A fresh report from the United Nations human rights office has warned that Israel’s accelerating expansion of unlawful settlements and annexation of large parts of the West Bank is driving “unprecedented” displacement.

On the 18th day of the war in the Middle East, RFI spoke to Nitzan Horowitz, journalist and former Israeli Minister of Health, who called for an end to the US-Israeli operation. In his view, strikes against Iran will not bring down the regime and a gr…

Israel has claimed it has killed Ali Larijani, Iran’s powerful national security chief, in a strike on Tehran, as fresh bombardments hit cities across the Middle East following weeks of escalating conflict.

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky has placed the new generation French-Italian-made SAMP/T air defence system at the centre of his latest appeal for protection against Russian missiles, providing a European alternative to the US Patriot missiles …

A court in Azerbaijan has convicted a French citizen for spying and sentenced him to ten years in prison. The case came during a period of heightened diplomatic tension between France and Azerbaijan, which has now eased. France says it is working for …

France has said it will not send naval vessels to the Strait of Hormuz after US President Donald Trump called on countries reliant on oil from the Gulf to help secure the shipping lane that has been blocked since the start of the US and Israeli attack…

Monday marks the deadline for Elon Musk’s social media platform X to pay a €120 million European Union penalty over its verification system and transparency breaches.

The stage show Shen Yun draws audiences across the world with its vision of 5,000 years of Chinese civilisation through classical dance and opera. But in an RFI investigation, former dancers and followers of the Falun Gong movement behind the producti…

French President Emmanuel Macron on Saturday said Lebanon was ready to engage in “direct talks” with Israel and offered to host negotiations in Paris. This came on the heels of a visit to Beirut by UN chief Antonio Guterres, who also urged for a diplo…