This photograph shows a lightning bolt falling near Sacre Coeur Basilica in Paris’ Montmartre neighborhood during a thunderstorm, in France, on June 25, 2025. OLIVIER MORIN / AFP Two people, including a child, died in a violent storm that lashed France overnight, emergency services said on Thursday, June 26. The violent downpour late Wednesday injured […]
A group photo at the NATO summit in The Hague, Netherlands, on June 25, 2025. KAMIL ZIHNIOGLU FOR LE MONDE “A monumental win.” With his characteristic emphasis, United States President Donald Trump expressed satisfaction with the conclusions of the annual North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) summit, which ended on Wednesday, June 25, in The Hague […]
Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba at a press conference in Tokyo, June 23, 2025. KIYOSHI OTA / AFP Donald Trump’s return to power initially left Japanese leaders largely unfazed. At first, Washington sought to reassure them; US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth described the archipelago as an “indispensable partner” of the US in April. But […]
An artilleryman from the 117th Territorial Defense Brigade of Sumy, after firing on a Russian position in the Sumy region of Ukraine on June 19, 2025. ADRIEN VAUTIER/LE PICTORIUM FOR « LE MONDE » Although European leaders have regularly reiterated their support for Kyiv against Moscow, that support now seems less resolute. Faced with a […]
Denis Villeneuve is going from Dune to Bond. Amazon MGM Studios announced Wednesday, June 25, that Villeneuve will direct the next James Bond movie. The untitled film will be the first since the studio took creative reins of the storied film franchise after decades of control by the Broccoli family. Producers Amy Pascal and David […]
Majd Eid (Osama) and Nader Abd Alhay (Yahya) in ‘Once Upon a Time in Gaza,’ by brothers Tarzan and Arab Nasser. DULAC DISTRIBUTION Le Monde‘s verdict – WORTH SEEING The good, the bad and the ugly. With their new feature film, Once Upon a Time in Gaza, brothers Arab and Tarzan Nasser offer a biting […]
Katharine Hepburn (Sylvia) in ‘Sylvia Scarlett’ (1935), directed by George Cukor. PHOTO12/AFP Repertory cinema remains a vibrant sector, as demonstrated each year by Il Cinema Ritrovato Festival in Bologna, Italy, and the Festival La Rochelle Cinéma (FEMA) – feasts of classic films that traditionally mark the start of the summer season between late June and […]
A man accused of hurling Molotov cocktails at a group of people demonstrating in Boulder, Colorado, in support of Israeli hostages has been indicted by a federal grand jury on 12 hate crime counts. Mohamed Soliman, 45, was initially charged with only one hate crime count in federal court in the June 1 attack on […]
A parking space is marked specifically for an electric vehicle to charge charger in a shopping center parking lot in Oceanside, California, on October 19, 2023. MIKE BLAKE / REUTERS A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to release billions of dollars allocated for the construction of electric vehicle charging stations in over a […]
American streamer Darren Jason Watkins Jr., also known as IShowSpeed, in Shenzhen on April 5, 2025. VCG/VCG VIA GETTY IMAGES Shanghai’s towers are certainly impressive, but Holger Chen began expressing his amazement even before leaving the airport. “The toilets are so stylish! There’s even a door,” said the heavily-tattooed man as he passed the terminal’s […]
