The French government said Tuesday that it would soon shut down an activist climate group over a series of recent demonstrations including one that led to fierce clashes with police over a controversial irrigation project.

President Emmanuel Macron will Tuesday hold talks in Paris with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, the French presidency said, as both sides seek to smooth a series of disputes that have frayed ties since she took the reins of Italy’s government last year. FRANCE 24’s Europe Editor Armen Georgian tells us more about these talks.

The controversial influencer was arrested in Romania in December.

Greece boat disaster: Nine trafficking suspects plead not guilty in first court appearance Nine men,…

The number of confirmed victims from one of the worst migrant shipwrecks in the Mediterranean rose to 81 Monday after three more bodies were found off southern Greece, as more survivors claimed that the battered trawler had been under tow by another vessel just before it sank with hundreds of people aboard.

It’s official: the European Union is no longer the top client of Russian oil.