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Paul Watson, founder of the Sea Shepherd organisation, faces extradition to Japan after arrest in Nuuk in July

French President Emmanuel Macron has further strained tense relations with Israel with a comment referring o the creation of the Israeli state, a verbal jab that was rapidly denounced by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as distorting history.

Mohammed bin Salman attends Brussels meeting six years after the murder of Jamal Khashoggi

Israeli PM Netanyahu opposes unilateral ceasefire with Hezbollah, while French President Macron advocates for a ceasefire to prevent further escalation. Te...

More than 2,000 Ukrainian soldiers have swapped a country at war for a military camp in eastern France, where they’re receiving a crash course in combat. But with only a few months before the recruits head to the front lines, their French trainers are seeking to recreate the conditions in…

A few months ago, the president of prestigious French publishing house Gallimard reported that Meta’s generative AI tool had refused requests to write in the distinctive style of Michel Houellebecq, France’s most famous living novelist. It was deemed too offensive and discriminatory.

The planned sale of France's best-selling medical drug to US investors has caused the government a splitting headache after an outcry against the project from politicians on all sides.

The French government wants to adopt a new immigration law in 2025, just one year after the previous bill split the majority in the National Assembly. It would be the 33rd immigration law in 44 years.

Hezbollah said it targeted an Israeli naval base on Monday, a day after a drone strike killed four soldiers in the deadliest attack on Israel since the war in Lebanon began.

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Morocco's King Mohammed VI has reaffirmed that settling sovereignty disputes over the Western Sahara remains the driving force behind Rabat's foreign policy, lauding diplomatic triumphs and framing them as progress toward resolving the decades-long conflict in Morocco's favour.