Opinion

In the Japanese film Egoist, Kōsuke dries Ryūta's hair, like one tames a silence. The romance begins with a transaction, shifts towards attachment, and stumbles over money. Here, Daishi Matsunaga's camera lets the gestures speak. The melodrama seeps in, discreet and persistent.

Culture

Egoist, a Japanese LGBTQ+ melodrama of elegant longing

2025-10-13

48 hours to find a Prime Minister and avoid dissolution: Matignon awaits its leader, the Republic holds its breath.

Society

France set to name a new Prime Minister within 48 hours

2025-10-09

Robert Badinter, the face of humanist justice. The lawyer who abolished the death penalty, serving a Republic of law.

Society

Badinter grave vandalized; Panthéon ceremony goes ahead in Paris

2025-10-09

Under the cold glow of the Champs-Élysées, Nawell Madani walks with a closed expression. This photo, above all, tells the story of a celebrity's solitude captured by the public eye. It is in this bright and mundane setting that an action, in just a few seconds, potentially falls under the Penal Code regarding violence against minors. The image here conveys the ambivalence between visibility and vulnerability.

Society

Nawell Madani case: inquiry for violence against a minor in Paris

2025-10-09

At the heart of the October 7, 2025 crisis, Emmanuel Macron is consulting and biding his time. Neither resignation nor a surprise presidential election: he is seeking the political seam that will save the 2026 budget. Between Attal's method and Philippe's gamble, the decision is narrowing.

Society

France political crisis 2025: Attal seeks compromise, Philippe wants a vote

2025-10-07

The RN takes the lead with 33 to 35%: the gap widens from the first round. Below 20%, the second place becomes the real primary, where Philippe, Glucksmann, and Mélenchon intersect. Ifop-Fiducial poll from September 24-25, 2025: a snapshot of the moment, not a prophecy. Online method, n = 1,127: read with the margin of error and the required caution.

Culture

2027 French presidential poll: RN widens lead; sprint for second

2025-09-30

Nicolas Sarkozy before the Paris court: 2025 verdict — five years in prison and provisional execution in the Libyan financing case.

Society

Libya financing: Nicolas Sarkozy found guilty, five-year sentence with immediate enforcement

2025-09-25

Ziad Takieddine, 75 years old, passed away in Beirut on September 23, 2025, two days before the verdict in the Sarkozy trial for Libyan financing.

Society

Ziad Takieddine dies in Beirut, 48 hours before the Paris verdict in Sarkozy’s alleged Libyan financing case

2025-09-24

Recognition Day at the UN. Town halls raise the flag. Prefects in summary proceedings for neutrality. A country between gestures and law.

Society

France recognizes Palestine; flags raised at city halls

2025-09-22

Strike of September 18, 2025: €43.8 billion in savings for the 2026 budget, Matignon promises dialogue, the inter-union coalition intensifies the standoff.

Society

France’s Sept 18, 2025 strike: turnout dispute and what’s next

2025-09-19

Donald Trump, President of the United States, alongside the late Charlie Kirk, founder of Turning Point USA. On September 17, 2025, Trump announced his intention to classify Antifa as a terrorist organization during a state visit to the United Kingdom. This announcement came a week after the assassination of Kirk in Orem, Utah, who was elevated to the status of a martyr by the White House to justify a tightening of domestic security. This political move has a disputed legal scope: federal law does not provide for the designation of domestic entities, risking a clash with the freedoms protected by the First Amendment.

Society

Trump seeks to designate Antifa a terrorist organization

2025-09-18

Latest Warren investigation: the haunted house becomes a family theater, between cursed mirror and restrained farewells.

Culture

The Conjuring 4: Last Rites — cast, crew and a family-scale haunted house farewell

2025-09-11