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Galileo, Copernicus, Cleansky, IRIS² must work together to secure Europe’s place in the space race

“Seeing the Earth from above is a powerful reminder of our interdependence,” Thomas Pesquet. The words of France’s tenth astronaut to head into Space are a reminder of how we are “in this together”, something that the world’s Aerospace industry players should take heed of as they gather in Paris…

The Conversation

Visa Pour l'Image: Tato wins top prize for Madagascar protest coverage

AFP photographer Luis Tato on Saturday won the top award at the prestigious Visa Pour l'Image photojournalism festival in Perpignan, southern France.

Radio France Internationale

Spanish photographer Luis Tato wins top prize for Madagascar protest coverage

AFP photographer Luis Tato on Saturday won the top prize at the prestigious Visa Pour l'Image photojournalism festival in Perpignan, France.

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The week in pictures: Nepal rescue operations, World Nomad Games and Russian strikes on Kyiv

From the desperate search for workers trapped in the hydropower tunnels buried by the catastrophic flooding in Nepal to crowds of women mourning the victims of a US bombardment of a wedding in southern Iran, FRANCE 24 looks back at the week's most striking pictures.

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France's school uniform experiment unravels with only mixed results

Two years after France began trialling uniforms in schools, the experiment is sputtering to a close after failing to convince pupils or teachers.

Radio France Internationale

Shein’s stock market debut was a major flop. Does it signal the death of ultra-fast fashion?

“A model that floods the market with thousands of new daily styles at single-digit price points can only exist by passing its true costs onto labour and the environment.”

Euronews

'Takes too long': Kasatkina keen to wear green and gold

Former French Open semi-finalist Daria Kasatkina says she'd love to play for Australia in the looming Billie Jean King Cup clash with France on clay.

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'Chuck it in the fire.' A leading candidate in France's presidential race has a simple solution to its massive national debt: just cancel it

“Why did we make a single currency and an ECB together? We can do it and I bet we’d find allies in Europe.”

Fortune

Liverpool’s First January Signing Ignores the Team’s Biggest Problem Positions

The Reds are building for the future, but ignoring the current problems holding them back.

Sports Illustrated

‘Rain man’ to the rescue? France’s ex-president Hollande plots unlikely comeback

Once so deeply unpopular he had to give up running for a second term in office, former French president François Hollande has slipped back into the conversation ahead of next year’s Élysée Palace race, hoping voters put off by squabbling candidates will come to see him as a safe –…

France 24

Paris drops Mercator projection: France now looks smaller on world maps

France is redrawing its world map: deeming the Mercator projection misleading, the foreign ministry will drop it in favour of a map that better reflects actual continental sizes, especially Africa.

Euronews

Catastrophic dangers await Burnham’s push for English devolution

Like France, the UK has always been centralised – and imposing a new political structure brings huge risks

The Guardian - UK

Presidential campaigning kicks off in France ahead of 2027 elections

On April 18th and May 2nd next year - France will be voting to elect a new president to replace Emmanuel Macron. The country's latest opinion polls predict a victory for Marine le Pen of the Far-right National Rally. Although the election is still over seven months away, many potential…

France 24

A nation trapped: photographing the broken promises of Sudan's revolution

Syrian-born photographer Abdulmonam Eassa travelled to Sudan as the fall of its longtime dictator, toppled by massive protests, raised hopes of a democratic rebirth. Instead, he witnessed the country descend into another military takeover, rivalry and all-out war. RFI spoke to him about the resulting photo series, War in Sudan:…

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Quote of the day by Marie Antoinette: ‘No one understands my ills, nor the terror that fills my…’ – Former Queen of France on the deepest fears that come with loving a child

Marie Antoinette, born in Vienna, became Queen of France at fourteen. She faced criticism and was blamed for France's financial problems. The French Revolution brought immense danger and personal tragedy to her family. Her children suffered greatly, and she lost her eldest son in 1789. Marie Antoinette was eventually imprisoned…

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UN backs effort to drop Mercator map and show size of Africa more accurately

The United Nations voted on Saturday for a shift away from the 16th-century Mercator global map towards one more accurately reflecting the true size of countries.

Radio France Internationale

Data-rich systems and weak security: why France is a target for cyberattacks

France is one of Europe's biggest targets for cyberattacks. While its political and economic importance make it a mark for foreign governments, criminals are increasingly exploiting gaps in cybersecurity to access the vast amounts of personal data in the country's interconnected public systems.

France 24

Two senior Reform UK officials resign as Farage faces fresh foreign donations scandal

Two senior officials from the hard-right Reform UK party stepped down Friday following a hidden-camera investigation that appeared to show them soliciting substantial foreign funding for party-commissioned opinion polls and a potential £500,000 donation from a US donor – banned under UK law.

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Euronews

France's literary season: a uniquely French phenomenon?

Again this year, several hundred novels come out at the end of summer for the "rentrée littéraire". But what does this event look like in other European countries?

Euronews

France: pumpkin seeds recalled after more than 80 salmonella cases

Grouped cases of Salmonella Enteritidis from a single strain have been detected in France. Health officials suspect pumpkin seeds from Lot-et-Garonne sold mainly at Grand Frais.

The Guardian - UK

Why the Bayeux tapestry and Franco-British relations are natural bedfellows

Tapestry’s loan to UK is just another chapter in the love-hate relationship that has spanned the centuries since it was created

The Economic Times

Gold reserves are on the move, but central banks are choosing different vaults

The world’s gold is changing vaults. The Netherlands is shifting bullion to London, France has moved holdings out of New York, while India now keeps 77% of RBI gold at home. The moves reveal how central banks are rethinking where their ultimate crisis asset should sit.

The Independent UK

UN nuclear agency members draft resolution reporting Iran to the UN Security Council

The United States, Britain, France and Germany have drafted a resolution for possible consideration by the Board of Governors of the U.N. nuclear watchdog that seeks to refer Iran to the U.N. Security Council for failure to comply with its nuclear nonproliferation obligations, diplomats say

France 24

UN ditches Mercator map to adopt more accurate one reflecting Africa's true size

The UN General Assembly on Friday voted to shift away from the 16th-century Mercator map, designed by Flemish cartographer Gerardus Mercator, for a more accurate one reflecting the true size of continents. The resolution, spearheaded by several African countries and co-sponsored by France, was backed by 164 countries. The US…

The Independent UK

Two broken threads discovered in Bayeux Tapestry after arrival from France

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