Archive du mois : mars 2018

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Teaching Syria’s misplaced generation

« The bombings were getting closer and closer, » says Dr Nasser Alzhouri. As the war in Syria raged, the Alzhouri family home burned down. Alzhouri and his son, Suliman, set off for Lebanon. The only thing Alzhouri took with him was his degree certificate. Unbeknown to his father, Suliman had snuck back into their house to rescue his…

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Kim Jong Un become a regional vitality in a single day by announcing a single, meaningless note to Trump

Kim Jong Un inspecting a potato-flour factory in North Korea. Reuters/KCNA President Donald Trump accepted Kim Jong Un’s offer to meet for talks, a decision that has seen Kim’s international prestige skyrocket. China, South Korea, Japan, and Russia all now want closer relations with Pyongyang, because Kim piqued Trump’s interest by saying « denuclearization. » But denuclearization…

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Brexit: One-one year countdown

Britain will leave the European Union at 23:00 GMT on March 29, 2019, severing the ties that helped define its national identity, its laws, and its international stature over 46 years of integration with European neighbours. The world’s sixth-largest economy caused a major global shock in 2016 by narrowly voting to withdraw from the EU…

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What Google and Fb know about you

Google and Facebook know almost everything a smartphone owner does online or offline and store the information even if the owner deletes the data on the device, a technical consultant and web developer has written on his Twitter account. « Want to freak yourself out?, » wrote Dylan Curran. « I’m gonna show just how much of your…

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MBS meets AIPAC, anti-BDS leaders for the interval of US search recommendation from

Mohammed bin Salman, the crown prince of Saudi Arabia, known as MBS, has met leaders from a number of right-wing Jewish organisations during his tour of the United States. The groups, which have donated millions to illegal settlement building and the fight against BDS (the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) movement, include officials from AIPAC, Stand Up for…

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Basement faculties attend young americans in Syria’s Jap Ghouta

Alaa al-Khamooneh, a mathematics teacher in Douma, Eastern Ghouta’s largest city, was forced to take his profession underground in the last month to avoid bombs and aerial attacks. Since the Syrian and Russian offensive on the largely agricultural region began on February 18, the 35-year-old has been part of a teaching initiative that aims to…

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Steve Smith breaks down all over emotional apology for cheating scandal

Former Australia cricket captain Steve Smith broke down in tears during a press conference after apologising for the ball-tampering scandal that has resulted in him being banned from international cricket for a year. Smith was part of a three-man plan to cheat during the third Test against South Africa last weekend, with vice-captain David Warner…

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Tim Cook dinner on Fb’s recordsdata-leak scandal: ‘I would no longer be in this misfortune’

Apple CEO Tim Cook criticized Facebook in an interview on Wednesday in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica data scandal, saying privacy is a human right and a core American value. When asked what he would do if he were currently faced with the problems confronting Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Cook said: « I wouldn’t be…