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June 13, 2025
Brittany far-right figure tried for financial new crimes
Florent de Kersauson, a regional councilor for the far-right Rassemblement National party, appeared in court on embezzlement charges. He has...
Le Monde
June 13, 2025
Macron says Israel has the 'right to defend itself'
After Israel conducted a wave of strikes on around 100 targets across Iran, President Emmanuel Macron published an English-language statemen...
Le Monde
June 13, 2025
'You've started a fire': Tiktok execs fail to convince French lawmakers at hearing
On Thursday, several Tiktok executives tried to reassure a parliamentary committee investigating the platform by outlining the measures impl...
Le Monde
June 13, 2025
Black box found at site of Air India plane crash
At least 265 bodies have been found at the site of the crash of a London-bound Air India Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner passenger airplane in Ahmed...
Le Monde
June 13, 2025
'Avoid escalation': World reacts to Israel strike on Iran
Israel struck 100 Iranian targets, including nuclear and military sites, and killed senior figures. The leaders of France, Britain and Germa...
Le Monde
June 13, 2025
Tax equity means taxing the ultra-wealthy
EDITORIAL. Despite the need for a joint effort to reduce the national debt, France's Sénat just rejected a bill to tax the wealth of the ric...
Le Monde
June 13, 2025
Israel launches massive lightning attack on Iran
Israeli fighter jets struck nuclear and military sites across Iran on Friday. The offensive, code-named 'Rising Lion,' was deemed 'very succ...
Le Monde
June 13, 2025
As Israel strikes Iran, US pointedly steps back to protect its forces in Middle East
A statement released by Secretary of State Marco Rubio expressed no solidarity with Israel. The response may reflect a certain irritation wi...
Le Monde
June 13, 2025
Russia targeted French speakers in Africa with AI-generated posts, says France
France's Viginum agency, which fights foreign disinformation campaigns, issued a report on the AI-based 'malign techniques,' Russian intelli...
Le Monde
June 13, 2025
Federal judge rules Trump's deployment of National Guard in LA 'illegal,' but appeals court halts decision
The appeals court, asked to intervene by the Trump administration, didn't rule on the case's merits. California Governor Gavin Newsom, who i...
Le Monde
June 13, 2025
Air India plane crash shakes country's booming aviation market
The crash of an Air India Boeing 787 Dreamliner in Ahmedabad, shortly after takeoff on Thursday, June 12, left at least 265 people dead. The...
Le Monde
June 13, 2025
French senators reject tighter tax on ultra-rich
The draft law would make the ultra-rich pay at least a 2% tax on their fortune, as the government seeks to cut an alarming deficit.
Le Monde
June 13, 2025
War in Ukraine: Russia steps up its offensive in the Donetsk region
Seizing complete control of the region − nearly one-third of which remains under Ukrainian control − has been a primary goal for the Kremlin...
Le Monde
June 13, 2025
Two Jewish sisters' fight to honor the couple who hid them during the Holocaust
Arlette and Madeleine Testyler campaigned so that Jeanne and Jean Philippeau, who sheltered them during World War II, be recognized as Right...
Le Monde
June 13, 2025
In Athens, a cinema keeps the tradition of hand-painted film posters alive
The Athinaion commissions and displays a new artwork by an artist on its façade every week. This practice, which has been going on for 65 ye...
Le Monde
June 13, 2025
'In the war in Ukraine, territory is important, yes, but not as much as it seems'
COLUMN. Donald Trump believed that '24 hours' would be enough for him to resolve the war in Ukraine. He overlooked the root causes of the co...
Le Monde
June 13, 2025
In Kenya, two young Belgians sentenced for attempting to illegally export around 5,000 ants
Kenyan law penalizes the trafficking of species that could undermine the ecosystem with fines of up to €140,000 and even prison sentences. T...
Le Monde
June 13, 2025
Federal judge says Trump illegally deployed the National Guard to help with LA protests, must return control to California
The order, which takes effect at noon on Friday, said the deployment of the Guard was illegal and both violated the 10th Amendment and excee...
Le Monde
June 13, 2025
Israel attacks Iran's capital with explosions booming across Tehran
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel's operation against Iran to 'continue as many days as it takes.'
Le Monde
June 12, 2025
Owners of collapsed Dominican nightclub that killed 236 arrested for manslaughter
The roof of Jet Set club, owned by Antonio Espaillat and his sister Maribel Espaillat, collapsed in the early hours of April 8 during a conc...
Le Monde
June 12, 2025
Russia appoints General Sergei Surovikin as head of its military advisers in Algeria
The former commander of Russian operations on the Ukrainian front, who was a prominent member of the Wagner Group, has been assigned to the...
Le Monde
June 12, 2025
Trump moves to block California electric cars program
The nation's wealthiest state, with around 40 million people, has long used the waiver in the Clean Air Act to set its own emissions standar...
Le Monde
June 12, 2025
UN votes overwhelmingly to demand Gaza ceasefire, the release of all hostages and unrestricted aid access
The vote in the 193-member General Assembly was 149-12 with 19 abstentions. The resolution, drafted by Spain, 'strongly condemns any use of...
Le Monde
June 12, 2025
Boeing faces renewed doubts after Air India 787 Dreamliner crash
The Air India fatal crash on Thursday, June 12, at Ahmedabad Airport comes as the American aircraft manufacturer has tried to move on from a...
Le Monde
June 12, 2025
Weinstein case judge declares mistrial on remaining rape charge as jury foreperson declines to deliberate
The foreperson raised concerns on multiple occasions after reporting mistreatment from other jurors, saying he felt afraid in the jury room...
Le Monde
June 12, 2025
Democratic Senator aggressively removed and handcuffed during Homeland Security Secretary's Los Angeles news conference
Democratic US Senator of California, Alex Padilla, was forcefully removed during Kristi Noem's news conference as he tried to speak up about...
Le Monde
June 12, 2025
Paris exhibition tries to answer the mystery of Cleopatra
Blending archaeological artifacts, pop culture imagery, and paintings, an exhibition on Cleopatra explores how the Egyptian queen has been d...
Le Monde
June 12, 2025
Time magazine to launch French version later this year
French media group 360BusinessMedia is to produce a 200-page quarterly version of the famous red masthead.
Le Monde
June 12, 2025
French court frees New Caledonia independence leader
Christian Tein was flown to mainland France after being charged with New Caledonia riots that killed over a dozen people. He has always deni...
Le Monde
June 12, 2025
Russian Wagner group fighters secretly detained and tortured civilians in Mali
Le Monde, Forbidden Stories and media partners investigated arbitrary arrests of Malians committed by Russian mercenaries. We reveal at leas...
Le Monde
June 12, 2025
Gaza aid boat: NGO says Israel is deporting six activists
French MEP Rima Hassan and five other activists from the boat Madleen, which had been sailing toward Gaza to deliver aid when it was interce...
Le Monde
June 12, 2025
Rare 16th-century shipwreck found at record depth in French waters
The shattered wreck of an Italian merchant vessel was accidentally discovered in March in the deep waters of the Gulf of Saint-Tropez by the...
Le Monde
June 12, 2025
French-Algerian woman given 48 hours to leave France in incomprehensible deportation order
A 58-year-old mother, who has been living in France since 1993 and holds dual nationality, was detained for an entire afternoon by border po...
Le Monde
June 12, 2025
France seeks 'momentum' before recognizing Palestinian state
The French presidency says it has secured several 'concrete' and 'unprecedented' commitments from Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Ab...
Le Monde
June 12, 2025
Forced displacement has risen steadily worldwide for a decade
More than 120 million people have fled their homes, but the majority remain within their own country or in neighboring regions, according to...
Le Monde
June 12, 2025
The murder in France of a teaching assistant is a tragedy that defies stereotypes
EDITORIAL. The killing of Mélanie G. by a 14-year-old on June 10 should serve as a call to move beyond political instrumentalization and hol...
Le Monde
June 12, 2025
French prosecutors seek murder charge for school stabbing suspect
A 14-year-old pupil allegedly stabbed a teaching assistant to death during a bag check outside his school in eastern France on Wednesday.
Le Monde
June 12, 2025
London-bound Air India plane crashes with 242 on board
Air India's flight 171, a Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner bound for London Gatwick, crashed shortly after takeoff on Thursday from India's northwest...
Le Monde
June 12, 2025
French NGO sues arms producer Eurolinks, seeking truth on alleged components delivery to Israel
Following several press reports, the French League for the Defense of Human Rights wants the courts to clarify whether the Marseille-based c...
Le Monde
June 12, 2025
With LA in crisis, Democrats are again caught in the immigration debate trap
While Donald Trump is positioning himself as a law-and-order president simply seeking to enforce immigration laws, progressive politicians s...
Le Monde
June 12, 2025
US moves personnel out of the Middle East following Iranian threats
Donald Trump also reiterated that he would not allow Iran to have a nuclear weapon, amid mounting speculation that Israel could strike Tehra...
Le Monde
June 12, 2025
'A Palestinian state, or what else? Israeli opposition cannot remove the question from the table'
COLUMN. The conference organized by France and Saudi Arabia, from June 17 to 20 at the United Nations, aims to revive the two-state solution...
Le Monde
June 12, 2025
Los Angeles-area mayors demand that Trump administration stop stepped-up immigration raids
About 500 of the National Guard troops deployed to the Los Angeles protests have been trained to accompany agents on immigration operations,...
Le Monde
June 12, 2025
At Vivatech, Emmanuel Macron hails 'historic' partnership between Mistral AI and Nvidia
The French start-up specializing in artificial intelligence models announced Wednesday at the technology trade fair the launch of a computin...
Le Monde
June 12, 2025
The Dulcie September case exposes France's troubling ties with South Africa during apartheid
Thirty-seven years after the unsolved assassination of the African National Congress (ANC) representative in Paris, a French court on Tuesda...
Le Monde
June 12, 2025
Knife crimes: No miracle solution in the United Kingdom
Repressive laws, prevention and mentoring: Despite a range of approaches, the number of knife attacks in the UK has stabilized yet remains a...
Le Monde
June 11, 2025
Tense standoff as a town in Northern Ireland braces for a third night of riots
Hundreds gathered on the streets armed with molotov cocktails, facing off against police armed with riot shields and backed by water cannons...
Le Monde
June 11, 2025
Federal judge rules that the US government must release Columbia University protester Mahmoud Khalil
Khalil, a legal US resident, has been in custody since March 8, when federal immigration agents arrested him in his New York apartment build...
Le Monde
June 11, 2025
In the United Kingdom, the Labour government prioritizes defense and healthcare
Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves on Wednesday outlined the main areas of budget spending through 2029. Investments totaling £110 bi...
Le Monde
June 11, 2025