News from Le Monde
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THEO GIACOMETTI/HANS LUCAS FOR LE MONDE As student organizations called for workers' support, labor unions urged people across France to strike and demonstrate on Thursday. Their demands include higher wages, protecting public services and defending the right to protest.
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BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP Hoping to secure the Republican nomination for the 2028 presidential election, the US vice president said on Wednesday that Trump's war in Iran was the main reason behind the Democratic landslide.
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Column
After two years of a Congress firmly in Donald Trump's grasp, Americans chose to return to the system envisioned by the Founding Fathers, writes Le Monde columnist Alain Frachon.
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IGOR IVANK/AFP By demanding greater transparency from the White House in its business dealings with Moscow and launching investigations into US support for Kyiv, the Democratic majority in Congress could help rebalance Washington's stance.
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ADRIENNE SURPRENANT/MYOP FOR LE MONDE An event on Wednesday was interrupted by activists and marked by the refusal to admit journalists who broke the story. The president of Marine Le Pen's party denies having made the comments.
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AURELIEN MORISSARD/AFP French President Emmanuel Macron believes that only a broad alliance within the political center can prevent a Le Pen-Mélenchon runoff in the second round of the presidential election.
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Opinion Opinion
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Column
Democrats know that they did not so much win on November 3 as Trump lost, and that their party's own image is dismal, writes Le Monde columnist Gilles Paris.
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Editorial
The US president squandered his political capital by going back on many of his 2024 campaign promises. But the November 3 vote was more a reaction to Americans' struggles with the cost of living than to the worrying attacks on the rule of law that the Republican has carried out since returning to the White House.
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Editorial
Each parliamentary group is defending its own priorities, with the upcoming elections in mind, without considering the overall balance of the 2027 budget. France will not escape this dangerous spiral by simply pressing ahead.
French Delights
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SANDRA MICKIEWICZ FOR M LE MAGAZINE DU MONDE Since the February publication of her book, a bestseller translated into more than 40 languages, Gisèle Pelicot has been flooded with invitations to speak around the world about her life. Wherever she goes, she is welcomed as a hero. The outpouring of admiration, which continues to move her, has strengthened what she sees as her mission: To empower women who were victims of rape.
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RÉMY ARTIGES FOR LE MONDE The 62-year-old author receives France's most prestigious literary award for his 13th novel, an investigation into the 1949 murder of a young woman, Louise Cansot.
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COLL. SHIGEO GOCHO/MEM, TOKYO/BNF Review
France's national library, which began collecting Japanese photographs in the late 1960s, presents an exceptional selection of 250 prints, spanning from the postwar period to the present day.
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