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Victor Wembanyama is seen as a lock for the NBA's San Antonio Spurs to select in the draft. He hopes to reproduce the championship success of other French players, like Tony Parker.

Victor Wembanyama is seen as a lock for the NBAs San Antonio Spurs to select in the draft. He hopes to reproduce the championship success of other French players, like Tony Parker.

The world's great cities are cooperating where national governments are failing. In the Covid-19 crisis, US mayors are providing the responsible governing and healthcare the federal government won't deliver.

"Bandera is our father, Ukraine is the mother. We will fight for Ukraine!" sings a young woman in camouflage uniform, carrying a machine gun, in a video that Ukrainian defenders in Mariupol shared on social networks in early May. The video seems to have been recorded in a bunker at the Azovstal Steelworks, the city's"Bandera is our father, Ukraine is the mother. We will fight for Ukraine!" sings a young woman in camouflage uniform, carrying a machine gun, in a video that...

What the French history of the leisurely lunch break can teach us about separating work from rest.

President Vladimir Putin warned that Russia was prepared to take military steps in response to "unfriendly" Western actions over the Ukraine conflict.

A UAE official accused of overseeing torture is running for president of Interpol, while a Chinese official seeks a spot on the executive committee.

French President Emmanuel Macron has given Germany's outgoing Chancellor Angela Merkel an affectionate and stylish send-off, praising her for keeping Europe united through years of crisis.

A rabble-rousing TV pundit and author with repeated convictions for hate speech is rocking the early stages of France's coming presidential election.

The man who slapped French President Emmanuel Macron in the face was sentenced to 18 months in jail, with 14 of them suspended, BFM TV reported on Thursday.