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November 21, 2024
US isolated after vetoing UN resolution in favor of Gaza ceasefire
On Wednesday November 20, Washington prevented the Security Council from calling for an 'immediate, unconditional and permanent' ceasefire i...
Le Monde
November 21, 2024
Macron calls Haitian officials 'complete morons' for dismissing country's PM
According to a video taken at this week's G20 summit in Brazil, the French president described the decision by Haiti's transitional council...
Le Monde
November 21, 2024
Snow in the city: Parisians wrap up as winter arrives in French capital
The greater Paris region was put under an orange weather alert for snow and ice on Thursday as the first flakes fell in the morning.
Le Monde
November 21, 2024
Jacques Labro, architect of Avoriaz ski resort, has died
In the early 1960s, the young architect imagined a new kind of car-free resort, a far cry from the 'ski factories' that were springing up in...
Le Monde
November 21, 2024
Mali junta appoints general to replace sacked civilian prime minister
Choguel Kokalla Maiga lost the job a day earlier following his criticism of the military leaders. New PM General Abdoulaye Maiga had until n...
Le Monde
November 21, 2024
ICC issues arrest warrants for Netanyahu, Israeli defense minister and Hamas official
The arrests target Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, as well as Hamas's military chief, Mohammed...
Le Monde
November 21, 2024
Musée d'Orsay signs partnership with Louis Vuitton
Le Monde has learned the flagship of the LVMH group is set to donate €20 million to the Parisian establishment.
Le Monde
November 21, 2024
Video. Electoral College, winner-takes-all: How do the US elections actually work?
Video - There isn't just one American presidential election, there are 51: One for each state, plus the District of Columbia. Le Monde expla...
Le Monde
November 21, 2024
Ukraine fires its first British Storm Shadow missiles into Russian territory
The strike, using at least 12 missiles, targeted the Russian village of Marino on Wednesday afternoon.
Le Monde
November 21, 2024
In closing arguments, Gisèle Pelicot's lawyers plea for end to 'rape culture'
On Wednesday, Antoine Camus and Stéphane Babonneau somberly and with great sensitivity denounced the flaws in the defendants' arguments.
Le Monde
November 21, 2024
French lawmakers approve creation of France-Palestine friendship group
The Assemblée Nationale's bureau, which is dominated by the left, approved the move. The aim of friendship groups is to participate in the d...
Le Monde
November 21, 2024
A G20 in Rio for nothing, except for China
EDITORIAL. Presided over by Lula with neither a ruckus nor any notable results, the summit held in Brazil above all enabled Chinese Presiden...
Le Monde
November 21, 2024
War in Ukraine: US criticized for authorizing supply of antipersonnel mines to Kyiv
Washington justified its decision by citing a change of tactics on the part of the Russians. Volodymyr Zelensky considers these controversia...
Le Monde
November 21, 2024
Musk plans to slash US federal spending, possibly including from defense budget
The Tesla CEO and entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, appointed together by Trump to head a 'Department of Government Efficiency,' are taking aim...
Le Monde
November 21, 2024
Philippe Jordan, the Orchestre National de France's new director: 'I'm particularly happy to return to Paris'
The 50-year-old Swiss maestro has just been appointed to head the Parisian ensemble. The former music director of the Opéra National de Pari...
Le Monde
November 21, 2024
Confessions of a repentant Wagner disinformation agent from the Central African Republic
For eight months, Le Monde and nine international media partners, coordinated by Forbidden Stories, investigated the story of journalist Eph...
Le Monde
November 21, 2024
Five Parisian addresses with a Mexican twist
In Paris, a selection of five restaurants will take you on a gastronomic flight to Mexico, where you can enjoy octopus with burnt chili in a...
Le Monde
November 21, 2024
'We'll get that Hillsborough Law!': 35 years after disaster, wounds remain raw in Liverpool
On April 15, 1989, Hillsborough Stadium became the scene of the deadliest disaster in British sporting history, with 96 Liverpool football f...
Le Monde
November 21, 2024
Will France have a government at Christmas?
COLUMN. As Prime Minister Michel Barnier prepares to activate Article 49.3 to pass his budget bill without a vote, eyes are turning to the f...
Le Monde
November 21, 2024
'Now that Donald Trump is back in power, let us plan the Europeanization of NATO'
OP-ED. In an op-ed for 'Le Monde,' researcher Rachel Rizzo and Michael Benhamou, director of a think tank dedicated to European security, ca...
Le Monde
November 21, 2024
Mali junta chief sacks PM and government
Prime Minister Choguel Kokalla Maiga, 66, previously served as a minister on several occasions and ran three times as a presidential candida...
Le Monde
November 21, 2024
Boris Johnson's 'Unleashed': Self-mockery from a man in power
From his tussle with the president of the Supreme Court to the 'Partygate' scandal during the pandemic, the shaggy-haired ex-British prime m...
Le Monde
November 20, 2024
Hezbollah beeper attacks: Legal risks for Netanyahu
The prime minister's acknowledgment of the attacks committed in mid-September against the Lebanese Shiite movement exposes him to prosecutio...
Le Monde
November 20, 2024
Hezbollah says Israel 'cannot impose conditions' for truce
Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar, meanwhile, said any ceasefire deal must ensure Israel still has the 'freedom to act' against Hezbollah...
Le Monde
November 20, 2024
Seen on TV: Donald Trump's decisive recruitment criterion
To be in charge of Medicare and Medicaid, the president-elect has nominated Mehmet Oz, known for promoting improbable remedies on TV. The De...
Le Monde
November 20, 2024
Tennessee man involved in US Capitol riot is convicted of planning to kill investigators
Edward Kelley, 35, was one of hundreds of rioters arrested on charges of illegally entering the US Capitol. While awaiting trial, Kelley dev...
Le Monde
November 20, 2024
Republicans on the House Ethics Committee reject releasing report on Matt Gaetz
Gaetz has launched an effort to secure his nomination, meeting behind closed doors with Republican senators about the sexual misconduct alle...
Le Monde
November 20, 2024
At least 150 people killed in Port-au-Prince in past week, says UN
The latest intensification of violence in the Haitian capital has brought the total number of deaths in Haiti this year to over 4,500, the U...
Le Monde
November 20, 2024
The dangerous liaison between inflation and populism
From the Roman Empire to the United States, inflation has provoked anger and sometimes regime change.
Le Monde
November 20, 2024
How reading and stimulating brains is becoming accessible to all, for better or worse
Brain implants, headbands and headphones fitted with electrodes: Brain reading and stimulation, once focused solely on therapeutic research,...
Le Monde
November 20, 2024
French farmers lift border blockade
After discussions with Prime Minister Michel Barnier, hard-line farmers' union Coordination Rurale lifted its roadblock for heavy trucks on...
Le Monde
November 20, 2024
Two complaints filed in Algeria over prize-winning French novel
The survivor of a 1990s massacre has alleged that the main character in Kamel Daoud's prize-winning book 'Houris' is based on her experience...
Le Monde
November 20, 2024
Thieves steal artifacts from Paris museum
The culprits struck around 10:30 am at the Cognacq-Jay museum in the touristy Marais district of central Paris and made off with 'five histo...
Le Monde
November 20, 2024
48 days in the 'swamp' of the Pelicot rape trial: What Le Monde's court reporters saw
Our court reporters Henri Seckel and Pascale Robert-Diard recount 48 days of big-screen videos, sordid details and failed apologies: 'Every...
Le Monde
November 20, 2024
Trump appoints loyalist Matt Whitaker as NATO ambassador
Donald Trump said he had chosen former attorney general Matt Whitaker to serve as US ambassador to NATO, the bedrock Western alliance that t...
Le Monde
November 20, 2024
In the US, 'the Democratic administration's betrayal squandered some of the capital it had built up with unions'
COLUMN. Philippe Askenazy writes in his column that the Biden administration lost the support of workers, when it decided to block an emblem...
Le Monde
November 20, 2024
At the trial of Le Pen and her party, the other accused are hardly defended
NEWS ANALYSIS. The far-right Rassemblement National's lawyers are intent on getting Marine Le Pen through the embezzlement trial unscathed,...
Le Monde
November 20, 2024
'The arrival of North Korean troops and Trump's election have shifted the balance in Ukraine'
COLUMN. The war in Europe is encountering two turning points on the international scene. Paradoxically, Volodymyr Zelensky and Donald Trump...
Le Monde
November 20, 2024
Biden authorizes Ukraine to use antipersonnel landmines against Russians
US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said the shift in policy follows changing tactics by the Russians.
Le Monde
November 20, 2024
'Prime Minister Barnier is trapped in a political game that only produces losers'
COLUMN. Every day, the prime minister intervenes to try to defuse discontent, without gaining the slightest advantage. The weakening of poli...
Le Monde
November 20, 2024
Turkish drones and Russian planes: Aerial warfare comes to West Africa
To track down jihadist fighters or pro-independence rebels, the military juntas in power in Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger have considerably r...
Le Monde
November 20, 2024
'Bomb cyclone' knocks out power to over 600,000 homes across northwest US, killing at least one
The Weather Prediction Center issued excessive rainfall risks lasting through Friday and hurricane-force wind warnings were in effect. A ' b...
Le Monde
November 20, 2024
Trump's election overshadows COP29 climate conference
US negotiators sent to Baku by the Biden administration do not believe the incoming president will be able to derail the country's energy tr...
Le Monde
November 20, 2024
The French economy's risk of a negative spiral
EDITORIAL. France's difficulties (falling investment, redundancy plans, rising unemployment, etc.) have come at the worst possible time, as...
Le Monde
November 20, 2024
At the G20 in Rio, the great rift between the West and the Global South led by China
Brazil's President Lula was keen to avoid controversial issues such as the war in Ukraine. But this subject did interrupt the summit, as Rus...
Le Monde
November 20, 2024
"What Musk calls 'citizen journalism' is nothing but a weapon for the mass destruction of factual reality"
OP-ED. The owner of X, 'embodies the new dynamic between influencers, algorithms and digital crowds,' writes media historian David Colon.
Le Monde
November 20, 2024
US embassy in Kyiv closes over 'potential significant air attack'
This warning followed Russia statement on Tuesday that it would respond after Ukraine fired longer-range US missiles at its territory – a fi...
Le Monde
November 20, 2024
Hong Kong tycoon Jimmy Lai takes witness stand in collusion trial
The 76-year-old founder of the now-closed 'Apple Daily' newspaper is accused of conspiring with foreign forces, a charge that could carry a...
Le Monde
November 20, 2024
Writer Mathieu Palain on the Pelicot rape trial: 'It's just hard to realize that you're part of the side of the violent people'
Mathieu Palain says the wave of male reactions to the Pelicot trial, notably the #NotAllMen hashtag, reflects the struggle men face in ackno...
Le Monde
November 20, 2024