The senior civil servant and director of the Institut Rousseau think tank has spent years fighting to push the idea of canceling debt held by the European Central Bank. He has faced a barrage of economic, political and legal counter-arguments but has not backed down.
The largest French video game event opens on Thursday, October 22. While gaming remains extremely popular in the country, industry professionals have been hit hard by a severe economic crisis that has even rocked the sector's giants.
They took part in the nationwide protests on October 17 and remain stunned by the looting of shops, damage to public buildings and the large amounts of tear gas deployed against peaceful marches. Some will march again this Saturday. Others will not.
The leader of Germany's far-right AfD party held a conference in Strasbourg on Wednesday that attracted few attendees beyond her own political group. She presented her vision for Europe, which focuses heavily on dismantling EU institutions.
The International Union for Conservation of Nature said climate change was directly responsible for destroying these ecosystems in the first global assessment of its kind, published on Thursday.
A diverse coral assemblage is seen after a 2024 bleaching event at Pompey Reef in the northern Great Barrier Reef, far North Queensland, Australia, on January 1, 2025.
Edinburgh will host the most northerly Tour de France start in 2027, while the Pyrénées will provide the competitive finale. The Tour de France Femmes, which begins in Leeds, England will end on the Puy de Dome volcano.
The EU's Sakharov prize celebrates individuals or organizations' efforts to promote human rights or democracy, and this year went to the International Criminal Court, despite US sanctions against the court and its judges.
The man arrested after the fire that destroyed the historic building in Limoges amid protests is a 34-year-old carpenter who lives in a rural environmentalist and anarchist community.
The mayor of Lyon said that his city experienced hours of 'chaos' during riots last Saturday, with between 150 and 200 shops looted and a tourist office torched.
Criticized for his absence from Paris after violence shook France over the weekend of October 17, the French president said he refused to cancel his trip so as not to show 'nervousness'. On Thursday morning, he is set to meet with intelligence services at the Elysée during a security council meeting.
French President Emmanuel Macron, flanked by Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani (left) and Qatar's head of state, Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, at the 9th annual summit of the One Planet Sovereign Wealth Funds network, in Lusail, Qatar, October 21, 2026.
Lawyer Assaf Gonen said in a statement that their arrests had only been 'for show,' and were 'intended to satisfy media pressure and foreign interests.' The suspects have not been identified.
An Israeli settler overlooks members of Israeli forces blocking a road preventing Palestinians from reaching groves to harvest olives in the West Bank town of Turmus Ayya, Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2026.
Following a day of protests marked by violence on October 17 in France, Iranian authorities condemned what they described as 'double standards' and, without irony, called on Paris to listen to the demonstrators.
The film, which follows the story of an ordinary wartime collaborator within France's Vichy administration, has become a major box office success despite its subject matter and the statements of its director, Emmmanuel Marre, and lead actor, Swann Arlaud, writes Le Monde columnist Michel Guerrin.
Received by the Russian president near Saint Petersburg on Wednesday, Steve Witkoff, Donald Trump's envoy, praised the Russian leader, highlighting his 'humanitarian' profile. He left without securing any concessions from his host, who dismissed any idea of a truce with Kyiv.
Students, pupils and teachers held protests across Greece on Wednesday, October 21, denouncing staff shortages, outdated infrastructure and the high cost of housing.
Demonstration against rising housing costs and underfunded education, in solidarity with students in France and Spain, in Athens, Greece, on October 21, 2026.
Leïla, Inès and Nino are 17, 16 and 15 years old. In early October, they spent a night in police custody for their involvement in the high school student protest movement. They told Le Monde about their demands, hopes and concerns.
Following a day of protests marked by violence on October 17 in France, Iranian authorities condemned what they described as 'double standards' and, without irony, called on Paris to listen to the demonstrators.
The platform informed staff of the cuts on Tuesday, according to a statement from a spokesperson. The company had 12,300 employees at the end of 2025, before announcing a first round of layoffs in February affecting 800 jobs.
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