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French authorities are tracking a Beluga whale that strayed far from its Arctic habitat into the Seine River, raising fears that the ethereal white mammal could starve if it stays in the waterway that flows through Paris and beyond.

Responding to reports of renewed Russian shelling of the Zaporizhzhia facility in Ukraine, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said the risk of nuclear confrontation had returned after decades, calling on nuclear states to commit to no first use of the weapons. Follow FRANCE 24’s live coverage of the crisis. All times are Paris time (GMT+2).

A second caravan of ships with Ukrainian agriculture products sailed from Ukrainian Black Sea ports on Sunday, according to Ukrainian and Turkish authorities. Meanwhile the head of the UN nuclear watchdog raised grave concerns over the shelling at the Zaporizhzhia plant, as the Ukrainian military said Russian forces had attacked dozens of front-line towns. Follow FRANCE 24’s […]

In Germany, naturism or nudism is called “FKK” or “Free Body Culture”. Invented in the 1920s as an escape from social constraints, the tradition was on the decline for most of the past three decades, but at one Berlin association, membership has been growing by 10 percent each year since 2020. Devotees there celebrate the […]

Russia and Ukraine accused each other of shelling Europe’s biggest nuclear power plant in the Zaporizhzhia region as the world on Saturday marked the 77th anniversary of the the first atomic bomb attack in the Japanese city of Hiroshima, with the UN chief warning against nuclear arms buildup amid fears of another such attack in the Ukraine conflict […]

One month before the new Conservative leader and British prime minister is announced on September 5, Foreign Secretary Liz Truss has a commanding lead over ex-chancellor Rishi Sunak among the Tory Party members who decide the outcome – having framed the economic policy debate to her advantage amid an acute cost of living crisis. 

The French government said Friday that it had activated a crisis task force to coordinate efforts to alleviate the impacts of a “historic” drought exacerbated by a third extreme heatwave of the summer.

Ending the war in Ukraine and starting a new conflict in Syria are expected to dominate talks on Friday between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The Turkish leader is riding high from the diplomatic success of helping orchestrate the resumption of Ukrainian grain shipments across the Black Sea just ahead […]

French authorities are tracking a Beluga whale that strayed far from its Arctic habitat into the Seine River, raising fears that the ethereal white mammal could starve if it stays in the waterway that flows through Paris and beyond.

The French government said Friday that it had activated a crisis task force to coordinate efforts to alleviate the impacts of a “historic” drought exacerbated by a third extreme heatwave of the summer.