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France football team skipper Kylian Mbappé urged young people in his country to fight off their suspicions or apathy and vote in the forthcoming parliamentary elections to combat what he called the "extremes at the gates of power".

Representatives from some 2,000 companies will this week evaluate the latest defence technologies at France’s Eurosatory weapons show in northern Paris. Notably absent this year are Israel and Russia who were excluded because of the wars in Gaza and Ukraine.

Thirty years after the end of apartheid in South Africa, the cultural resistance artists waged against white minority rule continues to inspire new generations of creators.

France's former Socialist president Francois Hollande on Saturday said he would run for parliament again, the latest political twist following his successor Emmanuel Macron's surprise decision to call snap legislative elections.

Western powers and countries from the rest of the world will use the second day of a major summit in Switzerland on Sunday to pursue a consensus on condemning Russia's invasion of Ukraine and underscoring concerns about the war's human cost.

Marches against a far-right surge were staged in cities across France on Saturday – with hundreds of thousands of people calling on the nation to derail the anti-immigration National Rally’s hopes of taking control of parliament in upcoming snap elections.

President Emmanuel Macron’s decision to call snap legislative elections has provoked frustration in French overseas territories, where the short timeframe to organise the polls has been challenged at the Constitutional Council. There is also anger over the fact that key parliamentary projects for overseas France have come to a standstill.

This week on The Sound Kitchen you’ll hear the answer to the question about the disinformation campaign around the European Union’s “Green Deal” campaign. There’s “On This Day”, “The Listener’s Corner”, and plenty of good music. All that and the new quiz and bonus questions too, so click on the…

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has won a second term in office after being re-elected by lawmakers with 283 votes.