Noémie Kohler, sister of Cécile Kohler, and Anne-Laure Paris, daughter of Jacques Paris, two French citizens who are held in Iran, hold a press conference in Paris, France, on June 27, 2025. BENOIT TESSIER / REUTERS A French diplomat on Tuesday, July 1, visited two French nationals detained in Iran, Cécile Kohler and Jacques Paris, […]
The US Capitol at dawn during a vote-a-rama, on July 1, 2025, in Washington, DC. AL DRAGO / AFP The Republican-led US Senate approved President Donald Trump’s mammoth domestic policy bill Tuesday, July 1, by the narrowest of margins, despite misgivings over delivering deep welfare cuts and another $3 trillion in national debt. Republican leaders […]
In Seville, Spain, June 28, 2025. CRISTINA QUICLER/AFP France is not the only country affected by the heat dome that sent temperatures soaring. The Iberian Peninsula and Italy are also sweltering. In Spain, the heatwave is historic. On Saturday, June 28, the Andalusian city of El Granado, in the south of the country, recorded a […]
In an interview, Anne Deysine, a US law specialist, explains that the US Supreme Court’s June 27 ruling would lead to institutional ‘chaos,’ as Trump is now able to keep changing US institutions and society through his executive orders, which are often illegal. Source link
Boualem Sansal speaks during the 62 edition of International Film Festival Berlinale, in Berlin, February 9, 2012. MARKUS SCHREIBER / AP An Algerian court on Tuesday, July 1 upheld a five-year prison sentence against dual-national author Boualam Sansal, whose case has strained ties with France. Sansal, 80, was first sentenced to five years behind bars […]
Tourists cool off at a water fountain near Place du Palais-Royal in Paris, June 30, 2025. LUCIEN LUNG/RIVA PRESS FOR LE MONDE Red and orange warnings have covered nearly the entire country, with only a few green patches along the English Channel, as France endures its first major heatwave of the season. On Tuesday, July […]
Tourists take refuge in the shade of the passageway between Place du Louvre and the Palais Royal, Paris, June 30, 2025. LUCIEN LUNG/RIVA PRESS FOR LE MONDE In the shade of the Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel, with their backs resting against a stone wall, Eva, 44, and her mother Mary, 77 (both asked to […]
A girl holds a Syrian flag, as people celebrate after US President Donald Trump said he would order the lifting of sanctions on Syria, in Damascus, Syria, May 13, 2025. YAMAM AL SHAAR / REUTERS President Donald Trump on Monday, June 30 formally dismantled US sanctions against Syria, hoping to reintegrate the war-battered country into […]
Ecuador’s former vice president (2013-2017) Jorge Glas (R) arrives at a sentence hearing at the National Court of Justice in Quito, on June 30, 2025. RODRIGO BUENDIA / AFP An Ecuadorian court on Monday, June 30, handed former vice president Jorge Glas a 13-year sentence for corruption, following his arrest in a dramatic raid last […]
A USAID flag flutters outside, as the USAID building sits closed to employees after a memo was issued advising agency personnel to work remotely, in Washington, DC, on February 3, 2025. KENT NISHIMURA / REUTERS More than 14 million of the world’s most vulnerable people, a third of them small children, could die because of […]
