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By Elizabeth Pineau

PARIS (Reuters) - The leading candidate for France's Socialists in European elections, who is riding a surprise surge in opinion polls, on Friday pitched himself and his left-wing allies as the resistance to the rise of the far-right in Europe.

Voters in the 27 countries of the European Union will elect 720 lawmakers to the European Parliament for the next five years on June 6-9 and are expected to deliver a shift to... (continue reading...)

By Alexander Winning

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African President Cyril Ramaphosa will be badly weakened after presiding over the African National Congress (ANC) party's worst election result since the end of apartheid.

Results from around 71% of polling stations in Wednesday's election showed the ANC's vote share at less than 42%, a sharp drop from the 57.5% it secured at the last election in 2019 and well short of a majority for the... (continue reading...)

MADRID (Reuters) - Spanish police said on Friday there were investigating whether the private information of millions of vehicle drivers had been offered up for sale online after the traffic authority detected an attempted data breach earlier this month.

Two weeks ago, the Directorate-General of Traffic (DGT) detected suspicious activity from users trying to access its database, a spokesperson told Reuters.

The DGT blocked them and... (continue reading...)

By Will Dunham

(Reuters) - You thought the living organism with ;/"he largest genome might be the blue whale, an African elephant or perhaps a giant redwood tree? Not even close. A human being? Wrong again. That honor instead goes to a little fern that grows in the French overseas territory of New Caledonia in the southwest Pacific Ocean.

New research shows that this fork fern species, called Tmesipteris oblanceolata, has a genome - all... (continue reading...)

WARSAW (Reuters) -Poland's state news agency PAP was probably hit by a Russian cyberattack on Friday, a government minister said, after a false article about military mobilisation appeared on its news feed.

Warsaw has repeatedly accused Moscow of attempting to destabilise Poland because of its role in supplying military aid to Ukraine, allegations Russian officials have dismissed.

"Everything indicates that we are dealing with a cyberattack... (continue reading...)