In Corsica, chess players began learning the game since they were children, with the island counting 16 times more registered players per capita than...

   According to investigators, the murder of Chloé Aldrovandi, who was killed on the French island in February 2025, stemmed from a vendetta between two...

   After the murder of nationalist leader Alain Orsoni at his mother’s funeral on Monday, the French island of Corsica faces the specter of endemic...

   Alain Orsoni, a former leader of the Movement for Self-Determination on the French island of Corsica, had spent time in exile in Nicaragua. Local...

   Alain Orsoni was one of the leaders of the Corsican National Liberation Front (FLNC) in the 1980s. He later founded and led the Movement for Self...

   Since March in Corsica and November in Marseille, the French have taken to the streets to oppose Mafia groups threatening democracy, whose power...

   According to French crime investigators, new power balances are emerging between two blocs on the Mediterranean island: the Petit Bar gang and the...

   Nickel, essential for the electric battery sector, is present in the sand of the artificial beaches of Nonza and Albo, in northern Corsica. A recent...

   Harvesting is subject to quotas and permitted only from February 15 to April 15 on the French Mediterranean island. Given the increasing scarcity, a...

   Marco Raduano, sentenced to 24 years’ imprisonment in Italy, was arrested in Corsica in February, a year after escaping from prison. Now repentant,...

   During his visit to Corsica, Pope Francis preferred to attack the principle of secularism, caricaturing it as an anti-religious weapon, rather than...

   On the French island, in the city of Ajaccio, Francis celebrated the local ’popular piety’ and urged society to ’look after its elderly.’

   Pope Francis is visiting Ajaccio on December 15 to take part in a symposium on ’popular religiosity.’ For the occasion, researcher Angelina Antonetti...

   After days of behind-the-scenes talks, the pope’s visit to Corsica on December 15 was confirmed by the Vatican. It will be a historic first for the...

   The promise of a papal visit to Corsica sounds like the reward for three years of intense activity by the bishop of Ajaccio, who has revived the...

   Pro-independence Corsican politician Jean-Guy Talamoni, who organized screenings of Abel Gance’s restored silent film ’Napoléon’ around the island,...

   The draft agreement, which provides for the ’recognition of an autonomous status’ for the Mediterranean island ’within the Republic,’ will now be...

   Marco Raduano escaped from prison in Sardinia a year ago. Italy’s most-wanted fugitive, known for his ultra-violent methods, was arrested on Thursday...

   The call issued by French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday for the island to embrace a form of ’autonomy within the Republic’ places local...

   French President Emmanuel Macron vowed to introduce legislation that would ’fully anchor Corsica in the French Republic and recognize the uniqueness...