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Society

Fuel prices falling in France: E.Leclerc promises up to 30 euro cents off

2026-03-12

On March 10, 2026, Bam Adebayo scored 83 points for Miami, enough to enter basketball history. But behind the individual feat, another question arises. What does a major league owe its fans when it benefits from legal advantages, massive broadcast deals, and sometimes public money around its venues?

Sport

Bam Adebayo’s 83-point game raises questions about antitrust, TV rights, and public money

2026-03-11

Donald Trump returns to the forefront of the Iran file with an old sanctions image, as if the current war continued an earlier confrontation of pressure and threats. On March 9, 2026, he asserted the conflict was ‘almost over’. Yet on March 10, bombs keep falling and doubt deepens.

Society

Trump says the Iran war is nearly over as US strikes intensify

2026-03-10

A driver pauses by her car in a mundane moment that now feels like hesitation. Daily travel is no longer a calm automatic act but an expense observed, weighed, and sometimes postponed. The image expresses a simple, very French reality of the moment: the price per liter intrudes into the intimacy of ordinary choices.

Society

Fuel prices in France surge as Middle East tensions rattle oil markets

2026-03-10

At 8 p.m. on March 3, 2026, the Élysée closed the shutters and opened the stage: a lone President, steady voice, war at Europe’s doorstep. He announced the departure of the Charles de Gaulle and the dispatch of reinforcements, in the name of a line: protect the French, uphold agreements, do not tip over. Between condemnation as ‘outside international law’ and the naming of Tehran, the speech walked a diplomatic ridge. Beneath the gravity, a more private worry surfaced: energy, evacuations, and the fear of an escalation that answers to no one.

Society

France Shifts to a Defensive Posture After U.S. and Israeli Strikes on Iran

2026-03-04

On the screens at the Paris Stock Exchange, red settles in like a warning light, underscoring the session’s main idea: markets do not just speculate on numbers; they react to collective fear, energy dependencies and the sense that history is creeping into balance sheets.

Society

CAC 40: A Red Monday as War Turns Into an Energy Bill

2026-03-02

June 2015, a handshake and a diplomatic setting, as if public action had found its ideal patron. The face is calm, the posture controlled, the man already moved from software to global causes. This photo of Bill Gates, long reassuring, now takes on another light, that of a narrative shaken by a contested association. It recalls that in global philanthropy, Bill Gates’s image is never a mere reflection but a fragile promise.

Culture

Bill Gates and Jeffrey Epstein: testing the Gates Foundation’s credibility

2026-02-26

A calm face, a clear decision: Laurence des Cars chooses the exit amid a national storm. On February 24, 2026, she submitted her resignation to Emmanuel Macron, who accepted it in the name of ‘appeasement’. Four months after the burglary at the Louvre and the theft of the jewels, the Louvre’s crises had piled up like rubble. Security, workplace climate, massive projects: the world’s leading museum seeks a new compass.

Culture

Laurence des Cars steps down as the Louvre faces a security crisis

2026-02-26

Culture

France corporate income tax debate reignites after Mercier-Arnault’s RTL remarks

2026-02-23

In Tapalpa, the hunt for a ghostly leader turns into a state event. The disappearance of ‘El Mencho’ creates a vacuum at the top of the CJNG. Within hours, roads burn, towns freeze, and the economy retracts. Mexico realizes that the war against the cartels is also fought over authority.

Society

Mexico: El Mencho’s death sparks CJNG retaliation, tests Sheinbaum

2026-02-23

Chinatown, New York: a Chinese New Year dragon cuts through the street and sets the neighborhood’s tempo. In diasporas the date doesn’t simply ‘fall’: it’s decided, announced, organized. On 02/17/2026 the Moon acts as a metronome for two different calendars and millions of schedules. One night, three social effects: celebration, mass mobility, and waiting for a religious ruling.

Society

Feb 17, 2026: New Moon, Chinese New Year date, and the Ramadan Night of Doubt

2026-02-17

Society

Emmanuel Millard: Governing Means Making Trade-Offs

2026-02-16