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At the Seventy-ninth World Health Assembly in Geneva, WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has presented four distinguished leaders with the Award for Global Health, recognizing their lifetime achievements and exceptional contributions to improving the health and we

French Resistance fighter Marc Bloch, who was tortured and executed by the Gestapo in 1944, entered the Pantheon on Tuesday, becoming the first historian to receive the honour bestowed on exceptional figures in politics, culture and science. French President Emmanuel Macron paid

Haxie Meyers-Belkin is pleased to welcome Dr. Chloe Brimacombe. She presents a clear and sobering analysis of the current European heatwave as both a meteorological event and a societal stress test. Her argument is that the exceptional temperatures affecting France are not merely

The French capital's Eiffel Tower, one of the most visited tourist attractions in the world, has closed early on June 23 because of exceptionally high temperatures. This comes as Paris struggles to cope with a historic heatwave, and residents try to adapt in a city that is not ma

#France is experiencing its worst heatwave in history, with #Paris hitting above 40 degrees Celsius on June 23. To help its residents cope with the exceptionally high temperatures, the city has opened an area of the #CanalSaintMartin to swimmers. A successful idea, although Paris

Nadia Massih is pleased to welcome Ian Williams, Professor of Applied Environmental Science in the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences at the University of Southampton, UK. He argues that Europe's current heatwave should not be understood as an exceptional weather event

To help its residents cope with the exceptionally high temperatures amid a record-breaking heatwave, Paris has opened an area of the Canal Saint Martin to swimmers. France 24's James Andre reports from the scene.

Delano D'Souza is pleased to welcome Emma Howard Boyd, Chair of the National Heat Risk Commission at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at LSE. Europe's recurring heatwaves are no longer exceptional weather events but evidence of a structural cl

President Donald Trump ushered in the 250th anniversary of American independence on Friday with soaring rhetoric about American exceptionalism before veering into a darkly political speech with warnings about a sinister threat of communism that evoked one of the country’s ugliest

US President Donald Trump ushered in the 250th anniversary of US independence on Friday with rhetoric about American exceptionalism before calling on the country to fight what he called the sinister threat of communism. The speech evoked the Red Scare of the 1950s, one of the cou

The operator of the Eiffel Tower said the latticed-steel Paris monument would "exceptionally close" early over the weekend at 4 pm (1400 GMT), as France was gripped by a third heatwave since May.

France is battling to contain an "exceptionally large wildfire" in a forest south of Paris on July 13, with aircraft in the skies and firefighters on the ground trying to douse the flames amid suspicions the blaze was started deliberately. FRANCE 24's Catherine Norris Trent is on