Saturday, 31 October 2026
48 dispatches
Saturday, 31 October 2026
- World West Bank: Harvesting Your Own Olives Becomes a Deadly Risk Amara Sankoré
- World Black Sea: Erdogan plays mediator, shipowners count their premiums Ilya Volkov
- Culture & media AI 'resurrects' the dead: grief becomes a subscription Antonia Greco
- Society In the countryside, everyday racism no longer bothers to hide Dolores Ibarra
- Politics Protesting Under Watch: French Streets Face a Government That Barricades Itself In Rosa Brandt
- Economy Third Saturday of marches: the street thins, the bill stays put Camille Roux
- Economy Berlin: Generation Z marches against the cost of living as arms budgets climb Mara Kessler
- World Iran: Mojtaba Khamenei promises a response with "no geographical limit" Ilya Volkov
- Culture & media AI-written eulogies: funeral workers hear the emptiness Antonia Greco
- World Kolwezi, capital of cobalt: Washington and Beijing fight over Congolese subsoil Amara Sankoré
- Society In Italy, the general strike puts rent and the supermarket trolley on the same placard Dolores Ibarra
- Politics 31 October: 320,000 or 500,000, and who speaks for the street? Rosa Brandt
- Environment COP17 in Yerevan: Nature Can Wait, Extraction Cannot Amara Sankoré
- World Western Sahara: the UN pulls out, and the Sahrawis' right to self-determination stays stranded Amara Sankoré
- World Patriots for Kyiv: Washington cashes in, Kyiv pays, the stocks will wait Ilya Volkov
- Society In Trappes, thousands stand against the racism that killed Pengo Bossio Wangi Dolores Ibarra
- Economy 1.5 trillion gone up in smoke: AI discovers that value cannot be decreed Mara Kessler
- Politics 31 October: 70,000 police officers face the cost of living and the lycée students Rosa Brandt
- Politics Gen Z regelt: German youth takes up the rallying cry of French high-school students Rosa Brandt
- World Italy: the street refuses to pay for rearmament with the price of bread Ilya Volkov
- Culture & media "Love Letter to the 2010s": a youth making its own common sense Antonia Greco
- Economy City-centre trade: who pays when the street stops? Mara Kessler
- Society House arrest orders: counter-terrorism law is now being used to keep protesters at home Dolores Ibarra
- Politics Macron and Lecornu face colères that keep piling up: authority has lost its grip Rosa Brandt
- World Ibrahim Index: Africa is building roads, but for whom? Amara Sankoré
- World Black Sea: war kills the dolphins, arms profits survive Ilya Volkov
- Economy Climate and growth: the prize-winning economist is right, but who foots the bill is still open Mara Kessler
- Society Tear gas at protests: the state fires first and never checks what it does to bodies Dolores Ibarra
- Culture & media In Trappes, 12,000 people say enough to racism and to the media that amplify it Antonia Greco
- Politics Route imposée: the Conseil d'État puts the street back on the pavement Rosa Brandt
- Economy Canada-EU: a "breakthrough of its kind", and the war is good business for shipowners Mara Kessler
- World Sánchez, the rail disaster and the election: what we don't know yet Ilya Volkov
- World Donald's $5,000 Cheque: An Election Bribe, and Poland Off the Table Ilya Volkov
- Environment Cost of living: 70,000 police for Act III, and French Guiana is parched Amara Sankoré
- Society Dying costs 4,000 euros: what if the Sécu covered the funeral? Dolores Ibarra
- Politics Yellow vests: a national coordination, school of autonomy or shortcut back to the apparatus? Rosa Brandt
- World Western Sahara: Russian veto buries MINURSO, but not the Sahrawi question Amara Sankoré
- World Hormuz: four oil tankers hit as Trump promises the war will end "soon" Ilya Volkov
- Politics Bouches-du-Rhône: 119 mayors threaten to "hand back the keys" over austerity Rosa Brandt
- Culture & media After the Trappes attack, the town demands to be something other than a backdrop Antonia Greco
- Society Data centres: AI is built on burned workers and breathless production rates Dolores Ibarra
- Economy TotalEnergies cashes in, the left fails: the crisis pays mostly the shareholders Mara Kessler
- Culture & media Novaya Gazeta shuts down: when the state decides what counts as "normal" Antonia Greco
- World 500 Patriots for Kyiv: Washington sells, Ukraine pays, delivery will have to wait Ilya Volkov
- Economy California: billionaires are paying handsomely not to pay the Zucman tax Mara Kessler
- Society In Trappes, fear settles into the kitchens, the schools and the stairwells Dolores Ibarra
- Politics 31 October: the government wheels out the bogeyman before the cost-of-living march Rosa Brandt
- Economy Budget 2027: MPs tax big business, but the Treasury holds the pen Mara Kessler