Gangxia North subway station, Shenzhen, China, May 14, 2024. MARKUS MAINKA/IMAGEBROKER/MAXPPP In recent days, the economic press and several Chinese observers have been stunned to discover the debt levels of 28 Chinese subway companies: 4.3 trillion yuan (€525 billion). Spotless, air-conditioned and automated, these systems offer a means of transport as practical as it is […]
Why this persistent determination to one day acquire nuclear weapons? Or at least to gain the capacity to assemble one? The theocratic regime that has ruled Tehran since 1979 believes in the virtues of “the bomb.” It sees it as a guarantee against foreign aggression and as a way to ensure Iran’s strategic dominance in […]
Mourners carry the body of a Palestinian killed in what the Gaza Health Ministry said were Israeli strikes, in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip June 17, 2025. HATEM KHALED / REUTERS From Gaza to the Democratic Republic of Congo, violence against children in conflict zones reached “unprecedented levels” in 2024, a United Nations annual report […]
Facade of the Sepah Bank offices in London, July 30, 2007. STEPHEN HIRD / REUTERS While missiles and bombs have flown between Israel and Iran since the large-scale attack launched by Israel on Friday, June 13, the conflict has also extended into cyberspace. On Tuesday, June 17, the group Gonjeshke Darande (“Predatory Sparrow” in Farsi) […]
A general view of the offices of TikTok, as the site faced an April 5 deadline to reach a deal to find a non-Chinese buyer under threat of being banned from the United States, in Culver City, California, April 2, 2025. DANIEL COLE / REUTERS US President Donald Trump announced Thursday, June 19, he had […]
Letter from Malmö A man walks through the streets of the old town in Lulea, Sweden, in November 2012. ALISTER DOYLE/REUTERS Roro Wirlander Beydoun, 40, manages a pharmacy in downtown Örebro, a city of 160,000 people located 200 kilometers west of Stockholm. The pharmacy employs about 15 staff. Since March 1, Beydoun has dedicated one […]
A retired Nicaraguan military officer turned outspoken critic of President Daniel Ortega was shot to death on Thursday, June 19, at his home in Costa Rica, authorities said. Roberto Samcam, 67, had been living in exile since July 2018 when paramilitaries assaulted his home in Nicaragua. Police say a man entered the condominium complex where […]
Participants march during the 29th Budapest Pride parade in Budapest, Hungary, Saturday, June 22, 2024. ROBERT HEGEDUS / AP Hungarian police on Thursday, June 19, banned the country’s main Pride march from taking place in Budapest on June 28, but the capital’s mayor defied them, vowing it would still go ahead. Since Prime Minister Viktor […]
A poster advertising Russian Army contracts, displayed in the Saint Petersburg metro, Russia, on April 4, 2025. MARY GELMAN FOR LE MONDE After more than three years of war in Ukraine, the Kremlin has had to face the paradoxical realities of the social mobility that this conflict has generated across the country. “Vladimir Putin’s regime, […]
Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping attend a military parade on Victory Day, marking the 80th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany in World War Two, in Red Square in central Moscow, Russia, May 9, 2025. SERGEI BOBYLYOV / VIA REUTERS Russian President Vladimir Putin will visit China later this […]
