Not a breath of air rises from the walls of Evin prison, destroyed by the blind fury of Israeli bombs. How could it? There is no water, no infirmary, no administration, no guard post. The large gate, once so feared, has been pulverized and dissolved into thin air. The first two floors of Wing 4, […]

Emmanuel Macron during a press conference at the Elysée Palace in Paris, June 13, 2025. KAMIL ZIHNIOGLU FOR LE MONDE The exchange lasted over two hours. On Tuesday, July 1, when Emmanuel Macron spoke by phone with Vladimir Putin, as the two heads of state had agreed earlier, the French president was fully aware that […]

Inside Evin prison after Israeli airstrikes in June, Tehran, July 1, 2025, during a press tour organized by the government. AFP After 12 days of war, Iran has begun a crackdown on presumed “collaborators.” Ever since the ceasefire with Israel took effect on June 24, arrests have multiplied across the country, targeting human rights activists, […]

A man holds a water bottle as he walks, during a heatwave, in Seville, Spain, July 1, 2025. JON NAZCA / REUTERS Firefighters in Spain have said they found two bodies after a blaze in the northeast of the country, which is in the midst of a brutal heatwave. The heatwave across Europe this week […]

The Dalai Lama speaks in a video broadcast at the start of the 15th Tibetan Religious Conference, a meeting of religious leaders in McLeod Ganj, near Dharamsala on July 2, 2025. SANJAY BAID / AFP Exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama said Wednesday, July 2 that the 600-year-old institution will continue after his death, […]

Tourists cool off in the Trocadero Fountain, in front of the Eiffel Tower in Paris, on July 1, 2025, as temperatures in France hit a peak. DIMITAR DILKOFF / AFP After days of record-breaking heatwaves across Europe, relief will start to arrive from the Atlantic on Wednesday, July 2, bringing thunderstorms and cooler temperatures to […]

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky at the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, France, on June 25, 2025. FREDERICK FLORIN / AFP The White House said on Tuesday, July 1 that it is halting some key weapons shipments to Ukraine that were promised under the Biden administration for Kyiv’s battle against the Russian invasion. Read more Subscribers […]

The village streets, lined with bare trees, were nearly deserted. A few cars sped through the town. Dogs barked from behind the gates of houses. As a pedestrian passed, a curtain was lifted behind a window. In Röszke, a rural town in southern Hungary on the border with Serbia, everything seems bleak and ordinary. The […]

One of the experiment’s volunteers working on an essay while wearing AttentivU glasses and a headset equipped with 32 channels – tools used to measure brain activity (electroencephalogram) and information flows in different areas of the brain (dDTF) – in Cambridge, Massachusetts, January 2024. NATALIYA KOSMYNA There are 800 million weekly users of ChatGPT worldwide […]

Two orcas grooming each other with a strand of kelp in the Salish Sea, an area of the Pacific Ocean between British Columbia and the state of Washington, June 2024. CENTER FOR WHALE RESEARCH, NMFS NOAA PERMIT 27038 “You will never find what you are not looking for.” This Confucius quotation is something science proves […]