Prime Minister François Bayrou, in the Alpine town of Briançon, on June 27, 2025. JEFF PACHOUD / AFP You have to take victories where you can. Prime Minister François Bayrou, when speaking to visitors to his office, has marked each stage of his time in office in a rather unusual way. “I’ve surpassed [Michel] Barnier!” […]
Islamist protesters shout slogans against cartoonists as they gather at Istiklal avenue near LeMan Magazine n Istanbul on June 30, 2025. OZAN KOSE / AFP Clashes erupted in Istanbul on Monday, June 30, with police firing rubber bullets and tear gas to break up an angry mob after allegations that a satirical magazine had published […]
A Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II jet fighter from the Dutch Air Force lands at Leeuwarden Air Base during NATO’s Ramstein Flag 2025 exercise, on April 8, 2025. JOHN THYS / AFP If the situation were not so serious, it might be laughable. Recently, the Swiss government implied that it had been misled across the […]
A woman uses a portable fan in Paris on June 30, 2025. CAMILLE MILLERAND FOR LE MONDE Not a cloud in sight and yet, across much of France, the sky has turned gray. From Marseille to Paris, passing by Lyon, Bordeaux, Saint-Etienne, Grenoble, Clermont, Strasbourg and Lille, a vast portion of the country has been affected […]
US President Donald Trump talks to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Washington on April 7, 2025. KEVIN MOHATT / REUTERS Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will visit the White House next week for talks with President Donald Trump, a US official said Monday, June 30, as Washington ramps up the pressure for a ceasefire […]
Luca de Meo loves automobiles so much − even publishing a Dictionnaire amoureux de l’automobile (a “Dictionary for Lovers of Automobiles”) − that he has finally decided to leave them behind. After holding various positions in the auto industry for 33 years, five of which were spent as general director of Renault, the Italian executive […]
People take shelter at a bus stop, Paris, France, June 30, 2025. CAMILLE MILLERAND FOR LE MONDE 16 departments, including the Paris region, will be placed under a red heat wave alert on Tuesday, July 1, and 68 others will remain on an orange alert. Geographer Magali Reghezza-Zitt, who specializes in climate change adaptation and […]
Demonstrators march in the ‘No Kings’ protest with a President Donald Trump balloon in Los Angeles on Saturday, June 14, 2025. NOAH BERGER / AP US President Donald Trump’s administration ramped up its immigration crackdown in Los Angeles on Monday, June 30, filing a lawsuit against its “sanctuary city” policies for undocumented migrants. The move […]
For a long time, people in Kyiv felt their city was relatively insulated from the war, despite the occasional Russian bombings that struck the city. However, a recent escalation in strikes, conducted over several hours at night and thereby depriving the capital’s 3 million residents of sleep, has heightened Kyiv residents’ sense of insecurity. These […]
Who within the federal government can still stand up to Donald Trump? A decision handed down on Friday, June 27, by the United States Supreme Court calls for a reconsideration of this question. For nearly six months, this question has troubled American citizens committed to liberal democracy, as they face a stream of presidential decisions […]
