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In close-up, Bernard Cazeneuve offers a slight smile behind his glasses. The former prime minister now takes a harsh view of the US strategy in Iran. Credits: Jérémy Barande / École polytechnique Université Paris-Saclay / CC BY-SA 2.0.

Society

France’s former prime minister Bernard Cazeneuve blames Trump’s strategy for widening today’s war with Iran

2026-07-20

Illustration of Crew Dragon and Falcon 9 during SpaceX’s in-flight abort test. This image highlights the continuity of the company’s flight programs. Credit: Public Domain / SpaceX, CC0 1.0.

Science

After the T-0 abort, SpaceX swaps two Raptor engines and prepares Starship for another launch attempt in Texas

2026-07-17

Facing the camera, Giorgia Meloni poses for her official 2024 portrait. The institutional image accompanies a debate in which the Prime Minister is playing a decisive hand for 2027. Credits: Governo Italiano / Wikimedia Commons, Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Italy (CC BY 3.0 IT).

Society

How Italy’s 42% threshold could give Meloni’s coalition a 105-seat bonus without guaranteeing victory in 2027

2026-07-17

Zohran Mamdani at Caveat in New York on May 25, 2025. His face became the symbol of city guidance during the July 2026 Canadian smoke episode. Credits: Bryan Berlin / Wikimedia Commons, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Science

New York air quality turns very unhealthy as Ontario wildfire smoke pushes the AQI past 200 in some areas

2026-07-17

In a foundry, workers handle molten metal, far from the roadwork at the center of the investigation. This scene illustrates the risks linked to flying sparks. Credits: Volcanicaa / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Society

After the Fontainebleau forest fire, investigators trace how A6 roadwork may have sparked the initial blaze

2026-07-17

Matt Damon at the Venice Film Festival in 2009. The actor here wears the face of Odysseus, a hero worn down by war and the return journey. Credits: Nicolas Genin; cropped by Zerorules677 / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Culture

Christopher Nolan takes on Homer : what IMAX gains and loses in Odysseus’s epic journey back home to Ithaca

2026-07-16

In the Eastern Pacific, a response team secures a semi-submersible loaded with cocaine. The black vessel barely breaks the surface under the watchful eyes of the officers. Credits: Public domain / Defense Visual Information Distribution Service (DVIDS).

Society

From Madeira to the Azores, Galgo and Azul 2.0 expose the Atlantic cocaine relay moving toward Europe today

2026-07-16

A humanoid android stands in a lit-up Chinese metropolis. Between fiction and simulated presence, it embodies the ambiguities of the virtual companion. Credits: Easy-Peasy.AI, CC BY 4.0 — AI-generated image.

Science

Doubao and Qwen disable custom agents as Beijing regulates virtual intimacy, dependence and personal data

2026-07-16

Gabriel Attal poses facing the camera in the Quatre-Colonnes Garden of the Palais Bourbon on June 21, 2017. The foliage softens this frontal portrait of the future Prime Minister. Credits: Antoine Lamielle / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0.

Society

Did Attal’s 2024 budget cuts leave France two firefighting aircraft short during the Fontainebleau fires ?

2026-07-16

In Cannes in May 2015, Natalie Portman poses before photographers, her gaze calm and her bearing poised. A cinematic image for an actress now honored by France. Credits: Georges Biard / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 3.0.

Culture

France’s 2026 Legion of Honor decree names Natalie Portman but leaves the reasons for her award unexplained

2026-07-15

Yellow helmet and fixed gaze, this AI-generated firefighter captures the tension of a case where every responsibility still has to be established. Illustrative image. Credits: Photo AI, image generated with AI assistance — CC BY 4.0 — free to use with backlink to Photo AI.

Society

What the Fontainebleau Wildfire Inquiry Establishes About One Volunteer Firefighter and Separate Fire Sites

2026-07-15

Celine Dion lights up Montreal’s Centre Bell in August 2008 during ‘Taking Chances’. In the blue glow, the singer reaches out to the audience, microphone held close. Credits: Anirudh Koul / CC BY 2.0, Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0).

Culture

Celine Dion steps before Antonijevic’s lens as her Paris comeback nears, but the shoot’s purpose is unknown

2026-07-15