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A ferry ‘cruise’ from Portsmouth to Santander brings the surf, cuisine and mountains of one of south-west France’s most distinctive regions within easy reach

Exclusive: Families heading for France in cars will provide fingerprints beneath a giant canopy, but concerns raised extra EU bureaucracy will lead to even larger queues

A political whirlwind summer saw French President Emmanuel Macron dissolving parliament, calling snap elections, and then facing a hung National Assembly. It is now time for him to undo the political Gordian knot he has tied and choose the next prime minister. A handful of potential picks are under scrutiny…

New Zealand Foreign Minister Winston Peters says Western nations, including the United States and New Zealand, failed to understand swiftly enough the geopolitical importance of island nations in the South Pacific, leaving a power vacuum that allowed other countries to increase their diplomatic influence

Residents of eastern Ukraine's Pokrovsk resisted leaving home for months as fighting raged in the villages near the strategic Donbas city. But as Russian forces advance on the transport hub, many residents are now choosing to flee. FRANCE 24's Gulliver Cragg reports from Pokrovsk.

French President Macron engages in talks with political leaders to form stable government post-election.

President Emmanuel Macron kicked off negotiations with party leaders on Friday in a bid to resolve France’s political deadlock, which has persisted for more than six weeks since snap legislative elections left the country with a hung parliament.

New Zealand is downplaying hopes of a political breakthrough on New Caledonia emerging from next week's Pacific Islands Forum Leaders Meeting.

Eight athletes who fled conflict and persecution in their homelands are hoping to earn medals in six sports as part of an international refugee team competing at the 2024 Paralympic Games, which begin in Paris next week.

France will donate 100,000 mpox vaccine doses to countries hit by an outbreak of the disease as it readies vaccination centres at home, outgoing Prime Minister Gabriel Attal said this week.

President Emmanuel Macron launches negotiations with different party leaders this Friday in a latest effort to bring an end to six weeks of political deadlock following snap legislative elections. Macron seems set on forging a broad coalition that would likely include his own defeated centre-right bloc – though whether he…