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Pogacar adds first European road race crown to trophy cabinet

France, Oct. 6 -- Tour de France winner Tadej Pogacar will head into his final two races of the season on Tuesday and Saturday boasting the coup of becoming the first man in a decade to claim the worl... Read More


How football mega tournaments became a lightning rod for Morocco protesters

France, Oct. 5 -- Two years on from Morocco's selection as one of the co-hosts for the 2030 football World Cup, the government's multi-billion-euro investment in the tournament has become a rallying c... Read More


From train rides to stag rutting, slow TV proves less really is more

France, Oct. 5 -- In a world of blink-and-scroll social media clips, the "slow television" trend is turning the ordinary into a spectacle, inviting viewers to linger over hours ofunedited real life: a... Read More


'Trumpist' billionaire wins Czech election, spelling shift on Ukraine

France, Oct. 5 -- Billionaire former prime ministerAndrej Babis won this weekend's general election in the Czech Republic, official results showed, though his party fell short of an overall majority. ... Read More


The 'wowo' women carrying DRC's border trade on their backs, despite the risks

France, Oct. 5 -- Hundreds of women carry cross-border trade on their heads and backs every day at Kasumbalesa, the Democratic Republic of Congo's second-busiest border crossing into Zambia. Their wor... Read More


Why Africa's oceans bear brunt of planet's environmental crisis

France, Oct. 4 -- The world's oceans are bearing the brunt of a triple environmental crisis, according to the European Union's Earth monitors: global warming, pollution and declining biodiversity. The... Read More


'It's time for this to end': Israeli mother's two-year quest to free her son

France, Oct. 4 -- Nearly 50 people remain hostages of Hamas since being kidnapped in the group's attacks on Israel in October 2023. With an agreement to free the captives tantalisingly close, RFI spok... Read More


Artists help break the silence around France's rising scourge of loneliness

France, Oct. 4 -- Loneliness is a fact of daily life for millions of people in France, with record numbers cut off from friends, family and neighbours. At the Photoclimat Biennale in Paris, organisati... Read More


Chad's parliament speeds through plan to drop presidential term limits

France, Oct. 4 -- Lawmakers in Chad have fast-tracked a proposal to allow the president to serve an unlimited number of terms, in a move that the opposition warns opens the door to authoritarianism. ... Read More


French photojournalist Antoni Lallican killed in Ukraine drone attack

France, Oct. 4 -- Antoni Lallican, an award-winning French photographer on assignment in Ukraine, died in a drone attack in the eastern Donbas region on Friday, press groups have announced. It is the ... Read More