The Tour de France rolls on Saturday, July 12, with Stage 8 offering a golden opportunity for sprinters to shine on a flat, fast route to Laval.

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The Athletic spent stage six of this year's race with the EF Education-Easypost team — this is how they fuelled Ben Healy's solo win

Hosts New Zealand thump France 43-17 to win the second Test in Wellington and clinch the series with a game to spare.

Britain and France have agreed to a pilot plan that will send some migrants who cross the English Channel on small boats back to France as the U.K. government struggles to tamp down criticism that it has lost control of the country’s borders.

France's public health authority said on Friday that more than 100 people had died from drowning between June 1 and July 2 this year, an increase of 58% over the same period last year, blaming it on unusually warm weather at the end of June.

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During a rare news conference on Friday, the head of the French military, Thierry Burkhard, said Russia remains a “lasting, close” threat.