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 ...

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A wildfire burns on Mount Underwood near Port Alberni, on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, on August 12, 2025. Agence ...

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

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High winds on Wednesday hampered efforts to contain wildfires in Spain that have already scorched a record stretch of land ...

Doug Specht examines the marked change in how French media are reporting on extreme weather within the country This summer, ...

Macron of fueling anti-Semitism by supporting Palestinian statehood, sparking French backlash. He also attacked Australia, ...