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Beauty exists everywhere': Ballet builds hope for future in Nairobi slum

France, May 4 -- Kibera, Nairobi's largest informal settlement, is often reduced to images of poverty - rusted tin rooftops, open sewers and overcrowded homes. But a community project is using ballet ... Read More


France's PM Bayrou mulls referendum on sweeping deficit-reduction plan

France, May 4 -- French Prime Minister Francois Bayrou has raised the possibility of holding a national referendum on a comprehensive plan to reduce France's debt and bring the public deficit below 3 ... Read More


Romania votes again after annulled election caused political disarray

France, May 3 -- Romanians head to the polls on Sunday in the first round of a presidential election re-run, five months after the previous vote was annulled over allegations of Russian interference -... Read More


France charges 21 prison attack suspects

France, May 3 -- Prosecutors said Saturday that 21 suspects in a series of coordinated attacks on French prisons had been charged, including two teenagers. Investigators believe the attacks were carr... Read More


Meet Jean-Zay, the supercomputer powering France's AI ambitions

France, May 3 -- France ranks fifth globally in terms of its number of supercomputers - high-performance machines that can make millions, even billions, of calculations per second, and which are key t... Read More


The Kenyan engineer building a sustainable future with recycled plastic bricks

France, May 3 -- It's a typical day in a Nairobi neighbourhood. As the sun beats down on dusty streets, children are playing and market traders are shouting out their best prices. As you walk past bri... Read More


Germany's intelligence service moves against far-right AfD, sets off quarrel with US

France, May 3 -- Germany's domestic intelligence service on Friday designated the far-right AfD party as an extremist group, setting off a diplomatic spat with the United States. The BfV intelligence... Read More


New Caledonia bans 'dangerous' seabed mining for half a century

France, May 2 -- New Caledonia this week imposed a 50-year ban on deep-sea mining across its entire maritime zone - a rare and sweeping move that places the French Pacific territory among the most res... Read More


'Alarming deterioration' of US press freedom under Trump, warns RSF

France, May 2 -- Media rights group RSF on Friday warned about "an alarming deterioration in press freedom" in the United States under President Donald Trump as well as "unprecedented" difficulties fo... Read More


South Africa to examine past failures to prosecute apartheid crimes

France, May 2 -- South African President Cyril Ramaphosa this week announced a judicial inquiry to establish whether previous governments led by his ANC party deliberately blocked investigations and p... Read More