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French farmers are planning to block highways around Paris from Monday to push the French parliament to adopt a bill that would loosen restrictions on pesticide and water use in farming. The country’s main farming unions want to pressure MPs […]

Iran on Monday slammed France for filing a case against it at the International Court of Justice over the detention of two French nationals in conditions Paris denounced as inhumane. Cécile Kohler and Jacques Paris have been able to receive

The trial of a French surgeon who for years sexually abused hundreds of patients, most of them minors, enters its final phase on Monday, with the accused’s lawyers set to make their closing arguments. The verdict is expected on Wednesday.

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s socialist party on Sunday won heavily in parliamentary and regional elections that were boycotted by the opposition in protest over his disputed re-election last year. More than 70 people were arrested in the lead-up to the

North Korea has detained an official linked to last week’s failed warship launch, which damaged a 5,000-ton destroyer, state media said Monday. Pyongyang called it “a serious accident” during Wednesday’s ceremony, crushing parts of the vessel’s hull Source link FRANCE

Palestinian rescuers said an Israeli dawn strike on a Gaza City school killed 13 Monday as Israel steps up operations against Hamas. Fighting has drawn global condemnation, while a near three-month aid blockade has deepened shortages of food, water, fuel,

US President Donald Trump on Sunday called Russian leader Vladimir Putin “crazy” after Moscow launched a deadly drone barrage on Ukraine, killing at least 13. The attack, involving a record number of drones, came as the warring nations completed a

Marcel Ophuls, Oscar-winning director of “The Sorrow and the Pity,” a landmark documentary exposing France’s WWII collaboration with Nazis, died aged 97, his family said Monday. Son of famed German filmmaker Max Ophuls, he “died peacefully on May 24,” his

EU chief Ursula von der Leyen said Sunday she had a “good call” with US President Donald Trump after his threat of 50% tariffs on the bloc, pledging to move “swiftly” on a trade deal. Both sides agreed to suspend

Spain’s foreign minister called on the international community to impose sanctions on Israel to end the war in Gaza, as European and Arab nations met in Madrid on Sunday to push for a ceasefire and increased humanitarian aid. Source link