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Famine is spreading in Sudan's western Darfur region, UN-backed experts have warned, as a grinding war between the army and paramilitary forces has left millions hungry, displaced and cut off from aid.

The Six Nations kicks off this evening with a rare Thursday night fixture to avoid clashing with Friday's Winter Olympics opening ceremony, as France host Ireland in Paris. In other changes, this year's tournament will run for six weeks rather than seven.

As European environment ministers gather for a two-day summit in Cyprus, France has called for the bloc to take a more aggressive stance when it comes to defending global climate goals.

The crown of French Empress Eugenie, which was abandoned by fleeing thieves who staged a brazen robbery at the Louvre last year, is nearly intact and will be fully restored, the museum said Wednesday.

The United States has sent a small team of troops to Nigeria, the general in charge of the US command for Africa said on Tuesday, the first acknowledgment of American forces on the ground since Washington struck by air on Christmas Day.

Sudan’s war has been marked by mass killings, famine and the deliberate blocking of aid as rival forces carried out war crimes across the country, Human Rights Watch said, while the United Nations warned the conflict has become the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.

China rejected calls to enter talks on a new nuclear treaty after a US-Russian agreement expired on Thursday, ending decades of restrictions on how many warheads the two powers can deploy.

Nick Checker, head of the US State Department’s Bureau of African Affairs, visited Mali on Monday, calling for renewed economic and security cooperation between Washington and Bamako.

After months out of service following an armed attack in international waters, SOS Méditerranée’s migrant rescue vessel, the Ocean Viking, has resumed operations in the central Mediterranean. In an interview with RFI, Claire Juchat, the NGO’s operations manager, described returning to sea as a relief but said that tensions with…