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President Emmanuel Macron’s call for Europe not to rule out sending troops to Ukraine to defeat Russia marks a turning point in France's decades-long "unhealthy fascination" with the country and its strongmen, argues journalist Elisa Vidal. So what's been driving the charm?

Admiral Philippe de Gaulle, the eldest son of General Charles de Gaulle, has died in Paris at the age of 102, his family has said.

Elvis redeployed his lip curl, Churchill fought on the western front, and pop group Steps updated their sound. David Cameron take note

Israel's military once won dramatic victories with agile commando tactics. But since 1973, it has all gone wrong

Before his sudden demise, the shadowy Wagner Group leader helped unravel 60 years of French domination in Africa

Al Jazeera talks to Alain Gresh, a French author and expert of the Israel-Palestine conflict, as war flares again.

Wolfram Eilenberger’s group biography of Hannah Arendt, Simone de Beauvoir, Ayn Rand and Simone Weil illuminates how the horrors of the 1930s informed the philosophers’ worldviews – with the ‘saintly’ Weil the star of the show

Russian influence in Africa has deep historical roots, from supporting an attempted coup in Ghana to spreading fake political news in Algeria and training African fighters in Crimea. FRANCE 24 looks back on four little-known Soviet operations aimed at furthering Russian interests in Africa during the Cold War

Julian Jackson’s meticulous, engaging history of the collaborator general and his downfall is a gripping study of dishonour and denial