#MeToo in the French military: Female soldiers speak out

French female soldiers are speaking out about the sexual violence they have suffered in the course of their duties, and the armed forces are struggling to stay on top of a growing movement. Le Monde found that women are being penalized, while their alleged attackers remain in post.

Gendarmerie officers depart from a police station on an armoured vehicle in Noumea, France's Pacific territory of New Caledonia, on May 18, 2024.

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Emmanuel Macron and Xi Jinping in Paris, May 6, 2024.

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Jean Pisani-Ferry: 'The danger is a growing divergence between the US and Europe on the China issue'

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Parents' climate guilt: 'I can't explain my inconsistencies to myself nor to my children'

Climate change is forcing us to look to the future. For some parents, it's time to address their environmental debt to their children.

Laurent Van der Stockt

Ukraine's post-25 enlistment policy aims to 'protect the country's future'

Due to declining demographics, the country has chosen not to draft 18-25-year-olds into the armed forces. The average age in the armed forces is over 40.

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The Quentin Dupieux method: Anything but absurd

In almost 20 years and with 13 feature-length films, Quentin Dupieux has become a heavyweight in French cinema, thanks to an effective formula: short, inexpensive films shot at breakneck speed with a dream cast. His latest, 'Le Deuxième Acte' ('The Second Act'), which stars Léa Seydoux, Louis Garrel, Raphaël Quenard and Vincent Lindon, opened the Cannes Film Festival on May 14.

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Pierre Barthélémy

Archaeologists uncover the lives of WWII refugees in an underground quarry in northwestern France

During the Allied bombings from June 6 to late July 1944, hundreds of Caen residents took refuge in the Saingt quarry. Now abandoned and largely intact, it is a playground for archeologists, who have turned it into a conservation space and a laboratory for their methods.

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The 'peace conference' is scheduled to take place at the Bürgenstock resort, perched high above Lake Lucerne in Switzerland.

A Swiss summit for an unlikely peace in Ukraine

Decathlete Kevin Mayer carries the flame in Montpellier on Monday May 13.

Paris 2024: Olympic torch relay begins with popular success

UN says 800,000 people displaced since start of Israel's Rafah incursion

Nickel extraction equipment as the mothballing phase of the Vavouto site is launched, near Koné in New Caledonia, on February 28, 2024.

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For Palestinian citizens of Israel, commemorations of 1948 Nakba come with stigma

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Georgia's president vetoes 'foreign influence' law, but Parliament can override

Three Spanish tourists and three Afghans killed in shooting in Afghanistan

New Caledonia removed from Olympic torch's route following unrest

Xi and Putin: A far from self-evident friendship

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New Caledonia: Why are there so many guns in the French Pacific territory?

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Six questions to understand the crisis in New Caledonia

Tensions in the French overseas territory exploded on May 13, leaving 5 people dead and dozens injured four days later. The government declared a state of emergency on May 15.

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Former Georgian president Saakashvili: 'The Russians want to take revenge'

The imprisoned former president and opposition leader writes to Le Monde about Georgia's controversial 'foreign influence' law.

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Ten French exhibitions to celebrate 150 years of Impressionism

Seascapes and children's faces, neon lights and airship flights above abstraction: Le Monde's critics have selected 10 must-see places to immerse yourself in the color and light of Impressionism.

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