Facade of the Sepah Bank offices in London, July 30, 2007. STEPHEN HIRD / REUTERS While missiles and bombs have flown between Israel and Iran since the large-scale attack launched by Israel on Friday, June 13, the conflict has also extended into cyberspace. On Tuesday, June 17, the group Gonjeshke Darande (“Predatory Sparrow” in Farsi) […]
A general view of the offices of TikTok, as the site faced an April 5 deadline to reach a deal to find a non-Chinese buyer under threat of being banned from the United States, in Culver City, California, April 2, 2025. DANIEL COLE / REUTERS US President Donald Trump announced Thursday, June 19, he had […]
Letter from Malmö A man walks through the streets of the old town in Lulea, Sweden, in November 2012. ALISTER DOYLE/REUTERS Roro Wirlander Beydoun, 40, manages a pharmacy in downtown Örebro, a city of 160,000 people located 200 kilometers west of Stockholm. The pharmacy employs about 15 staff. Since March 1, Beydoun has dedicated one […]
A retired Nicaraguan military officer turned outspoken critic of President Daniel Ortega was shot to death on Thursday, June 19, at his home in Costa Rica, authorities said. Roberto Samcam, 67, had been living in exile since July 2018 when paramilitaries assaulted his home in Nicaragua. Police say a man entered the condominium complex where […]
Participants march during the 29th Budapest Pride parade in Budapest, Hungary, Saturday, June 22, 2024. ROBERT HEGEDUS / AP Hungarian police on Thursday, June 19, banned the country’s main Pride march from taking place in Budapest on June 28, but the capital’s mayor defied them, vowing it would still go ahead. Since Prime Minister Viktor […]
A poster advertising Russian Army contracts, displayed in the Saint Petersburg metro, Russia, on April 4, 2025. MARY GELMAN FOR LE MONDE After more than three years of war in Ukraine, the Kremlin has had to face the paradoxical realities of the social mobility that this conflict has generated across the country. “Vladimir Putin’s regime, […]
Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping attend a military parade on Victory Day, marking the 80th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany in World War Two, in Red Square in central Moscow, Russia, May 9, 2025. SERGEI BOBYLYOV / VIA REUTERS Russian President Vladimir Putin will visit China later this […]
LUCAS BURTIN It is now widely accepted that you can show up at the office with blue hair, yoga pants or a Black Sabbath T-shirt without raising an eyebrow, yet there remains a final stylistic taboo: shorts. In truth, it all depends on where you work. “Where I work, it’s really, really frowned upon. Except […]
Protesters displaying the image of Pierin Vincenz, former head of Raiffeisen bank who was implicated in fraud, in Zurich, Switzerland, March 15, 2018. MORITZ HAGER/REUTERS The man’s voice sounded drained. He was clearly shaken. “Half a dozen police officers and a prosecutor showed up at my office and my home, and seized my computer, my […]
Nearly a week after Israel started striking Iranian territory on June 13, the status of several high-ranking commanders in the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, the ideological army of the Iranian regime, was still unclear, fueling speculation about whether they had been wounded, had disappeared or died without official confirmation. They include Ismail Qaani, commander of the […]