News from Le Monde
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MARIO WAGNER Feature
'Priced out in America' (1/3). Caregivers have been a driving force behind US job growth, yet their often precarious, low-paid jobs have become a symbol of the country's widening income gap. We met with several in North Carolina.
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GENYA SAVILOV/AFP Feature
During a six-day ceasefire between Moscow and Kyiv, around 700 people managed to leave Oleshky, which has been occupied by Russian forces for four years and is located right on the front lines. The abandoned population was suffering from severe shortages of food and medicine.
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OLIVIER TOURON/DIVERGENCE FOR LE MONDE In addition to the partial renewal of Congress, a key issue for the future of Donald Trump's presidency, some American voters will also elect their local representatives and vote on referendums on Tuesday, November 3.
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MARION POUSSIER FOR LE MONDE Despite the government's commitments, high school and university groups have called for school blockades starting Monday or Tuesday. However, as the pressure from exams and university admissions mounts, some students are having doubts.
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SÉVERIN MILLET Halima El Bakhti and Ahmed Touloub are appearing before a criminal court in the Loire Valley from Monday, charged with acts of torture and barbarity against their daughter Inass, age 4, whose body was found on August 11, 1987. The child was not identified until 2017, thanks to a sibling's DNA.
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NIELS BO BOJESEN Cartoon
This cartoon by Niels Bo Bojesen, a Danish member of Cartooning for Peace, appeared on the front page of Le Monde on November 2.
Editor’s Picks
Opinion Opinion
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Editorial
The government has no levers to address widespread and multifaceted anger. With less than six months to go before the first round of the presidential election, some candidates are offering demagogic or incomplete proposals, while others have none at all.
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News analysis
Benjamin Netanyahu and Gadi Eisenkot, the two main candidates in the October 27 elections, do not differ in their views on Israel's role in the Near and Middle East. The war against Iran, which the overwhelming majority of Arab states opposed, further established Israel as a source of regional destabilization.
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Op-Ed
Responding to Emmanuel Macron, researcher and Trappes resident Rachid Benzine writes about the pain he feels for a Republic that cannot 'treat all its children as its own.'
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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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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MARGAUX SENLIS POUR M LE MAGAZINE DU MONDE A Parisian by choice, Japanese architect Tsuyoshi Tane found his way into architecture after first considering a career in football. Today, he conceives each of his buildings as places that delve into the ground and the history of cities. He carries out this work with rigor in the French capital, always rejecting superficial effects.
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