France handed over to Senegal a military base used by its army on Tuesday, July 1, as part of a broader withdrawal of French troops from the West African country. Senegal’s President Bassirou Dioumaye Faye announced late last year that former colonial power France would have to close its military bases in Senegal by 2025 […]
France’s Prime Minister Francois Bayrou speaks during the examination of a motion of no confidence against him and his government, filed by the French Socialist Party, at the Assemblée nationale in Paris, on July 1, 2025. JULIEN DE ROSA / AFP French Prime Minister Francois Bayrou on Tuesday, July 1, survived a no-confidence vote but […]
The Al-Baqa café, bombed by an Israeli airstrike that killed at least 24 people near the port of Gaza City, on June 30, 2025. JEHAD ALSHRAFI / AP On Monday, June 30, the Al-Baqa café, located on the seafront in Gaza City, was blown to pieces. An Israeli airstrike, carried out without warning, turned this […]
Gusts of wind carried the chants of the Tibetan lamas toward the snowcapped slopes of the sacred Himalayas. Three Buddhist monks sat on the stones of the desolate landscape of rock and ice. Some 100 small white prayer flags fluttered in the blue sky above them. Here at the foot of the Yala Glacier, nestled […]
French President Emmanuel Macron talks to Russian President Vladimir Putin during a video conference, in Paris, on June 26, 2020 MICHEL EULER/AFP French President Emmanuel Macron urged Russian leader Vladimir Putin on Tuesday, July 1, to agree to a ceasefire in Ukraine “as soon as possible,” as the two held their first known phone talks […]
A Palestinian woman feeds one of her 2-month-old twins amid ongoing baby formula shortages in Gaza, June 25, 2025. EBRAHIM HAJJAJ/REUTERS At the end of June, an American doctor was preparing to travel to Gaza for a medical mission. His suitcases were filled with cans of baby formula, gauze, bandages and sanitary pads. He believed […]
The legal fate of French-Israeli soldiers could become a major issue in the coming months and years. Several hundred dual nationals have participated in military operations conducted by the Israeli army in the Gaza Strip since October 8, 2023, the day after the massacre of soldiers and civilians carried out by the Palestinian Islamist movement […]
Thailand’s Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra (center), in Bangkok, on July 1, 2025. LILLIAN SUWANRUMPHA / AFP Thai Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra was suspended by the country’s Constitutional Court on Tuesday, July 1, while her father went on trial for royal defamation in the latest setbacks for the country’s dominant political dynasty. Prime Minister Shinawatra took […]
French-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal in Paris, September 4, 2015. JOEL SAGET / AFP As soon as the verdict was announced, the news spread from one shore of the Mediterranean to the other. Writer Boualem Sansal, at the heart of the diplomatic standoff that has pitted France against Algeria for months, was sentenced Tuesday, July 1, […]
Emmanuel Grégoire, Parti Socialiste (PS, left) MP and candidate for the 2026 Paris mayoral elections, during a public meeting in Paris, on June 22, 2025. ROMAIN PERROCHEAU/AFP The campaign was long, but the vote was swift and the results were decisive, after just one round of primary elections: MP Emmanuel Grégoire was chosen as the […]
