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April 19, 2025
In Israel, protests and 'fatigue' among reservists over the war in Gaza
Reservists and retirees from the army and security services have denounced the impasse of the Netanyahu government's strategy in open letter...
Le Monde
April 19, 2025
Vance discusses migration during Vatican meeting with pope's right-hand man
The Vatican released a statement on Saturday after US Secretary of State JD Vance and Cardinal Secretary of State Pietro Parolin met in Rome...
Le Monde
April 19, 2025
Ecuador on 'maximum alert' over alleged assassination plot against president-elect Noboa
Ecuador intelligence said people planned to enter the country from Mexico to assassinate the recently reelected Daniel Noboa, who will be sw...
Le Monde
April 19, 2025
Students, journalists on trial in Turkey over Istanbul protests
Ninety-nine defendants in one case appeared in court on Friday in Istanbul's Çaglayan neighborhood to face charges of participating in unaut...
Le Monde
April 19, 2025
Ukraine-Russia war: Given American inconsistency, Europeans must prepare to intensify military aid
EDITORIAL. President Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio threatened to abandon the pursuit of peace in Ukraine on Friday, April 18, fol...
Le Monde
April 19, 2025
JD Vance, the convert turned ideologue of 'post-liberal' Catholicism
The US vice president brandishes his Catholicism as a banner, making his faith a component of the cultural war launched by the Trump adminis...
Le Monde
April 19, 2025
JD Vance heads to Vatican after Pope France rebuke over US deportation policies
The US vice president will meet a top Vatican official on Saturday amid tensions with Pope Francis over immigration, the war in the Gaza Str...
Le Monde
April 19, 2025
Giverny exhibition displays the Nahmad brothers' consuming passion for collecting art
The Musée des Impressionnismes is showcasing 57 works acquired by David, Joseph and Ezra Nahmad, ranging from Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot an...
Le Monde
April 19, 2025
Tunisian court sentences opposition figures to up to 66 years in prison
Well-known opposition figures, lawyers and business people were sentenced on Saturday for openly criticizing Tunisian President Kais Saied.
Le Monde
April 19, 2025
Iran, US to hold second round of high-stakes nuclear talks in Rome
Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi is slated to hold a second round of Oman-mediated talks with US Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff in Rome on S...
Le Monde
April 19, 2025
2027 French election: The growing prospect of a CEO for president
NEWS ANALYSIS. The French political landscape currently seems ripe for a major business leader to step onto the national stage. Emmanuel Mac...
Le Monde
April 19, 2025
A busy caterpillar, guardian of its domain
COLUMN. Smaller than a grain of rice, the Falcaria bilineata caterpillar uses undetectable vibratory strategies to defend its tiny territory...
Le Monde
April 19, 2025
Karl Lagerfeld, on the road to Memphis
In 1981, the German fashion designer moved into a high-rise in Monaco and furnished his apartment with the playful designs of the Memphis mo...
Le Monde
April 19, 2025
What could happen to Le Pen's conviction before the 2027 presidential election?
The far-right leader was sentenced, at the end of March, to a five-year ban on running for office. She has appealed. Two years ahead of the...
Le Monde
April 19, 2025
At least 143 dead in DR Congo boat fire
The total number of passengers on board the doomed vessel was not known, but an official from the region said it was in the "hundreds."
Le Monde
April 19, 2025
In Georgia, the government intensifies the repression of its opponents as protests dwindle
The ruling party, Georgian Dream, has increased intimidation and legislative measures to undermine the movement and to ban opposition partie...
Le Monde
April 18, 2025
King Leopold III planned to rule over a mini-Belgium aligned with Adolf Hitler
A World War II-era archival document, drafted by the monarch's advisers and unearthed by a Belgian historian, sheds light on a highly contes...
Le Monde
April 18, 2025
Quai Branly exposes its counter-investigation on the Dakar-Djibouti mission and its looting of objects under the guise of science
The Parisian museum has invited African researchers to study the archives of the expedition that took place between 1931 and 1933, and to co...
Le Monde
April 18, 2025
Thirty years of plastic pollution found in Amsterdam coots' nests
Lacking vegetation, the birds populating the canals of the Netherlands' capital use refuse to build their nests; a stratigraphic study revea...
Le Monde
April 18, 2025
Abrego Garcia told visiting senator he was no longer being held at notorious Salvadoran prison
President Donald Trump and El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele have dug in on keeping Abrego Garcia out of the United States, even as offic...
Le Monde
April 18, 2025
White House site blames China for Covid-19 'lab leak'
The Covid.gov site also targets Anthony Fauci, Biden's former chief medical advisor, for advancing the 'narrative' that the virus 'originate...
Le Monde
April 18, 2025
Hezbollah 'will not let anyone disarm' it, says chief
The militant group leader Naim Qassem's comments came hours after another Hezbollah official said the group refused to discuss handing over...
Le Monde
April 18, 2025
Former French culture minister: 'Donald Trump leads a personal and cultural crusade'
Rima Abdul Malak, who served as cultural attachée at the French Embassy in the US, reacts to the measures taken against culture at large by...
Le Monde
April 18, 2025
Trump says that US may 'pass' on Ukraine peace talks if no progress soon
The US government said that it was willing to abandon talks to end the Russia-Ukraine conflict if no progress was made in the next few days.
Le Monde
April 18, 2025
Behind tariff chaos, the deep roots of the Trump doctrine
While the US president has had to back down on his trade war, the ideological foundation of his decisions is more solid than their confusing...
Le Monde
April 18, 2025
Julian Fernandez and Olivier de Frouville, law experts: 'What the Israeli defense minister has said is a transparent expression of genocidal intent in Gaza'
OP-ED. In a post on X on March 19, Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz offered Gazans a false choice: leave or die. In an op-ed for Le Mond...
Le Monde
April 18, 2025
US Vice President Vance meets Meloni in Rome before Easter at the Vatican
JD Vance is in Rome for talks on tariffs with Italy's Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni. The US and Italy have a good relationship, despite diff...
Le Monde
April 18, 2025
Qatar flexes its diplomatic muscles in Africa, with mixed results
The emirate is increasingly involved in mediating conflict across the continent, where it has growing influence. But not all of its forays i...
Le Monde
April 18, 2025
Trump administration looks into whether they can fire Federal Reserve chief
After Jerome Powell warned that Donald Trump's sweeping global tariffs would push up prices for Americans, the US government has been 'study...
Le Monde
April 18, 2025
Coffee, cocoa, vanilla: The severe social and environmental impacts of foods imported to France
A recent study scrutinizes 13 major import sectors based on their CO₂ emissions, their impact on deforestation, their use of child labor and...
Le Monde
April 18, 2025
French government divided over proposal to raise tax on the wealthy
In the name of tax justice, Minister of Economy and Finance Eric Lombard, has proposed making a temporary tax on the wealthy 'permanent.' Ma...
Le Monde
April 18, 2025
Ukraine intensifies use of land mines against Russia
Near the Zaporizhzhia front, Ukrainians are producing their own explosive devices and transporting them via drones – a way to offset their n...
Le Monde
April 18, 2025
US strikes an oil port in Yemen, killing dozens
According to Yemen's Houthi rebels, the airstrike killed 58 people, making it the deadliest attack under Trump thus far. Meanwhile, the US a...
Le Monde
April 18, 2025
War in Ukraine: First talks between Americans, Ukrainians and Europeans in Paris yield no real breakthrough
President Emmanuel Macron used the visit of US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and special envoy Steve Witkoff as an opportunity to also invi...
Le Monde
April 18, 2025
US imposes new port fees on Chinese ships
China warned that the new fees on Chinese built and operated ships would be 'detrimental to all parties' as Washington seeks to boost its do...
Le Monde
April 18, 2025
Rubio says US could drop out of Ukraine peace talks if no short-term progress is made
The US Secretary of State's statement comes as Ukraine announced new progress in a minerals deal with the US.
Le Monde
April 18, 2025
Haiti: Acknowledging a French injustice
EDITORIAL. President Emmanuel Macron has made a significant gesture by publicly admitting that forcing the Republic of Haiti to pay an exorb...
Le Monde
April 18, 2025
Macron's commission on Haiti's 'double debt' seen as a 'very small step in the right direction'
The French president announced on Thursday the creation of a joint historical commission to study the effects of the indemnity payment Franc...
Le Monde
April 18, 2025
Meloni struggles to influence Trump's trade policy
The Italian leader, who was in Washington on Thursday, had hoped to leverage her ideological similarities with the American president to mak...
Le Monde
April 18, 2025
Heavy spring snowstorm in the Alps leaves two people missing
An unusually intense spring storm triggered avalanches, transport shutdowns and blackouts across the Alps, catching residents and authoritie...
Le Monde
April 18, 2025
'What is at stake between China and the US goes beyond the economy. They are fighting for global supremacy'
COLUMN. Trump believes he has the upper hand, but Xi cannot give the impression of yielding to the US, writes Le Monde columnist Alain Frach...
Le Monde
April 18, 2025
US senator meets wrongfully deported migrant in El Salvador
Maryland Senator Chris Van Hollen met Thursday in El Salvador with Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran man wrongfully deported from Maryland,...
Le Monde
April 18, 2025
Humanitarian aid in Gaza is 'facing total collapse,' warns 12 NGOs
The Chief Executives of 12 major aid organizations, including Oxfam and Save the Children, released a joint statement urging Israel to let t...
Le Monde
April 18, 2025
How the MAGA movement targets US college campuses
Charlie Kirk, a podcaster close to the US president, is traveling across the country to promote the White House's actions to young people an...
Le Monde
April 18, 2025
'Basically, everything is made in China': At the Canton Fair, the world's factory faces the tariff war
The major fair, holding its 137th edition from April 15 to May 5, serves as an accurate indicator of Beijing's trade relations with the rest...
Le Monde
April 18, 2025
Why are diplomatic relations between France and Algeria so strained?
Western Sahara, deportation of immigrants, the Boualem Sansal case: an analysis of the tensions poisoning Franco-Algerian relations since th...
Le Monde
April 18, 2025
'France is not entirely devoid of assets in international competition'
COLUMN. The fifth report from the Conseil national de productivité (CNP, National Productivity Council) advocates for 'strong political choi...
Le Monde
April 18, 2025
Despite LVMH's Challenges, Bernard Arnault Denies Any 'Structural Crisis'
During the luxury group's general assembly, the founder of LVMH secured permission on Thursday to hold the CEO position until the age of 85.
Le Monde
April 18, 2025
'Incredulous' at Trump's trade war, the European Central Bank continues to lower interest rates
Interest rates were reduced from 2.5% to 2.25%, marking the seventh consecutive cut, following the meeting of the Frankfurt-based institutio...
Le Monde
April 17, 2025