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Senegal's legal attempt to recover the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations title will on Thursday go before a three-judge panel at the Court of Arbitration for Sport, which will decide whether Morocco should hand it back to the West African nation.

French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu has insisted that security forces have not been ordered to “confront” protesting high school students, as mounting allegations of police brutality add to tensions surrounding a nationwide movement over conditions in…

European Union trade commissioner Maros Sefcovic arrives in Beijing on Thursday for two days of high-stakes talks with China, with Brussels seeking a pilot agreement to curb the surge in Chinese hybrid-car exports and reduce a trade deficit now running at…

After having its hopes dashed for a more ambitious deal last year in Brazil, the European Union is setting its sights low for next month's Cop31 climate summit in Turkey.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio delivered a combative defence of Washington’s right to wield its “national power” in Athens on Wednesday, while urging Europe to “awaken from its long slumber”.

The African Union is launching the continent’s first credit rating agency on Wednesday, aiming to provide an alternative to the global “big three” by drawing on African expertise and perspectives.

Omer Shem Tov was abducted by Hamas at the Nova music festival in Israel on 7 October, 2023 and held hostage by the armed Islamist group for 505 days.

The Malian army and its Russian allies entered the strategic northern city of Kidal on Tuesday without resistance after Tuareg separatists announced a tactical withdrawal, five months after government forces were driven out.

The Nobel Prize in chemistry was awarded on Wednesday to French scientist Henri B.

French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu will address the nation on Wednesday evening as part of his government's drive to end the wave of student blockades that have closed high schools throughout the country.

Argentina’s head coach Lionel Scaloni hailed the enduring genius of the former Barcelona and Paris Saint-Germain striker Lionel Messi on Wednesday moments after the 39-year-old played his last game for the national team.

More than 74,000 Palestinians have been killed in the war launched by Israel following the 7 October, 2023 Hamas attacks.

French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu said there can be "no room for tolerance of violence", as tens of thousands of students took to the streets nationwide on Tuesday to protest over the state of schools.

Hard-left French EU lawmaker Rima Hassan is facing an investigation after the Israeli and European Union flags were allegedly thrown to the floor at a commemoration for the 2023 Hamas attacks that set off the Gaza war.

The largest market for Namibian beef, the European Union, announced it has suspended imports after an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease, which wreaked havoc in Europe 25 years ago.

Separatists won provincial elections in Quebec on Monday, with a promise to hold a vote on leaving Canada after US President Donald Trump leaves office, testing Prime Minister Mark Carney's message of national unity.

France has decided to allocate an additional €7 million this year to combat the Ebola epidemic currently ravaging the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

Lebanon's army will hold three weeks of exercises with the British military as of Tuesday, both sides said on Monday, with the drills to involve personnel and representatives from countries including France, Italy and the United States.

Tens of thousands of demonstrators are expected on the streets of Paris on Tuesday as France's powerful trade unions join high school students rallying for better conditions in a wave of protests marked by clashes with police.

Substitutes Désiré Doué, Ryan Cherki and two goals from Michael Olise launched the late pyrotechnics on Monday night at the Stade de France as France scored four times in 13 minutes to whoosh past Belgium 4-1 and maintain the lead of their Nations League…

The Plan International charity said Monday that global warming has increased the risk of child marriages, teenage pregnancies and violence against girls.

A 29-year-old man went on trial on Monday at the Paris Assize Court, charged with running a masculinist chat group on the platform Discord on which young victims were forced to engage in sexual acts online and to mutilate themselves.

A study published Monday by France’s largest food aid charity Restos du Cœur shows that the number of people living in extreme poverty in France increased by 37 percent between 2018 and 2025.

Nearly 500 highschools across France were closed or partially closed on Monday as students continued their demonstrations over poor learning conditions, ahead of a day of wider protests scheduled for Tuesday.

A 15-year-old lost a hand on Monday picking up a police grenade as students across France demanded better classroom conditions in a days-long wave of protests that have erupted into blazes and barricades at some schools while disrupting lessons at hundreds

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez on Monday called a snap election for 29 November, after parliament rejected housing relief measures proposed by his minority government.

France boss Zinedine Zidane declared himself happy with his players as they went throught their final preparations for the Uefa Nations League clash against Belgium on Monday night at the Stade de France.

With this year's Nobel Prize winner announcements beginning on Monday, among those experts believe could be in line for the $1.2 million prizes are GLP-1 researchers, a Ukrainian children's rights activist and several female authors.

The Nobel medicine prize was awarded Monday to US psychiatrist and neurologist Karl Deisseroth and his German colleagues Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel for their work in the field of optogenetics.

Initially a symbol of liberation, the pill went on to become an almost inevitable part of a woman’s contraceptive journey.

Ethiopian federal forces have regained control of the Tigray rebels' regional capital, local sources said on Sunday, while Ethiopia's regional rivals gathered in Egypt to discuss the risk of a wider war.

Farmers in France are expecting their first payments shortly under the government's billion-euro emergency aid package to support farmers affected by severe summer heatwaves, droughts and wildfires.

Dafroza Gauthier, who spent spent decades tracking down Rwandans in France accused of involvement in the 1994 genocide, has died from cancer at the age of 72.

After one of the most meteoric rises in the history of French politics, Jordan Bardella, the 31-year-old top ally of Marine Le Pen, is fighting for his political life after allegations he made antisemitic comments as a teenager in 2013.

France’s vulture population is growing, thanks to a reintroduction campaign that began in the 1980s after the birds all but disappeared decades earlier.

The picturesque Lac des Brenets between France and Switzerland has dried up after a record-breaking hot summer, leaving locals crying out for help to save the lake.

Thousands of years ago, farmers in West Africa took a wild ancestor of rice and turned it into a crop of their own.

France will step up its support for efforts to control Ebola in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot said on Saturday during ‌a visit to a region hit by the virus.

Student protests that began in and around Paris last week have since reached secondary schools across France.

Canadian singer Céline Dion has reached the halfway point in her marathon of 16 concerts in Paris, marking her big return to the stage after years away.

Farmers and activists around the world are mobilising on Saturday for an international day of action against pesticides – denouncing products sold by major agrochemical companies that they say are damaging their health and destroying their livelihoods.

Morocco’s domestic intelligence service has deployed Pegasus spyware and hidden cameras in a sweeping campaign of surveillance against journalists and human rights activists, according to a report by Amnesty International.

Jordan Bardella, president of France's far-right National Rally party, is under growing pressure as new technical evidence challenges his denials over anti-Semitic messages allegedly sent during his teenage years.

European Union interior ministers agreed on Thursday to toughen the bloc's migration policies, particularly on returns of undocumented migrants.

Ahead of France's Nations League game against Italy on Friday, France football boss Zinedine Zidane insisted he had no regrets about headbutting Italy defender Marco Materazzi during the 2006 World Cup final – although added that he was not proud of his a…

On a cloudy night in Brussels, Michael Olise took nine seconds to showcase his genius and maintain the euphoria around France's new head coach Zinedine Zidane.

France has closed hundreds of secondary schools amid violent student protests, as ministers urged parents to keep children away from blockades and warned families could be billed for damage.

A record 52 percent of Europe was exposed to intense heat stress during the exceptionally hot summer of 2026, according to the European Union’s Copernicus climate monitoring service.

France has launched a €35 million investment fund to attract private capital to businesses in its overseas territories, as the government seeks to shift the focus from subsidies towards growth, innovation and regional expansion.

World powers are flying delegates to the Pacific to haggle over the fight against global warming, and to see the plight of island nations surrounded by a rising ocean.