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Following the interventions of Emmanuel Macron and Pope Francis, on Friday, September 25, he left L'Élysée to join the apostolic nunciature in the 16th arrondissement, before going to UNESCO to deliver an address and to continue his Parisian journey, particularly to Notre-Dame.
"After years and losing the illusion of having something of Dad, this says a lot and a lot of good about you," Francisco Rivera wrote on Instagram with a photo of both with the trophies delivered
François Picard is pleased to welcome Kyrylo Berkal, Deputy Commander of Ukraine's Third Army Corps, He sees Ukraine’s struggle centred on human potential, adaptation and will. While Ukraine is outnumbered, outgunned and sometimes outflanked, their answer is to make human initiative a weapon: giving soldiers and sergeants room to innovate, developing technology from the tactical level upward, and trying to outthink their adversary. Berkal says that Operation Vivaldi embodies that philosophy.
The current growth of artificial intelligence (AI) "needs extreme attention," warned OpenAI boss Sam Altman on Wednesday, September 23, during a presentation to the UN Security Council. Sam Altman was invited, along with his counterparts Dario Amodei of Anthropic, and the Frenchman Clement Delangue of the IA Hugging Face platform, to take stock of this technology and its risks. The explanations of Leïla Mörch, CEO of Shael in Madrid.
François Picard welcomes Scott Anderson, journalist, war correspondent and best-selling author of "King of Kings: The Fall of the Shah and the Revolution That Forged Modern Iran". For Anderson, there is a striking parallel between 1979 and 2026: Washington's persistent misreading of Iran, and the consequences that follow.
François Picard is pleased to welcome Eoghan Gilmartin, an award-winning investigative journalist and part of The Guardian team whose investigation examined links between IPCC authors and Saudi Arabia’s oil industry, including Saudi Aramco. Their findings take us to the intersection of climate science, political and economic interests, and institutional credibility, and into the politically consequential terrain of climate mitigation: how societies decide to respond to climate change.
On the rise in pump prices, the government announces new targeted aid. According to François Kalfon, MEP and PS member, "the account is not: automatic help is needed for the most modest". He suggested that "all oil superprofits be taxed in Europe". On the Russian threat, the MEP notes a significant increase in hybrid attacks and in the European Parliament, "some political parties like AFD are under Russian domination".
Azerbaijan pardoned French prisoner Martin Ryan, according to a presidential decree published on Wednesday. This 38-year-old businessman had been sentenced in March to ten years in prison for "espionage", in a context of tensions between Baku and Paris.
In the face of rising prices at the pump and the concern of French motorists, the government announced on Tuesday the extension until the end of the year of aid for large motorists. The scheme will also be expanded to cover up to 5.5 million potential beneficiaries.
François Picard is pleased to welcome Washington Post national security reporter Adam Taylor. The Forbidden Stories consortium, involving France 24 and 25 other media outlets, has spent six months investigating the thousands of people abruptly deported from the United States to third countries, amid concerns over due process and their ability to challenge their removal. The investigation examines how the Trump administration has made deportation a major focus of both US immigration and foreign policy.
Canadian finance minister François-Philippe Champagne proposed that the United Kingdom join the economic alliance that Ottawa is negotiating with the European Union. The initiative seeks to strengthen cooperation between so-called 'average powers' in terms of growth and security, in a context marked by trade tensions and US tariffs.
Sébastien Lecornu will hold Monday, September 21, two meetings in Matignon with ministers: one in the morning with the directors of central administrations on oil and gas supplies, disturbed by a war in the Middle East that is going on forever, and the other in the afternoon dedicated to "the short- and medium-term accompaniment" of the French against the boom of prices at the pump. The explanations of Flore Simon, political columnist in France 24.
Once again, the PSG defeated OM at the Velodrome in the classic League 1. At the World Cycling Championships, Belgian Remco Evenepoel was the strongest in the exercise, while Frenchman Paul Seixas ripped out third place. Finally, French Agathe Guillemot won the title of world champion of the mile on Saturday, beating the European record.
The trial of six French nationals accused of membership of the Islamic State organization began on Sunday, 20 September, in Baghdad. Our correspondent Marie-Charlotte Rupie tells us more.
Six French nationals suspected of belonging to the Islamic State (IS) organization are tried from Sunday in Baghdad, Iraq, where they face the death penalty. Iraqi prisons, already full of ISIS suspects, have been hosting thousands of detainees from Syria since last year.
Banana is the most consumed fruit of the French, it is also the most imported: 81% come from Africa, the Caribbean and Latin America, traveling thousands of kilometers before arriving on our tables. What if, tomorrow, they were pushing you two steps away? In the south of France, climate change is reshaping vegetable crops. Rather than fighting this upheaval, some farmers have chosen to tame it: they have embarked on the production of exotic fruits: bananas, papayas, dragon fruits grown in the middle of Provence. All, s
Most of the presidential candidates for next Spring responded to the French President's call for a crisis meeting around the "rapid deterioration" of the geopolitical situation and the prices of fuel that are breaking records. An energy G7 will soon be organized by Emmanuel Macron, who also expressed his fears about Russian hybrid attacks. The details of Flore Simon, political columnist in France 24.
As the summer begins to wind down in September, Hollywood is just getting started with a new crop of awards season movies premiering at the Venice Film Festival. Some of the first arrivals for the 83rd annual Italian fest included George Clooney, Laura Dern, Kate Mara, Claire Foy and jury president Maggie Gyllenhaal. At the […]
Jacques Attali, former adviser to François Mitterrand, president of the NGO "Positive Planet" and author of numerous books was invited on France 24. His latest work published by the Flammarion editions is entitled "La Niaque. How to become more than yourself."
François Picard is pleased to welcome investigative journalist Emanuel Maiberg, Co-founder of 404 Media. As we embark on AI's uncharted waters, Maiberg has made a most unexpected discovery:: the mass acquisition, dismemberment and scanning of rare books for use as training data. His investigation reveals a globalised and deliberately opaque supply chain in which books purchased through anonymous marketplaces can ultimately arrive at large-scale scanning facilities, where their bindings are removed so that pages can be processed at great speed.
