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Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons led the tributes on Friday for fellow KISS founding member Ace Frehley who died on Thursday at the age of 74.

France has charged four people over a suspected plot against a Russian dissident, prosecutors said Friday, after a refugee who helped reveal abuses in Russian prisons said he was targeted.

A long-awaited report commissioned by Senegal into the 1944 killing of dozens of African soldiers by French forces was to be handed to President Bassirou Diomaye Faye on Thursday. Officials hope it will clarify the disputed death toll from the Thiaroye massacre.

Five years after the death of French history and geography teacher Samuel Paty, beheaded by a Chechen Islamist, "the shock is still raw", according to Paty's sister. The sentiments of pain and fear are shared by many teachers across France, who say they lack the resources to deal with violence…

A French couple held by Iran for over three years who were this week handed lengthy jail sentences on charges of espionage are increasingly exhausted and their lives are at risk, their families warned on Thursday.

French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu survived two no confidence votes in the National Assembly on Thursday after winning last-minute backing from Socialist MPs over his decision to suspend a contested pension reform.

Carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere jumped by a record amount in 2024, reaching the highest concentration ever measured and locking the planet into more long-term warming, the UN weather agency warned on Wednesday.

Madagascar's ousted president confirmed for the first time that he had fled the country, issuing a statement after a military-led power grab prompted by weeks of demonstrations that have plunged the island nation into crisis.

France's reappointed Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu faces two votes of no confidence in the National Assembly on Thursday morning, hoping his offer to suspend President Emmanuel Macron's unpopular pension reform will win enough support from moderates on the left to avert a second government collapse in as many weeks.