The murder in south-west France of 11-year-old schoolgirl Lyhanna Bernard has prompted fierce public attacks on France's public prosecution services over their failure to investigate a series of previous complaints filed against the chief suspect, Jérôme Barella, 41, including the rape and assault of minors. President Emmanuel Macron and his justice minister, Gérald Darmanin, have highlighted individual failings and dismissed the arguments of magistrates that the absence of investigations (…)

Selon certains analystes, la Chine aurait permis de limiter la hausse du prix du pétrole en réduisant volontairement ses importations. Mais la réalité semble plus préoccupante : c'est la stagnation économique mondiale qui a freiné la hausse des prix. Au début de la guerre en Iran, les spécialistes du marché pétrolier mondial prévoyaient l'apocalypse. La fermeture du détroit d'Ormuz, par lequel transitait un quart du trafic pétrolier et gazier, était considérée comme une forme de « bombe (…)

West Bengal's pushbacks, the Hindutva project, and the global machinery of expulsion In the last week of May 2026, the road to the Bithari-Hakimpur checkpost in North 24 Parganas filled with people carrying packed bags. Men, women and children queued at the edge of the country, waiting for permission to leave it. They were not being marched out at gunpoint. Most were going of their ‘own accord': a domestic worker from Khulna, a mason from Satkhira, a woman whose husband had begun telling her (…)