French President Emmanuel Macron, surrounded by French Minister of Armed Forces Sébastien Lecornu, Minister for Industry and Energy Marc Ferracci, Minister in charge of Higher Education and Research Philippe Baptiste and Minister for Transport Philippe Tabarot, talks to journalists after disembarking from an Airbus A400M military plane for a visit at the 55th International Paris […]
Representatives of the Nouveau Front Populaire left-wing alliance at the Elysée Palace, during Emmanuel Macron’s consultations to appoint a new prime minister, in Paris, on August 23, 2024. JULIEN MUGUET FOR LE MONDE A year has gone by, but left-wing candidate Raphaël Glucksmann remembers that evening as if it were yesterday. The exhaustion of a European […]
A high-penetration GBU-57 bomb at Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri, May 2, 2023. AP “This entire operation (…) really has to be completed with the elimination of Fordo.” As Yechiel Leiter, Israel’s ambassador to the US, summed it up on Fox News on Friday, June 13, the goal of the attack launched against Iran, […]
Smoke rises following an Israeli attack on the IRIB building, the country’s state broadcaster, in Tehran, Iran, June 16, 2025. MAJID ASGARIPOUR / VIA REUTERS Israel’s military said Friday, June 20, it struck dozens of targets in Tehran overnight, including what it called a center for the “research and development of Iran’s nuclear weapons project,” […]
The concrete triangle stands out against the snow-covered landscape. The mountain’s silence is broken only by the comings and goings of tourists, who step out of their bus or taxi for a few minutes to photograph the mysterious structure. The small building, barely wider than its armored door, is neither a work of brutalist art […]
Wolfgang Tillmans at the Bpi, January 2025. CENTRE POMPIDOU “They have arrived,” wrote visual artist Wolfgang Tillmans in French on his Instagram account on May 16, captioning a photograph showing trucks in front of the Centre Pompidou in Paris. It was a curious ballet: Since mid-March, the National Museum of Modern Art has been emptying […]
A man walks in the damaged headquarters of Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting, Iranian state television, in Tehran, Iran, Thursday, June 19, 2025. VAHID SALEMI / AP On the eve of European talks with Iran over its nuclear program, Britain’s Foreign Secretary David Lammy said Thursday, June 19, after meeting high-level US officials that there […]
Gangxia North subway station, Shenzhen, China, May 14, 2024. MARKUS MAINKA/IMAGEBROKER/MAXPPP In recent days, the economic press and several Chinese observers have been stunned to discover the debt levels of 28 Chinese subway companies: 4.3 trillion yuan (€525 billion). Spotless, air-conditioned and automated, these systems offer a means of transport as practical as it is […]
Why this persistent determination to one day acquire nuclear weapons? Or at least to gain the capacity to assemble one? The theocratic regime that has ruled Tehran since 1979 believes in the virtues of “the bomb.” It sees it as a guarantee against foreign aggression and as a way to ensure Iran’s strategic dominance in […]
Mourners carry the body of a Palestinian killed in what the Gaza Health Ministry said were Israeli strikes, in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip June 17, 2025. HATEM KHALED / REUTERS From Gaza to the Democratic Republic of Congo, violence against children in conflict zones reached “unprecedented levels” in 2024, a United Nations annual report […]