Archive du mois : avril 2018

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Brazil’s Lula Says He Will Renounce to Police, Stop Standoff

Brazil’s former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva turned himself in to the police, finally ending a tense stand-off with authorities after ignoring a court-ordered deadline to begin a prison sentence. Lula late Saturday left the metalworkers union headquarters, where he had hunkered down since Thursday, and is in police custody, TV footage showed. He…

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Suspected chemical attack ‘kills dozens’ in Syria’s Douma

A suspected chemical attack in Douma, the last rebel-held city in Syria’s Eastern Ghouta, has killed at least 40 people and affected hundreds, residents and activists have told Al Jazeera. The White Helmets, a group of rescuers operating in opposition-held areas in Syria, said on Saturday that most of the fatalities were women and children. One…

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Unification ‘it is a ways never necessary what’: South Koreans on a shared future

After a year marked by increased hostilities and rising tensions on the Korean Peninsula, a thawing of relations between North Korea and South Korea is prompting some to view the issue of reunification with renewed optimism. In February, North Korea sent a delegation to the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, where North Korean leader Kim Jong-un’s…

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US farmers in ‘precarious station’ with China as substitute war fears escalate

China’s announcement this past week also concerns other agricultural commodities, particularly wheat, frozen beef and cotton. « It is unsettling to see American-produced beef listed as a target for retaliation, » said Kent Bacus, director of international trade and market access for the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association. « This is a battle between two governments, and the unfortunate…

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Iran and Qatar excessive on agenda when MBS arrives in France

When French President Emmanuel Macron flew into Riyadh for hastily arranged talks with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in November it was all smiles in public, but in private, a tough dialogue over Iran signaled a change between the allies. Whether that was a momentary tiff or a longer-lasting complication may become clear when…

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Brazil’s Lula says he’s going to flip himself in for arrest

Brazil’s ex-President Luiz Inacio « Lula » da Silva has said he is ready to turn himself in to begin a 12-year sentence for bribery, while maintaining he is the victim of a political campaign to stop him from running in this year’s elections. In his first comments since being ordered to start his sentence, Lula told cheering…

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Blockers’ Kay Cannon unearths what a female director brings to a raunchy comedy

Writer/producer Kay Cannon directed Leslie Mann, John Cena, and Kathryn Newton in the raucous new Blockers, which explores the tenderness of parenthood, coming out, and sexual consent. And puking. A lot of puking. Cannon’s turn on raunch and punchy, hilarious parenting crises and prom night isn’t just electrifying from its performances and the view from…