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Poland faces a razor-thin presidential run-off, with polls showing just a one to two per cent gap between the leading candidates: nationalist candidate Karol Nawrocki and liberal Warsaw Mayor Rafal Trzaskowski, with a margin of error that leaves the outcome wide open. RFI spoke to veteran political observer Marcin Swiecicki,…

It was a happy half-time at Le Taylor in the 10th arrondissement in central Paris. Around 50 people had spilled out of the bar screening the Champions League final onto Rue Taylor to savour Paris Saint-Germain's 2-0 advantage over Inter Milan with alcohol or nicotine.

French scientist Etienne-Emile Baulieu, the inventor of the abortion pill, died at the age of 98 at his home in Paris on Friday, his wife told AFP.

Flash flooding earlier this week in central Nigeria killed more than 150 people, a local disaster response spokesman told AFP on Saturday, while displacing 3,000, levelling more than 250 homes and washing away two bridges.

Paris Saint-Germain head coach Luis Enrique admitted he wanted to enter the club's history books by guiding the side to its first trophy in the Champions League.

As Poland prepares to go to the polls in the second round of the presidential election on Sunday, filmmaker and activist Bartosz Staszewski, a leading figure in the country's LGBT+ movement, looks back on difficult years under the previous right-wing government, but says that change is under way in Polish…

This week on The Sound Kitchen, a special treat: RFI English listener’s musical requests. Just click on the “Play” button above and enjoy!

Lawyers for Tanzania's jailed opposition leader Tundu Lissu filed a complaint on Friday to the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention in a bid to ramp up international pressure for his release.

France recently banned single-use vapes and nicotine pouches as part of its plan to foster a tobacco-free generation. But, as the world marks the annual World No Tobacco Day on Saturday, a group of public health advocates and MPs want to go further – by introducing a generational tobacco ban…