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Podcast: Grappling with legacies of slavery, French film industry crisis

How two people in the French port city of Nantes – one descended from slave owners, the other from enslaved people – are working together to "repair" the country's troubled history. The slave money that built the Élysée Palace, the French president's official residence. And turmoil in the French film…

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French Open draw sees Boisson face Kalinskaya and Sinner take on Tabur

The French Open has announced the draw for this year's tournament, at which top seeds Jannik Sinner of Italy and Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus will be seeking their first Roland Garros titles.

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UN climate vote strengthens calls for rich nations to pay for damage

Nearly a year after the International Court of Justice declared that states have legal obligations to combat climate change, the United Nations General Assembly has thrown its political weight behind the opinion – reinforcing a growing push to turn climate promises into legal accountability.

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'French Banksy' and Daft Punk star turn Pont Neuf into Alpine cave

Tourists and Parisians goggled at the sight of the French capital's oldest bridge transformed into a giant "cave" on Thursday, a spectacular new public work by the street artist JR.

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Deadly DR Congo Ebola outbreak spreads to rebel-held South Kivu

A first Ebola case has been confirmed in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo's South Kivu province, in an area under the Rwanda-backed M23 militia's control, the armed group's spokesman said Thursday.

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Campaigners take French state to court over toxic ‘forever chemicals’

Environmental organisations and residents of some of France’s worst PFAS pollution hotspots have launched legal action against the French state, accusing it of long-standing failure to tackle contamination by so-called “forever chemicals”.

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Court finds Air France, Airbus guilty of involuntary manslaughter over 2009 crash

A Paris appeals court Thursday found Air France and Airbus guilty of involuntary manslaughter over the 2009 crash of a Rio-Paris flight that killed 228 people, the worst disaster in the French flag carrier's history.

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Chinese investment in Europe hits seven-year high but rebound may be short-lived

Chinese foreign direct investment in Europe surged last year to its highest level since 2018, driven by a wave of major acquisitions and large-scale factory projects. But analysts are warning the recovery could be temporary.

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Wembanyama's Spurs to play New Orleans Pelicans in Paris in 2027

Basketball phenomenon Victor Wembanyama will play in front of French fans for the second time in three years, after NBA chiefs on Wednesday confirmed his San Antonio Spurs team will take on the New Orleans Pelicans in Paris next January.

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Mali conflict enters dangerous new phase with banned cluster bombs

Cluster bombs, banned under an international treaty, have been used for the first time by Mali’s army and its Russian allies in the country’s north, where jihadist groups, separatist movements and the army have been fighting for more than a decade.

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Wrist injury forces Spanish star Alcaraz to pull out of Wimbledon

Grand Slam tournament duels between Italy's Jannik Sinner and Spain's Carlos Alcaraz will resume at the US Open in September at the earliest, after Alcaraz pulled out of Wimbledon to continue his recovery from an injury to his right wrist.

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Cannes Film Festival 2026: ‘It's on the US independent side that I see hope'

While the absence of major Hollywood studios has caused a stir in Cannes this year, Eugene Hernandez, director of the Sundance Film Festival, founded by the late Robert Redford, told RFI why this needn't be cause for concern.

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French foreign minister hits out at treatment of activists on Gaza flotilla

France has added its voice to international condemnation of an Israeli politician who shared a video of himself alongside Gaza-bound flotilla activists on their knees with their hands tied after they had been arrested at sea.

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United States to fund Ebola clinics as aid cuts blamed for spread of virus

Ebola cases continued to rise in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Wednesday as the United States pledged to fund up to 50 treatment clinics and aid groups blamed earlier US funding cuts for weakening disease surveillance in the region.

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Moldovans 'want to be EU citizens, not Russian citizens', says president Sandu

Moldovan President Maia Sandu says joining the European Union is a matter of democratic survival for her country, which is under growing pressure from Russia and the unresolved conflict in Transnistria. In a joint interview, Sandu spoke to RFI and German broadcaster Deutsche Welle at the European Parliament in Strasbourg,…

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Veteran star strikers Neymar and Ronaldo headed to World Cup

Neymar and Cristiano Ronaldo will show off their skills at the World Cup this summer following their inclusion in the Brazil and Portugal squads for the tournament, which starts on 11 June.

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EU moves ahead with US trade pact before Trump deadline

The European Union moved closer to implementing its trade pact with the United States on Wednesday after lawmakers and member states agreed to cut duties on US goods, keeping the bloc on track to meet a deadline set by President Donald Trump and head off steeper tariffs on European exports.

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French farming reform bill spurs renewed clashes over pesticides and water

France’s emergency agricultural bill has returned to the National Assembly, setting the stage for what are expected to be lengthy and highly charged debates over water storage, pesticides and the future of livestock farming.

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Putin and Xi hail 'unyielding' ties in talks following Trump visit

China's President Xi Jinping hailed his country's "unyielding" ties with Russia in talks with Vladimir Putin on Wednesday, as the pair met to underscore their alliance days after United States President Donald Trump's visit to the Asian superpower.

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G7 finance ministers seek common ground despite divisions over Russia and trade

The world's leading economies have pledged renewed multilateral cooperation to tackle growing threats to global economic stability stemming from the war in the Middle East, after high-level talks in Paris that also exposed strains between the United States and several of its allies.

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From refugee to red carpet, the remarkable journey of Amine Benrachid

Amine Benrachid arrived in France with nothing but the clothes on his back, having crossed the Mediterranean on a rubber dinghy and walked across the border on foot. Today, the Chadian-South Sudanese actor is sitting on the jury of the Citizenship Prize at Cannes, and is preparing to tell his…

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WHO declares global emergency as DRC Ebola outbreak spreads beyond borders

The death toll from the latest Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo has climbed to 131, with more than 500 suspected cases now recorded. The World Health Organization said it was "deeply concerned" by the scale and pace of the epidemic.

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Darmanin 'reassured' over fate of detained French journalist after Algiers visit

French justice minister Gérald Darmanin has said he is "very reassured" by0 the treatment of detained French sports journalist Christophe Gleizes in Algeria, expressing confidence that Algerian president Abdelmadjid Tebboune could help secure his return home.

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EU-China solar exploration spaceship launches successfully from French Guiana

A joint European–Chinese spacecraft has blasted off into orbit on a pioneering mission to uncover what happens when violent solar storms crash into Earth’s magnetic shield, in a project that could improve forecasts of dangerous space weather and deepen understanding of the auroras that light up polar skies.

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Putin visits China after Trump trip fails to shift Xi on Ukraine

Russian President Vladimir Putin was in China on Tuesday for a two-day state visit, just days after Donald Trump completed a closely watched trip to Beijing that produced headlines on trade but no clear breakthrough on Ukraine or Iran.

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