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French authorities have launched a judicial investigation into how convicted paedophile surgeon Joël Le Scouarnec was able to abuse hundreds of children over decades while continuing to practise medicine. The move follows his 20-year prison sentence in May and mounting criticism over systemic laps...

A panel of Praris-based journalists review the week's international news: stories that made the headlines and also those the viewers may have missed.   Putin’s 50 days deadline: “Much ado about nothing?”, The Afghan leak & the UK super injunction, Why did Israel bomb Damascus? 

A visitor at France’s Pompidou-Metz museum bit into Maurizio Cattelan’s infamous banana artwork “Comedian” last week, prompting swift intervention from security. The $6.2 million piece – famously duct-taped to a wall – was quickly restored, as the artist lamented the guest ate only the ...

Police and park rangers in Nagarhole National Park in southwestern India tore down an Indigenous village on June 18. They claim that the presence of the Jenu Kuruba people is harmful to the park’s tigers, even though they worship tigers as part of their belief system. Several Jenu Kuruba families...

Germany’s Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt and five European counterparts agreed Friday on stricter asylum measures, including resuming deportations to Afghanistan and Syria. Meeting atop Germany’s Zugspitze mountain, the ministers backed plans for third-country asylum processing and strong...