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The government of the Democratic Republic of Congo passed a law in January 2025 to lead efforts to establish the largest tropical forest reserve in the world. It will be set up as a 2,600km long green corridor the size of France – 540,000km² – situated in the Congo Basin.

French President Emmanuel Macron is in Indonesia to discuss boosting defence and trade with his counterpart Prabowo Subianto. It marks the second stop on his week-long Southeast Asia tour.

Joël Le Scouarnec was found guilty of raping and sexually assaulting 299 children

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A French court on Wednesday gave the maximum 20-year jail term to a surgeon who admitted sexually abusing hundreds of patients, most of them children, during more than two decades.

Whatever the explanation for the incident, the reaction points to backward French attitudes – including from the president himself, says French journalist Pauline Bock

Joel Le Scouarnec was standing trial over three decades of violence against child patients, some of whom were unconscious at the time

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A French court is expected to deliver its verdict on Wednesday in the country’s biggest ever paedophilia case. Former surgeon Joël Le Scouarnec is accused of raping and sexually assaulting 299 children over more than two decades. He has admitted to all charges.

France has arrested more than 20 people over two recent kidnapping plots targeting crypto traders in Paris and another attempt in western France, according to reports from French news agency AFP.

New communities for senior LGBTQ+ people are cropping up across Europe. Their aim? To create safe spaces which fight against social marginalisation.