Three decades after France’s last nuclear tests, those living near the test sites still await compensation for the harms caused.

Exactly 40 years ago, a Greenpeace ship called the Rainbow Warrior was bombed in New Zealand, killing a photographer on board ...

The trip was also designed to underline the French government’s support for Polynesians and heal wounds over French nuclear testing on the former colony’s atolls, half a planet away from Paris.

A French parliamentary report released on Tuesday called for Paris to apologise to French Polynesia for decades of nuclear ...

The French Minister for Overseas landed in French Polynesia on Wednesday (Tuesday local time) for his first official visit to ...

FILE - A view of ground zero at the French nuclear tests' site in In-Ekker near Ain Maguel, 170 km (106 miles) from the southern Algerian town of Tamanrasset, Feb. 16, 2007.

France may be facing tens of thousands of compensation claims after a new study found that the impact of the country’s nuclear testing in French Polynesia in the 1960s and 1970s has been vastly ...

But with French nuclear-testing victims finally having some success in getting their state to do the right thing, their British peers might just pick up some useful tactics of their own.

Prehistoric men have left stunning rock carvings there. The men of the 20th century left nuclear waste. Between 1960 and 1996, France carried out 17 nuclear tests in Algeria and 193 in French ...

Radioactive material is seeping out from this Sahara desert mountain where French scientists conducted nuclear tests in the 1960s, contaminating the soil and poisoning relations between France and ...

On November 18, 2023, over the Bay of Biscay, France successfully launched the latest unarmed version of the three-stage M51.3 strategic ballistic missile that carries the country's submarine ...