The Shahran oil depot in Iran, following an Israeli attack, June 15, 2025. MAJID ASGARIPOUR/REUTERS Deadly strikes have escalated once again in the Middle East, bringing with them fears of a different kind, expressed by the oil markets: Will Iran still be able to extract its oil at the expected rate and export part of […]

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer at a press conference during the G7 summit in Kananaskis, Canada on June 16, 2025. SUZANNE PLUNKETT/AP After backing down on scrapping an energy allowance for pensioners and confirming cuts to disability aid not foreseen in his campaign platform, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer made yet another U-turn on Saturday, […]

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a press conference in Jerusalem, May 21, 2025. RONEN ZVULUN / AP Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday, June 16, did not rule out plans to assassinate Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, saying it would “end the conflict” between the two arch-foes. In a 20-minute interview […]

Benoît de Saint-Exupéry, vice president of sales at Airbus, and Edward O’Byrne, CEO of AviLease, at the Paris Air Show, held at Le Bourget Airport, June 16, 2025. BENOIT TESSIER/REUTERS At the opening of the Paris Air Show at Le Bourget Airport on Monday, June 16, Saudi Arabia confirmed its emergence as a major new […]

US President Donald Trump attends a cabinet meeting at the White House in Washington, DC on April 10, 2025. NATHAN HOWARD / REUTERS The NAACP announced Monday, June 16, the group will not invite President Donald Trump to its national convention next month in Charlotte, North Carolina, the first time the prominent civil rights organization […]

President Donald Trump holds an executive order regarding the reform of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in the Oval Office of the White House, May 23, 2025, in Washington. EVAN VUCCI / AP President Donald Trump has fired a Democratic commissioner for the federal agency that oversees nuclear safety as he continues to assert more control […]

Donald Trump has surrounded himself with the most anti-Palestinian team in the history of the United States. This administration has proven even more hostile to the fundamental rights of the Palestinian people than during Trump’s first term from 2017 to 2021, due to the promotion of particularly fanatical “Christian Zionists.” These messianic evangelicals are convinced […]

WhatsApp announced new ways to generate revenue and promote content on Monday, June 16, in order to “help businesses grow their business,” Will Cathcart, its director, told Le Monde. Owners of “channels,” a tool used by companies, shops, influencers, or media outlets to broadcast messages widely on the platform, will now be able to make […]

France’s then junior minister in charge of priority education Nathalie Elimas leaves the Elysée palace, November 17, 2021. LUDOVIC MARIN / AFP A French court on Monday, June 16, sentenced a former junior minister to a 10-month suspended prison sentence for workplace harassment. Nathalie Elimas, who was state secretary in the education ministry from 2020 […]

French Maritime Gendarmerie keep watch as migrants aboard a smuggler’s boat attempt to cross the English Channel off the beach of Gravelines, northern France on June 13, 2025. SAMEER AL-DOUMY / AFP Nine men went on trial on Monday, June 16, in France suspected of smuggling people on a small boat that capsized in the […]