Tests find AI tools readily create election lies from the voices of well-known political leaders
A new report from a digital civil rights group has found that publicly available artificial intelligence tools can be easily weaponized to churn out convincing election lies in the voices of top American and European politicians.
Pro-independence leader calls on protesters in New Caledonia to 'maintain resistance' against France
The leader of a pro-independence party in New Caledonia has called on supporters to “remain mobilized” across the French Pacific archipelago against the Paris government’s efforts to impose electoral reforms: The Indigenous Kanak people fear the electoral reforms would further marginalize them.
French President Macron says he won't rush through voting reforms that triggered New Caledonia riots
French President Emmanuel Macron has said on a visit to riot-hit New Caledonia that he won’t force through a contested voting reform that has sparked deadly unrest in the French Pacific territory and wants to leave time for local leaders to come up with an alternate agreement for the archipelago’s future.
Macron is making a surprise trip to New Caledonia amid deadly unrest and indigenous frustration
French President Emmanuel Macron is making a surprise trip to New Caledonia, the French Pacific territory that has been gripped by days of deadly unrest and where indigenous people have long sought independence.
Paris inaugurates giant water storage basin to clean up the River Seine for Olympic swimming
French officials have inaugurated a huge storage basin meant to keep cleaner the River Seine, which is to be the venue for marathon swimming at the Paris Games and the swimming leg of the Olympic and Paralympic triathlons.
Kyiv's forces are up against a concerted Russian push in eastern Ukraine, a military official says
A senior Ukrainian military official says the situation on the front line in eastern Ukraine is worsening but local defenders are so far holding firm against a concerted push by Russia’s bigger and better-equipped forces.
Kagame blames the world's inaction as Rwanda commemorates the 1994 genocide with lingering scars
Rwandan President Paul Kagame has blamed the inaction of the international community for allowing the 1994 genocide to happen as Rwanda commemorated 30 years since an estimated 800,000 people were killed by government-backed extremists.
Though Rwanda has come a long way since the 1994 genocide, scars of the past still haunt the nation
Rwanda is preparing to mark the 30th anniversary of the genocide against its minority Tutsi as new mass graves are still being discovered across the country in a grim reminder of the scale of the killings.
France seeks personal accounts of liberation from the Nazis, 80 years after the D-Day landings
The French president is appealing to the public to collect photos, films, personal journals and testimony from witnesses to liberation from the Nazis, as the country prepares to mark the 80th anniversary of the Normandy landings in 1944.
France becomes the only country to explicitly guarantee abortion as a constitutional right
French lawmakers have overwhelmingly approved a bill to enshrine abortion rights in France’s constitution, making it the only country to explicitly guarantee a woman’s right to voluntarily terminate a pregnancy.
Putting Western troops on the ground in Ukraine is not 'ruled out' in the future, French leader says
French President Emmanuel Macron says sending Western troops on the ground in Ukraine is not “ruled out” in the future after the issue was debated at a gathering of European leaders in Paris, as Russia’s full-scale invasion grinds into a third year.
Protesting farmers spray Brussels police with liquid manure near EU's base in a new display of power
Farmers have clashed with police in Belgium, spraying officers with liquid manure and throwing eggs and flares at them in a fresh show of force as the European Union’s agriculture ministers met in search of ways to address the protesters’ concerns.
France denounces 'largest antisemitic massacre of our century' in tribute to victims of Hamas attack
French President Emmanuel Macron has paid tribute to victims of Hamas’ Oct_ 7 attack in Israel in a national ceremony and denounced what he described as the “largest antisemitic massacre of our century.”.
Protesting farmers heap pressure on new French prime minister ahead of hotly anticipated measures
Protesting farmers have shut down stretches of major French highways again, using their tractors to block and slow traffic to press their demands that growing and rearing food should be made easier and more lucrative.
French farmers edge closer to Paris as protests ratchet up pressure on President Macron
Protests by French farmers are snowballing and creeping closer to Paris, ratcheting up pressure for government measures to protect the influential agricultural sector from foreign competition, red tape, rising costs and poverty-levels of pay.
At Davos, Blinken calls a pathway to a Palestinian state a necessity for Israeli security
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken says Israel cannot achieve “genuine security” without a pathway to a Palestinian state, insisting such a move could help unify the Middle East and isolate Israel’s top rival: Iran.
French President Macron uses broad news conference to show his leadership hasn't faded
French President Emmanuel Macron has made a point of showing his leadership hasn’t faded in more than two hours of answering questions at a news conference in which he promised a stronger France to face with world’s challenges.
France's Macron announces missiles and bombs for Ukraine, suggests he could work with Trump
French President Emmanuel Macron has announced plans to deliver more long-range cruise missiles as well as bombs to Ukraine and suggested that he’d find ways to work with Donald Trump in the event that he wins another presidency.
France's president is accused of siding with Depardieu as actor faces sexual misconduct allegations
Women’s rights activists are criticizing French President Emmanuel Macron for appearing to side with actor Gérard Depardieu by saying the film star who is facing sexual misconduct allegations “makes France proud.”.
France's Macron says a security crisis could force rethink of Paris' huge Olympic opening show
French President Emmanuel Macron says the giant opening ceremony extravaganza that Paris is planning to hold on the River Seine to launch next year’s Olympic Games could be moved if France is hit again in the run-up by extremist attacks.