Twenty years after the death of the director of "The Battle of Algiers", his son Marco recounts his father’s life: the film sets with Marlon Brando, the pile of rejected scripts by the front door, and his partnership with Ennio Morricone. “Music, for me, is like a handrail on a staircase in the dark,” he used to say

The UN described it as a “genocide” against the non-Arab population. Nevertheless, the war in Sudan remains far from the spotlight, failing to polarise public opinion as has happened in other cases. The conflict began just a few months before the one in Gaza, but the death toll is unparalleled anywhere in the world: over 200,000 dead in three years, 14 million displaced, and 30 million people facing severe food insecurity.

In August, the Financial Times revealed that Trump’s son met with Kremlev again. The oligarch joined him after attending a conference in Kazakhstan, accompanied by Arthur Martirosov, a Russian businessman and partner at Voshkod, a venture capital fund subject to U.S. sanctions.

By now we have resigned ourselves to no longer taking tomorrow seriously; it feels like a defeat, yet it is actually the solution. It is not naivety; it is simply that we have exhausted all our reserves of fear. Between catastrophe and paradise lies the present

The Lega Congress has concluded, and the primary race is now underway to determine who will adopt the most aggressive stance and confront the mullahs. Who should assume the role of secretary?

In the new UN report, Hamas is never mentioned. A third of the Human Rights Council’s condemnatory resolutions are directed against the Jewish state, whilst a permanent apparatus remains in place that takes no equivalent action in the face of the massacres in Sudan, the Congo and Tigray. 

The activist from the banlieues considers violence against the “white and racist” system to be legitimate. A supporter of Mélenchon, she is calling for an end to the ban on headscarves in schools and is preparing, alongside Alice Coffin, to take on the far right and the political centre ahead of the 2027 presidential elections.

A country that thrives on globalisation must know how to defend it. A lesson from Mattarella

Who wrote to the editor-in-chief, Claudio Cerasa

AI deserves to make the headlines not only when it frightens us but also when it inspires us. The most interesting case study to focus on is the launch of one of the most significant IPOs in the history of the US stock market: that of Anthropic, one of the world’s leading technology companies 

He threatened the G7 allies, struck deals with Putin and promised billions to American farmers, whilst at the same time shifting the blame onto Ukraine. But none of this worked: diesel now costs 70 per cent more than it did a year ago

The newspaper reported that RN leaflets had been found in the car of the Trappes attacker. Following the public prosecutor’s office’s official denial, RN has been clamouring for a public apology from Le Monde, emphasising the seriousness of the fake news that was circulated. 

Macron and the government are trying to resolve the issue of the protests by focusing on reforms and dialogue. However, the possibility of an early election to break the deadlock cannot be ruled out

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The results and the Prime Minister’s gamble against a bloc that has failed to find the right unity. Who’s up and who’s down, surprises not only amongst the Arabs, and a gamble 

The Presiding Committee of the Chamber of Deputies has rejected the request to form a new parliamentary group that could have served as the basis for a unified centrist list (starting with Più Europa and Ernesto Maria Ruffini’s Più Uno). Magi and Tabacci: “This breaks with parliamentary practice for political reasons.” Renzi is gloating. The showdown between Iv and Onorato and Bonelli’s prediction: “In the end, there will be two centrist parties.”