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November 26, 2024
Tariffs: 'American trade restrictions worsened the 1929 market crash and accelerated its spread to Europe'
COLUMN. In 1930, the US sharply increased its tariffs, exacerbating the Great Depression. At a time when Donald Trump has made this measure...
Le Monde
November 26, 2024
In China, a string of deadly attacks worries both population and authorities
At least a dozen attacks have erupted since the start of the year, with schools emerging as a particularly vulnerable target. In a nation th...
Le Monde
November 26, 2024
Champions League: Barca beat Brest, with Lewandowski hitting century
Brest fall a few places down the table but their strong start to the campaign means they are well placed to secure at least a play-off spot,...
Le Monde
November 26, 2024
Champions League: Bayern Munich beat struggling PSG 1-0
With just three games remaining, even making the knockouts is not a given for the French champions, who are in 26th spot – outside the playo...
Le Monde
November 26, 2024
France key bond spread hits 12-year high
Ratings agency S&P is preparing to publish a new evaluation of France's public debt on Friday whilst Moody's and Fitch each gave France a ne...
Le Monde
November 26, 2024
Brazil's Bolsonaro 'fully aware' of plan to murder Lula, in 2022 Coup Plot
A report was made public on Tuesday by the Supreme Court judge overseeing the case, Alexandre de Moraes – one of the targets of the alleged...
Le Monde
November 26, 2024
Israel and Lebanon's Hezbollah agree to a ceasefire, started on Wednesday
The ceasefire marks the first major step toward ending the regionwide unrest triggered by Hamas' attack on Israel on October 7, 2023. But it...
Le Monde
November 26, 2024
French presidency denies reported Macron 'government to fall' comment
The newspaper 'Le Parisien' stood by its reporting as the Elysée Palace denied via its X account that President Emmanuel Macron told guests...
Le Monde
November 26, 2024
Netanyahu says he supports proposed ceasefire with Lebanon's Hezbollah
The Israeli prime minister recommended his cabinet approve a US-brokered ceasefire agreement with Hezbollah, setting the stage for an end to...
Le Monde
November 26, 2024
Carrefour attempts damage control against Brazil 'boycott'
The French supermarket group Carrefour tried to end a supplier 'boycott' of its stores in Brazil by apologizing for refusing to sell Mercos...
Le Monde
November 26, 2024
Prosecutors seek up to 15-year terms for French rape trial defendants
On Monday, prosecutors requested a maximum 20-year jail term for Dominique Pelicot, who has been on trial since September with 49 other men...
Le Monde
November 26, 2024
Russia accuses UK diplomat of spying in fresh diplomatic spat
Britain has rejected the claims one of its embassy employees was a spy, the latest in a string of espionage allegations.
Le Monde
November 26, 2024
Israel pounds Beirut as security cabinet discusses ceasefire
Israel bombed southern and central Beirut as well as 30 targets in southern Lebanon, hours before Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his...
Le Monde
November 26, 2024
Mexico suggests it would impose its own tariffs to retaliate against any Trump tariffs
US President-elect Donald Trump threatened to impose 25% import duties on Mexican goods if the country doesn't stop the flow of drugs and mi...
Le Monde
November 26, 2024
EU approves French budget promises without quite believing them
On Tuesday, November 26, the European Commission gave its approval to the French government's plan to gradually reduce its public deficit un...
Le Monde
November 26, 2024
The world's oldest man has died in England at 112
For nearly nine months, John Alfred Tinniswood held the title of world's oldest man, marking his 112th birthday during his reign.
Le Monde
November 26, 2024
France risks budget crisis as opposition threatens to topple government
With the left and the far right openly considering the possibility of toppling Prime Minister Michel Barnier's government in the coming week...
Le Monde
November 26, 2024
"Macron's claim 'it was Haitians who killed Haiti' must be understood as more than insulting"
OP-ED. The French president's contemptuous remarks are representative of the history between the two countries, over which still hang the fo...
Le Monde
November 26, 2024
Macron's chief of staff can face conflict-of-interest trial, court rules
Alexis Kohler can be prosecuted on suspicion of illegally favoring a company to which he had family ties while working as a senior civil ser...
Le Monde
November 26, 2024
Is Antoine Dupont really the best rugby sevens player? The real surprise is that he won no award in 15s
COLUMN. The Toulouse scrum-half was rewarded for his achievements in sevens, having carried France to the Olympic title despite little exper...
Le Monde
November 26, 2024
Russia expels UK diplomat accused of spying
The FSB security service said the diplomat appeared to have carried out 'intelligence and subversive work, threatening the security of the R...
Le Monde
November 26, 2024
Four bodies and three survivors recovered from Egypt's Red Sea boat sinking
Nine people were still missing a day after a diving boat capsized in the Red Sea.
Le Monde
November 26, 2024
David Lammy, UK foreign secretary: 'Our number one priority in foreign policy terms is a European reset'
In an interview with Le Monde and two other European newspapers, the head of the Foreign Office insisted on London's continued aid to Ukrain...
Le Monde
November 26, 2024
'Carrefour's decision to stop selling Mercosur meat in France threatens its interests in Brazil'
COLUMN. CEO Alexandre Bompard's pledge to stop selling beer and pork from Latin America has sparked boycott calls in Brazil, where the Frenc...
Le Monde
November 26, 2024
2026 Paris mayor elections: Many candidates are already on the starting line
With 15 months to go before the Paris mayor elections, half a dozen political figures have already formally declared their candidacy to succ...
Le Monde
November 26, 2024
Ukraine: The moment of truth for Europe
EDITORIAL. With Donald Trump's inauguration and the third anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine approaching, the conflict is intensify...
Le Monde
November 26, 2024
French mass rape trial: 'Neither before nor after did they ask themselves the question of Gisèle Pelicot's consent'
The prosecution requested a 20-year prison sentence for Dominique Pelicot and a minimum of 10 years for the initial list of men accused of r...
Le Monde
November 26, 2024
'Les Misérables' makes majestic comeback to Paris
In a highly successful staging by Ladislas Chollat, the musical, based on Victor Hugo's novel, is delighting new audiences with its contempo...
Le Monde
November 26, 2024
Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo to Le Monde: 'I won't be running for a third term'
The Socialist mayor first elected in 2014 says she would like Senator Rémi Féraud, the leader of the majority group on the Paris council, to...
Le Monde
November 26, 2024
Pakistan: Four security forces killed as Khan supporters flood capital
Thousands of supporters of the former prime minister converged on Islamabad to demand his release. More than 20,000 members of the security...
Le Monde
November 26, 2024
Le Pen's party ideas are taking root, but so is doubt about its ability to govern
Nearly four out of ten people support the far-right Rassemblement National party's ideas, according to an annual barometer of its image cond...
Le Monde
November 26, 2024
Daniel Cohn-Bendit and Raphaël Glucksmann: 'How can we fail to see that the Israeli response violates the laws of war and tramples on international law?'
OP-ED. At a time when the election of Donald Trump could bolster Benjamin Netanyahu in his murderous strategy, former and current MEPs asser...
Le Monde
November 26, 2024
Paul Pogba: Six face trial in Paris for blackmailing footballer
His brother Mathias is among the men accused of attempting to extort millions of euros from the footballer, who was even held at gunpoint.
Le Monde
November 26, 2024
In Queens, the 'New York Times' printing plant, a monster of steel and paper
Hundreds of thousands of newspapers leave New York's largest daily newspaper printing plant every day. A place that French photographer Tom...
Le Monde
November 26, 2024
In Mumbai, Asia's largest slum is threatened by greedy property developers
The Dharavi district is home to one million inhabitants living in unsanitary conditions. It is at the center of a wave of real estate specul...
Le Monde
November 26, 2024
Japan: Large fire at rocket test site, no injuries reported
The fire happened during a combustion test that began at around 8:30 am local time. About 30 seconds later, a large explosion was heard, and...
Le Monde
November 26, 2024
Trump vows massive tariffs on Mexico, Canada, and China on Day 1 of his presidency
In a series of posts to his Truth Social account, Trump vowed to hit some of the United States' largest trading partners with sweeping taxes...
Le Monde
November 26, 2024
Trump, saved by American voters, escapes federal prosecution for attempt to overturn 2020 election
Special Counsel Jack Smith emphasized the 'unprecedented circumstances' and 'gravity of the crimes' at the heart of the indictments but had...
Le Monde
November 26, 2024
In East Jerusalem, a record number of homes destroyed to drive out Palestinian residents
The Israeli authorities are speeding up the reshaping of annexed Arab neighborhoods by expelling their residents in the process. In this con...
Le Monde
November 26, 2024
'Trump doesn't have the power to impose his policies on American companies the way Putin does'
COLUMN. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen is offering to buy more American gas in exchange for no tariffs on European produ...
Le Monde
November 26, 2024
Global rates of HIV cases and related deaths sharply declining
These new results are marking significant progress in the fight against the disease, but HIV remains far from being stamped out, health expe...
Le Monde
November 25, 2024
Haiti: More than 40,000 flee Port-au-Prince violence in 10 days
Soaring violence in Port-au-Prince has left at least 150 people dead, bringing the number of deaths in Haiti this year to over 4,500, accord...
Le Monde
November 25, 2024
Menendez brothers' fight for freedom postponed until January
The Menendez brothers, imprisoned for over three decades, were at the center of a sensational 1990s trial that gripped the nation. Millions...
Le Monde
November 25, 2024
'COPs are part of the barrier against the populist storm that is sweeping the planet'
Despite minimal agreement and obstruction from oil-producing countries, the climate conference is proof that multilateralism is not dead acc...
Le Monde
November 25, 2024
Delusions of grandeur and a tragic night: The downfall of former business queen Aude de Thuin
On the morning of June 4, in an apartment on Paris's prestigious Boulevard Haussmann, businessman Hubert Zieseniss was found dead, alongside...
Le Monde
November 25, 2024
Prosecutors dismiss election interference and classified documents cases against Trump
Special Counsel Jack Smith said the move was being made under a long-standing US Justice Department policy of not prosecuting a sitting pres...
Le Monde
November 25, 2024
Democrats and American celebrities, a zero-sum game
The support of Billie Eilish, Beyoncé, Taylor Swift and Lady Gaga wasn't enough to turn the tide for Kamala Harris. As in Hillary Clinton's...
Le Monde
November 25, 2024
The French obsession with Japanese whisky
The fruit of century-old craftsmanship, Japanese malt was long kept a secret. Since the early 2000s, French consumers have played a key role...
Le Monde
November 25, 2024
France unveils new measures to combat violence against women
The government has launched a new campaign to combat violence against women, which includes expanding the network of hospitals where victims...
Le Monde
November 25, 2024