Romanian President Nicusor Dan, right, shakes hand with Prime Minister designate Eugen Tomac at the end of press statements at the Cotroceni Presidential Palace in Bucharest, Romania, on June 4, 2026.
The French president weighed in on the controversy surrounding the former head of RT France, a Russian state-run outlet that was shut down in 2023. On Wednesday, protesters in Paris demanded her residence permit be revoked.
France's President Emmanuel Macron delivers a statement flanked by Montenegro's Prime Minister following a signing ceremony during Macron's first official visit to Montenegro in Cetinje on June 4, 2026.
The French president welcomed the fragile ceasefire announced in Washington: 'France is, of course, as we have always been, available to move forward along this path,' he said from Montenegro.
French President Emmanuel Macron speaks during a press conference after talks with Montenegro's President Jakov Milatovic in Cetinje, Montenegro, Thursday, June 4, 2026.
Budapest's progressive mayor, Gergely Karacsony, was charged in January for organizing the city's 30th Pride parade despite an official ban ordered under the former prime minister, nationalist Viktor Orban.
The Swiss subsidiary of HSBC is suspected of having helped former Lebanese central bank chief Riad Salameh embezzle more than $300 million from the country's central bank. The charges mark a significant development in the French judicial investigation.
The European Commission is due soon to propose to the bloc's 27 member states an action plan on migration in the Channel, with France hoping for more help with policing and combating people smugglers.
Migrants walk away after trying to board a crowded inflatable dinghy and leave the coast of northern France in an attempt to cross the English Channel to reach Britain, on the beach of Petit-Fort-Philippe in Gravelines, near Calais, France, May 23, 2026.
After two days of talks in Washington, Israel made the halting of its operations contingent on Hezbollah's disarmament. Nonetheless, the joint statement provides for a gradual withdrawal of the Israeli army from southern Lebanon.
Israel's ambassador to the US, Yechiel Leiter; State Department chief of staff, Daniel Holler; US ambassador to Lebanon, Michel Issa; and Lebanon's ambassador to the US, Nada Hamadeh, during a meeting between Israeli and Lebanese delegations organized by the United States at the State Department in Washington, June 3, 2026.
The Tagor, which the French navy detained on Sunday on suspicion of flying a false flag, will remain inside the Douarnenez Bay in Brittany, prosecutors said.
In an interview with Le Monde, Viktor Orban's successor explains how he plans to recover the frozen €16 billion in European funds earmarked for Hungary. He insists that Budapest will not block the opening of EU accession talks for Ukraine, provided that Kyiv guarantees the rights of its Hungarian minority.
While at a reported atomic facility, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said the 'weapons-grade nuclear materials production capacity more than doubled during the past 5-year course.'
In this photo provided by the North Korean government, its leader Kim Jong Un delivers a speech during a session of the Supreme People's Assembly at parliament in Pyongyang, North Korea, on March 23, 2026.
The debate over these chemical substances is being reignited within the European Union, as machines designed to help adapt to climate change come under fire, historian Jean-Baptiste Fressoz notes in his column.
The negotiations come days after Donald Trump said the two countries had pledged to de-escalate. Yet Israel and Hezbollah have continued to trade fire, with Lebanon saying Israeli strikes in the south killed at least two paramedics.
Protests have been ongoing since May 23 outside the Newark migrant detention center in New Jersey, denouncing what activists describe as unsanitary and inhumane conditions for incarcerated migrants.
By attending a reburial ceremony for Andriy Melnyk, a pro-independence leader who collaborated with Nazi Germany against the Soviet Union, Volodymyr Zelensky has backed the country's evolving memorial politics, which have been focused on opposition to Moscow since the February 2022 invasion.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky (left) attends the reburial of Andriy Melnyk, former head of a branch of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) who died in 1964, at the National Military Cemetery near Kyiv, May 25, 2026.
The US president can veto the measure if it gains Senate approval, though the Trump administration insists that the war against Iran is already over, despite ongoing exchanges of fire between the two sides' forces.
A French minister told a parliamentary committee said the agreement would be extended 'until October 1, 2026.' More than 41,000 migrants landed on England's southern coast last year, the second-highest annual number since 2018.
French gendarmes approach a group of migrants on an inflatable dinghy to accompany them as they leave the coast of northern France in an attempt to cross the English Channel to reach Britain, from the beach of Petit-Fort-Philippe in Gravelines, near Calais, France, July 17, 2025.