Colombia's President Abelardo de la Espriella speaks during a press conference at the Palacio de San Carlos in Bogota on August 12, 2026. ESTEBAN VEGA LA-ROTTA / AFP Colombia has authorized joint ...

GalleryMillions of Europeans and sky enthusiasts around the world looked up in awe as a rare total or partial solar eclipse briefly plunged northern Spain into daytime darkness. Spectacular footage: a ...

A dry stream near the village of Meilhaud, in the Puy-de-Dôme department of France, July 16, 2026. MAXIME FRAISSE FOR « LE MONDE » A little over 40% of small waterways monitored by the Office français ...

The moon completely covers the sun during a solar eclipse as seen from Villalba del Rey, Spain, August 12, 2026. ANA BELTRAN / REUTERS Day briefly turned to night in Spain on Wednesday, August 12, as ...

Brazil's data protection agency on Wednesday, August 12, ordered Discord to suspend livestreams, accusing the messaging platform of failing to protect children and adolescents after a teen girl was ...

A legal provision allowed 14 and 15-year-olds to purchase and consume alcohol with their parents. The government said its abolition would 'protect young people from the considerable health and social ...

FeatureThe Sufi spiritual leader El Hadj Omar Tall, who counted hundreds of thousands of followers, was a 19th-century scholar and anti-colonialist fighter. France's adoption of a law on the ...

Love stories and friendships can sometimes end badly, even in the world of fashion. For nearly 40 years, the fashion journalist accompanied the rise of the woman who would become the all-powerful and ...

Former general Atef Najib was sentenced to death for crimes against humanity on Tuesday. While the Assad regime's victims welcomed the verdict, several NGOs denounced the trial as unfair.

The organizers of the song contest did not mention any country by name, but Israel came close to winning the competition in both 2025 and 2026, ultimately finishing second on each occasion. The ...

The search for survivors continues in the west of the country, where a 7.4-magnitude earthquake caused significant destruction, with aid agencies saying the first 72 hours after an earthquake are ...

Jean-Jacques Muyembe reflects on the current spread of the Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo. In just three months, the death toll has nearly reached that of the 2018 epidemic, which ...