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In China, has the zero Covid strategy become a trap for Xi Jinping?

In China, has the zero Covid strategy become a trap for Xi Jinping?

via Associated PressXi Jinping, here in February 2022, is seeking a new term as head of China, but the health situation is weakening him. CHINA – Strict confinement, massive testing campaigns, collective quarantine centers… For more than a month, the 26 million inhabitants of Shanghai have been subjected to strict discipline due to the worst […]

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In Belfast, a youth tired of religious and community divisions

In Belfast, a youth tired of religious and community divisions

By Cécile Ducourtieux Posted today at 6:00 p.m. Reserved for our subscribers FactualThe emergence of a “third force” alongside nationalists and loyalists in the Northern Irish legislative elections on May 5 could spark a debate on the mandatory coalition system between Protestants and Catholics. A new wind is blowing in Northern Ireland: a new generation

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why the unprecedented production of an anti-Covid vaccine on the African continent risks coming to an end

why the unprecedented production of an anti-Covid vaccine on the African continent risks coming to an end

Since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, the need to produce vaccines against the disease on African soil in order to reduce the dependence of States vis-à-vis the outside has become essential. Also, the situation of the South African pharmaceutical group Aspen Pharmacare now seems paradoxical: the company has just announced that the future of

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What would be the consequences of a return "fifty years back" on abortion?

What would be the consequences of a return « fifty years back » on abortion?

From our correspondent in the United States, The final battle is on. An extraordinary leak of a draft Supreme Court decision has plunged the United States into a scenario that seemed unthinkable ten years ago: America’s highest court is about to reverse Roe v. Wade, who guaranteed abortion rights nationwide in 1973. On Tuesday, the

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“The European Commission wants to transform Frontex into an agency monitoring the rights of migrants”

“The European Commission wants to transform Frontex into an agency monitoring the rights of migrants”

FIGAROVOX/MAINTENANCE – Frontex Director General Fabrice Leggeri tendered his resignation on Friday 29 April. For the director general of the Thomas More Institute Jean-Thomas Lesueur, the European agency is at the heart of an ideological battle, which has prevented the Frenchman from carrying out his mission. Jean-Thomas Lesueur is Director General of the Thomas More

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Repeated heat waves, extreme humidity… Will Pakistan and India become “uninhabitable”?

Repeated heat waves, extreme humidity… Will Pakistan and India become “uninhabitable”?

This Sunday, May 1, 2022, it was no less than 49.5 ° C in Nawabshah, a city in southeastern Pakistan. Exceptional, this maximum temperature level is not unprecedented. Because, as has been the case for several days, if not the past few weeks, a large part of the Indian subcontinent is facing extreme heat. As

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what is the European disobedience advocated by rebellious France?

what is the European disobedience advocated by rebellious France?

If the negotiations for common candidacies on the left are dragging on, it is in particular because the disobedience to the European treaties contained in the program of insubordinate France is being debated. We explain to you what this proposal really covers. Two diametrically opposed views. The question of disobedience to the European treaties contained

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What is the Roe vs. Wade case, which opened the right to abortion in the United States in 1973?

What is the Roe vs. Wade case, which opened the right to abortion in the United States in 1973?

It is, without doubt, the most well-known judgment of the United States Supreme Court. On January 22, 1973, the promulgation of the Roe judgment vs. Wade granted American women the right to abortion nationwide. A right that the highest court in the country is preparing to question, according to a draft decision published by Politico,

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in Gossi, the hostage population of the information war between Wagner and Barkhane

in Gossi, the hostage population of the information war between Wagner and Barkhane

TESTIMONIALS – While the Malian army accuses France of « espionage » for having, using a drone, thwarted an attempt by Russian mercenaries to disinformation, the inhabitants of northern Mali are looking for their dead and resigning themselves to a climate of fear. The crescent moon has been spotted in the Malian sky. The Malian government decreed

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Posidonia seagrasses risk extinction

Posidonia seagrasses risk extinction

In Tunisia, Posidonia, a seagrass on which fishing and tourism depend, a crucial sector for the country’s economy, risks disappearing, threatened by ignorance of its role, illegal fishing and pollution, scientists are alarmed. . « Tunisia has by far the largest seagrass beds in the Mediterranean », more than a million hectares, assures Rym Zakhama-Sraieb, researcher in

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we explain why the constitutional right to abortion could soon be overturned by the Supreme Court

we explain why the constitutional right to abortion could soon be overturned by the Supreme Court

It’s a taste of one of the most anticipated decisions of the year in the United States. Based on an extremely rare leak at the highest level of American justice, the Politico news site (article in English) revealed on Monday, May 2, that the Supreme Court was considering overturning the historic judgment legalizing voluntary termination

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United States: the Supreme Court ready to annul the right to abortion

United States: the Supreme Court ready to annul the right to abortion

The Supreme Court of the United States would be ready to annul the judgment of 1973 which recognizes the right to abortion at the federal level, according to information from the American newspaper Politico. The media relied on a major leak of documents from the highest court in the United States, made public in their

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In Tunisia, Posidonia seagrasses risk extinction

AFP, published on Monday, May 02, 2022 at 08:14 In Tunisia, Posidonia, a seagrass on which fishing and tourism depend, a crucial sector for the country’s economy, risks disappearing, threatened by ignorance of its role, illegal fishing and pollution, scientists are alarmed. . « Tunisia has by far the largest seagrass beds in the Mediterranean », more

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the Prime Minister and the Minister of Defense victims of illegal eavesdropping

the Prime Minister and the Minister of Defense victims of illegal eavesdropping

The cellphones of Pedro Sánchez and Margarita Robles were tapped « externally » in 2021, the government said. The cyber espionage affair that has been agitating the political world in Spain for the past month took on a new dimension on Monday May 2, with the government’s announcement that Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez and the Minister of

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A second tour of the royal family in the Caribbean provokes controversies

A second tour of the royal family in the Caribbean provokes controversies

In April 2022, the youngest of the Queen of England, Prince Edward and his wife Sophie, were on an official visit to Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and Antigua and Barbuda. The route has been carefully prepared to avoid contact with hostile crowds. A precaution which did not stop the demands for reparations

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