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The Democratic Republic of Congo's Constitutional Court has approved a referendum law that critics say could pave the way for President Felix Tshisekedi to seek a third term in office, prompting a coalition of opposition parties to reject the ruling and vow to fight the change.

Russia has announced it is seeking the arrest of Telegram founder Pavel Durov over accusations of "complicity in terrorism", alleging he allowed the platform to be used for recruitment by Ukraine's security services.

South Africa is suffering a drop in its workforce, following the departure of thousands of foreign workers in the wake of a wave of xenophobic attacks, anti-migrant protests and intensified immigration enforcement.

As firefighters continue to battle major blazes in France, the European Union's crisis management chief is calling for more investment in prevention, forest management and emergency response.

France has ordered the expulsion of Xenia Fedorova, the former head of Russia Today France, accusing the Russian journalist of spreading Kremlin propaganda on French television and radio, including on channels owned by the Bolloré group, the Interior Ministry said on Wednesday.

A statue honouring Tiphaine Véron, the French tourist who vanished in Japan in 2018, was unveiled on Wednesday near the hotel where she was last seen. Eight years on and still without any solid leads, her family is now pushing for Japan's national police to take over the stalled investigation.

Renault will face a criminal trial in France on aggravated fraud charges over accusations that devices in its diesel cars were designed to cheat clean air laws, the public prosecutor's office told French news agency AFP.

Uganda's health minister on Tuesday declared the country Ebola-free, following the latest outbreak of the viral haemorrhagic disease which infected 20 people and killed two in the country.

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky has hailed a “good meeting” with United States President Donald Trump at the White House, saying the two leaders discussed plans to produce Patriot air-defence interceptors and ways to revive stalled negotiations with Russia.

The European Union on Tuesday condemned an "aggression" this month by Iranian security services against two French diplomats in Tehran.

United States diplomats walked out of a United Nations Security Council meeting on Monday as their French counterparts were speaking, after Paris criticised the Trump administration’s human rights record and backed a second term for human rights chief Volker Turk. The move underlined the growing strain in relations between Washington and one of its closest European allies.

Zinédine Zidane was officially appointed as France's new head coach on Tuesday, succeeding Didier Deschamps, the French Football Federation announced.

The United States began reviewing its military presence in Europe on Monday, officials said, after US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth told his NATO counterparts last month that Washington was planning such an analysis.

Haiti's electoral council just scheduled the first elections in a decade for December with a runoff in February. Earlier plans to hold the vote in August with a December runoff were postponed over security concerns.

British Prime Minister Andy Burnham pledged new drone-jamming technology to Ukraine on Monday, using his first meeting with a foreign leader since taking office to underline Britain's continued military backing for Kyiv.

Chad has become the fifth country to begin a formal withdrawal process from the International Criminal Court in recent months, following Venezuela, Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger.

Senegal's President Bassirou Diomaye Faye on Saturday launched a new political party called Kiiraay, following his high-profile falling-out with his former mentor and ex-prime minister, Ousmane Sonko, and his party Pastef.

Iran's foreign ministry has said it had summoned the French ambassador to Tehran to protest the conduct of two diplomats, who were briefly detained earlier this month.

A French off-duty policeman on Monday detained a man after he allegedly attacked and wounded three women with two kitchen knives in Paris, France's interior minister said.

French President Emmanuel Macron convened ministers on Monday before heading to south-west France, where wildfires have displaced hundreds of thousands and a new heatwave threatens to reignite the flames.