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September 17, 2024
'I am a rapist', says main defendant in French mass rape trial
Dominique Pelicot, who is standing trial for having raped his ex-wife and invited over 50 other men to rape her while she was heavily sedate...
Le Monde
September 17, 2024
Trump returns to campaign trail after apparent assassination attempt
Donald Trump was whisked away by the Secret Service on Sunday after a gunman was discovered on his golf course in Florida. The former presid...
Le Monde
September 17, 2024
Meta bans Russian state media outlets for 'foreign interference'
The ban by Meta, which owns WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook, comes after the United States accused state-run broadcaster RT of covertly fun...
Le Monde
September 17, 2024
Syria's Christians, a disappearing community
'Syrian Diaries' (3/7). The war, the jihadist push and the lack of reconstruction have taken their toll on the country's plural identity, de...
Le Monde
September 17, 2024
Sean 'Diddy' Combs is arrested in New York after federal indictment
US attorney in Manhattan, Damian Williams, said in a statement that federal agents arrested Combs in New York on Monday. The federal investi...
Le Monde
September 17, 2024
French mass rape trial: 'It is impossible to hear the other 50 defendants without first hearing Dominique Pelicot'
The main accused's lawyer said her client should be back in court on Tuesday after being excused for medical reasons for almost a week. Le M...
Le Monde
September 17, 2024
Parents and police officers are now being held accountable for US school shootings
Increasingly, when teenagers commit massacres, their parents are arrested. Furthermore, lapses on the part of law enforcement are no longer...
Le Monde
September 17, 2024
Exciting autumn shows to book in France
Now that the Olympic and Paralympic Games are over, it's time to book some outings for the fall. Here is a selection drawn up by Le Monde's...
Le Monde
September 17, 2024
Firefighters battling flames around Brazil's capital
Authorities warned that things were likely to get worse in ultra-dry conditions after 140 days without rain in Brasilia. The number of fires...
Le Monde
September 17, 2024
Myanmar floods death toll jumps to 226 with 77 missing: state TV
Typhoon Yagi swept across northern Vietnam, Laos, Thailand and Myanmar more than a week ago with powerful winds and an enormous amount of ra...
Le Monde
September 17, 2024
Russian war film to be screened in Toronto despite 'threats'
The Toronto International Film Festival, which ended on Sunday, announced last week it was pulling 'Russians at War' due to threats, calling...
Le Monde
September 16, 2024
Three Iranian actresses forced into exile after starring in 'The Seed of the Sacred Fig,' which won at Cannes
Niousha Akhshi, Mahsa Rostami and Setareh Maleki were forced to flee Iran, leaving their families behind after secretly acting in director M...
Le Monde
September 16, 2024
In Libya, the reconstruction of Derna: 'A windfall for the Haftar clan'
A year ago, the city was ravaged by deadly floods. Today, authorities in the east of the country are highlighting reconstruction that has be...
Le Monde
September 16, 2024
Ultra-fast fashion: 'AliExpress, Shein and Temu are caught up in the customs battle'
COLUMN. The international rule whereby packages under a certain value are exempt from customs duties is set to be revised in both the US and...
Le Monde
September 16, 2024
Thierry Breton's resignation marks the end of a stormy relationship with Ursula von der Leyen
The European commissioner's repeated criticism of the Commission president was the deciding factor in his reappointment. Emmanuel Macron eve...
Le Monde
September 16, 2024
Hamas chief says ready for 'long war' in Gaza
Israel's retaliatory military offensive after the October 7 attack on Southern Israel that sparked the war has killed at least 41,226 people...
Le Monde
September 16, 2024
Members of French charity Emmaüs struggle to condemn founder accused of abuse
Members of the community, who were often welcomed when they were most vulnerable, have expressed their shock, anger and doubts following rev...
Le Monde
September 16, 2024
Frenchman on trial for mass rape due back in court on Tuesday
Accused of drugging his wife to both rape her and enable others to rape her, Dominique Pelicot has been excused from court for most of last...
Le Monde
September 16, 2024
Couples that last: 'You need to communicate, again and again, including when it's going well'
Life changes, affairs, children, bereavements, betrayals, routine... these couples went through many upheavals in order to last. Taking care...
Le Monde
September 16, 2024
Trump blames Biden and Harris 'rhetoric' for assassination attempts
The former president rapidly politicized the second apparent assassination attempt, claiming that speeches by Joe Biden and Kamala Harris we...
Le Monde
September 16, 2024
Suspect in Trump apparent assassination attempt charged with gun crimes
Fifty-eight-year-old Ryan Wesley Routh, who was arrested on Sunday after an alleged abortive bid to shoot the former president at his West P...
Le Monde
September 16, 2024
Storm Boris unleashes massive flooding across central Europe
Poland and Romania have been among the hardest hit countries after Storm Boris unleashed huge amounts of rain.
Le Monde
September 16, 2024
UK PM Starmer praises Italy's Meloni for reducing illegal migration
Keir Starmer's visit came a day after eigh people died in the latest migrant shipwreck in the Channel.
Le Monde
September 16, 2024
Manchester City's 'trial of the century' opens in England
The Mancunian club is facing 115 charges before a Premier League committee for breaching UEFA's financial fair play rules between 2009 and 2...
Le Monde
September 16, 2024
'From this side of the Atlantic, Trump can seem like an anomaly, but he has taken the measure of a profound American anxiety'
Le Monde's former correspondent in Washington, Gilles Paris, answered readers' questions after an apparent second assassination attempt targ...
Le Monde
September 16, 2024
Ex-BBC anchor Huw Edwards avoids jail over 'repugnant' child images
The 63-year-old presenter was handed a six-month sentence, suspended for two years, after admitting to receiving 41 indecent images of child...
Le Monde
September 16, 2024
Jewish Chronicle columnists resign over allegations Gaza articles were fabricated
Jonathan Freedland, Hadley Freeman and David Aaronovitch resigned after articles by the newspaper's freelance journalist Elon Perry falsely...
Le Monde
September 16, 2024
'For those stranded in Calais, the border is not a sieve but, all too often, a death trap'
OP-ED. After French PM Michel Barnier described his desire to 'control migratory flows,' public law professor Thibaut Fleury Graff draws att...
Le Monde
September 16, 2024
Taliban suspends polio vaccinations in Afghanistan, UN reports
Afghanistan and Pakistan are the two countries in which the spread of the potentially fatal, paralyzing disease has never been stopped. No r...
Le Monde
September 16, 2024
France nominates foreign minister Stéphane Séjourné for EU Commission
French President Emmanuel Macron has proposed outgoing Foreign Affairs Minister Stéphane Séjourné as a European Commissioner following the r...
Le Monde
September 16, 2024
Shogun: The Japanese-American series that made Emmy Awards history
After being dominated for several years by 'Succession' and 'Ted Lasso', this year's awards honored a number of robust series, as well as so...
Le Monde
September 16, 2024
Barcelona property owners organize against tourist rental ban
An association of rental property owners is threatening the Catalan government with multiple legal actions against a new law that has enable...
Le Monde
September 16, 2024
Syria's slow implosion
EDITORIAL. More than 10 years after the start of the civil war waged with unprecedented brutality by Bashar Al-Assad's regime, the country i...
Le Monde
September 16, 2024
Jihadist tried for his role in recruiting January 2015 Paris terrorist
Peter Cherif, who spent seven years in Yemen in the ranks of al-Qaeda, is on trial for terrorism charges from Monday before the Paris Specia...
Le Monde
September 16, 2024
'After the success of the Paralympics, the question of disability must be considered in terms of equal rights'
COLUMN. A simple 'change of perception' will not be sufficient to promote the inclusion of people with disabilities. Non-disabled people mus...
Le Monde
September 16, 2024
Small boat shipwrecks continue in the English Channel
Eight men died on Sunday as they tried to reach England in a dinghy. 2024 is the deadliest year since these increasingly overcrowded migrant...
Le Monde
September 16, 2024
European Commissioner Thierry Breton resigns amid dispute with von der Leyen
In his resignation letter, Breton accused the Commission chief, who is in the process of forming the new EU's executive arm, of trying to ge...
Le Monde
September 16, 2024
Apparent assassination attempt against Trump once again disrupts US election campaign
A suspect was arrested after a security agent saw the barrel of a gun pointed toward a golf course where former president and candidate Dona...
Le Monde
September 16, 2024
Tito Jackson, member of the Jackson 5, has died at 70
Born on October 15, 1953, Toriano Adaryll "Tito" Jackson was a background singer and guitarist in the Jackson 5, with his brother Michael ac...
Le Monde
September 16, 2024
Shanghai hit by strongest typhoon since 1949
Bebinca made landfall early Monday morning after more than 400,000 people were evacuated.
Le Monde
September 16, 2024
Syria's youth and the temptation of leaving
'Syrian Diaires' (Part 2/7): Economic stagnation and the fear of conscription have led most Syrian students, a truly lost generation, to loo...
Le Monde
September 16, 2024
Death toll rises as torrential rain and flooding force evacuations in Central Europe
The floods have claimed six lives in Romania and one each in Austria and Poland. In the Czech Republic, four people who were swept away by w...
Le Monde
September 16, 2024
10 stunning fashion exhibitions for a stylish fall
With haute couture hats at the Palais Galliera, inspiring flowers at the Musée Yves Saint Laurent and photos by Peter Lindbergh at La Galeri...
Le Monde
September 16, 2024
'To reduce their environmental impact, why not simply regulate the weight of cars?'
COLUMN. New European standards will make vehicles even heavier and more polluting, both in terms of construction and usage, with questionabl...
Le Monde
September 16, 2024
Emmy Awards honor the best of TV with father-son duo Eugene and Dan Levy as hosts
'Shogun,' 'The Bear' and 'Baby Reindeer' were favorites going into the night, with Shogun expected to win best drama series after picking up...
Le Monde
September 16, 2024
In Argentina, the controversial launch of a biopic praising Javier Milei
The director of the six-part series chronicling the Argentine president's career, elected in November 2023, is also the director of audiovis...
Le Monde
September 15, 2024
'Current events in Germany show that there is no miracle solution when it comes to migration policy'
OP-ED. Germany's change of course regarding the welcoming of foreigners seems neither totally credible nor realistic, and ends up strengthen...
Le Monde
September 15, 2024
The bloody repression of pacifist opposition to colonization in the West Bank
COLUMN. IIn the West Bank, Palestinian militias benefit from Israel's brutal repression of non-violent opposition to settlement.
Le Monde
September 15, 2024
France cultivates ambiguity over deep strikes in Russia
The Ukrainians want to disrupt Russian logistics at the rear of the front line.
Le Monde
September 15, 2024