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French students won’t get past the door if they show up for school wearing long robes, President Emmanuel Macron made clear Friday, saying authorities would be “intractable” in enforcing a new rule when classes resume next week.

French investigating magistrates have dropped their case against three gendarmes over the 2016 death of a young black man in custody that sparked violent protests, lawyers said Friday.

A century on from a devastating natural disaster, Tokyo has embraced seismic safety technology. But can its buildings withstand future earthquakes?

In this transformed world, it is crucial to uphold the values that Peres held dear — the pursuit of peace, the embrace of innovation, and the commitment to a better world for all, Efrat Duvedani writes.

This summer Spain’s national women’s football team achieved a historic feat when they beat England in the World Cup final 1-0. But their first-ever World Cup win was overshadowed when the head of the Spanish Football Federation Luis Rubiales forcefully planted a kiss on star player Jennifer Hermoso. The gesture has sparked widespread condemnation and what some are hailing as the true #MeToo moment for Spain – a country that’s long been a leader when it comes to legislating for gender equality. FRANCE 24’s Annette Young, the host of The 51 Percent, France 24’s women’s show, tells us more.

In this edition to kick off our 10th season, we report on the nonconsensual kiss that has rocked Spain and sparked both a national and global debate about male behaviour and masculine pride. Also as parts of the world experience extreme weather, a German university hospital study discovers a clear link between rising temperatures and an increase in premature births. Plus an OECD report reveals how gender discrimination impacts efforts to combat climate change and Annette Young talks to Bathylle Missika, who led the research.

Russia accuses the West of “interfering” with exports of its agricultural products and fertilizers

Dmitry Utkin, cofounder and military commander of the Wagner Group, was buried Thursday in a quiet ceremony at a military cemetery near Moscow, after dying in a plane crash that also killed his boss, Yevgeny Prigozhin. The ceremony came as Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan met his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov in Moscow for talks in a bid to revive the Black Sea grain deal. Follow our liveblog for the latest developments on the war in Ukraine. All times are Paris time (GMT+2).

Watch: Workers clear up after a 127-year-old water main under New York’s Times Square gave way early Tuesday flooding midtown streets and the city’s busiest subway station as well as leaving a big hole at the intersection of 40th Street and Seventh Avenue.

As Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin was laid to rest after a fatal plane crash, videos purportedly showing graves of the group’s fighters being demolished went viral on social media channels. But despite claims to the contrary, this footage does not show a large-scale effort by the Russian state to erase all traces of the mercenary group.

In Northern Ireland, the generation born after the 1998 Good Friday Agreement is known as the “peace babies”. Yet, 25 years after the end of the conflict between nationalists, who want a united Ireland, and unionists, who want to remain part of the United Kingdom, the trauma of The Troubles still weighs on the younger generation.

Society already has difficulty responding to one kind of natural disaster like drought, researchers say. Now we suddenly have floods too.

President Emmanuel Macron met leaders of all of France’s political parties Wednesday, including his most bitter opponents, outside Paris in a bid to break the deadlock of a hung parliament.

The number of people who have died in Poland from the Legionella bacteria has risen to 14 after it claimed more lives in Rzeszow

Messages transported by small planes over Italy’s beaches this summer have spread the debunked conspiracy theory that Pope Francis is not the legitimate head of the Catholic Church.

The EU commission president’s endorsed the Dutch government’s choice for E-U climate czar to replace outgoing social democrat Frans Timmermans. Current foreign minister Wopke Hoekstra hails from the right, just like Ursula Von der Leyen. The shift raising eyebrows. FRANCE 24’s Delano D’Souza tells us more.

A forest blaze in Greece is “the largest wildfire ever recorded in the EU” and the bloc is mobilising nearly half its firefighting air wing to tackle it, a European Commission spokesman said Tuesday.

Thousands of people gathered in Madrid on Monday to support Women’s World Cup star Jennifer Hermoso after Spanish Football Federation chief Luis Rubiales provoked world outrage by forcibly kissing her on the lips.

Dubai’s ‘second airport’ could handle up to 250 million passengers a year by 2050.

Leading officials within the Spanish Football Federation asked suspended president Luis Rubiales to resign on Monday after he forcibly kissed a player on the lips at the Women’s World Cup final. Rubiales is increasingly isolated with few allies left… except for his mother, who’s started a hunger strike in his defense. FRANCE 24’s Spain correspondent Sarah Morris tells us more.

A landslide in the French valley of Maurienne has brought traffic and train services to and from the Franco-Italian border to a standstill. Authorities say the shutdown could last until Thursday at the earliest.

Wagner military chief Yevgeny Prigozhin was officially confirmed dead by Russian authorities on Sunday. The fate of his mercenary group – and its operations in Africa and the Middle East – now hangs in the balance. FRANCE 24 spoke to Anastasiya Shapochkina, a political analyst and researcher with a focus on Russian domestic policy, about possible scenarios for the private army’s future.

Five people, including four children, died and dozens were rescued Monday in two separate incidents involving migrant boats heading to Greek islands from nearby Turkey.

Crowds of demonstrators across Libya have protested after the country’s foreign minister held discussions with her Israeli counterpart

Since its creation in 1958, the George Enescu Festival has become an essential part of Eastern Europe’s classical music scene.