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French authorities detain Pavel Durov, Telegram founder, in Paris for lack of moderation on the app.

France commemorates on Sunday the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Paris from German Nazi occupation, nine months before the end of World War II. RFI looks at what's being remembered and how.

Telegram chief executive Pavel Durov is due to appear in court in the coming days after being arrested by French police at an airport near Paris for alleged offences related to his popular messaging app, sources told AFP.

Pavel Durov, Franco-Russian billionaire founder and CEO of the Telegram messaging app, was arrested at the Bourget airport outside Paris, French media reported, citing unidentified sources, and is set to appear in court Sunday. Russian-born Durov, 39, founded Telegram with his brother in 2013, and the encrypted messaging app is…

As France commemorates the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Paris this weekend – a pivotal victory over Nazi forces – there's a renewed focus on the long-forgotten colonial soldiers who were excluded from much of the liberation, the victory parade and the subsequent battles of 1944.

Four days before the Paris Paralympics begin, the torch was lit on Saturday next to the English hospital where the idea for the competition was born. The flame arrives in France on Sunday via the Channel tunnel.

Four days before the start of the 2024 Paris Paralympic Games, the Paralympic flame was lit on Saturday near a hospital in the English village of Stoke Mandeville, where the idea for the competion was conceived. A group of British athletes will embark on the underwater journey through the Channel…

The head of Paris’s Paralympics committee hopes the Games can help improve accessibility to sport for disabled people in France

In the first of his columns during the Paralympics, Ade Adepitan argues that while performances at Paris 2024 will be greater than ever, it only highlights the lack of change for disabled people in society