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Western Europe sweltered under a punishing heatwave on Friday, with temperatures expected to climb further in the coming days and potentially shatter more records, prompting authorities across the continent to issue warnings and brace for prolonged extreme weather. In France, hundreds of schools were forced to tweak their timetables to cope.

One person was killed and dozens were injured, including 11 seriously, after two London-bound passenger trains collided near Bedford on Friday. Emergency services mounted a major response, deploying air ambulances as investigators began examining the cause of one of Britain’s most serious rail incidents in recent years.

Poland’s nationalist President Karol Nawrocki said Friday that he was revoking the country’s highest award from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, despite Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s attempts “not to waste” solidarity between allies amid the Russian invasion. Zelensky infuriated Warsaw earlier this month after he named a Ukrainian unit after a World War II insurgent army […]

EU leaders have cautiously welcomed Donald Trump’s signing of an interim agreement with Iran, after nearly four months of war in the Middle East. But it is only a Memorandum of Understanding, and Europeans know the US president too well to celebrate prematurely. The conflict has led to the most severe disruption in energy supplies […]

EU leaders are meeting in Brussels to talk about the bloc’s next seven-year budget, set to go on for the next six months. The European Commission proposed last July a two-trillion-euro seven-year spending plan for the 27-country bloc — which so-called frugal countries immediately made clear was too high. In the opposing camp, France, long […]

Ten years after the #Brexit vote, FRANCE 24’s Revisited examines the impact of this historic decision. How has Brexit changed the country? Has the standard of living for Britons improved since then? What have been the consequences for the economy and key sectors such as agriculture? Find the full report by Aurore Dupuis, Clovis Casali […]

The news that the talks between US and Iran are postponed has cast a shadow over the EU summit, as EU leaders hoped that the memorandum of agreement would bring attention back to the conflict in Ukraine. But the Middle East is not totally set aside, with EU leaders set to discuss whether to severe […]

It has been a decade since British voters made the momentous decision to leave the European Union. The EU referendum result on June 24, 2016 led to a profound transformation of British politics, and to Brexit-related infighting that refuses to go away. But if the UK has not truly moved on, what about its former […]

British Prime ​Minister Keir Starmer ​urged Labour members to unite ​after ‌the Makerfield ⁠by-election victory that returned ‌rival Andy Burnham to parliament, ⁠warning against infighting as pressure ​grows over the party ‌leadership. Burnham’s election clears the way for his expectede bid to oust Starmer, who has grown increasingly unpopular. FRANCE 24’s Benedicte Paviot has more […]

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said in a video posted on X Friday that she was “frankly stunned” by US President Donald Trump’s mocking claim that she “begged” him for a photo during the G7 summit in France this week. Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani said he was cancelling a visit to the US planned for […]