Pope Leo XIV delivers remarks as Spain's King Felipe, Queen Letizia and members of the royal family listen during a meeting with authorities, civil society members and the diplomatic corps at the Royal Palace in Madrid, on June 6, 2026.
US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, center, attends a ceremony at the US cemetery to commemorate the 82nd anniversary of the D-Day landings, in Colleville-sur-Mer, Normandy, on Saturday, June 6, 2026.
Pope Leo XIV landed in Madrid on June 6. He is also set to visit Barcelona and the Canary Islands as relations between the Spanish Catholic Church – still a major force in the country – and Pedro Sánchez's government are in a good place. Yet behind the official cordiality, some tensions remain.
New regulations would allow EU member states to pay poorer countries, with questionable human rights records, to take in undocumented migrants who cannot be deported to their own countries. This unacceptable policy highlights the EU's abdication of the humanitarian principles on which it was founded.
The British monarch has stressed the importance of the rule of law, while the pope has warned against leaving societies defenseless in the face of technology. Columnist Gilles Paris examines these symbolic statements, which could break the current climate of paralysis.
'How China is Devouring Europe' (1/4). In just a few decades, China has gone from being the world's factory to a major technological rival for Europeans, who had hoped to profit on China's vast domestic market but underestimated its capacity for innovation.
Behind the offer of an outstretched hand, the Ukrainian president's letter to the Russian leader seeks to exploit Moscow's vulnerabilities and the Russian people's exhaustion after four years of high-intensity war.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte stand at the Wall of Remembrance for fallen Ukrainian fighters in Kyiv on June 3, 2026, in a photo released by the Ukrainian presidential press service.
After US Central Command announced that they struck the radar sites, Iran's Revolutionary Guards said they hit 'enemy bases' in the Gulf. A ceasefire has been in place between the US and Iran since April 8, but subsequent talks to try to put a more permanent end to the conflict have so far been unsuccessful.
US President Donald Trump speaks with the press aboard Air Force One as he flies from Joint Base Andrews in Maryland to Eau Claire, Wisconsin, June 5, 2026.
Several thousand people have been protesting since May 30 against large-scale projects that many Albanians consider a symbol of the prime minister's excesses ever since he came to power in 2013.
The Iranian team is due to fly from Turkey to Spain on Saturday before traveling on to their base camp in Mexico, which has issued visas to the squad. They were originally due to be based in the US, but switched their camp to Mexico due to the tensions between them and the US over the war in the Middle East.
Iran's Mehdi Taremi celebrates scoring their third goal with teammates at the International Friendly, Iran v Gambia, Mardan Sports Complex, Antalya, Turkey, May 29, 2026.
Yann V., who was officially registered as an agent of France's foreign intelligence service (DGSE) with Malian authorities, was arrested in August 2025 in Bamako, accused of having attempted to orchestrate a 'destabilization attempt' against the junta led by General Assimi Goïta.
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