A French senator accused of drugging an MP with the intent to assault her is facing an accusation from another woman, according to French television. The woman, who has not been named, accused Joël Guerriau of abusing her at his home in Paris in May 2022. Guerriau, 67, already faces charges over drugging centrist deputy […]
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan arrived in Istanbul on Friday, June 20, for a rare visit to arch-foe Turkey, in what Yerevan has described as a “historic” step toward regional peace. Armenia and Turkey have never established formal diplomatic ties, and their shared border has been closed since the 1990s. “Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has […]
French Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau (center) at Gare du Nord in Paris, June 19, 2025. MARTIN LELIEVRE/AFP “Do not come to France. We will tolerate nothing. It’s zero tolerance.” French Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau delivered these tough words before the microphones of TV and radio media gathered in Paris’s Gare du Nord train station on […]
French President Emmanuel Macron, surrounded by French Minister of Armed Forces Sébastien Lecornu, Minister for Industry and Energy Marc Ferracci, Minister in charge of Higher Education and Research Philippe Baptiste and Minister for Transport Philippe Tabarot, talks to journalists after disembarking from an Airbus A400M military plane for a visit at the 55th International Paris […]
Representatives of the Nouveau Front Populaire left-wing alliance at the Elysée Palace, during Emmanuel Macron’s consultations to appoint a new prime minister, in Paris, on August 23, 2024. JULIEN MUGUET FOR LE MONDE A year has gone by, but left-wing candidate Raphaël Glucksmann remembers that evening as if it were yesterday. The exhaustion of a European […]
A high-penetration GBU-57 bomb at Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri, May 2, 2023. AP “This entire operation (…) really has to be completed with the elimination of Fordo.” As Yechiel Leiter, Israel’s ambassador to the US, summed it up on Fox News on Friday, June 13, the goal of the attack launched against Iran, […]
Smoke rises following an Israeli attack on the IRIB building, the country’s state broadcaster, in Tehran, Iran, June 16, 2025. MAJID ASGARIPOUR / VIA REUTERS Israel’s military said Friday, June 20, it struck dozens of targets in Tehran overnight, including what it called a center for the “research and development of Iran’s nuclear weapons project,” […]
The concrete triangle stands out against the snow-covered landscape. The mountain’s silence is broken only by the comings and goings of tourists, who step out of their bus or taxi for a few minutes to photograph the mysterious structure. The small building, barely wider than its armored door, is neither a work of brutalist art […]
Wolfgang Tillmans at the Bpi, January 2025. CENTRE POMPIDOU “They have arrived,” wrote visual artist Wolfgang Tillmans in French on his Instagram account on May 16, captioning a photograph showing trucks in front of the Centre Pompidou in Paris. It was a curious ballet: Since mid-March, the National Museum of Modern Art has been emptying […]
A man walks in the damaged headquarters of Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting, Iranian state television, in Tehran, Iran, Thursday, June 19, 2025. VAHID SALEMI / AP On the eve of European talks with Iran over its nuclear program, Britain’s Foreign Secretary David Lammy said Thursday, June 19, after meeting high-level US officials that there […]
