Bear captured in Japan after multi-day search as attacks rise

France Tuesday banned Israel's far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich from entering the country, as part of coordinated sanctions with other countries over settler violence against Palestinians. FRANCE 24's Noga Tarnopolsky reports from Jerusalem.

Questions linger over whether the explosion of the Blue Origin New Glenn rocket will affect the Artemis III mission.

Two crew members of the Apache helicopter that crashed following the attack were rescued by an American sea drone.

It takes convincing these days to get China’s leader to go abroad. Xi Jinping’s just wrapped up what was only his first foreign visit of 2026. Why Pyongyang? Hard to deduce from official readouts of that two-day state visit to neighboring North Korea. Politeness after a pair of visits by Kim Jong Un to Beijing? Celebrations of the 65th anniversary of their mutual defense pact?