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March 27, 2026
France calls new Olympic gender testing 'backward step'
The IOC announced on Thursday that only 'biological females' will be allowed to compete in women's events, preventing transgender women from...
Le Monde
March 27, 2026
French man arrested in Portugal on suspicion of double femicide
Portuguese law enforcement arrested Cédric P. as he was traveling with his two children on Tuesday and discovered the bodies of each child's...
Le Monde
March 27, 2026
EU Energy Commissioner Dan Jorgensen: 'Capping gas prices is a possibility'
In an interview with Le Monde, Dan Jorgensen discusses the possible responses European states could adopt in the face of soaring gas prices...
Le Monde
March 27, 2026
French luxury giant LVMH faces probe in Italy over pushing cosmetics sales to minors
Italian regulators said Friday they have opened an investigation into French luxury group LVMH and its subsidiaries Sephora and Benefit for...
Le Monde
March 27, 2026
French prime minister pushes on as 2025 public deficit beats forecasts
France's public deficit stood at 5.1% of GDP in 2025, beating the target of 5.4%, according to data released Friday. The positive surprise b...
Le Monde
March 27, 2026
Philippines signs military pact with France for joint operations
The new 'status of visiting forces agreement' with France was signed on Thursday in Paris, hours after the Philippine military accused China...
Le Monde
March 27, 2026
AI used to make 'fetishized' images of disabled women
British disability advocates have condemned an 'alarming trend' of AI-generated sexualized images of women and girls with disabilities and g...
Le Monde
March 27, 2026
Cybercrime: The blind spot in museum security
Dozens of online ticketing systems in France's cultural sector were shut down following a large-scale cyberattack targeting Vivaticket, the...
Le Monde
March 27, 2026
In Nabatieh, southern Lebanon, 'no one ventures outside anymore apart from rescue teams'
Like 42 other rescue workers since the war began on March 2, 16-year-old Joude Souleiman was killed by an Israeli drone strike in Nabatieh,...
Le Monde
March 27, 2026
'As he approached the sands of the Arabian-Persian Gulf, Trump fell prey to a common phenomenon in these lands: mirages'
COLUMN. The American president's disappointments and contradictory statements on the conflict in Iran obscure the key question of how to end...
Le Monde
March 27, 2026
US judge suspends government sanctions on Anthropic
A federal judge in California granted Anthropic's request for a preliminary injunction in its suit against the government, freezing a presid...
Le Monde
March 27, 2026
French spirits giant Pernod Ricard in merger talks with Jack Daniel's owner
The discussions come as the alcohol sector faces a difficult global environment, with consumption falling among younger drinkers and new tar...
Le Monde
March 27, 2026
United States and Israel are facing the same Iranian foe but are fighting different wars
NEWS ANALYSIS. Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu share many objectives. However, their respective public opinions and electoral interests...
Le Monde
March 26, 2026
War in Iran: At the G7, Canada and its partners want clarification from Washington
If negotiations with Iran take place, the United States must include its allies and consider the interests of countries it has drawn into th...
Le Monde
March 26, 2026
US currency to bear Trump's signature in first for sitting president
It’s the latest instance of the US president putting his name and likeness on American cultural institutions. The plans come in tandem with...
Le Monde
March 26, 2026
Baltic states fear Ukraine war could spill over onto their territory
Two Ukrainian drones launched against Russia accidentally landed in Estonia and Latvia. This incident comes as the scenario of a fictional p...
Le Monde
March 26, 2026
Israeli army calls for more troops on Lebanese front, opposition warns shortage could trigger 'security disaster'
'The forward defensive zone that we are creating requires additional IDF forces," a military spokesman said in a televised briefing, noting...
Le Monde
March 26, 2026
They were adopted and raised middle-class. France saw them as Black and Arab
Youssef Dridi and Eyob Bressy, both adopted and raised by families with significant cultural capital in the Paris region, share how, from ad...
Le Monde
March 26, 2026
Oil market gripped by record volatility and speculation since start of Middle East war
Brent crude and diesel prices have surged since the start of the US-Israeli military intervention in Iran. Behind the scenes, major trading...
Le Monde
March 26, 2026
Napoleon's long-lost hat to go on display
Made by Poupard, Napoleon's official hatmaker, the headpiece displays all the hallmark features of an authentic imperial bicorne, including...
Le Monde
March 26, 2026
EU accuses four porn sites of allowing children access adult content
The European Commission said it preliminarily found Pornhub, Stripchat, XNXX and XVideos failed to protect children's rights and well-being...
Le Monde
March 26, 2026
Trump faces the trap of escalation in Iran
EDITORIAL. As US ground troops converge on the Gulf, with as-yet undisclosed goals, Donald Trump must resist the temptation of a warlike spi...
Le Monde
March 26, 2026
Nicolas Zepeda sentenced to life in prison for murdering ex-girlfriend
A criminal court found the 35-year-old Chilean guilty of murdering his former girlfriend by 'suffocation,' most likely by 'strangulation or...
Le Monde
March 26, 2026
Islamic scholar Ramadan sentenced to 18 years in prison for raping three women in 'campaign of psychological destruction'
Tariq Ramadan was found guilty by a Paris criminal court after a trial he did not attend, despite a court-ordered medical assessment stating...
Le Monde
March 26, 2026
South Africa says disinvited from G7 summit after US pressured France
'We are told that the Americans threatened to boycott the G7 if South Africa was invited,' reported the presidential spokesperson on Thursda...
Le Monde
March 26, 2026
Sarkozy minister's defense unsettled by memo in Libyan campaign funding appeal
A document pledging Libyan funding for Nicolas Sarkozy's 2007 presidential campaign caught former minister Brice Hortefeux off guard during...
Le Monde
March 26, 2026
IOC brings back gender testing for 2028 Summer Olympics
'Eligibility for any female category event at the Olympic Games or any other IOC event, including individual and team sports, is now limited...
Le Monde
March 26, 2026
French court orders ex-bishop to pay more than €160,000 over 1970s child sex abuse
The Paris Court of Appeal on Thursday ordered former bishop Jean-Michel di Falco to pay damages to a man who accused him of rape and sexual...
Le Monde
March 26, 2026
France bids farewell to former prime minister Lionel Jospin in national ceremony
In his eulogy, French President Emmanuel Macron hailed the former prime minister as a 'humble' politician who 'modernized the nation's econo...
Le Monde
March 26, 2026
EU parliament votes through measures allowing deportation of migrants to 'return hubs'
MEPs voted 389 to 206 on the package of tougher immigration measures, which includes harsher penalties for migrants who refuse to leave and...
Le Monde
March 26, 2026
European Parliament backs EU-US tariff deal with safeguards
The vote clears the way for tariff cuts on some American imports but includes safeguards as the European bloc accelerates efforts to reduce...
Le Monde
March 26, 2026
Why the Greens lost several major cities in France's municipal elections
Although the Greens managed to retain Lyon, Grenoble and Tours, they failed to hold six municipalities which they won in 2020. A lack of tie...
Le Monde
March 26, 2026
Volodymyr Zelensky: 'The pressure on Russia is insufficient. Not only from the US, but also from Europe'
In an interview with Le Monde, the Ukrainian president expressed concern about the consequences of the war in the Middle East on the conflic...
Le Monde
March 26, 2026
EU experts back broad PFAS ban
A highly anticipated report from scientific advisers to the European Union finds that forever chemicals present 'growing risks' to the popul...
Le Monde
March 26, 2026
Israel strikes Iran as Tehran denies Trump's alleged US-Iran talks
While Donald Trump claimed the US was in talks with Iran, Iran has denied the existence of direct negotiations. Meanwhile, Pakistan has pass...
Le Monde
March 26, 2026
Thierry Breton: 'A golden rule limiting the public deficit to 1% of GDP by 2032 must be enshrined in the French Constitution'
OP-ED. A country that devotes an ever-increasing share of its resources to funding its past is no longer in control of its destiny, says the...
Le Monde
March 26, 2026
French court finds Swiss Islamic scholar Ramadan guilty of rape, sentences him to 18 years
Tariq Ramadan did not appear in court in person. His lawyer cited a 'flare-up' of multiple sclerosis requiring hospitalization in Geneva to...
Le Monde
March 26, 2026
Vote transfers between France's right and far right are increasingly common
NEWS ANALYSIS. By alternately voting for either the far right or the mainstream right to defeat the left, voters in the recent municipal ele...
Le Monde
March 26, 2026
Regular exchanges between Hungarian and Russian foreign ministers spark scandal in Brussels
According to several media outlets, Péter Szijjarto was providing real-time updates to Sergey Lavrov on the content of discussions within th...
Le Monde
March 26, 2026
The sensuality of Henri Rousseau's paintings at the Musée de l'Orangerie
The exhibition 'Henri Rousseau: A Painter's Ambition' offers a stimulating reinterpretation of the artist's work, highlighting his rigor and...
Le Monde
March 26, 2026
Night train service resumes between Paris and Berlin
The Belgian-Dutch cooperative European Sleeper is reviving the symbolic rail link between the French and German capitals that was discontinu...
Le Monde
March 26, 2026
Cuba's escalating health crisis is 'deeply concerning,' says WHO chief
Daily power outages of up to 20 hours are the norm in parts of the Caribbean island, which lacks the fuel needed to generate power. But sinc...
Le Monde
March 26, 2026
Pierre Buhler, former diplomat: 'We are witnessing a worrying crack in the European edifice'
OP-ED. The former ambassador highlights the divisions among European Union member states over how to approach relations with the US and warn...
Le Monde
March 25, 2026
Meta, YouTube ordered to pay $3 million in lawsuit over teen's depression
The verdict from a court in California could set a precedent for thousands of plaintiffs who have accused major platforms of fueling an epid...
Le Monde
March 25, 2026
Zinédine Zidane closes in on leading Les Bleus
Less than three months before the 2026 World Cup, the former French maestro is the clear frontrunner to succeed France's football squad head...
Le Monde
March 25, 2026
Hezbollah defies the Lebanese state
As Israel confirmed its intention to occupy a 'security zone' in southern Lebanon extending to the Litani River, the Shiite group condemned...
Le Monde
March 25, 2026
War in Lebanon: Hezbollah says negotiating with Israel would be surrender
As Israel launched new strikes on Beirut suburbs and Lebanon's south, Hezbollah, which claimed attacks on Israeli troops in Lebanon and Isra...
Le Monde
March 25, 2026
This former mayor called his constituents 'thugs.' They took their city back.
In the Paris suburb of Le Blanc-Mesnil, Demba Traoré, a 40-year-old political newcomer who became the leader of a left-wing coalition, won t...
Le Monde
March 25, 2026
'In Paris, the ideal of urban transformation clearly resonated with voters'
OP-ED. Emmanuel Grégoire, the Socialist mayor-elect at the head of a left-wing and environmentalist coalition, now faces two main challenges...
Le Monde
March 25, 2026