A woman uses a portable fan in Paris on June 30, 2025. CAMILLE MILLERAND FOR LE MONDE Not a cloud in sight and yet, across much of France, the sky has turned gray. From Marseille to Paris, passing by Lyon, Bordeaux, Saint-Etienne, Grenoble, Clermont, Strasbourg and Lille, a vast portion of the country has been affected […]
US President Donald Trump talks to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Washington on April 7, 2025. KEVIN MOHATT / REUTERS Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will visit the White House next week for talks with President Donald Trump, a US official said Monday, June 30, as Washington ramps up the pressure for a ceasefire […]
Luca de Meo loves automobiles so much − even publishing a Dictionnaire amoureux de l’automobile (a “Dictionary for Lovers of Automobiles”) − that he has finally decided to leave them behind. After holding various positions in the auto industry for 33 years, five of which were spent as general director of Renault, the Italian executive […]
People take shelter at a bus stop, Paris, France, June 30, 2025. CAMILLE MILLERAND FOR LE MONDE 16 departments, including the Paris region, will be placed under a red heat wave alert on Tuesday, July 1, and 68 others will remain on an orange alert. Geographer Magali Reghezza-Zitt, who specializes in climate change adaptation and […]
Demonstrators march in the ‘No Kings’ protest with a President Donald Trump balloon in Los Angeles on Saturday, June 14, 2025. NOAH BERGER / AP US President Donald Trump’s administration ramped up its immigration crackdown in Los Angeles on Monday, June 30, filing a lawsuit against its “sanctuary city” policies for undocumented migrants. The move […]
For a long time, people in Kyiv felt their city was relatively insulated from the war, despite the occasional Russian bombings that struck the city. However, a recent escalation in strikes, conducted over several hours at night and thereby depriving the capital’s 3 million residents of sleep, has heightened Kyiv residents’ sense of insecurity. These […]
Who within the federal government can still stand up to Donald Trump? A decision handed down on Friday, June 27, by the United States Supreme Court calls for a reconsideration of this question. For nearly six months, this question has troubled American citizens committed to liberal democracy, as they face a stream of presidential decisions […]
In Montreuil, near Paris, France, on June 30, 2025. CAMILLE MILLERAND FOR LE MONDE France’s national weather agency placed Paris and 15 other departments on its highest weather alert for Tuesday, July 1, with temperatures of up to 41°C predicted as a record heatwave grips Europe. Paris and the 15 other departments would move up […]
Benjamin Bonzi during his match against Russian Daniil Medvedev in the first round of the Wimbledon tournament in London, June 30, 2025. KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV / AFP The first shock upset on the grass courts of Wimbledon came on Monday, June 30, as the main draw of the tennis tournament got underway: Russia’s Daniil Medvedev, former […]
A worker sets up beach umbrellas in Nice, French Riviera, June 7, 2025. LAURENT CIPRIANI / AP The Mediterranean Sea on Sunday, June 29, hit its warmest temperature on record for June at 26.01°C, said a French weather service scientist, citing data from EU monitor Copernicus. “We have never measured such a high daily temperature […]