Nearly three months after the invasion of Ukraine, Russia is finally sealing its first major victory as Ukrainian fighters surrender from Mariupol's last pocket of resistance. Long after the Azov seaport was overtaken, the Ukrainians had kept control of the Azovstal steel mill compound, pinning down an estimated twelve Russian battalions. Now that the fighting is over, Moscow's focus turns squarely to the eastern Donbas region.
The "great replacement" conspiracy theory was at the core of the manifesto of an 18-year-old who livestreamed a mass shooting targeting Blacks at a Buffalo supermarket last weekend. The US president came to that northeastern American city on Tuesday to comfort families and call out domestic terror, White supremacists and those who enable them.
Can Emmanuel Macron renew himself? This week, the re-elected French president renewed his team, changing prime ministers before the naming of a new cabinet. They will be answering to 61-year-old Elisabeth Borne, who was labour minister under her predecessor. France's only other female prime minister - Socialist Edith Cresson - lasted only eleven months in the job before she was forced out in 1992.
Neighbouring Spain is throwing the spotlight on the fight for equality and women's rights. The government is introducing a bill to allow medical leave paid by the state for women who suffer from severe period pains, a first for Europe. "Periods will no longer be taboo," vowed Spanish equality minister Irene Montero, to the delight of many on the streets of Barcelona.
Produced by Juliette Laurain, Sophie Pizzimenti and Guillaume Gougeon.
