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Wine production in France is expected to rebound this year from frost-hit output in 2021, although deepening drought may curb volumes, the country’s farm ministry said on Tuesday.

A beluga whale which strayed into the River Seine, far from its usual habitat of arctic or subarctic waters, will be moved to a saltwater river basin close to the sea on August 9, marine conservation group Sea Shepherd France said.

French officials are moving ahead with a delicate plan to transport a beluga whale back to the ocean after it swam far up the Seine river toward Paris, putting its life in danger, a marine expert said Tuesday.

FRANCE 24 sat down with Mykhailo Fedorov, Ukraine’s deputy prime minister and minister of digital transformation. The ministry was created in 2019 because President Volodymyr Zelensky had promised that Ukraine would be a pioneering e-government. Since the Russian invasion, digital transformation has been put on a “war footing”, Fedorov said. He told FRANCE 24’s Gulliver […]

Ukraine reported intense Russian shelling across the frontlines on Tuesday as both sides traded blame for the weekend strike on the Zaporizhzhia nuclear complex which triggered international concern about a potential atomic disaster. Follow FRANCE 24’s live coverage of the crisis. All times are Paris time (GMT+2). 

Russia told the United States on Monday it would not allow its weapons to be inspected under the START nuclear arms control treaty for the time being because of travel restrictions imposed by Washington and its allies.

Concerns are rising for a beluga whale which has been spotted in France’s Seine River far from the cold Arctic waters it is more suited for. The whale has refused food and appears emaciated, a local official said on August 6.

A malnourished beluga whale that has swum up France’s River Seine is no longer progressing but is still alive, environmental group Sea Shepherd said Monday.

The head of Ukraine’s nuclear authority Energoatom called on Monday for UN peacekeepers to be sent to the Zaporizhzhia power plant. FRANCE 24’s Gulliver Cragg reports.

The French government pledged a new crackdown Monday against illicit motorbike cruising by youths in suburbs across the country, after two children were seriously injured by a rider near Paris.