The evening began with synchronized coverage of NASA's Artemis II launch, with multiple French outlets providing live updates as the first crewed lunar mission since 1972 successfully departed. As the night progressed, editorial focus shifted decisively to Donald Trump's address on the Middle East conflict, where he promised to strike Iran "extremely hard" for two to three more weeks and threatened to send the country "back to the Stone Age." By morning, coverage consolidated on Iran's response—promising "crushing" attacks against the U.S. and Israel—and the international press's critical reception of Trump's speech, which was described as offering contradictory signals about the war's end.
