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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
Israel MPs to vote on opposition bid to dissolve parliament
Netanyahu's coalition is one of the most right-wing in the country's history. It includes two ultra-Orthodox parties, Shas and United Torah...
Le Monde
June 11, 2025
Aragon and Catalonia battle over the 'Sistine Chapel of Romanesque art'
Spain's Supreme Court has given a museum in Barcelona 20 days to return mural paintings to the Monastery of Santa Maria de Sijena, from whic...
Le Monde
June 11, 2025
Colombia gripped by waves of violence
A series of attacks has plunged two southwestern regions of the country into mourning, leaving at least eight dead on Wednesday. No group ha...
Le Monde
June 11, 2025
Harvey Weinstein found guilty of sexual assault
After being retried for offenses against two women, Weinstein was found guilty of one sexual assault. His original 2020 conviction and resul...
Le Monde
June 11, 2025
Brian Wilson, one of pop music's great visionaries, has died
From 'Surfin' USA' to 'God only knows,' the Beach Boys singer and song writer took pop music to new heights of sophistication through his ma...
Le Monde
June 11, 2025
The life and death of Julie, 21, swept up in the spiral of social media
Julie Pospieszny's tragic fate was that of a young woman of her generation, born into the age of social media and a victim of the violence i...
Le Monde
June 11, 2025
Environmental transition: The two faces of Emmanuel Macron
Flying the flag for environmental action, as he did at the United Nations Ocean Conference in Nice, the French president has grown frustrate...
Le Monde
June 11, 2025
UK government injects health service with 'record' spending boost
Finance minister Rachel Reeves set out her much-anticipated Spending Review to grow the UK's sluggish economy, which is under added pressure...
Le Monde
June 11, 2025
EU, Britain strike deal on Gibraltar's post-Brexit status
The deal will ease the flow of people and goods over the Gibraltar-Spain border, forming part of London's much-vaunted 'reset' in ties with...
Le Monde
June 11, 2025
French Tesla customers sue over brand becoming 'extreme right'
Around 10 French clients with leases on Teslas are suing the US carmaker, run by Elon Musk. They are demanding that the Paris commercial cou...
Le Monde
June 11, 2025
At least 49 killed in South African flooding, children missing
Heavy snowfall, torrential rain and freezing winds have affected several areas of the Eastern Cape province, with most of the country experi...
Le Monde
June 11, 2025
The shadow of Israeli colonization over the Gaza Strip
COLUMN. The long history of colonization in the Gaza Strip continues to weigh heavily on Israel's brutal reconfiguration of the Palestinian...
Le Monde
June 11, 2025