Mountaineer Sophie Lavaud on Monday became the first French person to have reached the summit of all 14 of the world’s peaks over 8,000 metres.

Greece’s conservative New Democracy party won a landslide victory in the country’s second election in five weeks Sunday, official projections based on early returns showed, gaining enough parliamentary seats to form a government for a second four-year…

The chief of the rebel Wagner mercenary force will go to Belarus and will not face charges after calling off his troops’ advance on Moscow, the Russian government said, easing the country’s most serious security crisis in decades.

Extreme temperatures have killed at least 133 people in two populous Indian states as weather experts warned climate change had made parts of southern Asia 30 times more prone to searing heatwaves.

Emmanuel Macron is closely monitoring the situation in Russia after the Wagner mercenary group launched an armed mutiny against the Kremlin’s forces, the French president’s office said Saturday.

Twitter bosses have been warned they cannot be complacent in the countdown to the launch of the European Union’s tough new digital rulebook, a top EU official said after carrying a “stress test” of the company’s systems in Silicon Valley.

Multilateral development banks like the World Bank are expected to find $200 billion in extra firepower for low-income economies by taking on more risk, a move that may require wealthy nations to inject more cash, world leaders said on Friday.

Efforts by France to build a consensus for a global carbon tax on the shipping industry failed to produce significant results at a summit in Paris on Friday.

The organising committee of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games have announced the Olympic flame will be lit on 16 April 2024 at the ancient Greek site of Olympia before arriving in Marseille on 8 May. However, not everyone’s happy about the iconic flame’s a…