Armed with paper fortune-tellers and pop worship songs, young French Catholics from the Anuncio movement fanned out into the crowds awaiting Pope Leo XIV's arrival in Paris on Friday, hoping to bring strangers closer to God in one of Europe's most secular countries.
On Friday, Pope Leo XIV praised the "splendor" of Notre-Dame de Paris, which has been restored following the devastating fire of 2019, saying "the heart of a people" beats within this place. He is the first pope to visit the cathedral since its reopening in 2024.
It’s been a week of walkouts, power plays and diplomatic theatre — from a battle over press freedom in Washington, to a United Nations General Assembly marked by protests and departures, as leaders clashed over Iran, Cuba and Venezuela.
European Union countries have agreed to release €6.6 billion from a fund meant to reimburse member states that have provided arms to Ukraine, EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said on Friday.
US President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping capped a state visit on Friday with pomp and pageantry but no breakthroughs. After the two-day meeting, Trump said he discussed the Iran war with Xi, and the two leaders confirmed that they will meet two more times before the end of the year.
US President Donald Trump took Chinese leader Xi Jinping to see the founding documents of American democracy on Friday, capping a state visit full of pomp and pageantry but with no major breakthroughs.
The US Supreme Court on Friday ruled the Trump administration can use a controversial new federal database that would ostensibly verify voter citizenship in November’s elections. Critics argue the administration is exaggerating the threat of non-citizen voters – an extreme rarity in US elections – t…
Enthused believers hailed Pope Leo XIV as he waved to the crowds from a 'popemobile' in the French capital on Friday, after speeches calling for peace and warning against losing humanity in an AI-driven "paradise of machines".
Watch our special FRANCE 24 edition as Pope Leo XIV leads Vespers at Notre-Dame Cathedral on September 25 during his visit to Paris. Our journalists followed the event live from outside the cathedral, while guests joined us to analyse the significance of this key moment in the pontiff's four-day vis…
Watch our special FRANCE 24 coverage of Pope Leo XIV's visit to Paris as the pontiff travelled through the French capital in the popemobile on his way to Notre-Dame Cathedral, where our journalist Claire Paccalin was reporting live.
As the United States marks its 250th anniversary, its founding promises, identity and place in the world are being fiercely debated. As the Festival America in Vincennes gets underway, we're putting that question to two acclaimed novelists: New Yorker Taffy Brodesser-Akner, author of "Long Island Co…
The European Union on Friday said it will pursue a €120 million fine against the X social network after the US Justice Department said it supported the efforts of X owner Elon Musk to have the case annulled.
Watch the replay of Pope Leo XIV's address at UNESCO on September 25, 2026 where he spoke about peace, culture, AI and international cooperation during the first stop of his France visit.
The EU has gone through seven waves of enlargement since 1973, but there has not been one since Croatia joined in 2013. Indeed, there are not likely to be any new members in the club before 2028 – some 15 years after Croatia entered.
It has been called Europe's disaster year. 2026 has seen more than 30,000 excess deaths linked to heatwaves, along with mega wildfires, nuclear power plants having to shut down, gas plants under pressure, droughts reducing hydropower generation from rivers and wild fluctuations in electricity prices…
The suspected killer of former Argentine rugby international Federico Martin Aramburu, who was gunned down after a dispute in a Paris brasserie in March 2022, on Friday asked forgiveness from the victim's family as the trial concluded.
Loik Le Priol, one of the main suspects in the 2022 killing of Argentine rugby player Federico Martin Aramburu in Paris, asked for forgiveness from the victim's family on Friday. Verdicts are expected to be delivered later in the day in the trial of four people, including Le Priol and Romain Bouvier…
Pope Leo XIV has declined a state dinner, the Legion of Honour and a private meeting with President Emmanuel Macron, keeping his four-day France visit centred on its apostolic mission despite official talks at the Élysée.
Crowds have already begun gathering outside Notre-Dame Cathedral as Pope Leo XIV prepares for one of the highlights of his Paris visit. Before heading to the cathedral, the pontiff is expected to deliver another speech at UNESCO headquarters, where he is set to address global challenges including pe…
In an interview with FRANCE 24 on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly, Anwar Gargash, senior diplomatic adviser to the UAE president, said Iran "has dragged us into this conflict", after the UAE was "the target of 3,300 missiles and drones" fired by Iran.
Speaking to broadcasters TF1 and France 2, French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday announced that “military resources” will be sent to protect the Yanbu oil site in Saudi Arabia, integral to maintaining the kingdom’s fuel exports and increasingly threatened by Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels.
This week Paris des Arts decamps to Geneva, the cosmopolitan Swiss city nestled between the lake and the Jura mountains. Valérie Fayolle is there to meet two artists who have made it their home. Young chef Danny Khezzar heads up the team at the Michelin-starred Bayview restaurant.
In an interview with FRANCE 24 on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly, Trump's Africa envoy Massad Boulos said that each side in Sudan feels it "could get a decisive military victory". Asked about Western Sahara, he acknowledged there is no "imminent solution that we can feel or touch".
Pope Leo XIV used his address at the Élysée Palace to touch on some of France's biggest debates, from artificial intelligence and secularism to surrogacy, while calling for peace and solidarity. Our journalist Kethevane Gorjestani breaks down the key takeaways from his speech.
