'A forgotten Frenchman in Baku' (2/2). Mehmet Sahan, a French-Turkish dual national detained in Azerbaijan since early 2022 after a complaint by Thales, has alleged corruption. French prosecutors, who searched the premises of the defense giant in 2024, are investigating the contracts in question.
The Polish interior ministry said Prime Minister Donald Tusk and Defense Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz may have been targets of assassination attempts.
The attack, which killed one person, comes a day after a strike by Yemen's Houthis killed 12 people and injured hundreds in the Saudi capital's airport.
A missile attack on the Saudi capital's international airport, launched from Houthi-controlled territory in Yemen, killed at least 12 people and injured 309 on Saturday, including a French national.
Military personnel near armored vehicles ahead of a military parade marking Saudi National Day in Malham, north of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, September 22, 2026.
According to internal documents seen by Le Monde, FIFA took no action after an ineligible Congolese player was fielded in several World Cup qualifying matches, disregarding its own disciplinary code, legal precedent, and the recommendations of its law experts.
The millions of documents released by the US Department of Justice reveal that Jeffrey Epstein invested significant amounts of money and energy in building his friendship with filmmaker Woody Allen. Le Monde traced nine years of correspondence between the two men, from their first meeting to Epstein's death in 2019.
A vessel carrying 305 people from Djibouti to Yemen capsized overnight on October 8-9, a UN agency said. More than 80 people survived the shipwreck, all Ethiopian.
Thousands of protesters were detained before a planned demonstration in New Delhi on Saturday against the election commission's revision of voter rolls. The founder of the Cockroach Janta Party, who was arrested, called Prime Minister Modi an 'embarrassment.'
A road blocked by authorities amid protests demanding the resignation of India's Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, near Jantar Mantar in New Delhi on October 11, 2026.
In the Ukrainian capital, the 'Chernobyl House' shelters survivors of the 1986 nuclear disaster, now confronted with Russian bombardments. A drone strike there killed Natalia Khodemchuk, widow of the first victim of Chernobyl. Her neighbors share how their lives have been shaped by these two tragedies.
Three years after the October 7 attacks in Israel and the start of the war of annihilation against Gaza, the prominent French rabbi reflects on what these tragedies stirred in her, in the Jewish community, and in society as a whole, as crucial elections approach in both Israel and France.
UN resolutions on the transatlantic slave trade and the world map have brought questions of reparations and Africa's position in the international order back to light. The challenge is to turn these successes into political and economic gains.
Flavio Bolsonaro, who led in the first round of presidential elections on October 4, will have the support of a majority of judges in Brazil's highest court if he wins the second round.
Flavio Bolsonaro (center) and his brother Carlos Bolsonaro (to his right) flash the victory sign as they meet with senators and newly elected governors, Brasilia, Brazil, October 8, 2026.
The Washington Post, NPR and CNN won the top prizes in the print, radio and television categories for reports from Ukraine, Gaza and the West Bank respectively.
Trophies are displayed during the award ceremony of the 2026 edition of the "Prix Bayeux Calvados-Normandie for War Correspondents," in Bayeux, France, on October 10, 2026.
The 35-year-old has established himself on Twitch as one of the most-followed political commentators in the US. A socialist, he enjoys the support of the most radical wing of the Democratic Party. But that support is not unanimous, as his comments on Israel and Jews have led to accusations of antisemitism.
Rescuers work at a site of an apartment building damaged during a Russian air strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, October 10, 2026.
An ambulance is parked outside King Khalid International Airport after two people were killed and several wounded in an attack on the airport that forced a suspension of operations in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, October 10, 2026, in this screengrab obtained from social media video.
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