LUCAS BURTIN It is now widely accepted that you can show up at the office with blue hair, yoga pants or a Black Sabbath T-shirt without raising an eyebrow, yet there remains a final stylistic taboo: shorts. In truth, it all depends on where you work. “Where I work, it’s really, really frowned upon. Except […]
Protesters displaying the image of Pierin Vincenz, former head of Raiffeisen bank who was implicated in fraud, in Zurich, Switzerland, March 15, 2018. MORITZ HAGER/REUTERS The man’s voice sounded drained. He was clearly shaken. “Half a dozen police officers and a prosecutor showed up at my office and my home, and seized my computer, my […]
Nearly a week after Israel started striking Iranian territory on June 13, the status of several high-ranking commanders in the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, the ideological army of the Iranian regime, was still unclear, fueling speculation about whether they had been wounded, had disappeared or died without official confirmation. They include Ismail Qaani, commander of the […]
Real Madrid’s Eder Militao and Kylian Mbappé during training on June 15 in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. HANNAH MCKAY / REUTERS Real Madrid superstar Kylian Mbappé is being treated in hospital in the United States after suffering a stomach bug, the Spanish club said on Thursday, June 19. “Our player Kylian Mbappé is suffering from […]
Green MP Pouria Amirshahi, in Paris, on July 1, 2024. BERTRAND GUAY/AFP Was it because he was born in Iran? Or because he wanted to build a “progressive international,” an alliance to counter “the rise of reactionary neofascism”? On Tuesday, June 17, a French MP, Pouria Amirshahi, learned that he had been banned from entering […]
Smokes raises from a building of the Soroka hospital complex after it was hit by a missile fired from Iran in Be’er Sheva, Israel, Thursday, June 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Leo Correa) LEO CORREA / AP Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Iran would “pay a heavy price” after a hospital in southern Israel was hit during […]
In Varanasi, India, on June 9, 2025. NIHARIKA KULKARNI/AFP In recent months, scientists had already reached this conclusion individually. On Thursday, June 19, renowned French researchers – former authors for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), including paleoclimatologist Valérie Masson-Delmotte – asserted it collectively and unequivocally for the first time: The goal of limiting […]
A middle school student and his father lay flowers at the gates of Collège Françoise-Dolto in Nogent on June 10, 2025. RAPHAEL HELLE/SIGNATURES FOR LE MONDE Following the death of Mélanie G., a school supervisor who was fatally stabbed by a ninth-grade student at the entrance of a school in eastern France on June 10, the […]
With consumer spending failing to rebound, savings rates remaining at record highs, investments struggling to recover and foreign trade slipping back into deficit, all the engines of the French economy have come to a halt. According to the new outlook from INSEE, France’s national statistics agency, published on Wednesday, June 18, GDP growth in 2025 […]
Vladimir Putin during his meeting with representatives of international news agencies in Saint Petersburg, Russia, on June 19, 2025. ALEXANDER DEMYANCHUK/SPUTNIK VIA REUTERS “Let him who is without sin cast the first stone…” It is with these words, delivered with a sigh and a wry smile, that Vladimir Putin concluded his interview with leading international […]
