US President Donald Trump said Friday that he had secured Russia's agreement for a major release of diesel, as he eased war sanctions on Moscow in a push to lower energy costs ahead of midterm elections.
Former UN human rights chief Navanethem "Navi" Pillay, a judge at the International Court of Justice, won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday in Oslo, Norway.
US, Ukrainian and European negotiators held talks in Miami on Friday to seek a common proposal to end the war in Ukraine, as President Donald Trump's decision to ease restrictions on Russian fuel drew criticism from lawmakers and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
French student unions vowed on Friday to keep up the fight even as the government registered a "marked slowdown" in a protest movement that has rattled the country for over a week. The UN human rights agency called for de-escalation, voicing concern over violent clashes with police that have caused severe injuries among teenage protesters.
US President Donald Trump said Friday that Russia had agreed to immediately supply more than 300,000 tonnes of diesel to US and global markets in an effort to cut fuel prices before November's midterm elections. The move marks a stunning change of policy after the US and its allies hit Russia with waves of sanctions over its invasion of Ukraine.
A 29-year-old Indian man was sentenced to 20 years in prison Friday in a Paris trial over his alleged involvement in an international criminal network that targeted vulnerable children in the US, Britain and Canada and coerced them into producing violent and sexual videos.
The 2026 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to South African Navanethem “Navi” Pillay on Friday, October 9, 2026. The 85-year-old South Africa-born served as United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and chair of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territories.
Advocates of human rights and international justice cheered, even as Israeli officials fumed, after South African jurist and former UN human rights chief Navi Pillay won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday. The 85-year-old drew wide praise for decades of work, including investigating crimes in Rwanda, Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories.
Navi Pillay, a South African-born jurist and former UN human rights chief whose career has spanned from defending the rights of an imprisoned Nelson Mandela to leading a panel that found that Israel committed genocide in Gaza, won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for her efforts to promote international law as it comes under attack. For more, FRANCE 24’s William Hilderbrandt is joined by Jørgen Watne Frydnes, Chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee.
Two Renoir paintings worth millions of dollars that were stolen from a museum on the French Riviera a month ago have been recovered and six suspects have been arrested, the local mayor said on Friday. The thieves sliced through a fence, climbed through a window and initally stole four paintings by the French master, but abandoned two of the artworks as they fled.
The South African-born jurist and former UN human rights chief Navi Pillay, who is currently an ad hoc judge at the International Court of Justice, won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for her efforts to promote peace and international law. Her win is sure to be seen as a high-profile rebuke to US President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who have both rejected the findings of a UN commission she led that Israel committed genocide in Gaza. Both leaders also have been highly critical of the institutions where Pillay has worked. FRANCE 24's International Affairs Editor Philip
Ethiopia and Eritrea on Friday accused each other of starting a "war of agresson" days after the two countries severed diplomatic ties. Ethiopian officals estimate that up to 8,000 Eritrean soldiers are present in Tigray supporting rebels who last month launched attacks against federal forces.
Thursday's attacks on Riyadh airport killed three people, Saudi authorities said on Friday, as Yemen's Houthi group stepped up missile strikes on the kingdom and tried to shut down its airspace in an escalating war triggered by the US-Iran conflict. The strikes, which also injured several people, damaged a Saudia Airlines plane and sent smoke billowing over the airport, led many airlines to cancel flights to the Saudi capital days before it is due to host a major meeting of global oil chiefs.