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The hard-right nationalist who lost Romania’s presidential election rerun said Tuesday he has asked a top court to annul the election results, alleging that foreign interference and coordinated manipulation affected Sunday's vote.

South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa is in the United States for a high-stakes visit accompanied by four cabinet ministers. He is expected to meet Donald Trump at the White House on Wednesday, but whether the visit could see relations between the two governments improve is the subject of debate.

One of several films from the African continent shown at the Cannes Film Festival, Erige Sehiri’s Promised Sky (Promis le ciel) in the Un Certain Regard category, is a powerful and rare portrait of three migrant women struggling to make ends meet in Tunisia.

Ancient artefacts from Gaza – amphorae, statues, mosaics, funerary steles and more – tell the story of 5,000 years of a civilisation, in a Paris exhibition that seeks to preserve a heritage on the brink of erasure.

This week on The Sound Kitchen, you’ll hear the answer to the question about Mario Vargo Llosa. There’s The Sound Kitchen mailbag, the “The Listener’s Corner” with Paul Myers, and Erwan Rome’s “Music from Erwan”. All that, and the new quiz and bonus questions too, so click the “Play” button…

Célia Belin of the European Council on Foreign Relations tells RFI that Donald Trump’s administration is treating Europe less as a partner and more as a rival. In backing nationalist movements and undermining multilateral institutions, it is exporting a political mode of operation that risks fracturing European unity.

A long-running border dispute between Sierra Leone and Guinea has flared again, after a military incident forced villagers to flee and reignited diplomatic tensions between the two West African neighbours.

Following President Donald Trump’s slashing of research budgets, France has been recruiting scientists from the United States, while climate scientists who arrived in France during the first Trump administration have found opportunities to continue their work. However, some French scientists are questioning the value of spending on foreign recruitment in…

For decades, residents living near the Arkema and Daikin chemical factories near the southern city of Lyon believed they were safe. But after discovering alarmingly high levels of toxic forever chemicals (PFAS) in their blood, hundreds of alleged victims are filing complaints against the companies in what could become the…