Brazil's Lula backs new oil, gas drilling in western Amazon
Brazilian oil giant Petrobras announced Wednesday the drilling of new wells at an oil and gas field in the Amazon rainforest for the first time in a decade, at an event attended by President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. In November, Lula hosted the COP30 UN climate conference where he urged world leaders to present "roadmaps" for the transition away from fossil fuels.