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The UN General Assembly opened with a speech by Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, whose term ends at the end of the year. He will be followed in the gallery, among other leaders, Brazilian Lula, American Trump, Turkish Erdogan, French Macron, Japanese Takaichi or British Burnham. Follow our direct.
El Niño touches the entire American continent with intensity. There is a high probability that this climate phenomenon is the most powerful ever recorded since 1950. In the United States, the Governor of California declared Monday, September 21, a state of emergency in the face of the arrival of the El Niño climate phenomenon on the American west coast.
US President Donald Trump will meet Monday afternoon with his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron in New York, the White House announced. The two Heads of State are participating this week in the UN General Assembly.
Within a consortium of 26 media coordinated by Forbidden Stories, France 24 investigated for several months the secret agreements between the Trump administration and several African countries, designated as "third countries", ready to host people expelled by the ICE.
It's not just Flavio campaigning in the shadow of the father at the Bolsonaro. The eldest son, who is currently at the elbow-to-neck with Lula in the presidential race, can count on his brothers, senatorial and legislative candidates in southern Brazil. Officialized by the Liberal Party, Carlos is running for a term in the Senate for the first time. The Benjamin Renan is running for the National Assembly. In this South faithful to their father, their only name is enough to win.
From his arrival on Saturday night, Emmanuel Macron reaffirmed French sovereignty over the archipelago of Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon, in the North Atlantic. He must meet with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney. His first visit to the Overseas Territory came a few weeks after US President Donald Trump published a photo on social media showing this area covered by the American flag.
The U.S. president said on Saturday he would not accept anything that could hinder the development of this industry while announcing the coming creation of a dedicated force. "I will very soon announce the appointment of an AI 'tsar'," he added.
According to the decision announced the previous day by US President Donald Trump, CNN journalists, MS NOW and Politico were denied access to the White House on Saturday. The three media reported that their teams' depress accreditations had been confiscated when their reporters came to the US president's residence.
The last straight line of the Midterm campaign has begun! Strategy, candidates, polls... Every week, France 24 takes stock of what to remember. A survey of the New York Times published on Tuesday reinforced the hopes of the Democrats to win not only the House of Representatives but also the Senate in November. And in the field, candidates take on the burning theme of AI, especially via the data center question.
US President Donald Trump said on Friday that his son Donald Trump Jr. would repay Umar Kremlev, a rich Russian businessman who had been responsible for the costs of his wedding in the Bahamas in May. These expenses raised questions about the risk of foreign influence around the presidential family.
On Friday, the Cuban electricity network suffered a total breakdown, plunging the country into darkness and depriving millions of people of electricity in a context of US pressure campaign, which complicates the supply of fuel. This is the seventh general breakdown since the beginning of the year.
The racist outrages of Bo French, a Republican candidate for the leadership of the Texas Railway Commission, made this obscure election a national media phenomenon of the midterm campaign. Both the electoral credibility of the Maga movement and who will lead one of the most influential commissions in the United States. It oversees the regulation of all Texas oil and gas.
A former British parliamentarian claims, based on a video filmed from a helicopter, that no aircraft crashed on the south tower of the Twin Towers during the attacks of 11 September 2001. This is incorrect: the aircraft that hit the south tower hit the other side of the building, which is not visible in the video.
The partial lifting of digital censorship began on Thursday in Venezuela, while power and opposition began a second round of negotiations. At least 188 sites, including 79 media outlets, remain blocked according to a digital rights NGO, and a former opposition mayor has been arrested.
