French farmers drove tractors into Paris for the second time in a week on Tuesday to protest an EU-Mercosur trade deal they say would undercut local agriculture with cheaper imports from South America. Backed by FNSEA, one of France's largest farm unions, the action adds pressure on President Emmanuel Macron’s government after most EU member states approved the pact despite Paris’s opposition.
After two weeks of government crackdowns on protestors in Iran, US President Donald Trump threatened air strikes and a 25 percent tariff on countries that do business with Iran, as senior aides in the Trump administration urged him to pursue diplomacy with Tehran. At least 648 people have been killed so far, though the actual toll could be much higher. Follow our liveblog for all the latest developments.
A Russian overnight attack on Ukraine’s northeastern city of Kharkiv killed two people and wounded several others, regional and city officials said on Tuesday, as Moscow continues near-daily strikes across the country.
A bipartisan group of US lawmakers will travel to Denmark this week amid escalating tensions over President Donald Trump’s renewed threats to take control of Greenland, an autonomous territory within the Danish kingdom that hosts a US airbase.
Minnesota and its two largest cities have filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration, seeking to halt or curtail a sweeping immigration enforcement surge that followed the fatal shooting of a Minneapolis woman by a federal officer and sparked protests nationwide.
Washington said on Monday that Venezuelan opposition figure Maria Corina Machado will meet President Donald Trump this week, a move that comes as pressure mounts on the interim leadership in Caracas to accelerate the release of political prisoners.
Former Paris Saint-Germain academy product Jonathan Ikone struck a late winner against his old club as Paris FC shocked the holders 1-0 on Monday to book their place in the last 16 of the French Cup.
Mattel Inc. is introducing an autistic Barbie on Monday as the newest member of its line intended to celebrate diversity, joining a collection that already includes Barbies with Down syndrome, a blind Barbie, a Barbie and a Ken with vitiligo, and other models the toymaker added to make its fashion dolls more inclusive. FRANCE 24's Monte Francis reports
Speaking with FRANCE 24's Sharon Gaffney, Atakan Bakiskan, Economist at Berenberg Private Bank, says that the US Federal Reserve would lose its political independence should Chairman Jerome Powell resign and should the Supreme Court allow the firing of Fed Governor Lisa Cook, leaving the central bank with a majority of Trump appointees on its board.
Criticism has been pouring in from Republican and Democratic lawmakers, former Fed chairs and top officials after the US Justice Department launched a criminal investigation against Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell. After he described the move as retaliation against the Fed for not lowering interest rates as quickly as the President wanted, concern over the central bank's independence pushed prices of safe-haven assets like gold higher.
