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 […]
A poster saluting the operation launched in Libya by the US Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice, British Prime Minister David Cameron, French President Nicolas Sarkozy, and US President Barack Obama. In Benghazi, Libya, August 23, 2011 ESAM AL-FETORI / REUTERS No one would dispute Nelson Mandela’s (1918-2013) expertise in leadership. In his 1994 […]
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a session of the Israeli Parliament in Jerusalem, June 11, 2025. MENAHEM KAHANA / AFP When, just hours after the first strikes on Iran on Friday, June 13, the success of the opening attack was confirmed, Benjamin Netanyahu was euphoric, according to Israeli columnist Ben Caspit: “Talking about the […]
People buy food at a supermarket during a massive power outage in Pamplona, northern Spain, April 28, 2025. MIGUEL OSES / AP A major power outage that paralyzed the Iberian Peninsula in April was caused by “overvoltage” on the grid that triggered “a chain reaction,” according to a government report released on Tuesday, June 17. […]