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Cote d'Ivoire head coach Jean-Louis Gasset attempted to reduce the pressure on his home squad on Friday by highlighting the defending champions Senegal and World Cup semi-finalists Morocco as likelier candidates to lift the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations.

France has blamed Iran-backed Houthis for an escalation in the Middle East after US and British strikes targeted them in Yemen on Friday. The French navy, meanwhile, has defended its use of expensive missiles to down Houthi drones used to attack shipping lanes in the Red Sea.

When French President Emmanuel Macron came to power in 2017, his centrist party comprised a careful mix of figures from both the left and right. This week's cabinet reshuffle has seen that balance upended as newly minted Prime Minister Gabriel Attal begins leading a government that's firmly tilted to the…

More or less two years after the start of the 33rd Africa Cup of Nations in Cameroon, voilà number 34 in Cote d'Ivoire. Utterly logical for a biennial event – but in the wild, wacky world of African football, this one is late.

Israel said Friday it was not seeking to destroy the Palestinian people, as it hit back at what it called a "profoundly distorted" and "malevolent" genocide case against it at the UN's top court.

Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo has promised that she'll take an "historic dip" in the River Seine in July in the days leading up to the 2024 Olympics.

The upcoming European elections – considered the largest transnational vote in the world – are poised to bring about shifts in policies and leadership that will reverberate across the continent. RFI takes a look at what's at stake.

Marie-Paule Djegue Okri, an agronomist and agro-ecology consultant from Côte d'Ivoire, was awarded the Simone de Beauvoir Prize for her work in gender equality. The award, founded on the centenary of Beauvoir’s birth in 2008, is given to a person or association that defends and promotes women's freedom.

Ocean temperatures have once again shattered records, a study by Advances in Atmospheric Sciences has found, warning that 2023 was the hottest on record for the world's oceans for the fifth year in a row.

Greece’s Prime Minister has announced pans to legalise same sex-marriage and adoption, but he gave no timeframe on legislation that will be at odds with the Orthodox Church of Greece, which wields significant influence.

Yemen’s Houthi rebels have rejected a United Nations resolution against their attacks on commercial vessels in the Red Sea, and are maintaining their right to defend Palestinians in Gaza by targeting ships they say are connected to Israel. The French navy, meanwhile, has been accompany ships with French interests through…