Archive du mois : mars 2018

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On torture, war crimes and Trump’s consume for CIA director

Donald Trump has nominated a woman who ran a torture site to be head of the CIA. Within the United States, there is a « debate » over whether « enhanced interrogation » was legitimate or illegitimate. Here’s a test for Americans who can’t figure it out. If Iraqis or Iranians or Russians treated captured Americans the same way,…

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French police ‘hero’ dies of wounds

Image copyright EPA Image caption Lt-Col Beltrame suffered fatal injuries after volunteering to trade places with a female hostage A French police officer who swapped himself for a hostage in a supermarket siege on Friday has died, officials say. Lt-Col Arnaud Beltrame, 44, « fell as a hero » and showed « exceptional courage », French President Emmanuel Macron…

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Mike Pompeo is the anti-Tillerson

When President Donald Trump fired Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on March 13 via an unceremonious tweet, the mood at the Department of State was probably half-escatic, half-petrified. Escatic because the Foreign Service and career staffers in the building were now free from the chains of a man who was generally castigated for eviscerating America’s diplomatic power…

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How Laissez-Faire Made Sweden Rich

Once upon a time I got interested in theories of economic development because I had studied a low-income country, poorer than Congo, with life expectancy half as long and infant mortality three times as high as the average developing country. That country is my own country, Sweden—less than 150 years ago. At that time Sweden…

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Anti-social network: Fb bids to rebuild believe

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Egypt: Explosion rocks Alexandria’s Stanley neighbourhood

An explosion went off near a hotel in Egypt’s Alexandria city, resident have reported. The blast occurred near the Tolip Hotel on Saturday afernoon in Rushdi, a neighbourhood in Egypt’s second city. One soldier was killed and several others were injured in the explosion which was the result of a car bomb which targeted the…

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Zimbabwe investigates Grace Mugabe for unlawful ivory smuggling

Zimbabwe has launched an investigation into the country’s former first lady, Grace Mugabe, over her alleged involvement in an ivory smuggling ring. The probe was opened after a three-month undercover mission by Australian wildlife photographer Adrian Steirn.  Speaking exclusively to Al Jazeera, Steirn said he uncovered the poaching and smuggling syndicate when he began looking…

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Wie Holland wieder konkurrenzfähig werden will

England kommt! Eigentlich eine schöne Sache für die fußballbegeisterten Niederländer, aber die Begeisterung lässt in diesen Tagen zu wünschen übrig. Zum Debüt des neuen Nationaltrainers Ronald Koeman am Freitag ist die stolze Elftal am Freitag in Amsterdam kaum mehr als ein Sparringspartner, wie auch vier Tage später beim Duell mit Portugal. Engländer und Portugiesen haben…