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France has asked the European Commission to extend beyond a 20 September deadline for submitting a plan to reduce its public deficit to align with Paris' 2025 draft budget.

Mali has called on the international community for aid to deal with the fall-out of severe flooding which has hit the country in recent weeks. Over 40 people have died and thousands more are displaced. Neighbouring Niger is facing a similar situation with a death toll of over 270.

The French culture ministry wants to etch the unique zinc-plated rooftops of Paris and their workers in the Unesco list of Intangible Cultural Heritage. Though iconic, the roofs are often criticised for their unsuitability for hot temperatures brought on by climate change.

Judges at the Visa pour l'Image festival of photojournalism, held annually in southern France, have awarded this year's top prizes to three Palestinian photographers covering the conflict in Gaza.

One year after a devastating earthquake struck Morocco's Atlas Mountains, villagers remain in makeshift tents, with the government yet to fulfil its promise to rehouse survivors. The 6.8-magnitude quake, which hit on 8 September 2023, killed nearly 3,000 people and left over two million homeless.

Less than 50 percent of Algeria's eligible voters cast a ballot in the country's presidential election, according to preliminary figures from the electoral commission. Official results are due later on Sunday.

As the Paris Paralympics bring fresh scrutiny to the shortage of accessible services in France, RFI met the developers of a route-finding app aiming to help users navigate the capital no matter what their mobility.

There's political uproar in them thar hills as the Paralympic thrills come to a close. Woe, woe and thrice woe, the end is nigh.

Protesters took to the streets across France on Saturday to denounce what they call a power grab after President Emmanuel Macron appointed conservative Michel Barnier as the country's new prime minister. Critics say the choice overrides elections that made a left-wing alliance the biggest faction in the French parliament.