As the Olympics wrap up, news articles start to surface about the pollution of the River Seine in Paris, where open water swimming events took place. Beneath these reports lies a more unsettling story, one that slowly uncovers the river’s dark past. As we delve deeper, we are led back to the shadows of 1961, when a brutal massacre unfolded in Paris—an event intertwined with the buried secrets of France's colonial history with Algeria.

*The accumulative effects of Israel’s war on Gaza could mean the true death toll could reach more than 186,000 people, according to a study published in the journal Lancet.