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AI deepfakes and fake fighters reshape Mali's information war

France, Sept. 10 -- The study, Algorithms at War, by the Dakar-based Timbuktu Institute examines how generative AI is being used across Mali's conflict - including by JNIM jihadists linked to al-Qaeda... Read More


Bayeux Tapestry 'mania' sweeps UK as sold-out exhibition opens

France, Sept. 10 -- The British Museum will open its doors after months of growing anticipation, heightened by the tapestry's high-security July arrival in London and last week's royal preview for the... Read More


August hottest month ever recorded globally, says EU monitor

France, Sept. 10 -- In response to the assessment by the Copernicus Climate Change Service, the UN warned that until humanity weaned off fossil fuels, the planet would only push deeper into uncharted ... Read More


Four police officers suspended in Carcassonne over racist and sexist video

France, Sept. 10 -- On Tuesday, the daily newspaper Midi Libre revealed a recording made by a police officer's body camera, without his knowledge while on patrol in November 2025. According to the ne... Read More


French police officers suspended over racist video as far-right links emerge

France, Sept. 10 -- The daily newspaper Midi Libre this week revealed a recording made by a police officer's body camera, without his knowledge, while on patrol in November 2025. Midi Libre said the ... Read More


Europe's 'imagination gap' risks empowering far right, survey warns

France, Sept. 10 -- The report, based on 5,834 AI-moderated interviews in Britain, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Poland, plus desk research in 15 EU states, identifies four broad "attitu... Read More


Mao still revered in China as criticism remains risky 50 years on

France, Sept. 9 -- Mao died on 9 September 1976 after more than 25 years at the head of China. In Beijing, many retired people still gather in parks to sing revolutionary songs praising Mao, mixing n... Read More


Roman Abramovich loses third attempt to overturn EU sanctions

France, Sept. 9 -- The former owner of Chelsea football club, who has close ties to the Kremlin, was added to bloc's asset freeze and visa ban blacklist in 2022 after Moscow's invasion of its neighbou... Read More


A 1,000-year-old mystery: what's really stitched into the Bayeux Tapestry?

France, Sept. 9 -- But this is not the world-renowned 70-metre long Bayeux Tapestry on loan from France at the British museum. It is the little known Bayeux Tapestry of Reading, a commuter-belt town ... Read More


Former PM Bayrou returns to court in long-running EU assistants case

France, Sept. 9 -- Bayrou, who was acquitted at the first trial in 2024, will appear alongside ten former party officials in the decade-old case involving parliamentary assistants to MEPs. "I am appr... Read More