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  • Emmanuel Macron and Teddy Riner at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, on August 2, 2024. - MARTIN BUREAU/AFP
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    Why Macron threw his support behind judoka Teddy Riner's presidential bid

    Riner's candidacy is a blessing in disguise for the outgoing president, who hasn't yet formally backed either of his former prime ministers currently running.

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    Historic protest route through central Paris comes under scrutiny

    By pushing demonstrators to the fringes of the capital on October 24 and 31, the Police Prefecture disrupted a geography that dates back to the 1930s. What began as a matter of public safety has also become a battle over image and visibility.

    By Julie Carriat
  • Scott Colom speaks with staff at his campaign office in Jackson, Mississippi, Wednesday, November 11, 2026. - ELLEN SCHMIDT/AP PHOTO/ELLEN SCHMIDT
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    Democrat Scott Colom flips Mississippi Senate seat, becomes state's first Black senator since Reconstruction

    The last time Mississippi chose a new Democratic senator was 1947, and the winner then was a staunch segregationist. Colom, a 43 year-old local prosecutor, capitalized on the state’s large Black population, discontent with the economy and his predecessor's missteps as she sought a second full term.

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      US midterms: Maps and results of the House, Senate and gubernatorial elections

  • Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang in San Francisco, California, on September 15, 2026. - CARLOS BARRIA/REUTERS
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    Nvidia CEO faces allegations of second affair with employee after ties to Chinese woman suspected of espionage

    The Wall Street Journal reported that the board of directors was preparing, on Wednesday evening, to dismiss Jensen Huang, the founder of the chip-making giant at the heart of the artificial intelligence revolution.

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      A Chinese spy, a chip war and Trump's indifference: How Nvidia became caught in an international scandal

    • Chinese woman accused of spying on Nvidia chief entered Taiwan 8 times

  • Russian presidential envoy Kirill Dmitriev greets US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, US President Donald Trump's son-in-law, upon their arrival at Vnukovo International Airport in Moscow, Russia, November 12, 2026.  - ACQUIRED BY REUTERS/HANDOUT/VIA REUTERS
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    US envoys arrive in Russia for Putin meeting after Ukraine talks

    US President Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner and businessman Steve Witkoff will meet in Moscow with Vladimir Putin before flying to Dublin to debrief with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who was in the Irish capital to meet with European leaders.

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      Merz threatens to cut EU funds for member states that don't support Ukraine

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    The outcome of the US and Israeli elections are intertwined. Here's how

    The October 27 parliamentary vote in Israel dealt a blow to Benjamin Netanyahu's policies. Eight days later, Israel's tarnished image in the US – its historic ally – played to the advantage of the Democrats in the midterm elections.

    By Isabelle Mandraud
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      Jean-Marie Guéhenno, former diplomat: 'The midterms mark a historic turning point for Israel'

      By Jean-Marie Guéhenno
      former United Nations under-secretary-general
  • US representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, at the Munich Security Conference, on February 13, 2026. - LIESA JOHANNSSEN/REUTERS
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    'Democrats now have two years to draw up a new foreign policy from a field of ruins'

    By Gilles Paris
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  • Protesters in Madrid during a general strike, November 11, 2026. - SUSANA VERA/REUTERS
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    Spain's nationwide strike erupts amid housing crisis and anger over shrinking purchasing power

  • Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, in Moscow, November 10, 2026. - IGOR IVANKO/AFP
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    Four French journalists and MPs banned from entering Russia, marking new low in Paris-Moscow relations

    • US envoys arrive in Russia for Putin meeting after Ukraine talks

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      Why France issued an expulsion order against Russian propagandist Xenia Fedorova

  • CEO of Palantir Technologies Alex Karp, in Sun Valley, Idaho, on July 10, 2024. - BRENDAN MCDERMID/REUTERS
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    Why exactly did Palantir CEO Alex Karp buy a Swedish forest?

  • First responders work the scene after a three-story building collapsed in the Brooklyn borough of New York on November 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Ryan Murphy) - RYAN MURPHY/AP PHOTO/RYAN MURPHY

    Building collapses in Brooklyn, killing 2 and trapping people in wreckage

  • Alexander Darchiev, in Moscow, on November 25, 2024. - DMITRY DUKHANIN/VIA REUTERS

    Russia's ambassador to the US Alexander Darchiev dies 'suddenly' in Moscow

  • Police officers inspect a classroom in an elementary school after it was evacuated following a bomb threat, in Rome, on November 11, 2026. - FRANCESCO FOTIA/REUTERS
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    Schools in Italy, Scotland and Ireland targeted by bomb threats

  • Supporters invade the pitch of the Stade de France stadium at the end of the international friendly soccer match between France and Germany after explosions were heard nearby, in Saint-Denis, outside Paris, on November 13, 2015. - CHRISTOPHE ENA/AP

    Stade de France to host France rugby match on Paris attack anniversary

  • Palestinians inspect burned cars following an overnight attack by Israeli settlers who, according to residents, set fire to a car junkyard and a car repair shop in the West Bank village of Lubban al-Sharqiya, on November 11, 2026. - LEO CORREA/AP PHOTO/LEO CORREA

    Israeli settler representative Yossi Dagan turned back after landing at Paris airport

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  • From left to right: Yaël Braun-Pivet, president of the Assemblée Nationale; Catherine Vautrin, minister of the armed forces; Boris Pistorius, German defense minister; and Julia Klöckner, president of the Bundestag, in Berlin, on November 9, 2026. - TOBIAS SCHWARZ/AFP
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    The dashed hopes for French-German cooperation under Macron, from tanks to fighter jets

    By Elsa Conesa and Olivier Faye
  • A combine harvester with a Russian flag in a field near the city of Starobilsk, Luhansk, Ukraine, an area under Russian control, on July 9, 2025. - ALEXANDER ERMOCHENKO/REUTERS
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    The grain war between Ukraine and Russia

    By Benjamin Quénelle, Samuel Forey and Thomas d’Istria
  • At the La France Insoumise convention in Le Bourget on November 7, 2026. - MARIE MAGNIN/DIVERGENCE FOR LE MONDE

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    'Beyond Le Pen and Mélenchon, France's political landscape resembles a murky swamp'

    By Solenn de Royer

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    'The American revolt against data centers shook up the midterms like no other environmental issue has before'

    The data centers' massive expansion in the United States influenced, at least in part, American voting decisions during the November 3 midterm elections, writes Le Monde's Stéphane Foucart in his column.

    By Stéphane Foucart
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    Jean-Marie Guéhenno, former diplomat: 'The midterms mark a historic turning point for Israel'

    The changing relationship between the US and Israel following the midterm elections is likely to force Israel to rethink its approach toward its neighbors, the former United Nations under-secretary-general writes.

    By Jean-Marie Guéhenno
    former United Nations under-secretary-general
  • Editorial

    Mélenchon's foreign policy proposals would weaken France

    Steeped in a Cold War-era worldview, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, candidate for La France Insoumise in the 2027 presidential election, makes 'non-alignment' the guiding principle for France's foreign policy.

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French Delights

  • Antonin Baudry at the Cannes Film Festival, May 20, 2026. - JULIE SEBADELHA/AFP
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    Antonin Baudry at the Cannes Film Festival, May 20, 2026. - JULIE SEBADELHA/AFP

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    Antonin Baudry, director of 'De Gaulle': 'To make films, I took a leap into the unknown'

    The former French diplomat looks back on his decision to change careers.

    JULIE SEBADELHA/AFP
  • 'Little Girl in a Blue Armchair,' oil on canvas by Mary Cassatt, 1878. - NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART
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    'Little Girl in a Blue Armchair,' oil on canvas by Mary Cassatt, 1878. - NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART
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    Impressionist Mary Cassatt emerges from obscurity at the Musée d'Orsay

    Celebrated in the US, where her paintings are part of the collective imagination, the American painter who spent most of her life in France remains little known in her adopted country. One hundred years after her death, the artist whose work Edgar Degas admired is the subject of a major exhibition in Paris.

    NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART
  • The Codex Azcatitlan, a 16th-century illustrated manuscript that tells the history of the Mexica, or Aztecs, goes on display at the Museo Nacional de Antropología in Mexico City on September 17, 2026. - BARFLY/FOTOS/MEXICOFRANCIA2026
    BARFLY/FOTOS/MEXICOFRANCIA2026
    The Codex Azcatitlan, a 16th-century illustrated manuscript that tells the history of the Mexica, or Aztecs, goes on display at the Museo Nacional de Antropología in Mexico City on September 17, 2026. - BARFLY/FOTOS/MEXICOFRANCIA2026

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    France and Mexico seek to smooth disagreements as they mark 200 years of ties

    After a period of tension over the restitution of archaeological objects and cultural appropriation, the two countries are marking the bicentennial of their diplomatic relations with a desire for reconciliation.

    BARFLY/FOTOS/MEXICOFRANCIA2026

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  • Financier Jeffrey Epstein spent large sums of money and effort to develop his relationship with filmmaker Woody Allen. - LE MONDE

    Video investigation

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    How Jeffrey Epstein used Woody Allen to expand his network

    By Adrien Vande Casteele, Elvire Camus, Gabriel Lecointre and Marc Bettinelli
  • Emmanuel Marre analyzes the first scene of his film 'Notre Salut'. - LE MONDE

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    'A Man of His Time': Director Emmanuel Marre breaks down his film's opening scene

    By Diana Liu and Marceau Bretonnier
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    The fragmentation of Israel's Knesset over 50 years, and how it benefited the nationalist right

    By Delphine Papin, Eric Dedier, Flavie Holzinger, Francesca Fattori, Gilles Paris and Riccardo Pravettoni

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