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Canadian Prime Minister accuses President Trump of launching a trade 'war,' citing unacceptable conditions. On Saturday, August 22, Carney says, 'We've been under no illusions... America has changed.'

'Growing up in hostile environments' (4/7). Based in the Netherlands, Palestinian photographer and filmmaker Sakir Khader has regularly traveled to the Nablus and Jenin regions, which are under Israeli occupation. For several years, he has documented the living conditions of the youngest in this context of ongoing violence.

Hotels, restaurants and businesses have increasingly become targets of deliberate destruction, such as the fire that gutted a beach bar overnight between August 10 and 11 in Ajaccio. Prosecutors have tried to curb the phenomenon, but identifying those behind the attacks has proved difficult.

'It is crucial to provide Ukraine with all the necessary means to... thwart this aggression,' said Marcron on Saturday, August 22, ahead of the Coalition of the Willing's Monday meeting to ramp up pressure on Moscow.

Like thousands of other Spanish Republicans, José Molina Lopez was cast into an anonymous mass grave and had his memory erased by the narrative imposed by the dictator Franco. Journalist Garance Muñoz retraced her great-grandfather's story, a reparative journey enabled by laws passed since 2007.

In the former villages of Wola Ostrowiecka and Ostrowki in western Ukraine, archaeologists and historians have been exhuming the bodies of Polish civilians massacred by Ukrainian nationalists in 1943. More than 80 years later, this painful past still weighs on diplomatic relations between Kyiv and Warsaw.

For many people in France, the goal is to hear only the sounds of nature and to avoid being caught up in a tide of tourists. The good news is that in most areas where peace and quiet can still be found, real estate prices remain low.

Over the past decade, the South African national team has managed to unite a broad audience, realizing the dream Nelson Mandela championed in 1995. On Saturday, the Springboks will face the New Zealand All Blacks at home in the first of three matchups.

As Arsenal and Inter Milan begin their campaigns to defend their titles in England and Italy, Spain's Real Madrid and Barcelona also return to the pitch this weekend. In Germany, fans will have to wait another week for the Bundesliga to resume.

Donald Trump's immigration policy suffers another blow, as the measure targeting countries including Somalia, Russia and Iran, is struck down by the courts.

According to the local weather service, some areas in the Catalonia region recorded more than 100 liters of rain per square meter overnight from Friday to Saturday.

The heatwave caused a surge in farm animal deaths, leading to processing bottlenecks at carcass rendering plants. Noxious odors exasperated local residents and public authorities.

Chief Nice prosecutor Damien Martinelli discusses drug-related violence in his city in an interview with Le Monde and provides an overview of how criminal networks and the fight against drug trafficking have evolved.

As negotiations broke down on Friday, the US is putting new 50% tariffs on a range of Canadian products, starting Saturday. Ottawa has vowed to respond with tariffs of equal scope.

In response to Israel's policy of occupation and destruction, around one hundred former representatives of France and the United Kingdom urge their governments to act through a series of sanctions aimed at safeguarding the rule of law.

The paleoclimatologist and former vice president of the IPCC's scientific panel worries that climate issues will be pushed aside once temperatures drop. In an interview, he urges presidential candidates to 'recognize the scale of this global challenge.'

Bellina's body was found partially burned near the southern city of Nîmes on August 12. A 32-year-old suspect, who was already known to authorities for domestic violence, was placed in preventive detention on Friday.

The Ukrainian emergency services said the attack had also wounded 130 people, 23 of them children. The strikes on President Volodymyr Zelensky's hometown come as Russia has intensified its bombardment of Ukrainian cities in recent months.

'Sewn and torn' (6/6). Love stories and friendships can sometimes end badly, even in the world of fashion. United by their passion for sports, the two German brothers grew their shoe factory for more than a decade. Separated by WWII, each went on to create his own brand, Adidas and Puma, through which their fierce rivalry was played out.

In the early 1960s, in Haifa, Israel, the young Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish fell in love with Tamar Ben Ami, a Jewish Israeli dancer. Their romance was intense but brief. From this forbidden love, the writer composed a poignant poem, 'Rita and the Rifle,' which is still sung throughout the Arab world.