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'A steak is a steak': EU Parliament votes to ban meat terms for vegetarian food

France, Oct. 10 -- European Union lawmakers this week voted in favour of a proposal to restrict meat-related terms such as "burger" and "sausage" to products that contain actual meat, in order to prot... Read More


Cote d'Ivoire presidential race begins amid rising tensions

France, Oct. 10 -- Campaigning in Cote d'Ivoire's presidential election kicked off on Friday. The five candidates approved by the Constitutional Council have two weeks to win over voters ahead of the ... Read More


Road to 2026: Nigeria knuckle down as South Africa seek to claw back points

France, Oct. 10 -- Nigeria head coach Eric Chelle urged his squad to focus on beating Lesotho in their penultimate game in the qualifiers for the 2026 World Cup, not on the permutations emerging from ... Read More


Mali under pressure to end fuel crisis as negotiations with jihadists stall

France, Oct. 10 -- Mali's military junta is struggling to ease a jihadist fuel blockade as talks with al-Qaeda-linked militants inch forward- amid petrol shortages and growing public frustration. Sin... Read More


France's Mbappe urges team to focus on a win against Azerbaijan

France, Oct. 10 -- France skipper Kylian Mbappe urged his teammates to focus on victory over Azerbaijan - who have never qualified for the World Cup - in Friday's Group D qualifying match for the 2026... Read More


Europeans, Arabs flesh out Gaza transition ideas following ceasefire

France, Oct. 10 -- The United States' closest European and Arab partners have met in Paris to work on how to shape Gaza'spost-war future, hours after Israel and Hamas agreed to aceasefireand prisoner-... Read More


Death penalty abolitionist Robert Badinter joins France's Pantheon heroes

France, Oct. 10 -- Robert Badinter, the justice minister who ended the death penalty in 1981, was inducted into the Pantheon in Paris on Thursday as France paid tribute to his lifelong fight for justi... Read More


Israeli settlements a threat to Palestinian state, Macron warns

France, Oct. 10 -- French President Emmanuel Macron has warned that expanding Israeli settlements threatened a Palestinian state and US-led peace efforts, as France hosted Arab and European ministers ... Read More


Robert Badinter, who ended France's guillotine era, enters the Pantheon

France, Oct. 9 -- Robert Badinter, the lawyer and former justice minister who led France to end the death penalty, will be inducted into the Pantheon in Paris on Thursday - 44 years to the day after t... Read More


Court rejects appeal, ups sentence for man convicted of raping Gisele Pelicot

France, Oct. 9 -- A man convicted of raping Gisele Pelicot, who survived years of assaults orchestrated by her husband while she was drugged unconscious, has lost his appeal against the verdict. A cou... Read More