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🎉 All of us here at #FRANCE24 and France Médias Monde wish you a very Happy New Year 2026! Thank you for your continued trust, and stay tuned for the latest updates from across the world. #HappyNewYear2026

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🇵🇸 🇮🇱 Dozens of NGOs expect to see their licenses to operate in #Gaza revoked on January 1 for failing to comply with Israel’s new rules for the #Palestinian territory. FRANCE 24's Joanna York explains ➡️ https://go.france24.com/LHc

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🇫🇷 🗣️ #French President Emmanuel #Macron will deliver a televised address to the nation at 8 PM, Paris time, sharing his best wishes ahead of the new year while setting down his policy goals for 2026. Watch his speech #live on FRANCE 24 and FRANCE24.com 🔗

France to debate social media ban for children under 15

🇵🇸 🇮🇱 Dozens of #NGOs expect to see their licenses to operate in #Gaza revoked on January 1 for failing to comply with #Israel’s new rules for the #Palestinian territory.

Aid to Gaza under threat: Dozens of NGOs to be barred under new Israeli rules

🇵🇸 In #Gaza, a fragile ceasefire has been in place since October, but humanitarian conditions remain dire, with many accusing Israel of not letting in the needed aid. 🎨 In this difficult context, some Palestinians are turning to art to help them process the trauma of the war.

In pictures: Spectacular fireworks light up skies as world ushers in 2026

🇭🇺 Short-term rentals for tourists and visitors will be illegal in #Budpaest's sixth district from January 1, 2026 onwards. Authorities have cited the practice, run via #AirBnB and other companies, as a cause for the city's exclusionary #housing market.

🇫🇷 🚫 A #French ban on the production and sale of #PFAS chemicals – known as 'forever chemicals' as it takes them so long to break down – comes into effect on Thursday. Read more ➡️ https://go.france24.com/LHR

🇮🇷 Iran will meet any attempt to use ongoing protests driven by economic hardship to foment insecurity with a "decisive response", prosecutor-general Mohammad Movahedi-Azad said Wednesday. Read more ➡️ https://go.france24.com/xn7

🇫🇷 🎆 These police officers are surveilling Parisian roofs in a helicopter, in anticipation of #NewYearsEve celebrations in the French capital. French interior minister Laurent Nunez has declared a "no-tolerance" policy with regards to illegal #fireworks.

🇩🇪 🏦 Robbers targeted the vault at a bank in #Germany's #Gelsenkirchen, which housed safe deposit boxes housing customers' precious possessions, getting away with goods and cash worth nearly €30 million, according to German police estimations. Nealry 3,000 lockers were hit.

🇮🇷 #Iran will meet any attempt to use ongoing protests driven by economic hardship to foment insecurity with a "decisive response", prosecutor-general Mohammad Movahedi-Azad said Wednesday. International Affairs Editor Philip Turle analyses the comments ⤵️

🇩🇰 📮 The Danish state-owned postal service #PostNord will stop delivering letters from January 1, 2026 onwards. Danes will still be able to send letters, thanks to a private provider stepping in to fill the gap.

🇵🇪 Two trains collided head-on near #MachuPicchu, #Peru's busiest tourist site, with the incident leaving at least one person dead. An investigation into the situation is ongoing. The trains, operated by different companies, collided on a single-track line.

🇵🇸 A group of 10 countries, including #France, warned on Tuesday that the situation in #Gaza was "catastrophic" due to the "renewed deterioration of the humanitarian situation" in the #Palestinian enclave. Read more ➡️ https://go.france24.com/vmD

Libyans savour shared heritage at reopened national museum

🚇 The #NewYork Subway will no longer need the iconic #MetroCard, with the system being completely replaced by the tap-to-pay with contactless payment cards from January 1 onwards. The move is expected to save the city's transit authority $20 million.

Taiwan coastguard says Chinese ships 'withdrawing' after drills

Iran to unleash 'decisive' response if economic protests destabilise country, prosecutor says

🇬🇧 🇪🇺 🇫🇷 ⛴️ Five years after #Brexit, fishermen on the coast of Brittany are struggling with lower yields and scarce fishing grounds as #French boats lost the right to fish in #British waters, losing out to Spanish fleets fishing more in French and other #EU waters.

🇷🇺 🇺🇦 An overnight #Russian drone attack on #Ukraine's Black Sea port of #Odesa wounded at least six people, three of them children, Ukrainian authorities said Wednesday. Follow our #liveblog for all the latest developments ➡️ https://go.france24.com/rzR

🇦🇪 🇾🇪 🇸🇦 The #UAE said Tuesday it would withdraw its remaining forces from #Yemen after #SaudiArabia led an airstrike on a southern Yemeni port targeting what it said was a UAE-linked weapons shipment.

Thailand releases 18 Cambodian soldiers held since July