People pause to cool off and hydrate at the Ambrussum motorway rest area, between Montpellier and Nîmes, on June 27, 2025. SANDRA MEHL FOR LE MONDE Already strained by high temperatures, France is now facing suffocating conditions under a heat dome. On Friday, June 27, the heatwave intensified and will settle in for several days, with […]
Iran foreign minister Abbas Araghchi during a press conference at the Lutfi Kirdar Congress Center in Istanbul on June 22, 2025. OZAN KOSE / AFP Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi condemned Saturday, June 28, the “disrespectful and unacceptable” comments from Donald Trump, after the US president claimed to have saved Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei from […]
Banner for the “Safe place for science – Hosting American researchers” program displayed at a press conference at the Marseille Astrophysics Laboratory on June 26, 2025. CLEMENT MAHOUDEAU / AFP Eight American researchers have arrived at a university in southern France, as the country pushes to offer “science asylum” to US academics hit by federal […]
The photo shows a plastic bag from a pharmacy in the southern French city of Perpignan, with the message scrawled across it: “I have everything I need to inject on Saturday.” Published on Snapchat, the image was one example among several alleged calls to “inject people with syringes during the Fête de la Musique,” according […]
Jeff Bezos, left, and Lauren Sanchez leave a hotel for their pre-wedding reception, in Venice, Italy, on Thursday, June 26, 2025. LUCA BRUNO / AP Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez tied the knot Friday, June 27, at a sumptuous ceremony with the rich and famous on an island in Venice’s lagoon. “This city […]
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney holds a closing press conference following the NATO Summit in The Hague, Netherlands on Wednesday, June 25, 2025. SEAN KILPATRICK / AP President Donald Trump said on Friday, June 27, that he is calling off trade negotiations with Canada in retaliation for taxes impacting US tech firms, adding that Ottawa […]
French Senator Joël Guerriau in Paris on November 6, 2024. GEOFFROY VAN DER HASSELT / AFP A French senator accused of having drugged a fellow member of Parliament with the intention of sexually assaulting her has been sent for trial, Agence France-Presse (AFP) learnt on Friday, June 27, from a source close to the case […]
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio (C) and Rwandan Foreign Minister Olivier Nduhungirehe (L) listen as Democratic Republic of the Congo Foreign Minister Thérèse Kayikwamba Wagner (R), speaks during a peace agreement signing ceremony between in the Treaty Room of the State Department in Washington, DC on June 27, 2025. MANDEL NGAN / AFP The […]
Disneyland Paris, in Marne-la-Vallée, France, on October 16, 2023. IAN LANGSDON/AFP In the amateur video, the pink hues of a June dawn bathe the Sleeping Beauty Castle, the symbol of Disneyland Paris in Marne-la-Vallée, outside Paris. The longest day of the year, June 21, had just begun. It was 5 am. An assistant, dressed up […]
US Supreme Court Police officers stand outside the Supreme Court in Washington, DC, on June 27, 2025. MANDEL NGAN / AFP The Supreme Court on Friday, June 27, upheld a Texas law aimed at blocking children under 18 from seeing online pornography. Nearly half all states have passed similar age verification laws as smartphones and […]