Archive du mois : avril 2018

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Is US President Trump ‘milking Gulf countries’ ?

US President Donald Trump is « milking Gulf countries » and exploiting tensions in the Middle East to bolster its arms sales. That’s according to Al Jazeera’s senior political analyst Marwan Bishara, who was commenting shortly after the US leader told Saudi Arabia it needed to pay up if it wanted the US to continue its fight…

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50 years after MLK’s death: The formative years stay out his legacy

New York City – The news that Martin Luther King Jr had been murdered on a balcony in Memphis, Tennessee hit 17-year-old Freeman Hrabowski like a death in the family. In 1968, Hrabowski was a math-obsessed undergraduate at Hampton University, in the midst of pledging King’s Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity. His fellow students were devastated,…

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Is Sheikh Hasina turning Bangladesh into one-celebration teach?

Dhaka, Bangladesh – The controversial jailing of former Bangladesh Prime Minister Khaleda Zia and the state persecution of dissent have raised fears that the next parliamentary election could turn into a violent sham. Fear of a 2014 repeat, when the parliamentary elections were boycotted by almost all the opposition parties and marred by large-scale violence…

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Female shooter ‘had railed at YouTube’

Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionHow the attack on YouTube’s HQ in San Bruno unfoldedThe suspect in a gun attack at YouTube’s HQ in California had expressed anger over its treatment of her video postings, media reports say. Police have named Nasim Aghdam, 39, as the suspect but say they are still…

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YouTube shooter IDed as lady offended at web page’s “age-restricted” insurance policies

Enlarge / Nasim Aghdam claimed that this « workout video » was unfairly subjected to YouTube’s age restrictions. The San Bruno Police Department has identified the suspect in Tuesday’s shooting at the YouTube campus as Nasim Aghdam, a 39-year-old woman from San Diego. The confirmation came hours after numerous media sources had initially named Aghdam as the suspect. The…

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Homeowner, 78, arrested after ‘burglar stabbed to loss of life in some unspecified time in the future of shatter-in’

A 78-year-old homeowner has been arrested after a suspected burglar was ‘stabbed to death with a screwdriver during a break-in’. Police were called to reports of a burglary at a house in Hither Green in South London at around 12:45 am this morning. When they arrived they said they found that the homeowner had got…

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US-Gulf summit postponed to September

A Gulf summit that was supposed to take place at the beginning of April in Washington, DC has been postponed to September, a number of United States officials said. According to Reuters news agency, the decision came as a result of US President Donald Trump’s busy schedule of diplomatic meetings, and the absence of a…

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Q&A: Lee Kuan Yew’s legacy, Singapore’s future and a family feud

The rich and modern metropolis of Singapore is frequently described as an « economic miracle ». When Lee Kuan Yew, the principal architect and first prime minister of the wealthy island state, died in 2015, over a million Singaporean residents turned out to honour his memory and his accomplishments – not the least of was the creation of…