France’s GIGN is not just elite—it’s infamous for its final trust exercise, where candidates fire live rounds at teammates. This counter-terror unit specializes in hostage rescue, nuclear site ...

France's Loire-Atlantique prefecture said in a statement on Thursday that a fire broke out at TotalEnergies' Donges refinery at 2.43 p.m. local time but was extinguished onsite by 4 p.m. It added that ...

Wildfires have so far ravaged more than one million hectares (2.5 million acres) in the European Union in 2025, a record since statistics began in 2006, according to an AFP analysis of data from ...

Nearly a week after President Trump’s Alaska summit, his suggestions of imminent breakthroughs have not come to pass.

I discovered impressionist art in 7th grade and fell in love. Our art class spent an entire semester focused on the great impressionist artists. We had to ...

Israel’s plan to invade Gaza City, the most populous city in the northern Gaza Strip, has forced many families to consider ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu upbraided President Emmanuel Macron in a letter seen by AFP on Tuesday, blaming the ...

Spain's worst wave of wildfires on record spread to the southern slopes of the Picos de Europa mountains and prompted ...

The rector solemnly read the "vow of Louis XIII," by which the king of France officially consecrated the country to the ...

Spain's weather agency warned the public on Monday to be "cautious" of the "very high or extreme fire danger." ...

It’s been two and a half weeks since the trade deadline fire sale. Of the 11 guys sent packing, who has been doing well? Who ...

The European Commission is deploying firefighting aircraft to Spain, where at least seven have died as 14 wildfires have ...