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A special court in Senegal has charged four former government ministers from ex-president Macky Sall's cabinet with corruption and embezzlement related to the management of Covid-19 funds – under a wider anti-corruption campaign by President Bassirou Diomaye Faye.

Ahead of the United Nations Ocean Conference in June, the research schooner Tara docked in Marseille for a day dedicated to tackling plastic pollution in the oceans.

France has stepped up police patrols around Jewish sites following the deadly shooting of two Israeli embassy staff in Washington. The attack is being treated as an anti-Semitic terror act. At the same time, Paris has sharply rejected Israeli claims that European governments are encouraging anti-Israeli violence.

Democratic Republic of Congo's Senate has overwhelmingly voted to strip former president Joseph Kabila of his honorific immunity. It follows accusations he backed the M23 rebel group which has seized land in the mineral-rich east of the country with Rwandan support.

Parts of northern Europe have seen their worst drought in decades in recent weeks, with farmers from Scotland to the Netherlands fearing the dry spell will dent harvests if it continues.

Amid mounting trade friction between the European Union and China, President Emmanuel Macron made a call to Chinese President Xi Jinping, a move that highlights France’s push to ease trade with Beijing while reinforcing its diplomatic presence in the Indo-Pacific region.

South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa said that South Africa has up to nine critical minerals that the United States needs, and he hopes to advance discussions on bilateral trade deals with Donald Trump in Washington.

As French lawmakers consider legalising assisted dying, a look at the citizen's assembly that carefully considered the issue. Also, a film about the writer – and filmmaker – Marcel Pagnol at the Cannes film festival, which is finally tackling sexual harassment in the industry. And the man who created the…

Romania’s new president Nicusor Dan is stepping into office amid deep political and social divisions, as fallout from Sunday’s run-off election exposes the scale of public frustration and mistrust. Economic pressures are mounting, and the far right is already regrouping.

Police in France have uncovered a vast child abuse network operating through encrypted chats on Telegram, leading to the arrest of 55 men across 42 departments.

An agreement to transfer sovereignty of the Chagos Islands from the United Kingdom back to Mauritius has been cleared by a British court, after being blocked by a last-minute injunction, prompted by a legal challenge from exiled islanders.