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Pierre Guillon de Princé and Dieudonné Boutrin at the Coque Nomade association they created in Nantes.

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Iyad Ag Ghali, head of the jihadist JNIM coalition, pictured in 2016.

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Alexander Zverev lost in the 2024 French Open men's singles final to Carlos Alcaraz.

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People head north towards Algeria after crossing the Assamaka border post in northern Niger, 3 June 2018.

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French billionaire Stérin reveals far-right agenda in first public hearing

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Residents sit amid the rubble of a neighbourhood in the southern Lebanese city of Tyre after an Israeli strike on 18 April 2026. Months of war have displaced more than a million people and deepened political divisions across Lebanon.

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Maxime Saada, CEO of Canal+, has threatened to cut ties with the signatories of a letter criticising the influence of right-wing media mogul Vincent Bolloré.

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Artists impression of an exomoon 133 light years away.

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AI tools have made it easier to create fake sexual images without consent, fuelling a rise in deepfake abuse targeting women online.

Sexual deepfakes used to silence voices of women in politics and media

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Ivory Coast full-back Guela Doue, the French-born older brother of France international Desire Doue, equalised on 53 minutes

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A man walks on a street decorated with national flags in Montenegro's capital, Podgorica, on Monday, 18 May 2026.

Western Balkan leaders join EU summit amid renewed enlargement drive

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The Budapest Pride parade went ahead in June 2025 in defiance of a ban

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A French MP holds a placard reading "cadmium, poison" during a protest ahead of a debate at the National Assembly of their bill, which aims at limiting exposure to cadmium in Paris on 2 June, 2026.

French MPs approve tougher cadmium limits despite government opposition

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Qualifier Maja Chwalinska from Poland advanced to her first final on the international tour after beating the 22nd seed Diana Shnaider in the semi-final at the 2026 French Open.

Chwalinska beats Shnaider to set up Andreeva clash in French Open women's final

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French-Iranian graphic novelist, cartoonist, illustrator and film director, Marjane Satrapi, poses during a photo session in Paris in November 2022.

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Quobly, the Grenoble-based quantum computing start-up co-founded by Maud Vinet, is developing silicon-based chips as France seeks to strengthen its home-grown advanced computing industry.

French start-up Quobly raises €115m to build cheaper quantum computers

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Lawyer Harry Durimel, right, stands beside an activist holding a sign reading "No to chlordecone poison" during a protest in Les Abymes, Guadeloupe, 18 November 2007.

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French President Emmanuel Macron welcomes Rwandan President Paul Kagame to attend the inauguration ceremony of the Habib-Bourgiba esplanade along the River Seine, a new memorial site paying tribute to the victims of the Rwanda's genocide, in Paris, France, on 2 June, 2026.

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Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan lays a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier by the Kremlin wall during her visit to Moscow on 3 June 2026.

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The President of Senegal, Bassirou Diomaye Faye (left), terminated the functions of the Prime Minister, Ousmane Sonko (right), on the evening of 22 May, 2026.

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Tuareg rebels of the Azawad Liberation Front (FLA) coalition ride on the back of a pickup truck in Kidal, on 26 April, 2026.

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A graduation ceremony of soldiers loyal to Libya's UN-recognised Government of National Accord, a result of a military training agreement with Turkey, at the Omar Mukhtar camp in the city of Tajoura, on 21 November 2020.

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