With 50.52% of the vote in the second round, Emmanuel Grégoire is the new mayor of Paris, and the city, at least for now, remains true to its progressive history.
As the crisis in the Middle East continues to spread chaos, the priority is not only to repatriate people in the Gulf countries, but their pets as well.
Reopening the Strait of Hormuz within 48 hours or strikes on Iranian power plants: with this ultimatum, US President Donald Trump 'responds' to the six conditions set by Iran for ending the war.
Un anneau en titane, quelques capteurs, une application pour tout gérer : à première vue, ce n’est pas exactement le cœur d’une révolution sanitaire.
Umberto Bossi, a central figure in Italian politics in recent decades, has died. He was 84 years old. He died Thursday, March 19, at the Ospedale di Circolo in Varese, where he had been hospitalized. His health had gradually deteriorated in recent years, partly due to the effects of the stroke that struck him in 2004, from which he never fully recovered.
The name is known by few people outside the energy sector, but Iran's offshore South Pars gas field has become the focus of a global crisis in a matter of hours. The Israeli attack on Wednesday, March 18, on parts of its infrastructure marks a new stage in the Middle East conflict: for the first time, one of the pillars of global energy supply is directly affected.
Music as resistance. Music as balm for the soul. Music that lifts the body above the rubble, that gives hope that something beautiful is still possible. Perhaps it is. Even if under a sky full of bombs and ugliness.
Brent opened on Monday, March 9, at $108.5 per barrel (at the time of publication it's quoted at $105.17 per barrel, the price is constantly being adjusted), up 17% from a week earlier. West Texas Intermediate stands at $104.9, +15%. These are the highest levels since 2022, when the Russian invasion of Ukraine disrupted global energy markets. This time around, the catalyst is the war in Iran.
Tension is mounting in the Middle East, and Italy seems to be moving forward on two parallel fronts: avoiding any direct involvement in the conflict, the authorities assure us, while strengthening national security and that of its military abroad.
For centuries, Italian law was anything but neutral. It was written by men, for men, and often against women. It was not just a patriarchal culture or social prejudice: it was the law itself that determined that a woman was worth less, had to obey her husband and was not allowed to make decisions about her own body or her own future...