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July 30, 2025
Low-calorie French pastries struggle to win over chefs and consumers
While French pastries are renowned worldwide for their refined taste and aesthetic appeal, their nutritional value could place them in the c...
Le Monde
July 30, 2025
Suing the state: How does this universal right work in practice?
Climate, health, femicides: Lawsuits against the state have surged in recent years. Beyond securing compensation for victims, these legal pr...
Le Monde
July 30, 2025
Spike Lee, Benin's star ambassador to attract the Afro-descendant diaspora
The American filmmaker and his wife, Tonya Lewis Lee, have been appointed as ambassadors to the diaspora in the United States. The Beninese...
Le Monde
July 30, 2025
Powerful 8.7 quake off Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula triggers tsunami alert
Japan's meteorological agency issued an advisory for a tsunami of up to 3 meters across the Pacific coast of Japan, possibly starting to arr...
Le Monde
July 29, 2025
Cybèle Idelot's Ile-de-France adventure: from Hollywood childhood to kitchen gardens
'Chefs' gardens' (1/5). The 50-year-old chef transformed a former coaching inn in Yvelines, just outside of Paris, into a domain that now we...
Le Monde
July 29, 2025
US and China agree to work on extending the deadline for new tariffs in trade talks
The latest round of talks opened Monday in Stockholm to try to break a logjam over tariffs that have skewed the pivotal commercial ties betw...
Le Monde
July 29, 2025
Trump says Epstein 'stole' young women from Mar-a-Lago spa, including Virginia Giuffre
Aboard Air Force One while returning from Scotland on Tuesday, Trump said he was upset that the late financier, who died by suicide in a NYC...
Le Monde
July 29, 2025
In Brazil, the free and instant mobile payment system Pix challenges US dominance
Launched by the Central Bank of Brazil, this system is now used more than credit cards and cash. Its popularity is so great that WhatsApp ha...
Le Monde
July 29, 2025
Russia sees push for return of official censorship
As the Kremlin increasingly restricts the flow of ideas, those nostalgic for the USSR are calling for the reinstatement of the state body th...
Le Monde
July 29, 2025
Attack on military base in Burkina Faso reportedly leaves 50 soldiers dead
A community leader and a resident told The Associated Press that about 100 militants participated in the attack in Dargo (North), burning an...
Le Monde
July 29, 2025
New York mass shooting: gunman blamed NFL for brain injuries
Information that the killer carried in a note referring to the degenerative brain disease CTE offered a possible motive for the Monday shoot...
Le Monde
July 29, 2025
Trump administration pushes to revoke scientific ruling that underpins climate regulations
The US Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday issued a proposal to rescind a foundational scientific finding that underpins the federal...
Le Monde
July 29, 2025
François Provost to head French carmaker Renault
Provost is set to be appointed CEO of the car manufacturer on July 30 by the board of directors. As the unofficial number two under the prev...
Le Monde
July 29, 2025
France to air drop aid to Gaza from Friday
Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot said on Tuesday that France will organize 'in close coordination with the Jordanian authorities, four flig...
Le Monde
July 29, 2025
'In the West Berlin squats, we argued but lived together': Karin Wieland, political rebel
'Being 20 in West Berlin' (2/6). In the late 1970s, Karin Wieland fled her small German town to live communally in an abandoned building in...
Le Monde
July 29, 2025
Russian internet hangs in the balance after network outages
Network outages have become increasingly frequent across Russia. Authorities justify these measures by citing the need to counter Ukrainian...
Le Monde
July 29, 2025
Tour de France Femmes: Wiebes claims fourth stage as Vos holds lead
Just as in the previous day's stage, the Dutch cyclist Lorena Wiebes once again beat the overall leader by a wheel to claim her second conse...
Le Monde
July 29, 2025
The subtle art of communicating with swimmers during a race
During competitions, coaches try to relay instructions to their swimmers. This is a challenge, unlike in training, where emerging technologi...
Le Monde
July 29, 2025
Economist Dmitry Nekrasov: 'Only a handful of sanctions have had a serious effect on Putin's ability to continue the war'
Nekrasov, a former Kremlin adviser who joined the opposition and now lives in exile, discusses the EU's latest package of sanctions against...
Le Monde
July 29, 2025
Starmer says UK will recognize Palestinian state unless Israel agrees to ceasefire
During a Cabinet meeting on Tuesday, Prime Minister Kier Starmer said the UK will recognize a state of Palestine unless the Israeli governme...
Le Monde
July 29, 2025
France orders automakers to step up faulty airbag recalls
A total of 1.7 million vehicles under a 'stop-drive' order in France will have to be repaired within two weeks after a dealer appointment is...
Le Monde
July 29, 2025
US-Japan trade deal yields differences of interpretation
Less than a week after President Donald Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba agreed on a trade deal, the situation has unraveled...
Le Monde
July 29, 2025
The 'code of silence' surrounding the Sahel's fallen soldiers
In Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger, military juntas have sought to downplay or even conceal military losses linked to the fight against jihadis...
Le Monde
July 29, 2025
Burkina Faso alleges influencer was murdered in Côte d'Ivoire
Alain Christophe Traoré, known as Alino Faso, a supporter of Burkina Faso's junta, was found dead in his cell in Abidjan. Burkina Faso's aut...
Le Monde
July 29, 2025
Tariffs: The EU's 'lost opportunity'
NEWS ANALYSIS. Although trade is one of the European Union's main areas of competence, the EU refused to enter into a trade conflict with Pr...
Le Monde
July 29, 2025
Attendance at live performances continues to rise in France
For the third consecutive year, the French Ministry of Culture's ticketing study confirmed the dominant role of music, the field that attrac...
Le Monde
July 29, 2025
'The EU seeks economic deals, preferably for free trade, because the member states leading it gain from them'
OP-ED. The trade agreement signed with the US is seen as the lesser of two evils, particularly by Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and Irela...
Le Monde
July 29, 2025
France strives to revive the two-state solution at UN conference
French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot confirmed, in a speech to the United Nations in New York on Monday, President Emmanuel Macron's ple...
Le Monde
July 29, 2025
'We often go to bed on empty stomachs': In Ethiopia's Afar region, hunger takes its toll
In northern Ethiopia, the freeze on USAID threatens to worsen food insecurity, already affecting thousands of families impacted by land dryi...
Le Monde
July 29, 2025
Brief ownership of Malta-based Unibet subsidiary could be costly for gambling giant FDJ
By acquiring Unibet, FDJ United briefly inherited Trannel, a Maltese subsidiary embroiled in major legal disputes in Europe, before urgently...
Le Monde
July 29, 2025
Nika Lozovska, chef: 'I work in a London restaurant called Brat. In Ukrainian, that means brother'
'Refugee Recipes' (2/6). After training in Paris, Chef Nika Lozovska opened her restaurant, Dizyngoff, in the Black Sea city of Odesa in 201...
Le Monde
July 29, 2025
Russian strikes on Ukraine kill over 20
Air strikes targeted the Dnipropetrovsk and Zaporizhia regions, where a prison colony was bombed 'deliberately,' according to the Ukrainian...
Le Monde
July 29, 2025
French PM risks reaching breaking point with unions
EDITORIAL. With his actions triggering labor union pushback, François Bayrou is losing support from the partners he needs to achieve his goa...
Le Monde
July 29, 2025
Tariffs: In France, even the prime minister criticizes the EU's 'submission' to Trump
The tariff deal announced by Donald Trump and EU Commission head Ursula von der Leyen has been criticized by both the left and the right in...
Le Monde
July 29, 2025
What remains to be negotiated and decided after the EU-US trade deal
Ursula von der Leyen and Donald Trump unveiled a slew of figures on Sunday, but several issues still need to be resolved in future negotiati...
Le Monde
July 29, 2025
Thailand accuses Cambodia of violating ceasefire, Phnom Penh denies any firing
An 'immediate and unconditional' ceasefire agreement had come into effect a few hours earlier on Monday, after five days of deadly clashes.
Le Monde
July 29, 2025
Trump's second presidency is taking an authoritarian tone
Donald Trump is pursuing a breakaway strategy characterized by the implementation of dramatic tariffs, an intensification of immigration con...
Le Monde
July 29, 2025
'Half the city lay in ruins': Hanns Zischler, the cultural memory of West Berlin
'Being 20 in West Berlin' (1/6). The actor, writer, translator, and photographer, a figure of Germany's artistic and intellectual scene, arr...
Le Monde
July 29, 2025
At least five reportedly dead after New York City shooting in Midtown
NYC mayor Eric Adams had announced on Monday that 'there is an active shooter investigation taking place in Midtown right now. Please take p...
Le Monde
July 28, 2025
'The slide into climate despair occurs when the conviction sets in that... no, we won't make it'
OP-ED. Reducing climate policy to a single temperature target risks widespread resignation, economist Vincent Escoffier writes in an op-ed f...
Le Monde
July 28, 2025
Three erotic experiences inspired by artistic performances
COLUMN. Maïa Mazaurette is on a mission to spice up your steamy summer nights. This week, she offers suggestions to awaken your creativity a...
Le Monde
July 28, 2025
Colombian ex-president Uribe convicted of witness tampering
73-year-old Alvaro Uribe, who was president from 2002 to 2010 and is now South America's first-ever former head of state convicted of a crim...
Le Monde
July 28, 2025
Fires in France: 'Agricultural fires, previously overlooked, are now drawing public authorities' attention'
Ecologist Florent Mouillot explains in an interview with Le Monde how he conducted the first exploratory scientific study on agricultural fi...
Le Monde
July 28, 2025
Trump says he ended friendship with Epstein because he 'stole people that worked for me'
The US president and his top allies stoked conspiracy theories about late financier Jeffrey Epstein’s death before Trump returned to power a...
Le Monde
July 28, 2025
Tour de France Femmes: Veteran Vos takes yellow after Wiebes stage win
While Lorena Wiebes won the day's sprint, Marinna Vos took back the leader's jersey after losing it for a day to Kim Le Court.
Le Monde
July 28, 2025
Letters from prisoners held in solitary confinement: 'I feel like becoming violent again'
Le Monde asked five prisoners and a former inmate – the armed robber Rédoine Faïd, four drug traffickers, and a radicalized Islamist – to re...
Le Monde
July 28, 2025
Recognizing Palestine: 'It was becoming dishonorable to do nothing,' says ex-French foreign minister
Hubert Védrine, former Elysée diplomatic adviser and ex-foreign minister, praised President Emmanuel Macron's decision to recognize the Stat...
Le Monde
July 28, 2025
Trump shortens 50-day deadline for Russia to end war in Ukraine
Donald Trump said he would now give Vladimir Putin 10 to 12 days from Monday, meaning he wants peace efforts to make progress by August 7-9....
Le Monde
July 28, 2025
EU defends Trump trade deal after backlash from capitals and businesses
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen clinched the accord of 15% tariffs on EU exports to the US with Donald Trump on Sunday. R...
Le Monde
July 28, 2025