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Almost 500 years ago, French ships landed in what is now Brazil with a mission to found 'France Antarctique', a new colony on South America's Atlantic coast. Riven by religious divisions and stormed by Portuguese rivals, the project lasted just a few years – but would end up reshaping Europeans'…

From rising seas to raging floods, global leaders in Belem are confronting the human cost of climate change – and the chance to chart a fairer future.

Ahead of a meeting later this month where the EU will decide whether to adopt World Health Organization recommendations to cut funding to European tobacco farms, Polish producers are making their voices heard.

French prosecutors have widened an investigation linked to Paris attacks convict Salah Abdeslam, as fresh anti-terror arrests raise concern ahead of the 10th anniversary of the 2015 massacres.

French anti-terror prosecutors have charged and jailed three young women suspected of plotting a jihadist attack – the first alleged plot involving female suspects in several years.

This week on The Sound Kitchen, you’ll hear the answer to the question about the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize. There are your answers to the bonus question on “The Listeners Corner” with Paul Myers, and a tasty musical dessert from Erwan Rome on “Music from Erwan”. All that and the…

The Republic of the Congo this week entered the international bond market for the first time since 2007, signalling a new confidence in its economic reforms and fiscal management.

France head coach Fabian Galthié refused to dwell on the 2023 World Cup quarter-final defeat to South Africa preferring to laud them as the best team on the planet as his players went through their final paces for Saturday's Test match at the Stade de France.

Tunisia’s migration policy is under scrutiny two years on from a deal with the European Union intended to discourage illegal migration from the North African country, and from a "replacement theory" speech the same year by President Kais Saied on the "dangers" of black migration. A recent Amnesty International report…

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban is set to visit the White House on Friday, where he will meet US President Donald Trump for a high-stakes discussion centred on Hungary’s reliance on Russian energy and the effect of new US sanctions targeting Russian oil.

French police have arrested four pro-Palestine protesters who disrupted a concert by Israel's national orchestra at the Paris Philharmonic music hall.