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Our rivers run with poo, we have hundreds of food banks and it is virtually impossible to get a doctor’s appointment. Sometimes it takes an outside perspective to appreciate how bad things are, writes Emma Beddington

Lu Shaye’s comments raise fresh questions over China’s role in brokering peace in Ukraine

Ukraine on Sunday condemned what it called "absurd" comments from China's ambassador to France, who questioned the sovereignty of post-Soviet countries.

One of France's biggest computer science laboratories, known as LIP6, recently celebrated its 25th anniversary. A joint project of the National Centre for Scientific Research and the Sorbonne University, the laboratory has made several contributions to digital innovations.

France, India and Japan have teamed up and invited others to join in the rescue of Sri Lanka’s crippled economy, a crisis blamed on mindless spending by the island’s rulers of money borrowed from China.

Chad recently ordered the German ambassador to the country, Dr Gordon Kricke, to leave within 48 hours, accusing him of disrespectful behaviour and disregard for diplomatic protocol. In retaliation, Berlin expelled the Chadian ambassador to Germany. Helga Dickow, a political scientist and expert on Chad, explains the link between the…

US and British forces on Sunday evacuated embassy staff and their families from battle-torn Sudan where deadly fighting raged into a second week between forces loyal to two rival generals. France on Sunday also launched evacuation operations.

The armed forces of the United States and the United Kingdom have evacuated embassy staff from Sudan, while other nations rushed to get their citizens to safety as rival military factions battled in the capital Khartoum on Sunday.

France, Ukraine and the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania expressed dismay after China's ambassador in Paris questioned the sovereignty of former Soviet countries like Ukraine.

A decade after France legalised same-sex marriage, it remains the law of the land – providing equal rights to thousands of people. But the debates and demonstrations surrounding the law's passage brought previously unseen levels of homophobia out into the open.

Joe Biden says US has retrieved personnel from Khartoum as fighting continues between rival armed groups