Le Monde May 1, 2025 In China, Pope Francis leaves his mark on parishes of the 'official' Church While Beijing did not send a representative to the funeral of the head of the Catholic Church in Rome, Chinese followers at the Notre-Dame-d...
Le Monde May 1, 2025 Apple expects $900 million tariff hit as it shifts US iPhone supply to India Apple CEO Tim Cook said on Thursday that the company expects US tariffs to cost $900 million in the current quarter, even though their impac...
Le Monde May 1, 2025 Léon Marchand makes his grand return to competition, with new challenges in mind The French Olympic champion is back in the pool on Thursday at a meet in Florida. It's an opportunity to test his freestyle at the start of...
Le Monde May 1, 2025 Africa struggles to defend its interests against Donald Trump The continent is not a priority for the American president, and Washington's policies, caught between a trade war and aid reductions, risk l...
Le Monde May 1, 2025 Trump nominates his national security adviser Mike Waltz to serve as UN ambassador The move constitutes a major shake-up of Trump's national security team, just weeks after it was announced Waltz was leaving the administrat...
Le Monde May 1, 2025 May 1 rallies draw more than 300,000 across France This year's Labor Day took place amid a divided trade union movement, with complaints of violence toward center-left marchers. Nonetheless,...
Le Monde May 1, 2025 Why French executives lead so many foreign corporate giants French nationals head about 30 major foreign companies whose total market capitalization amounts to $2 trillion. This phenomenon highlights...
Le Monde May 1, 2025 At International Court of Justice, a week of testimonies on Israel's legal obligations for aid to Gaza The humanitarian blockade on aid for Gaza over the past two months and Israeli obstructions to the UN agency for Palestinian refugees were d...
Le Monde May 1, 2025 Sudan: RSF paramilitary fighters strike the Khartoum presidential palace Sudan's regular army and its Rapid Strike Forces paramilitary group have been fighting since April 15, 2023. The conflict has killed tens of...
Le Monde May 1, 2025 Syria signs 30-year port deal with French shipping giant CMA CGM's regional director said the contract included a commitment to modernizing and expanding the port of Latakia for the next 30 years.
Le Monde May 1, 2025 Kamala Harris criticizes Trump's vision of the US In her first major post-election speech, former US vice president Kamala Harris slammed President Donald Trump, saying he was undertaking 't...
Le Monde May 1, 2025 Musk loses much (but not all) by working with Trump By deciding on drastic federal spending cuts and promoting his opinions bordering on the far right, the billionaire has compromised his repu...
Le Monde May 1, 2025 War in Ukraine: Zelensky urges pressure on Russia after drone strikes on cities After an overnight strike, conducted using 170 drones, on cities such as Odesa, Kyiv, Sumy and Kropyvnytskyi, Ukrainian President Volodymyr...
Le Monde May 1, 2025 Transgender women barred from women's football by English and Scottish Football Associations These new rulings will apply to all women's football at amateur and professional levels in both countries.
Le Monde May 1, 2025 Rare earths: China's fearsome weapon in the trade war with Donald Trump The Chinese government has implemented export controls on seven strategic rare earth metals, over which China holds a near-monopoly and thus...
Le Monde May 1, 2025 Speed of insect population collapse confirmed by citizen science experiment Thousands of Britons regularly recorded the impact of insects on their car license plates, revealing a staggering 63% decline in these flyin...
Le Monde May 1, 2025 In the Highlands, bedrooms fit for lords In Scotland's wildest region, a famous Swiss gallery-owning couple, Iwan and Manuela Wirth, have restored the noble Fife Arms to its former...
Le Monde May 1, 2025 Tesla sales in France plummet further, down 59% in April After first-quarter data from a European body showed Tesla sales had dropped 45% across Europe, a French report has added weight to analyses...
Le Monde May 1, 2025 Lily of the valley: When an Internatonal Workers' Day tradition in France 'becomes bourgeois' COLUMN. Over 1 million French households purchased lily of the valley flowers in 2024, a volume that's declining over several years. The flo...
Le Monde May 1, 2025 World's oldest person, a Brazilian nun, has died at the age of 116 Inah Canabarro Lucas attributed her longevity to God and to her religious order. The esteemed title now passes to Ethel Caterham of Surrey,...
Le Monde May 1, 2025 The first hundred days of Trump: 'In Kentucky, I heard little about a weakening of democratic value' OP-ED. In an op-ed, American sociologist Arlie Russell Hochschild shares insights from her interviews with residents of a rural and impoveri...
Le Monde May 1, 2025 When diplomacy à la Trump repeatedly clashes with reality On three critical issues – Ukraine, Gaza and the Iranian nuclear program – the US president's proposals, pushed by an inexperienced adviser,...
Le Monde May 1, 2025 A Palestinian student at Columbia has been released after his arrest during a US citizenship interview Since the first days of the Trump administration, immigration authorities have arrested and detained college students from around the countr...
Le Monde May 1, 2025 Matcha's popularity risks causing shortages The global supply of Japanese green tea powder is threatened by its social media-fueled popularity.
Le Monde May 1, 2025 The extraordinary destiny of war and celebrity photographer Germaine Kanova Colette, Romain Gary, Audrey Hepburn, but also Churchill and de Gaulle… Kanova was both a photographer of celebrities and a fearless war rep...
Le Monde May 1, 2025 Georgia: Closure of the main independent television channel Mtavari TV is ceasing broadcasting on Thursday, May 1, amid increasing repression of the opposition by the pro-Russian governing party, Geor...
Le Monde May 1, 2025 At the heart of Chanel's leather workshops near Paris In Verneuil-en-Halatte, 300 artisans are dedicated to crafting two of the fashion house's best-selling bags – a complex and precious experti...
Le Monde May 1, 2025 Barcelona fight back against Inter Milan in semi-final draw The teams reached a 3-3 draw on Wednesday. The second leg takes place next Tuesday, with the winner to face Paris Saint-Germain or Arsenal o...
Le Monde April 30, 2025 Trump's 100 days: The case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a symbol of the historic reshaping of immigration The 29-year-old Salvadoran, a laborer in Maryland wrongfully deported and imprisoned in a Salvadoran prison, has become emblematic of Donald...
Le Monde April 30, 2025 In Syria, the challenge of reconstruction despite international sanctions As some cities have been largely destroyed during the war, residents have been attempting to resettle since the fall of Bashar al-Assad in D...
Le Monde April 30, 2025 US, Ukraine sign minerals deal, tying Trump to Kyiv Announcing the signing of the deal in Washington on Wednesday, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said it showed 'both sides' commitment to la...
Le Monde April 30, 2025 Martin Scorsese to produce documentary chronicling the work of Pope Francis, 'Aldeas Aldeas Scholas Film and Scorsese's Sikelia Productions, which announced the film on Wednesday, said the doc is 'a testament to the enduring...
Le Monde April 30, 2025 Trump says US kids may get '2 dolls instead of 30,' but insists China will suffer more in a trade war The president's remarks followed a defensive morning after the Commerce Department reported that the US economy shrank at an annual rate of...
Le Monde April 30, 2025 Inside the breast milk factory saving premature babies at Paris children's hospital Twelve thousand liters of milk from donors are collected and processed each year in the basement of Necker Hospital. How is this precious li...
Le Monde April 30, 2025 Fake Chinese NGOs target Beijing's critics at the UN Le Monde, together with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, has investigated China's repression of the regime's oppon...
Le Monde April 30, 2025 Wildfires near Jerusalem prompt army deployment Dark plumes of smoke billowed above highways near the Israeli city as rapidly spreading fires caused several injuries and prompted Defense M...
Le Monde April 30, 2025 'Crimea is not only central to Ukraine-Russia conflict, but also risks dividing the US and Europe' COLUMN. Regardless of the Trump administration's talks on a possible ceasefire succeed, the Black Sea peninsula, annexed by Russia in 2014,...
Le Monde April 30, 2025 Spain grid operator report warned of blackout risk from renewables One of Europe's biggest ever power outages hit Spain and Portugal on Monday, cutting telephone and internet access, halting public transport...
Le Monde April 30, 2025 'Be cruel, have no pity on them': Taganrog prison, a notorious site of Russian torture In the Russian detention facility, Ukrainian prisoners, whether civilians or military, have been subjected to a range of abuses since the Fe...
Le Monde April 30, 2025 Microsoft vows to protect European data amid Trump threats Microsoft President Brad Smith, in a speech in Brussels, committed to protecting European citizens' data, cybersecurity and cloud access, ev...
Le Monde April 30, 2025 French growth falters amid trade war, weak consumption and flat investments The eurozone's second-largest economy grew by just 0.1% in the first quarter, according to figures released Wednesday by the National Instit...
Le Monde April 30, 2025 Donald Trump, engineer of disorder EDITORIAL. After 100 days in office, the president of the United States has deeply tarnished his country's image, now embroiled in a trade w...
Le Monde April 30, 2025 Teenager perpetrator of fatal school stabbing in France says he was 'in a sort of lucid dream' The student who killed a classmate and injured three others in Nantes, western France, struggled to explain his actions to investigators. Vi...
Le Monde April 30, 2025 Video. Watch: Trump's speech marking first 100 days of presidency Video - In front of supporters gathered in Michigan, the US president defended his protectionist push, promising a new 'golden age,' despite...
Le Monde April 30, 2025 Trump celebrates 100 days in office in front of his supporters, despite growing concern over the economy US President Donald Trump held a rally near Detroit, Michigan, on Tuesday. His staunchest supporters in the hall backed him despite economic...
Le Monde April 30, 2025 The regrets of three old crooks at the Kim Kardashian robbery trial Yunice Abbas, 71, Marc Boyer, 78, and Didier Dubreucq, 70, recounted their lives as 'street children.' Collectively, they have spent almost...
Le Monde April 30, 2025 French economy barely grows in first quarter as consumption falls Stagnant household spending and declining investment limited first-quarter GDP growth to 0.1%, amid political instability and global trade t...
Le Monde April 30, 2025 Steve Bannon on Trump's first 100 days: 'We want to make this revolution permanent' The former White House strategist turned podcaster breaks down, in an interview with Le Monde, the dynamics of Donald Trump's second term an...
Le Monde April 30, 2025 Donald Trump fires former second gentleman, Doug Emhoff, from the Holocaust Memorial Council board Several other Biden-era officials were removed from the Council along with Emhoff on Tuesday. The husband of former vice president Kamala H...
Le Monde April 30, 2025 Meta unveils its first standalone AI assistant app, competing with ChatGPT CEO Mark Zuckerberg said on Tuesday that the app is 'designed to be your personal AI' and can be primarily accessed through voice conversati...
