The police’s treatment of the student last month sheds light on how a wave of school unrest evolved into national protests that spilled into widespread riots on Saturday.
The interior minister acknowledged that the police were underprepared for the scale of the riots. But Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu defended their efforts and pledged to restore order.
The National Rally, already ahead in the polls, presented itself as the party best placed to restore law and order.
The fire, which did not seriously damage the network, came after similar incidents in Bulgaria and Poland involving the satellite internet provider, a key defense tool for Ukraine’s armed forces.
As a young actor, she was determined to avoid being typecast as a “sex bomb.” Thirty years later, she’s in total control of the women she plays.
The fighters are a key tool against Moscow’s latest weapon of choice. But deploying the multimillion-dollar planes to counter drones is an imperfect fix.
Protests in northern Italian cities like Milan devolved into riots over the weekend. Meanwhile, in the south, farmers and truckers have blocked traffic over rising fuel prices.
The student protests that snowballed into violent riots made it clear that almost 10 years of his presidency have not fixed France’s problems.
A high school student, who was identified as Eden by his family, was hit in the face last month by a tear gas grenade. Video of the incident sheds light on how a wave of school unrest evolved into national protests that led to riots on Saturday.
President Volodymyr Zelensky said he didn’t want to believe that Washington wanted an end to the war at Ukraine’s expense. “But that’s how it looks,” he added.
Protests by young people in northern cities ended in riots as farmers and truckers in the south, angered by high gas prices, stopped commercial traffic.
With Saturday’s enormous, and enormously destructive, protests, the dream of Paris as a place of escape may be nearing an end.
As unrest surged across France over the weekend, rioters set fire to Limoges city hall, destroying a symbol for the small city’s residents.
The exiled ambassador didn’t defy the president. She mimicked him.
In the Italian birthplace of modern fragrance, a writer visits master perfumers and fragrance shops, and concocts her own autumnal scent.
More than a thousand shops in France were damaged after anti-government protests devolved into riots and looting. Business owners were left to pick up the pieces.
The mission, scheduled to launch on Monday, is headed to Phobos, the larger of the two moons of Mars. It could carry back the first samples from the Martian system.
Rioters attacked city halls and shops over the weekend amid protests over living costs and poor school conditions.
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine pressed Sunday for more information on possible restrictions to Starshield, a U.S.-provided satellite internet service used by the Ukrainian military.
As unrest surged across France this weekend, the most surprising attack came in the quiet city of Limoges, where rioters set fire to the city hall.
After anti-government protests devolved into chaos, leaders from across the political spectrum blamed one another for the unrest, even as it largely subsided on Sunday.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel has downplayed accounts of recent extremist attacks on Palestinians in the West Bank amid the annual olive harvest.
The Amazon rainforest has been a crucial battleground in the country’s presidential runoff.
Students upset by living and educational costs have revived protests. Prime Minister Edi Rama said they were being used by “outside forces.”
“This experience has made me feel a special closeness to all those who are battling illness and infirmity,” he said, in his first public appearance since his lung surgery.
Pope Leo XIV spoke from the Apostolic Palace overlooking St. Peter’s Square on Sunday. The day before, Leo was discharged from the hospital after surgery to remove a cancerous tumor from his right lung.
People in France woke up on Sunday to streets littered with shattered glass and images of burned-out government buildings after the country’s largest protests in years descended into violent riots.
If all goes to plan, Bowie’s childhood home in the London suburb of Bromley will become an attraction.
The Trump administration is pitching the idea as part of a peace deal with Ukraine, but Europe is wary and critics say Russia would be strengthened.
Riots broke out in several French cities alongside peaceful marches of tens of thousands of people demonstrating against rising living costs and poor school conditions.
The front line in Ukraine has blurred into a miles-wide wasteland where drones fill the sky and neither side holds firm control.
Leo XIV had been treated for lung cancer at Gemelli Hospital in Rome.
More than half a million people joined protests in France on Saturday as a student-focused movement converged with a broader one against rising prices.
Extremists assaulted residents and broke a European diplomatic vehicle’s window, witnesses said, as settler violence surges in the territory during the olive harvest.
By announcing his lung condition himself, Leo has been more forthcoming than many popes. But mysteries remain, prompting scrutiny of papal statements for hidden meaning.
Student demonstrations over education converged with broader protests against rising living costs and a luxury development linked to Jared Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law.
Pope Leo XIV was discharged on Saturday from a hospital in Rome after surgery, roughly three days earlier than the Vatican had initially suggested he would leave.
The longtime friends and creative partners on what U2 still means — and what would make them call it quits.
A new history of World War II Vienna illustrates the specific devastation of a thriving Jewish city.
Each October, the international publishing business descends on Frankfurt, Germany, for days of dealing and long nights of partying.
Long overshadowed by her father and overlooked by historians, the 16th-century pioneer Catharina van Hemessen is now getting her due.
Bally Bagayoko, the mayor of a working-class suburb near Paris, has been a regular presence at student demonstrations, prompting both applause and condemnation.
The “kill zone” on the front lines of Russia’s war in Ukraine is unlike anything soldiers have faced. Our correspondent Constant Méheut describes soldiers’ experiences there. The Armed Forces of Ukraine provided footage inside the kill zone at our request.
Where the two presidents’ war of words will end is anybody’s guess. But if it continues, it could threaten the crucial operational help that Ukraine still gets from the United States.
Recovering from lung cancer surgery, Pope Leo XIV spoke with Vladimir V. Putin to make a plea for Oleshky, where mines and drones have trapped some 2,000 people who are at risk of starvation.
A day in the Ukrainian capital, a new kind of battlefield far from the front, where daily life means assessing — and accepting — deadly risks.
Archaeologists said that they had found jars from a shipwreck as much as 4,700 years old, with black residue inside. Outside experts were skeptical but intrigued.
Ukraine’s President, Volodymyr Zelensky, was asked on Friday if President Trump was using him as a scapegoat for various domestic and foreign issues Trump faces. He answered with a silent smile.
A surge of abuse accusations has led Parisian authorities to acknowledge a “collective failure” to prevent sexual offenders from working in schools.
After a Swedish couple returned to Europe from Australia, they found a 19th-century weekend refuge near Como.
Tax reforms and Paris’s rise have taken a toll. But low-budget, risk-taking dealers are still creating buzz at the Frieze London fair and beyond.
More American workers are strapping cameras to their bodies to collect data in order to help train robots. The New York Times met with several of them to find out why, and what this could mean for the future of work.
Despite its provocative subject matter, the Museum of Hunting and Nature aims to be “a joyful cabinet of curiosities.”
Henri Landier is so committed to his work that, in the early days, he slept on newspapers in an unheated shack. Now, he has had shows from Japan to India.
Moscow is not winning on the battlefield. Instead, it is seizing an opening to inflict immense human suffering in Ukrainian cities.
President Volodymyr Zelensky expressed overt frustration with the United States in an interview with The Financial Times. He had paused the strikes to comply with a demand from the United States.
Ukrainian engineers are rushing to perfect A.I.-guided, jet-driven interceptors. Their goal: to stop a fast Russian threat in the latest round of a deadly tech duel.
Protests in Albania’s capital, Tirana, escalated into violence this week as students joined the demonstrations against the rising cost of living and government corruption.
According to Greek officials, the woman told her rescuers she had jumped off the ship because she “wanted to disembark.”
A leader of the Jewish community in Ireland said a hotel canceled a deal for 70 rooms when it learned they were reserved for guests attending the international forum.
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Opposition to a luxury resort project linked to Jared Kushner has collided with rising discontent over corruption and the cost of living.
Several artists at Art Basel Paris are honoring photography’s origins as France hosts hundreds of events to celebrate the medium’s bicentennial.
Marie Antoinette, Cézanne and more await you if you step off the beaten path at the Paris art fair.
The huge art center on Île Seguin near Paris opens with a show of works collected by the automaker Renault and the real estate tycoon Laurent Dumas.
Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, expressed frustration with President Trump for making deals with Russia as the country continued its campaign of striking Ukrainian energy infrastructure before winter.
“The Colorful Life,” a 1907 work by the Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky, had been returned to the original owners’ heirs in 2023.
The exhibition, with paintings new to the United States, opens in November 2027. The Met’s Facade and Great Hall commissions go to Danh Vo and Sandra Mujinga.
The Vatican bureaucracy has been fine-tuned over hundreds of years to function smoothly even when the pope cannot.
At this week’s Paris Motor Show, there are no signs the influx of low-cost Chinese vehicles will slow despite European Union efforts.
A writer walks the Polish-Czech Friendship Trail, where during the Cold War, dissidents from the two countries met to discuss their efforts against Communism.
A fiscal crisis threatens to bring the country to ruin.
The restaurant Rules is an institution. Now the National Trust, which preserves Britain’s heritage, plans to safeguard the landmark.
A huge attack cut power to 600,000 people in Kyiv, and a Pentagon-funded satellite internet program appeared to be curbed without warning.
President Volodymyr Zelensky, who met with Britain’s prime minister, has said Ukraine received no warning of Russian attacks, but President Trump has said Washington is still “sharing intel.”
The pontiff, 71, is expected to spend about a week in the hospital recovering from surgery that found lung cancer. Messages of support have flooded in from far and wide.
Pope Leo XIV was diagnosed with a common form of lung cancer. The Vatican said that he was walking and receiving therapy after an operation to remove a cancerous nodule.
Ms. Rooney and her publisher said that she could no longer receive royalties from British sales because she pledged to donate book revenues to Palestine Action, which is banned in Britain.
President Trump cut her loose after damaging news reports about her tenure as ambassador to Greece. Once a prominent Trump insider, she suggested she will now fight to defend her reputation.
The Dominican American artist Eilen Itzel do Espírito Santo, who has a presentation at Frieze London, wants her works to “engulf” viewers.
For a pope who appeared to have time on his side, cancer has raised questions about his longevity and brought a new urgency to his plans for the church.
A bitter generational battle over resources is boiling over as economic growth on the continent stalls.
The pontiff’s illness also prompted calls for people to seek medical treatment and early cancer screenings.
Tilda Swinton (in “Man to Man”) and Billy Crudup and Gillian Anderson (in “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?”) are among the titans making a meal of London.
Our national security and White House correspondent David E. Sanger breaks down why President Donald Trump struck a deal with President Vladimir V. Putin to import Russian diesel fuel in the coming months, despite having signed recent congressional legislation tightening energy sanctions on Russia.
Russia launched dozens of ballistic missiles at Ukraine early Wednesday in one of the largest salvos of the war. Some 600,000 people were left without power in the capital, according to Ukraine’s president.
The government appointed an overseer to the last big news channel critical of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The authorities have now replaced the leadership at five major news outlets.
The old world order is fraying. Who gets to shape the next one?
The prosecution said that Mr. Brand saw women as “simply a means to an end” during the time when crimes were said to have taken place. He said he was “hopeful” about the trial.
Three thieves broke into a private museum in central France and took off with a 330-pound book cover created by the surrealist master Salvador Dalí.
Conrad Lant, the frontman for Venom, took the stage name Cronos, pioneered black metal and more or less made Satan a sideman. He has died at 63.
In her latest work, the historian Marion Gibson focuses on the victims of a deadly English witch hunt.
He’s been linked to someone called “The Hawk.” He named his company “This Isn’t a Dentist’s Office.” The feds say he hacked American environmentalists.
Almost a millennium ago, the Battle of Hastings was fought on an English field and depicted on the tapestry. This year’s restaging drew spectators spurred on by the artifact’s visit to Britain.
Russia has reaped a diesel deal and an increase in U.S. pressure on Ukraine as President Trump’s political needs align with his longstanding inclinations toward Russia.
The surgeons removed the lower lobe of the pope’s right lung after finding a cancerous nodule.
Asked about apparent U.S. threats to cut off intelligence sharing with Kyiv, which can warn of Russian aerial attacks, President Trump said information continued to flow.
Shocked by the U.S. agreement with Russia, which Ukraine has called “a gift” to President Putin, officials in Europe have coalesced around a cautious diplomatic message.
Ukrainian strikes on oil refineries and warehouses have led to casualties among the foreigners easing Russia’s labor shortage.
Some analysts say investors are demanding a higher “term premium” to buy government debt, reflecting growing worries about debt levels and deficits.
After a glide bomb killed his wife and younger daughter, Yevhen Ovcharov was determined to prevent other Ukrainians from dying the same way.
The head of Britain’s domestic security agency accused Tehran and Moscow of escalating their hybrid campaigns in the U.K., and called Iran-led attacks on Jewish communities “sickening.”
Breaking a weekslong silence, Thélyson Orélien, a Haitian-Canadian writer, still rejected accusations about his new novel, ‘It Was Either That or Die.’
A pair of low-profile entrepreneurs gave $100 million to Nigel Farage’s Reform U.K. Party. The system may never be the same.
The main security service said it had detained a reporter for the Hokkaido Shimbun newspaper in Russia’s far east, where he had been reporting on military recruitment.
President Trump made the remark in response to a question about the U.S. ambassador to Greece, who faces accusations that she asked a G.O.P. donor to pay off her credit card.
Hundreds of supermarkets in France were targeted in a cyberattack that affected refrigeration software, forcing some workers to throw out large stocks of frozen produce.
The deal is another sign of how Gianni Infantino, the leader of soccer’s global governing body, has sought closer ties to President Trump.
The attack targeted a Danish software system in more than 400 supermarkets, forcing some shops to throw out frozen produce. The attackers have not been identified.
Drones struck two ships off Bulgaria’s Black Sea coast, according to the country’s prime minister.
German police said they had determined there was “no danger” after a plane mistakenly transmitted a code suggesting a possible hijacking onboard.
The world-famous chef, who just opened his latest outpost in Manhattan, shares some places he loves in the French city he says “will always be home.”
After 20 years, Aidan Connolly will step down as executive director of the center, which is undergoing a top-to-bottom renovation.
Nearly a decade after his first election as president, Emmanuel Macron is presiding over a tense country sliding toward the fiscal brink.
President Trump’s surprise decision to suspend sanctions on Russian diesel fuel stunned Ukrainian and European officials, who were meeting with U.S. envoys at an exclusive golf club near Miami.
President Trump is moving to buy Russian diesel while also pressuring Ukraine to halt attacks on refineries, a lifeblood of Moscow’s war machine.
With the Russians intensifying sabotage, arson and cyberattacks against European nations supporting Ukraine, NATO divulged a blueprint, in case of war, to deter the Kremlin.
A Turkish businessman once allied with the Maduro regime has tied the knot with President Trump’s former personal lawyer, Alina Habba, at the same time he is seeking to retain a big contract in Venezuela.
A documentary claims that Ukraine, not Russia, attacked the drama theater in Mariupol, where hundreds of civilians died.
Marina Vlady, a French film star, played women who resisted easy categorization, including in films by Orson Welles and Jean-Luc Godard.
Consumers across the continent increasingly want to buy low-cost Chinese vehicles. Policymakers are seeking to slow them down.
In a yearslong dispute, the Amsterdam institution pressed the Dutch government for an increased annual subsidy to pay for what the museum said were vital renovations.
Russell Brand, the YouTuber, comedian and actor, appeared in a London court on Monday for the start of a weekslong trial on charges of rape, sexual assault and indecent assault.
A fire in central Paris destroyed the city’s oldest covered food market, Le Marché des Enfants Rouges, which opened in 1615.
Le Marché des Enfants Rouges, which opened in 1615 as a vibrant food hall, was a fixture for chefs, cooks and tourists.
An architect laid bare the imperfections of his home renovation to fully reveal the building, and leave room for later inspiration.
A discussion on the roots of the far-right’s success, its plans for power and what President Trump has to do with it all.
European nations that condemn the Taliban government for its human rights record are seeking its help to deport refugees back to Afghanistan.
The YouTuber, comedian and actor’s trial began on Monday. He has pleaded not guilty to all of the charges.
For his next act, Kim Jones, formerly of Louis Vuitton, Fendi and Dior, is starting a namesake collection. It’s a trend.
City Hall confirmed that the mayor would not join Monday’s procession up Fifth Avenue, but would host an Italian American heritage reception soon.
“The Popinjay Cavalier,” directed by Tarantino, is scheduled to open for previews in London’s West End in February.
A recent medical examination found a small nodule, he announced, adding that doctors would remove it this week.
President Trump lashed out at President Volodymyr Zelensky for striking Russian oil refineries. Mr. Zelensky said he’ll stop — if Russia does too.
Charles K. Williams II spent most of his career excavating sites in Corinth, including one where he found thousands of fragments of Roman frescoes.