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<!-- -->A red ball of spicy fire with luminous patches glowing menacingly against a black background.This, prominent French scientist Etienne Klein declared, was the latest astonishing picture taken by the James Webb Space Telescope of Proxima Centauri, the closest star to our Sun.Fellow Twitter users marvelled at the details on the…

Starting August 1, there will be no travel restrictions for international travellers arriving in France. France has lifted all rules that previously applied to international travellers, such as producing COVID certificates, submitting a sworn declaration stating that the concerned traveller is not infected with the virus, and pledging to take…

People-smugglers have dropped their prices and are cramming more people than ever before into already overloaded, flimsy boats, the Guardian has learned.This week 696 asylum seekers crossed the Channel from France to the UK in one day, the Ministry of Defence said.The increased numbers arriving in more overcrowded boats with cheaper crossing…

Asadollah Eshragh Jahromi, the director general for international peace and security in the Foreign Ministry of Iran, delivered an address on “Nuclear Disarmament” at the Main Committee I of the Tenth NPT Review Conference, held at the UN Headquarters in New York on August 5.What follows is the full text of the speech by Eshragh Jahromi:In the…

A petition to ban cockfighting in the communes it is still legal in Nord, Pas de Calais and France’s overseas territories has gained over 30,000 signatures since it was launched on Thursday (August 4). Gabrielle Paillot, the author of the petition and a long-time animal rights defender, said: “The animals are raised in cages. They never see the…