WhatsApp announced new ways to generate revenue and promote content on Monday, June 16, in order to “help businesses grow their business,” Will Cathcart, its director, told Le Monde. Owners of “channels,” a tool used by companies, shops, influencers, or media outlets to broadcast messages widely on the platform, will now be able to make […]
France’s then junior minister in charge of priority education Nathalie Elimas leaves the Elysée palace, November 17, 2021. LUDOVIC MARIN / AFP A French court on Monday, June 16, sentenced a former junior minister to a 10-month suspended prison sentence for workplace harassment. Nathalie Elimas, who was state secretary in the education ministry from 2020 […]
French Maritime Gendarmerie keep watch as migrants aboard a smuggler’s boat attempt to cross the English Channel off the beach of Gravelines, northern France on June 13, 2025. SAMEER AL-DOUMY / AFP Nine men went on trial on Monday, June 16, in France suspected of smuggling people on a small boat that capsized in the […]
People visit a memorial outside the Minnesota State Capitol in honor of Democratic state assemblywoman Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark, after a gunman killed them, in St. Paul, Minnesota, US, June 15, 2025. TIM EVANS / REUTERS The suspected killer of a Minnesota lawmaker went to four state politicians’ homes on the night that […]
First, there was widespread shock, followed by anxious confusion for some and astonishing credulity for others. Now, doubt prevails in how observers see the economic policy Donald Trump has been implementing. It took less than 150 days for supposedly “common sense” solutions to repair the damage caused by globalization to crash up against reality. The […]
Renault Group’s then CEO Luca De Meo at Renault’s headquarters in Boulogne-Billancourt, west of Paris on February 16, 2023. JULIEN DE ROSA / AFP French luxury group Kering announced on Monday, June 16, that it had appointed Luca de Meo, who helped drive automaker Renault out of crisis, its new chief executive as it tries […]
The Paris headquarters for France Medias Monde, including RFI and France 24, April 9, 2019. KENZO TRIBOUILLARD / AFP Togo on Monday, June 16, suspended French broadcasters RFI and France 24 for three months, the media regulator said, accusing both of transmitting “inexact and tendentious” content. “Several recent broadcasts relayed inaccurate, biased, and even factually […]
Palestinians carry bags containing food and humanitarian aid packages delivered by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, a US-backed organization, in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, June 16, 2025. ABDEL KAREEM HANA / AP Gaza’s civil defense agency said Israeli troops killed at least 20 people waiting to collect food on Monday, June 16, the latest deadly incident […]
View of the closed Elbit Systems stand after it was shut down by organizers during the 55th Paris Air Show at Le Bourget Airport near Paris, France, June 16, 2025. BENOIT TESSIER / REUTERS Geopolitical tensions roiled the opening of the Paris Air Show on Monday, June 16, as French authorities sealed off Israeli weapons […]
Tourists wait outside the Louvre museum which failed to open on time June 16, 2025 in Paris. CHRISTOPHE ENA / AP The Louvre Museum failed to open on time on Monday, June 16, leaving thousands of visitors stuck in long, unmoving lines outside the iconic Paris institution as staff held a protest over working conditions. […]
