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France's cuts to greenhouse gas emissions slowed for a second straight year in 2025 and remain well off track to meeting its climate goals, according to provisional government-commissioned estimates published Tuesday.

French farmers began lifting their blockade of Paris early Wednesday after the government pledged debt relief measures and an emergency farm law, as protests driven by opposition to the EU-Mercosur trade deal continued elsewhere in the country.

Ugandan authorities have shut down internet access nationwide just days before Thursday’s presidential and parliamentary elections, reviving memories of the violent 2021 vote, when connectivity was cut for more than a week and dozens of people were killed.

France’s foreign minister said on Tuesday that he had summoned Iran’s ambassador to protest against what he described as the “unrestrained use of state violence against peaceful demonstrators” in Iran. Similar démarches have been made by several European governments as the death toll rises, while the United States has warned…

Nigeria midfielder Alex Iwobi paid tribute to the side's esprit de corps as the squad went through its final preparations for Wednesday night's semi-final against hosts Morocco at the Africa Cup of Nations.

Fewer babies, more elderly people, rising life expectancy: France has gradually changed and is now at a demographic turning point. For the first time since World War II, there were more deaths than births, according to the national statistics institute Insee.

New Caledonia's pro-independence Kanak and Socialist National Liberation Front (FLNKS) announced on Tuesday that it would not attend the meeting on the institutional future of the French archipelago in the South Pacific, hosted by French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday in Paris.

French far-right leader Marine Le Pen said Tuesday she had "no sense" of having committed any offence at the opening of an appeals trial which she hopes will save her 2027 run for president.

France’s newly inaugurated anti–organised crime bureau is to investigate the murder of the former Corsican separatist leader Alain Orsoni, who was shot dead while attending his mother’s funeral on Monday afternoon.

French farmers drove over350 tractors into Paris for the second time in a week on Tuesday to protest an EU-Mercosur trade deal which is due to be signed at the weekend. French farmers unions say the deal threatens local agriculture by creating unfair competition with cheaper South American imports.

French far-right leader Marine Le Pen is back in the spotlight as she launches a high-stakes appeal in Paris that will decide whether she can stand in the 2027 presidential election.