Emmanuel Macron arrives in Nuuk (Greenland), June 15, 2025. JULIEN MUGUET / JULIEN MUGUET FOR « LE MONDE » As a powerless observer of the escalating conflict between Israel and Iran, French President Emmanuel Macron sought to make France’s voice heard. “It is essential to urgently bring these military operations to an end, as they pose […]
The thermometer read 35°C in the Confluence neighborhood of Lyon on June 13, 2025. JEAN-PHILIPPE KSIAZEK/AFP France hasn’t even entered summer yet, and it’s already going to be sweltering. The country was expected, starting Thursday, June 19, to undergo its 50th heatwave since records began in 1947, with temperatures reaching up to 38°C in some […]
A satellite image of the Natanz nuclear enrichment plant (Iran) dated June 15, 2025, after an Israeli bombing. MAXAR TECHNOLOGIES VIA REUTERS Since Friday, June 13, Iran has been the target of intense Israeli airstrikes. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his government have justified the attack by the need to “eliminate” the “threat” posed […]
The US Federal Reserve building in Washington, DC, on June 17, 2020. OLIVIER DOULIERY / AFP The US Federal Reserve held interest rates steady for a fourth consecutive meeting on Wednesday, June 18, forecasting higher inflation and cooler growth this year as President Donald Trump’s tariffs begin to take hold and geopolitical uncertainty swirls. Fed […]
It has happened. For a long time, like so many others, I feared this catastrophe. Now it is unfolding before my eyes, from a distance, through footage that overwhelms me, through the voices that I hear at the other end of the line. I hear the voice of a loved one undergoing chemotherapy, now deprived […]
Supporters of Argentina’s former President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner demonstrate after an Argentine judge approved her request to serve out her six-year prison sentence for corruption at home, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, June 18, 2025. MATIAS BAGLIETTO / REUTERS Vowing that a conviction on corruption charges and a permanent ban from public office would not […]
The idea of losing a lung is far from comforting. Even if you are told it is the only way to save the rest of your body, you would likely be inclined, if such an operation were ever recommended, to resist or try to negotiate. The reactions to the announcements made by Laurent Le Bon, […]
Letter from Warsaw On a beach in Wladyslawowo, in northern Poland, August 12, 2024. KACPER PEMPEL/REUTERS The “coolcation” trend – vacations in cooler climates – has brought a growing number of foreign visitors to Poland. While the summer can be relatively warm in the South, the North − with its 770 kilometers of Baltic Sea […]
‘Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité’ by the American artist Shepard Fairey (known as Obey), Rue Nationale, Paris. HENRI GARAT/MAIRIE DE PARIS “Tolerance is resisting.” It is resisting against the “discourses of mistrust and hate speech” targeting minorities that are spread in certain political and media spheres. It is holding firm in a political climate that often “places […]
A technician prepares the first river shuttle of Lyon’s public transport network on Quai Rambaud in the Confluence district of Lyon, June 13, 2025. JEAN-PHILIPPE KSIAZEK / AFP “It feels like a childhood dream come true.” Usually terse and serious, Bruno Bernard appeared deeply moved as he officially inaugurated France’s very first river public transport […]
