Leinster recorded their 12th successive win in all competitions as they edge a physical Champions Cup encounter with La Rochelle 16-14 to move top of Pool 2.

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Photo by Brendan Moran/Sportsfile Jamison Gibson-Park, left, and Josh van der Flier arrive for the Leinster Rugby captain's run at Stade Marcel Deflandre in La Rochelle, France. Photo by Brendan ...

Hugo Auradou and Oscar Jegou were both included in France's matchday squad on Wednesday to face Wales in the first game of the Six Nations tournament next week. Last month an Argentine court dropped aggravated sexual assault charges against the 21-year-old rugby players.

The French Carrier Strike Group is spearheading the French Navy-led multinational biennial exercise La Perouse 25 that began on Thursday across three critical maritime passages in South East Asia. The 2025 exercise also marks the first time that South East Asian nations are participating in the exercise,

French rugby union chiefs on Wednesday named the players accused of raping a 39-year-old woman in Argentina during the summer tour of South America in the 42-man squad for the 2025 Six Nations tournament.

Oscar Jegou and Hugo Auradou have been called up by France to prepare for the Six Nations after an Argentine court last month dropped aggravated sexual assault charges against the pair.

France face their trickier biennial Six Nations itinerary in oddly numbered years, with England in Twickenham and Ireland in the Aviva Stadium. Of their six titles since the expansion to the Six Nations, France have won only one championship in odd years.

If you want to become a strong rugby union, you must have four franchises dominating every competition they play in.”

Russell converted and after the Bath blitz stymied a Leinster strike move off lineout ball at the front, Russell was only denied a scooped finish by Sam Prendergast’s boot. But that was at the expense of a five-metre scrum, from which Ben Spencer passed behind Ollie Lawrence to Russell who fed de Glanville to break Jamie Osborne’s tackle and score.

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The EPCR have confirmed the Investec Champions Cup round of 16 fixtures with kick-off times and venues which take place on the weekend of April 4,5,6,.