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“For all the African heads of states, who facing the public opinion didn’t have the courage” to acknowledge the role France played, “none of them would be a sovereign country today if the French army hadn’t deployed in the region,” Macron said in a speech to the country’s diplomatic corps on Monday. “I think someone forgot to say thank you.”

The names of around 425,000 people suspected of collaborating with the Nazis during the German occupation of the Netherlands have been published online for the first time.

Researchers say they have uncovered 200 footprints dating back 166 million years ago, which belong to five separate dinosaurs. Four of the footprint tracks belonged to plant-eating dinosaurs, with the fifth belonging to a nine-metre-long predator known as megalosaurus. A worker at the quarry in Oxfordshire, England, uncovered the tracks with a digger after discovering "unusual bumps" in the ground.

Myanmar's fishermen and critically endangered Irrawaddy dolphins share a rare bond working together to catch fish.

Due to destructive fishing practices, and the country's ongoing civil war, this delicate partnership is at risk of disappearing.

Taiwan is developing a hypersonic missile based on the Ching Tien (擎天) supersonic cruise missile, and a Czech-made truck has been tentatively selected as its launch vehicle, a source said yesterday.

The Ching Tien, formerly known as Yun Feng (雲峰, “Cloud Peak”), is a domestically developed missile with a range of 1,200km to 2,000km being deployed in casemate-type positions as of last month, an official said, speaking on the condition of anonymity.

The hypersonic missile to be derived from the Ching Tien would feature improved range and a mobile launch platform, while the latter would most likely be a 12x12 single chassis truck designed by the Czech company Tatra, they said.

NASA's Parker Solar Probe successfully made the closest approach to the Sun.

Earlier this week, the spacecraft passed within a record-breaking 6 million kilometres of the scorching star.

Finnish authorities have detained a Russia-linked ship as they investigate whether it damaged a Baltic Sea power cable and several data cables, according to police and news media reports, in the latest incident involving disruption of key infrastructure.

Two Sydney to Hobart sailors on separate yachts have died at sea amid wild weather conditions that forced line honours favourite Master Lock Comanche to withdraw among mass retirements.

The race will go on as the fleet continues its passage to Constitution Dock, with the first boats expected to arrive later on Friday or early Saturday morning.

Twenty-nine people have survived after a passenger plane operated by Azerbaijan Airlines burst into flames as it crashed near the city of Aktau in Kazakhstan after veering hundreds of miles off its planned route.

The flight was carrying 62 passengers and five crew members with 38 killed in the crash, according to Kazakhstan’s deputy prime minister, Kanat Bozumbayev.

Ukraine's north-eastern city of Kharkiv has been targeted in missile strikes that injured at least six people early on Christmas Day, the city's mayor said. Ukrainian Energy Minister German Galushchenko said it appeared Russian forces were launching missiles at energy infrastructure in Kharkiv. Further south, one person was killed and 17 others injured in separate strikes launched in the Dnipro region, according to local authorities.

Josh Smith of the Australian Naturist Federation believes younger people aren't getting into the nude scene, apart from those large events, because they have busier lives or fear being judged.