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Coming a decade after the deadly Charlie Hebdo attack, a new campaign is calling for murdered cartoonist Charb to be honoured in France’s Panthéon as a symbol of freedom of expression and republican values.

A French consumer watchdog has slammed ten popular children’s dairy products, warning they’re overloaded with sugar, salt, fat, and ultra-processed ingredients, putting young consumers’ health at serious risk.

Political journalists from RFI's French service examine where influential figures from across the political spectrum stand, ahead of the 8 October deadline given to outgoing prime minister Sébastien Lecornu to salvage his administration, following his shock resignation on Monday after less than a month in office.

Frenchman Michel H Devoret as well as his longtime American collaborator John M Martinis and the Briton John Clarke were on Tuesday awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics for their work on quantum physics in action.

Having long sold itself as the ‘start-up nation’, Israel is now in economic turmoil, with the war it is waging in Gaza resulting in the withdrawal of long-standing partners. Declining growth, a brain drain and diplomatic isolation are diminishing a model that was considered exemplary.

The United Nations' cultural agency selected former Egyptian tourism and antiquities minister Khaled El-Enany as its new chief, handing him the keys to revive Unesco's fortunes after the US withdrew from it for a second time.

Human rights activists on Tuesday hailed the decision of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague to convict a Sudanese militia chief for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed during attacks in Darfur at the turn of the century.

On the top floor of an unremarkable office block along Nairobi’s Lenana Road, a long mahogany table dominates a hushed boardroom. This is where the Kenya Medical Practitioners and Dentists Council (KMPDC) convenes when doctors are accused of crossing professional lines. The atmosphere is clinical: no flashing cameras, no political…

Arsenal will launch the defence of their Champions League crown on Tuesday night with a game in the new-look format against eight-time winners Lyon.