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The Ice Memory Foundation on Wednesday opened the world’s first sanctuary for mountain ice cores in Antarctica, aiming to preserve crucial records of Earth’s climate for centuries.

Earth logged its third-hottest year on record in 2025, figures released on Wednesday showed, extending an unprecedented run of global heat and pushing the planet closer to a key warming limit.

France will open a consulate in Greenland on 6 February, Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot said on Wednesday – calling the move a political signal as US President Donald Trump renews threats to take control of the Arctic territory.

Morocco head coach Walid Regragui hailed the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations as the standard for future competitions as his players went through their final paces for their Wednesday night clash against Nigeria in Rabat.

France's cuts to greenhouse gas emissions slowed for a second straight year in 2025 and remain well off track to meeting its climate goals, according to provisional government-commissioned estimates published Tuesday.

French farmers began lifting their blockade of Paris early Wednesday after the government pledged debt relief measures and an emergency farm law, as protests driven by opposition to the EU-Mercosur trade deal continued elsewhere in the country.

Ugandan authorities have shut down internet access nationwide just days before Thursday’s presidential and parliamentary elections, reviving memories of the violent 2021 vote, when connectivity was cut for more than a week and dozens of people were killed.

France’s foreign minister said on Tuesday that he had summoned Iran’s ambassador to protest against what he described as the “unrestrained use of state violence against peaceful demonstrators” in Iran. Similar démarches have been made by several European governments as the death toll rises, while the United States has warned…

Nigeria midfielder Alex Iwobi paid tribute to the side's esprit de corps as the squad went through its final preparations for Wednesday night's semi-final against hosts Morocco at the Africa Cup of Nations.

Fewer babies, more elderly people, rising life expectancy: France has gradually changed and is now at a demographic turning point. For the first time since World War II, there were more deaths than births, according to the national statistics institute Insee.

New Caledonia's pro-independence Kanak and Socialist National Liberation Front (FLNKS) announced on Tuesday that it would not attend the meeting on the institutional future of the French archipelago in the South Pacific, hosted by French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday in Paris.