Parents' climate guilt: 'I can't explain my inconsistencies to myself nor to my children'

Climate change is forcing us to look to the future. For some parents, it's time to address their environmental debt to their children.

Nickel extraction equipment as the mothballing phase of the Vavouto site is launched, near Koné in New Caledonia, on February 28, 2024.

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New Caledonia's nickel: Key resource for archipelago and pro-independence movement

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For Palestinian citizens of Israel, commemorations of 1948 Nakba come with stigma

The 'peace conference' is scheduled to take place at the Bürgenstock resort, perched high above Lake Lucerne in Switzerland.

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A Swiss summit for an unlikely peace in Ukraine

Swiss diplomacy is trying to convince as many countries as possible to take part in a 'peace conference' on June 15 and 16. Although the meeting is unlikely to result in any concrete progress, it will be an opportunity for Bern to improve its image.

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UN says 800,000 people displaced since start of Israel's Rafah incursion

Philippe Lazzarini, head of the UN Agency for Palestinian Refugees, said that people have been 'forced to flee' to areas without water supplies or adequate sanitation.

Decathlete Kevin Mayer carries the flame in Montpellier on Monday May 13.

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Paris 2024: Olympic torch relay begins with popular success

The first 10 days of the torch's route, which began in Marseille on May 9, have been better attended than the authorities had forecast.

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The Quentin Dupieux method: Anything but absurd

In almost 20 years and with 13 feature-length films, Quentin Dupieux has become a heavyweight in French cinema, thanks to an effective formula: short, inexpensive films shot at breakneck speed with a dream cast. His latest, 'Le Deuxième Acte' ('The Second Act'), which stars Léa Seydoux, Louis Garrel, Raphaël Quenard and Vincent Lindon, opened the Cannes Film Festival on May 14.

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Ukraine's post-25 enlistment policy aims to 'protect the country's future'

Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili in Tbilisi, Georgia, Thursday, May 16, 2024.

Georgia's president vetoes 'foreign influence' law, but Parliament can override

The Russian president, Vladimir Putin, and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, in Beijing, May 16, 2024.

Xi and Putin: A far from self-evident friendship

Rally in support of the Jewish community, in front of Rouen town hall, May 17, 2024.

After the arson attack on Rouen's synagogue, shock and support for France's Jewish community

New Caledonia removed from Olympic torch's route following unrest

Slovak PM's prognosis 'positive,' as shooting suspect in pre-trial detention

Paris jeweller's near Champs-Elysées robbed by armed men

New Caledonia: Partial calm but gunfire in French territory under state of emergency

Delivery of aid to Gaza by sea is a 'smokescreen' given the scale of the needs

New Caledonia: Why are there so many guns in the French Pacific territory?

Heavy rains in Northern Europe cause floods

Georgia's 'Family Purity Day': A show of support for the government

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Six questions to understand the crisis in New Caledonia

Tensions in the French overseas territory exploded on May 13, leaving 5 people dead and dozens injured four days later. The government declared a state of emergency on May 15.

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How Le Monde has covered the Israeli-Palestinian conflict since 1945

Since the founding of Le Monde in late 1944, the newspaper's coverage and editorial position have continuously fueled suspicions among readers: Pro-Israeli? Pro-Palestinian? Every article is dissected and discussed with a zeal not seen with any other international issue.

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The imprisoned former president and opposition leader writes to Le Monde about Georgia's controversial 'foreign influence' law.

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