This photo provided by Gilead Sciences shows packaging for the company’s HIV prevention medication, Yeztugo, (lenacapvir) at a manufacturing facility in La Verne, California, in June 2025. AP The US Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday approved Gilead Sciences’ twice-yearly injection to prevent HIV – a move the company hailed as a major breakthrough in […]
President Donald Trump speaks as a flag pole is installed on the South Lawn of the White House, in Washington, June 18, 2025. EVAN VUCCI / AP President Donald Trump said he was considering whether the United States will join Israeli strikes on Iran on Wednesday, June 18, as he said that Tehran had reached […]
France’s President Emmanuel Macron attends a ceremony marking the 85th anniversary of late French General Charles de Gaulle’s World War II resistance call of June 18, 1940, at the Mont-Valerien memorial in Suresnes, outside Paris, France, June 18, 2025. ALAIN JOCARD / VIA REUTERS France is planning along with European partners to suggest a negotiated […]
A photo released by the Israeli air force, showing fighter jets taking part in Operation “Rising Lion,” which targeted nuclear sites in Iran for strikes, on June 13, 2025. EYEPRESS NEWS VIA REUTERS CONNECT Two days after launching the June 13 attack on Iran, the Israeli military took control of the air corridor connecting Israel […]
The US Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld a state law banning gender-affirming medical treatments for transgender minors – an issue at the heart of the culture wars that have become a dominant feature of American political life. The top court voted 6-3 to uphold a law in the southern state of Tennessee, which bans hormone […]
Gisèle Pelicot arrives at the courthouse in Avignon, southern France, on December 19, 2024. LEWIS JOLY / AP A staged reading of selected fragments of the trial that made Frenchwoman Gisèle Pelicot, who survived nearly a decade of rapes by dozens of men, a worldwide feminist icon will premiere in Vienna on Wednesday, June 18. […]
UGC Ciné Cité Les Halles, in Paris, March 2024. STEPHANE MOUCHMOUCHE/HANS LUCAS VIA AFP Paris’s biggest movie theater, UGC Ciné Cité Les Halles, is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year as the world’s cinema with the highest attendance, according to the Comscore institute. Nearly every Parisian has forgotten, but the first UGC multiplex occupies the […]
Partial view of the Dimona nuclear facility in the Negev Desert, southern Israel, March 8, 2014. JACK GUEZ / AFP The issue is never broached. Israel’s possession of nuclear weapons remains an unspoken reality, casting a shadow over Iran and its neighbors in the Middle East, especially since the start of Israel’s strikes that officially […]
“Sell America.” The turmoil caused by Donald Trump’s about-face on tariffs has led to an unusual mantra spreading through the world of finance: Sell (some of) your American assets to avoid being too exposed to the whims of the US president. As a result, many investors have shed their American stocks, their US bonds and […]
Netflix announced on Wednesday, June 18, a livestreaming and on-demand content agreement with French television group TF1, its first such deal with a major traditional broadcaster anywhere in the world. The service will launch in summer 2026, Netflix’s co-chief executive Greg Peters told Agence France-Presse while declining to name any of the financial or other […]