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Capital
Cayenne
Head of State
President of France Emmanuel Macron
Head of Government
President Gabriel Serville
Americas and the Caribbean
France to build supermax prison in South American territory
The facility in French Guiana, a territory north of Brazil, is intended for high-profile criminals such as drug kingpins and Islamist radicals.
18 May 2025 - 9:59PM
Space
Europe’s Ariane 6 rocket successfully launches for first time
10 Jul 2024 - 2:10PM
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Russia
Islamic extremists raided Moscow venue but masterminds yet to be found: Putin
26 Mar 2024 - 5:40AM
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Climate change
Impact of Amazon’s climate-driven drought may last until 2026
The drought has sapped the Amazon River and some of its tributaries, killed endangered river dolphins and disrupted access to food and medicine in various cities.
2 Dec 2023 - 11:48PM
Taiwan
Taiwan launches first locally made weather satellite with ‘groundbreaking’ tech
Triton was sent into space on Sunday and will provide observations over ocean areas prone to extreme weather.
9 Oct 2023 - 7:32PM
Space
Final Ariane 5 rocket blasts off amid Europe rocket crisis
Amid tensions with Russia and delays to next-generation vessels, the continent has found itself with no way to independently launch heavy space missions.
6 Jul 2023 - 7:59AM
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SpaceX
European telescope launched to hunt for clues to universe’s darkest secrets
SpaceX launched the European Space Agency’s Euclid observatory at the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida on Saturday towards its destination 1.5 million km away, the Webb Space Telescope’s neighbourhood.
2 Jul 2023 - 2:46AM
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France
Hundreds of mourners gather for funeral of teenager killed by police as riots continue in France
At a cemetery in Nanterre, the Paris suburb where teenager Nahel Merzouk was killed on Tuesday, mourners carried his white casket from a mosque to the burial site on Saturday.
2 Jul 2023 - 8:27AM
France
Youths clash with French police in 4th day of riots triggered by fatal police shooting
Unrest has flared nationwide after police in Paris shot dead a teenager of African descent on Tuesday, igniting complaints of police violence and racism.
1 Jul 2023 - 7:29AM
European Union
Life on Jupiter? European probe sets off to examine planet and its moons
The Juice probe is on a mission to learn if the planet’s satellites are capable of hosting extraterrestrial life in their vast, hidden oceans.
15 Apr 2023 - 3:21AM
Britain
Britain’s groundbreaking satellite launch ends in failure
Rocket launched by a Virgin Orbit 747 aircraft failed to deploy its nine satellites as planned.
10 Jan 2023 - 4:18PM
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Britain
What a blast! UK surfing town prepares for space launch
Virgin Orbit, part-owned by billionaire Richard Branson, plans to use a modified Boeing 747 with a rocket attached beneath its wing; fewer than 10 nations currently send satellites into orbit from home soil.
9 Jan 2023 - 9:44PM
Space
Europe’s access to space in jeopardy after Vega-C rocket failure
Flights of the new European Vega-C rocket have been suspended pending an investigation into a launch failure, leaving Europe with few avenues into space.
22 Dec 2022 - 2:01PM
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Space
Nasa’s Webb telescope shows where stars are born and how they die
A batch of 4 new images include shots of a glittering ‘landscape’ in the Carina Nebula, and the orange and blue cloud surrounding a dying star.
13 Jul 2022 - 8:07AM
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Space
First image from Webb telescope offers deepest-ever look at cosmos
Nasa’s US$10 billion James Webb Space Telescope has helped humanity see further an ever into time and space – close to the edge of the universe.
12 Jul 2022 - 8:26AM
Space
Nasa set to reveal deepest images of the Universe in full colour
The James Webb Space Telescope, the most powerful ever sent into orbit, is set Tuesday to unveil breathtaking new views of the Universe with a clarity that’s never been seen before.
11 Jul 2022 - 12:01PM
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Space
SpaceX, rivals get a lift as industry shuns Russian soyuz rocket
Elon Musk’s SpaceX, Rocket Lab and Arianespace are racing to replace Russia’s Soyuz, the most launched rocket in history, after Western countries were cut off
28 Mar 2022 - 10:39AM
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English Premier League
Roman Abramovich hands over control of Chelsea to trustees
The move came after a member of the British parliament called for the Russian billionaire to hand over the club in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
27 Feb 2022 - 3:55AM
Russia
Russia halts European cooperation on French Guiana space launches
Russia’s space agency Roskosmos is suspending cooperation with Europe on space launches from the Kourou spaceport in French Guiana in response to Western sanctions over Ukraine.
9 Mar 2022 - 1:25PM
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Space
Nasa’s giant James Webb telescope spots its first star – and takes a selfie
A key image showing 18 views of the same star will now help scientists align the 18 segments of the telescope’s golden mirror.
12 Feb 2022 - 4:45AM
Coronavirus pandemic
Tokyo Covid-19 hospital admissions above 50pc; Thailand welcomes back tourists
Tokyo has set aside almost 7,000 hospital beds for Covid-19 patients, and admissions have reached 50.7 per cent, which Governor Koike said would be the criteria for requesting a state of emergency.
2 Feb 2022 - 4:48AM
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Space
Nasa’s giant space telescope reaches final stop 1 million miles from Earth
The US$10 billion observatory is now in place in orbit around the sun as it prepares to give scientists a look at the dawn of the universe.
25 Jan 2022 - 7:45AM
Space
Nasa’s James Webb telescope fully deployed in space
The most powerful space telescope ever built and the successor to Hubble, Webb is heading to its orbital point, a million miles (1.5 million km) from Earth.
9 Jan 2022 - 1:50AM
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