#Paris2024
| It's D-2 before the Olympics opening ceremony.
Whether you're following the Games online or attending matches in the French capital, let Le Monde in English be your Olympics guide 🇫🇷🏅.
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2022 French presidential election: Emmanuel
#Macron
was reelected with 58.2% of the votes compared to 41.8% for far-right candidate Marine
#LePen
, according to projections by Ipsos-Sopra Steria for France Télévisions and Radio France.
𝗢𝗣-𝗘𝗗 | Janja Lula da Silva 🇧🇷: 'It's men who decide to wage war and women who suffer the worst consequences'
Women have a major role to play in building a culture of peace, writes sociologist and Brazil's first lady
@JanjaLula
.
"At the end of the war in Ukraine, the only guarantee for peace is NATO."
In an interview with Le Monde, Estonian PM Kaja Kallas reiterated her support for Ukraine 🇪🇪🇺🇦.
Read more by
@SylvieKauffmann
and
@Phjacque
Welcome to “Le Monde in English”! The English version of French leading news media “Le Monde”. Here, you will be able to follow global news, culture, politics and more, from a unique perspective.
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2022 French presidential election: Emmanuel
#Macron
wins 58.8% of the votes compared to 41.2% for far-right candidate Marine
#LePen
, according to projections by Ipsos-Sopra Steria for France Télévisions and Radio France, updated at 9.44 p.m. Paris time.
𝕷𝖊 𝕸𝖔𝖓𝖉𝖊 Editorial | Azerbaijan's blockade of Nagorno-Karabakh must end
Baku's closure of the only corridor linking Nagorno-Karabakh to Armenia is a tremendous political error and a challenge to the most elementary rules of international law.
Economy: "125 million Brazilians are dealing with food and hunger problems, out of an estimated total population of 213.3 million."
#Brazil
is facing the return of
#hunger
| By
@anmexico
2022 French presidential election: His re-election is a triumph of firsts, but
#Macron
has a lot of work ahead of him in uniting a country riven by political divisions | By
@Gil_Paris
2022 French presidential election: Far-right leader Marine
#LePen
has conceded defeat in the second round, handing victory to incumbent Emmanuel
#Macron
. She lost in a tight race.
In Nagorno-Karabakh, Azerbaijan is using hunger as a weapon.
The humanitarian crisis affecting Armenians has worsened considerably over the summer, since Azerbaijan blocked access to the disputed enclave.
2022 French presidential election: Emmanuel
#Macron
was re-elected on Sunday, against a background of almost record levels of abstention and a far right that obtained more than 40% of the vote for the first time | By
@olivierfaye
COLUMN | Sitting president
#Macron
has won France's presidential election for the second time. 'Le Monde' columnist
@Gil_Paris
explains what his victory means for
#France
and for
#Europe
.
🇫🇷 French election results |The Nouveau Front Populaire left-wing alliance is projected to win between 172 and 192 seats in the Assemblée Nationale, ahead of Macron's coalition (150-170) and the far-right RN (132-152).
See the full seat projections ⬇️
🇫🇷🗳️ French elections | France's left-wing NFP alliance is expected to win the most seats in the Assemblée Nationale after the second round of snap elections, slightly ahead of Macron's coalition and well ahead of the far-right RN.
Read more ⤵️
Video investigation: How a French company is supporting Russia's war effort in Ukraine.
Watch Le Monde's investigation, with
@bellingcat
and
@InsiderEng
, into how two French companies supply goods to Russian armed forces on the Ukrainian front.
🇫🇷🌊
#Paris
mayor Anne Hidalgo took a dip in the
#Seine
on Wednesday, fulfilling her promise of swimming in the cleaned-up river just days before the Olympic Games ⬇️
@Teebo_m
@aline_leclerc
@romaingeoffroy
French pension reform strikes 🇫🇷 | From Paris to Nice and Bayonne, French workers nationwide are walking off the job Tuesday in protest of the govt's pension reform.
The secretary general of France's largest labor union hailed a "historic mobilization" "better than January 31."
France has banned domestic flights possible in less than 2.5 hours by train 🇫🇷✈️.
The change will mostly rule out air trips between Paris and regional hubs such as Nantes, Lyon and Bordeaux.
EDITORIAL. A victory for Marine Le Pen would cause an irreversible shift of France toward a model marked by factionalism, isolation and violence, while lacking solutions for social, geopolitical and climate crises, warns the director of 'Le Monde,' ...
Gabriel Attal has been named France's youngest prime minister 🇫🇷.
The 34-year-old, who has served as the government's Education Minister since July 2023, is also France's first gay prime minister.
Read more:
In Tigray, Ethiopian women face a horrific choice: "To die or to be raped."
Aid organizations have estimated that 15% of women contracted HIV during the civil war against the region's rebels and its occupation.
By
@noehochet
:
"I miss Nagorno-Karabakh so much": The new life of refugees in Armenia
The 100,000 residents of the former separatist enclave are still in shock as they try to rebuild their lives after losing their territory to Azerbaijan in September.
By
@faustvincent
:
𝗢𝗣-𝗘𝗗 | 'It is in the EU's own interest to contribute to Taiwan's democratic resilience' 🇪🇺🇹🇼
The war in Ukraine has taught Europe that failure to counter the threats of authoritarian regimes comes at a high price, warns academic
@zsuzsettte
.
2022 French presidential election: the first projections of the second round opposing Emmanuel
#Macron
and Marine
#LePen
will be available here in 30 minutes, at 8p.m. Paris time.
Jane Birkin, singer and actress, has died at 76 in Paris.
The British-born artist found fame in France, after meeting the singer Serge Gainsbourg. Their song 'Je t'aime... moi non plus' made her famous worldwide.
Read Le Monde's obituary by
@mortaigne
⬇️
🇫🇷 French elections: With 34% of the vote together with its allies, according to initial estimates, the far-right party Rassemblement National almost doubled its score from the 2022 elections, as it hopes to conquer power for the first time.
2022 French presidential election: Marine Le Pen qualifies for the run-off, partly due to the candidacy of Eric Zemmour who made her appear almost moderate despite her political program going against fundamental democratic principles | by
@Gil_Paris
The French
#baguette
has been given world heritage status by UNESCO.
More than six billion
#baguettes
are baked each year in France and the UN agency inscribed the tradition in its "intangible cultural heritage" list. 🥖🇫🇷
Jean-Luc Godard's death means the loss of one of the greatest filmmakers of all time, one with a sphere of influence that very few French filmmakers ever reached. Read his obituary by
@jamandelbaum
@DarameMariama
@Jer_Lamothe
@Teebo_m
@BertrandBissuel
French pension reform 🇫🇷 | President Macron has decided to force his government's pension bill through the Assemblée Nationale with no vote.
The Council of Ministers triggered Article 49.3 of the Constitution, enabling the government to bypass lawmakers.
#Paris
and its iconic bouquinistes are clashing over the Olympics 🇫🇷📚.
Booksellers along the banks of the Seine refuse to see their bookstalls removed during next year's Games.
"Making us disappear is as absurd as dismantling the Eiffel Tower."
#UberFiles
- Le Monde,
@ICIJorg
and 42 partner media outlets investigated thousands of internal Uber documents passed on to
@guardian
by an anonymous source. They illustrate how a company can use colossal means to change the law to its advantage
2022 French presidential election: European leaders expressed their relief after Emmanuel
#Macron
's reelection. Many in Europe had worried that Marine
#LePen
would undermine European unity.
In Ethiopia's Tigray region, the wounds of war remain raw.
Four months after the peace agreement was signed in Pretoria, Tigrayans bear witness to the violence they suffered at the hands of Ethiopian, Eritrean and Amhara forces.
✍️
@noehochet
Social media posts claim to show demonstrations against Ukraine and NATO in Paris, Brussels, The Hague and beyond.
Internal documents from Russian intelligence services, obtained by Le Monde and its partners, show that they were staged by Russia.
Robert Badinter, who abolished the death penalty in France, has died at age 95.
The intangible, universal vision of human rights held by the former justice minister permeated his writings and opinions until the end of his life.
Read Le Monde's obituary.
'40 beheaded babies': Deconstructing the rumor at the heart of the information battle between Israel and Hamas
On October 10, official Israeli accounts relayed a sordid but unfounded allegation. How did it come about? Read Le Monde's investigation ⤵️
🇮🇪 In Ireland, one of Europe's most pro-Palestinian countries, support for Gaza has taken on unprecedented proportions.
"There's a historical link between Palestine and Ireland: We had the same oppressor, the British Empire, and the same occupation plan."
Russian oligarchs Boris and Arkady Rotenberg have evaded sanctions with often rudimentary methods.
Despite sanctions by the EU and the US, the two brothers, have still managed to preserve their economic empire.
By
@decodeurs
,
@Abdelhak_E
:
𝐎𝐩-𝐞𝐝 | '𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐅𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐡 𝐀𝐫𝐦𝐲 𝐢𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐲.'
France's chief of Army Staff Pierre Schill writes that at a time when crises are proliferating, France, as a NATO framework nation, has major assets.
Read more here ⤵️
French pension protests 🇫🇷 | Trains are canceled and refineries are at a standstill while demonstrators fill the streets across France on the first official day of strikes and protests since Macron forced through his pension reform without a vote.
𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗳𝗶𝗹𝗲 | Hagai El-Ad, the disillusioned prophet who denounced Israel's 'apartheid regime'
After years heading rights organization B'Tselem, the activist
@HagaiElAd
is stepping down, aware of the limits of what he can do in defense of Palestine.
🔴 Breaking | Alexei Navalny, Russian activist and main opponent to Vladimir Putin, has died, a Russian prison service said on Friday.
Read Le Monde's coverage:
French pension reform 🇫🇷 | Fearing his bill would be rejected, Macron used Article 49.3 of the French Constitution to push his reform through parliament - revealing both the French president's weakness and his political isolation.
✍️
@Matgoa
🇫🇷 French elections | Second round turnout at highest in four decades
59.71% of French voters had turned out to vote by 5 pm, slightly more than in the first round a week ago, when voters had already turned out in large numbers.
𝕷𝖊 𝕸𝖔𝖓𝖉𝖊 Editorial | Ethiopia's hidden famine needs national and global attention
Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed refuses to acknowledge the serious food crisis affecting Tigray, in the north of the country.
Books: "Silent Spring" was the result of a meticulous 10-year investigation led by marine biologist
#RachelCarson
, pioneer of political
#environmentalism
and 'the first great whistleblower' | By
@FaureValentine
In Gaza's hospitals, overwhelmed doctors can no longer try to heal: 'We cut...'
Humanitarian doctor Raphaël Pitti has worked in hospitals in wartorn Syria and Ukraine. In an interview, he says he has never seen a level of chaos comparable to Gaza today.
Françoise Hardy, French singer and pop culture icon, died at age 80 on June 11.
The star of the yéyé years leaves a legacy of masterpieces for French chanson.
Read Le Monde's obituary.
France is set to make
#abortion
a constitutional right 🇫🇷.
Lawmakers will meet in Versailles on Monday for the final vote on anchoring the right to abortion in the Constitution. The 3/5 majority needed to validate the reform looks almost guaranteed.
Eighty years ago, French police arrested 13,152 Jews in Paris, in what became known as the Vél' d'Hiv Roundup.
We revisit this shameful page of French history through the accounts of survivors like Paulette, Bernard and Nathan, who managed to escape.
Gérard Depardieu: The decline of a sacred monster of French cinema 🎬🇫🇷
Depardieu's behavior toward women, long tolerated by the industry, has now earned him serious accusations and isolated him.
Le Monde investigated the famed actor's past.
From Paris to Marseille, France's cities are facing creeping
#gentrification
🇫🇷🏡.
Soaring property prices and 'Airbnbization' are transforming urban areas, risking the exclusion of certain populations.
Read part 1/8 of our 'Europe Gentrified' series ⬇️
2022 French presidential election: with 28.1% of the vote, France's incumbent president Emmanuel Macron has qualified for the second round of the French presidential election, on Sunday April 10th, along with far-right candidate Marine Le Pen (23.3%).
🇹🇷 Turkey's local elections: Sweeping victory for the opposition is stinging defeat for Erdogan
Less than a year after reappointing Erdogan and his AKP party, Turkey handed the presidential majority a severe defeat in the municipal elections on Sunday.
🇫🇷 The French left, including the Greens and La France Insoumise, has agreed to form a new 'Popular Front' in the upcoming parliamentary elections.
But the question of who will lead the alliance into the battle of Macron's snap elections remains.
@ICIJorg
@guardian
#Uber
Files - The company paid experts including French economists Nicolas Bouzou and Augustin Landier to conduct custom studies and come to its defense in the media
🇮🇱 Israel's shadow war against the ICC, between threats and surveillance
For almost a decade, Israel's intelligence services have deployed clandestine actions aimed at dissuading the International Criminal Court from prosecuting its leaders.
France is one step closer to enshrining
#abortion
'freedom' in the Constitution 🇫🇷.
The Senate voted 267 to 50 to approve the bill to make abortion a constitutional 'freedom'. Macron will call a joint session of Parliament on March 4 for a final vote.
On the Champ-de-Mars, at the bottom of the Eiffel Tower, supporters of the incumbent president, waving French and European flags, celebrated the outcome with joy, but also relief.
Descendants of Paris' human zoo victims are asking for restitution of the bodies.
8 Kalina people from French Guiana who died in 1892 are currently held in national collections. Their remains could now be returned to their homeland.
✍️
@nathalieguiber
Le Monde in English celebrates one year today🗞️🇫🇷🇺🇸🇬🇧!
Since our launch in April 2022, we've published a selection of articles, videos and more in English that reflect the richness of Le Monde's journalism.
Read editor-in-chief
@Elvire_Camus
's op-ed✍️
It's not a surprise that the incumbent candidate President Emmanuel Macron made it through the first election round, but it will be a challenge for him to be elected for a second term | by
@Gil_Paris
Philippe de Gaulle, son of Charles de Gaulle, has died aged 102.
His father was the leader of the French Resistance in WWII and later the president of France. Despite a distinguished career, he lived much of his life in his father's shadow.
Read more:
Paris Fashion Week 🇫🇷 | For many years, the world of fashion has been dominated by male designers projecting their fantasy of the ideal woman.
But what happens when women design for women?
✍️
@elvirevonvon
&
@MaudGabrielson
Milan Kundera, the existential novelist, has died.
A tireless champion of the novel and fiction's, the Czech novelist with a complex personal and intellectual history, who became a naturalized French citizen in 1981, died on July 11, at the age of 94.
Transgender Russians are Putin's latest victims 🇷🇺.
Since the outbreak of war in Ukraine,
#transgender
people have been regarded as internal enemies. A bill introduced May 31 would ban changing one's identity or hormone treatment.
Article by
@benvtk
The French government is heavily relying on police and local authorities to quell protests, leading to controversial decisions like the use of drones or decrees based on anti-terrorist legislation.
✍️
@ITrippenbach