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A powerful 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of the Philippines early Friday, prompting authorities to issue a tsunami warning and urge coastal residents to move to higher ground. According to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), the tremor occurred around 20......
After more than a century and a half, the crown of the Virgin Mary statue atop the Basilica of Notre-Dame de la Garde—known affectionately as the “Bonne Mère”—is about to regain its place on the city’s skyline. The 150-kilogram crown, removed at the end......
As France faces a deepening political crisis, President Emmanuel Macron has invited the leaders of political parties and parliamentary groups to a meeting at the Élysée Palace this Friday at 2:30 p.m., according to concordant sources. The Rassemblement......
Belgian authorities announced on Thursday that they had foiled a jihadist plot aimed at Prime Minister Bart De Wever, confirming information from government and security sources. “The news of a planned attack targeting Prime Minister Bart De Wever is profoundly shocking,” said Belgian Foreign......
The Nîmes Court of Appeal has sentenced Husamettin Dogan to 10 years in prison in the Mazan rape case, making him the only defendant to have appealed his previous conviction. Prosecutors had sought a 12-year sentence. In the first trial, Dogan had been sentenced to nine years in prison. The general......
An explosion occurred on Thursday morning, October 9, at an Orange technical facility in Paris, injuring three technicians, two of them seriously, according to police sources. The incident took place around 10:30 a.m. on Avenue de Saxe, in the city’s 7th arrondissement, while workers were performing......
Russian President Vladimir Putin officially acknowledged on Thursday his country’s responsibility for the crash of an Azerbaijan Airlines passenger plane at the end of 2024. Speaking alongside Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, Putin confirmed that the aircraft was hit......
A man was shot and killed in the 3rd arrondissement of Marseille, according to sources confirmed by BFM Marseille. The incident occurred shortly after 11 a.m. on Rue de Crimée. Marseille firefighters and paramedics arrived on the scene but were unable to save the victim, who had multiple gunshot......
The Norwegian Nobel Committee, which awards the Nobel Peace Prize, held its final meeting on Monday, October 6, according to the Nobel Institute, ahead of the 2025 laureate announcement. This timeline indicates that the laureate was chosen well before the conclusion of a recent ceasefire agreement between......
The Finnish prosecutor has appealed after a Helsinki court declared itself incompetent to try the captain and two officers of a Russian ghost fleet vessel, accused of damaging undersea cables in the Baltic Sea in late 2024. The court argued that the case should fall under the jurisdiction of the ship's......
The Rhône gendarmes stopped an 18-year-old driver for driving at 169 km/h on a stretch limited to 80 km/h in the eastern part of the department, near Saint-Exupéry Airport. The young driver, who had obtained his license only two months ago, was immediately stripped of his driving license.......
At least 13 civilians were killed in an attack attributed to paramilitary forces on a mosque in El-Fasher, a besieged city in Darfur, western Sudan, witnesses said on Thursday, October 9. El-Fasher remains the last major city in Darfur not fully under the control of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), which......
Lennart Monterlos, the 19-year-old Franco-German cyclist, who was imprisoned in Iran in June during a bike tour, returned discreetly to Paris on Thursday morning. Sources close to the case confirmed that Monterlos landed at Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport shortly before 9:20 a.m. after several months......
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