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Venice tourist bus plunge leaves 21 dead
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Slovakia's president taps populist Fico to form coalition government
Slovakia’s president on Monday asked the leader of the winning party in the country’s parliamentary election to try to form a coalition government.
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Three dead after European city mass shooting
Police have said at least three people are dead, including a girl, after a gunman opened fire in a city in the Netherlands.
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Deaths after shooting in major European city
Police have said a number of people have died after a gunman opened fire in a hospital in a city in the Netherlands.
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EU warns Elon Musk after Twitter found to have highest rate of disinformation
Musk is told his platform, now known as X, must comply with new laws designed to combat fake news and Russian propaganda
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From welcoming refugees to the crisis in Lampedusa, six years of French immigration policy
French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin announced on Tuesday that France would not be taking in any of the migrants who arrived on the Italian island of Lampedusa last week. FRANCE 24 looks back at six years of French U-turns on immigration policies.
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King Charles III proposes France-UK ‘partnership for sustainability’ to tackle climate emergency
King Charles III on Thursday followed in his mother Queen Elizabeth II's footsteps by addressing lawmakers in the French upper chamber of parliament with a speech calling for strengthened ties to help tackle the world's environmental challenges.
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In pictures: Macron hosts King Charles for lavish Versailles banquet
President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday hosted King Charles III for a glittering banquet at France's former royal residence of the Palace of Versailles, as the British monarch kicked off a three-day state visit aimed at showing the underlying strength of cross-Channel ties even after Brexit.
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Azerbaijan has ‘unleashed large-scale aggression’ – Armenia
Baku has declared a counter-terrorism operation over Yerevan’s alleged military presence in Nagorno-Karabakh
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Finland’s President, No Stranger to Russia, Warns Europe About Complacency
President Biden has consulted Sauli Niinisto throughout Russia’s war against Ukraine. Europeans should not dismiss the risks of a wider war, he says.
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Top French court upholds ban on Muslim abayas in schools
France's highest administrative court ruled Thursday that a school ban on abayas, traditional over-garments worn by some Muslim women, was legal.
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Major UK city goes bankrupt over $1.5 billion equal pay claims
A major UK city has declared financial distress after revealing it doesn’t have the resources to pay back historical equal pay claims.
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Home Office to declare Wagner group a terrorist organisation
Draft order will make it illegal to support the ‘violent and destructive’ Russian mercenary organisation in the UK
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French state schools turn away dozens of girls wearing Muslim abaya dress
The French education minister has said that nearly 300 pupils arrived at school on Monday wearing the abaya, the long Muslim robe which was banned in schools last week.
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Paris says au revoir to rental e-scooters
A ban on rental electric scooters has come into effect in Paris in response to a rising number of people being injured and killed in the French capital.
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Prigozhin alluded to threats in new video release
Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin alluded to threats to his safety in a video which appears to have been filmed days before he died in a plane crash.
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Putin critic predicted his own death
The chilling footage of Yevgeny Prigozhin has been uncovered showing the rebel warlord taking a swipe at Russia’s leadership and with an ominous prophecy.
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Putin Destroys a Rival, but ‘Killing Prigozhin Is Going to Set Off Greater Paranoia and Repression’
The most critical internal threat Putin has faced in years is gone. His rival and former ally’s reported death likely means the end for the Wagner Group but ushers in a new phase of fear and anxiety in Russia
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A Former French President Gives a Voice to Obstinate Russian Sympathies
Remarks by Nicolas Sarkozy have raised fears that Europe’s pro-Putin chorus may grow louder as Ukraine’s plodding counteroffensive puts pressure on Western resolve.
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How Putin's long friendship with Wagner boss Prigozhin turned ugly
Theirs was a relationship borne out of the murky world where Russia's state security services mingled with the criminal underworld.
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