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The family of French deep-sea explorer Paul-Henri Nargeolet has filed a $50 million lawsuit against the operator of the submersible that imploded during a dive to the Titanic last year, killing him and four other people.

Renowned economist and Nobel Peace prize laureat Muhammad Yunus returned to Bangladesh from France on Thursday to lead an interim government after a student-led uprising ended the 15-year rule of Sheikh Hasina.

Speedsters of the sports climbing parish have got their own moment in the sun at the Paris Olympics. And Aleksandra Miroslaw shone. Sofiane El Bakkali ran himself into Olympic legend and after a glittering career, Nikola Karabatic retired from handball.

"Will it be a surprise or will it be the favourite?" intoned the master of ceremonies early on Wednesday afternoon at the Le Bourget Climbing Venue as top seed Aleksandra Miroslaw was limbering up on Wall A adjacent to the anointed outsider Lijuan Deng on Wall B.

The candidate for French Prime Minister put forward by the leftist New Popular Front coalition, Lucie Castets, has come out of the closet in an interview intended to get ahead of critics. While it lacks the support of President Emmanuel Macron, the leftist alliance maintains it should be allowed to…

Senegal is just one of many countries represented at the Africa Station, a hub for athletes and fans during the Paris Olympics, situated on L'île Saint-Denis, north of Paris. With ambassadors like beloved Senegalese musician Youssou N’Dour, who held a special concert, the country showed its readiness to host the…

Familiarisation trails in the River Seine for the marathon swimming events went ahead as planned Wednesday after more delays over water pollution. This came as a New Zealand swimmer said he was sick with E.coli-like symptoms after swimming the river for the triathlon last week.

Three rejected presidential candidates were placed under "judicial supervision" by a court in Algiers, while another 68 people, including elected officials, were temporarily detained as part of an investigation into electoral fraud. Only three presidential candidates made it to compete in the September election.

Niger’s military junta has announced it has cut diplomatic ties with Ukraine, following a similar decision by neighboring Mali, after Ukraine admitted it had provided intelligence to rebel groups involved in a fight in northern Mali that killed dozens of Malian soldiers along with fighters of Russia’s Wagner mercenary group.