Persistent drought in southern France: 'This time, it's brutal'

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For the past two years, the region has been suffering from a structural water shortage. Scarce resources are forcing farmers to adapt their practices, and could lead to a review of land-use planning.

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Burkina Faso suspends more international news media, including Le Monde and TV5

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Germany's far-right party starts its European campaign without lead candidate

AfD MEP Maximilian Krahe was asked to stay away: One of his parliamentary assistants has been arrested on suspicion of spying for China.

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In Canada, justice begins for Indigenous women

The families of Marcedes Myran and Morgan Harris, who disappeared in Winnipeg in 2022, have finally obtained the landfill where they may have been buried to be searched, as the trial of their presumed killer starts.

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French actors Omar Sy, Eva Green, and Oscar-nominated Lily Gladstone join Cannes jury

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'France is pathetically putting the brakes on the restitution of art to Africa which is inevitable'

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