Image calling for the release of journalist Christophe Gleizes of ‘So Foot’ magazine, imprisoned in Algeria, distributed by Reporters Without Borders on June 29, 2025. RSF On Tuesday, July 1, the Algiers Court of Appeal will deliver its ruling regarding the French-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal, who has been detained since November 2024. But two days […]
Cruiser ship “Wonder of the Sea” sails in Marseille, southern France. CHRISTOPHE SIMON/AFP The French Riviera resort of Cannes is imposing what its city council calls “drastic regulation” on cruise ships, banning any vessels carrying more than 1,000 people from its harbor starting next year. The home of the world’s premier film festival is joining […]
Michele Kang at Olympique Lyonnais’s stadium in Décines-Charpieu, central-eastern France, on April 20, 2024. OLIVIER CHASSIGNOLE / AFP American businesswoman Michele Kang took over on Monday, June 30, as president of seven-time French champion Lyon after John Textor resigned following the club’s relegation over financial irregularities. The South Korea-born Kang is also majority owner of […]
The Dover lifeboat returns to the Port of Dover after a large search and rescue operation launched in the Channel off the coast of Dungeness, in Kent, Wednesday, December 14, 2022. GARETH FULLER / AP A French court on Monday, June 30 sentenced seven Afghans and two Iraqi Kurds to seven to eight years in […]
Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Rafael Grossi gives a statement as he arrives for a crisis meeting at the Chancellery in Vienna on June 25, 2025. HELMUT FOHRINGER / AFP France, Germany and Britain on Monday, June 30, condemned “threats” against the head of the UN nuclear watchdog after Iran rejected […]
Bruce Springsteen, during the filming of the ‘Streets of Philadelphia’ music video, in Philadelphia, in 1993. NEAL PRESTON The “dried-up prune,” as Donald Trump described him in language hardly befitting a president of the United States, refuses to be intimidated. At 75, Bruce Springsteen remains one of the few American artists, alongside his friend Robert […]
People cool off by walking through a fine mist of water in central Paris, June 21, 2025. ROMAIN PERROCHEAU / AFP High temperatures will once again disrupt the end of France’s school year. The national weather service Météo-France issued an orange-level heatwave alert in 84 departments (out of 101), with temperatures expected to range from […]
A procession from Kootenai Health headed to Spokane after a few firefighters were killed Sunday, June 29, 2025, when they were ambushed by sniper fire while responding to a blaze in a northern Idaho mountain community, in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. BILL BULEY / AP A man armed with a rifle started a wildfire Sunday, June […]
Turkish police stand in a security line as they block people from gathering during the annual LGBTQ+ Pride March, in Istanbul, Turkey, Sunday, June 29, 2025. DILARA ACIKGOZ / AP Police arrested more than 50 people in Istanbul Sunday, June 29 ahead of a banned LGBTQ+ pride march, the city’s bar association said. “Before today’s […]
Lying in his hospital bed, Amir, age 15, managed a faint smile. The bullet that struck his back had exited through his right shoulder, grazing his temple on its way out. The teenager, whose parents preferred not to disclose his last name, was lucky. Outside his hospital window, three lifeless bodies were removed from ambulances. […]
