An anti-missile system operates as missiles are launched from Iran, as seen from Tel Aviv, Israel, June 18, 2025. VIOLETA SANTOS MOURA / REUTERS Iran said, early on Wednesday, June 18, that it fired hypersonic missiles at Israel, in the latest round of overnight strikes between the archfoes, hours after Donald Trump demanded the Islamic […]
A WhatsApp icon is displayed on an iPhone. MARTIN MEISSNER / AP Iranian state television on Tuesday, June 17, urged people to remove WhatsApp from their smartphones, alleging without specific evidence that the messaging app gathered user information to send to Israel. In a statement, WhatsApp said it was “concerned these false reports will be […]
A person begins the process of filling out a passport application with an ‘X’ gender marker, at their home in Alexandria, Virginia, on April 11, 2022. STEFANI REYNOLDS / AFP A federal US judge on Tuesday, June 17, ordered the Trump administration to resume issuing passports to transgender Americans with “X” as their gender designation, […]
François Bayrou at a conference on public finances and the budget, in Paris, on April 15, 2025. STEVENS TOMAS/ABACA One deadline extension after another, and with the help of various stalling tactics, on Friday, June 13, French Prime Minister François Bayrou managed to reach the six-month mark for his time in office, lasting twice as […]
Members of Mothers* Rebellion (Rebellmammorna), part of Extinction Rebellion, protest against global warming in Stockholm on April 21, 2024. CAISA RASMUSSEN/TT / VIA REUTERS Two years after becoming a symbol of a witch hunt within Sweden’s public sector, Marie (who requested her last name be withheld) is still reeling from the trauma she experienced. On […]
A sign announcing the upcoming opening of the Saint Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) in Saint Petersburg, Russia, on June 17, 2025. ANTON VAGANOV / REUTERS With his usual triumphalism, honed over more than a quarter-century in power, Vladimir Putin is preparing to host the upper echelons of Russia’s political and business world in Saint […]
JEAN-MICHEL TIXIER POUR M LE MAGAZINE DU MONDE The revelation came to us during a dizzying sequence of Reels, wedged between a video of a tourist putting a man in a headlock after he tried to steal his phone on the streets of Barcelona, and another featuring a business podcaster offering a training course on […]
Chinese President Xi Jinping stands alongside Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev as he arrives at an international airport near Astana, Kazakhstan, on June 16, 2025. AP The condemnation was explicit. “Israel’s military action against Iran has led to a sudden escalation of tensions in the Middle East, which deeply concerns China. We oppose any action that […]
Demonstrators wave signs as California National Guard and Marines guard the Federal Building during a protest Saturday, June 14, 2025, in Los Angeles. NOAH BERGER / AP A federal appeals court in San Francisco heard arguments Tuesday on whether the Trump administration should return control of National Guard troops to California after they were deployed […]
People take shelter in an underground metro station as a precaution against possible Iran missile attacks, in Ramat Gan, near Tel Aviv, Israel, Tuesday, June 17, 2025. ODED BALILTY / AP Israel and Iran exchanged fire again on Tuesday, June 17, the fifth day of strikes in their most intense confrontation in history, fuelling fears […]