Four days before France votes on its next president, the two remaining candidates are going head to head in their only televised debate.
Read More | Lire La SuiteWomen’s pain impacts their bodies, not the husbands
A recent incident in Egypt ignited a controversy regarding women’s bodily autonomy and the coercive control that men could exercise. The incident concerned a woman who needed a lifesaving hysterectomy but was entangled in a divorce battle that she initiated.
Read More | Lire La SuiteClimate crisis: We are whistling into the abyss
The damning fact is that once I finish writing this column and you finish reading it, you, me and the rest of the world will likely return to our regularly scheduled stuff while we keep whistling towards a dead end – literally.
Read More | Lire La SuiteView on China’s pandemic: the price of zero-Covid
The country was the first to use lockdowns, and may well be the last. But as the social and economic costs become clearer, it is tweaking its tactics
Read More | Lire La SuiteAnalysis. Kyiv vs. Kiev, Zelensky vs. Zelenskyy, and the immense meaning of ‘the’
What about the surname of Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, or Zelenskyy, depending on which U.S. publication you’re reading? (The Post and the New York Times, among others, prefer the single “y,” while USA Today, the Associated Press and others go with “yy.”) To some people..
Read More | Lire La SuiteHistory demands the west deploy every legal and financial weapon against Putin
When Vladimir Putin launched his unprovoked, criminal invasion of Ukraine, he shot himself in one foot. When he threatened to use nuclear weapons, he blew off the other. His regime has chosen a path of self-liquidation. The only question is how much damage it will do before its demise.
Read More | Lire La SuiteUkraine requests ‘urgent’ Human Rights Council debate: UN
Kyiv on Thursday asked the UN Human Rights Council to hold an urgent debate on human rights in Ukraine "stemming from the Russian aggression", the United Nations said.
Read More | Lire La SuiteForget the obsession with sanctions against oligarchs. I have a better way to hurt Putin
Since the annexation of Crimea in 2014, the western response to Vladimir Putin’s growing list of crimes has been to impose sanctions on his “cronies”. In recent years there have been particularly insistent demands for sanctions on rich Russian oligarchs resident in London.
Read More | Lire La SuiteDebate. Trudeau’s Use of Emergency Law to Quell Protests Provokes Confusion and Criticism
Debate in the legislature turned fiery Tuesday after Trudeau’s government gave itself the power to ban public assembly in certain locations and ordered Canada’s banks to freeze the accounts of those involved in the blockades. Conservative Leader Candice Bergen said the prime minister’s decision..
Read More | Lire La SuiteView on Prince Andrew: closure with no prospect of redemption
In the end there was nowhere left to hide, and there were no good options remaining. Since 2015, Prince Andrew has sought to discredit allegations of sexual abuse made against him by Virginia Giuffre, who claims that as a teenager she was repeatedly forced to sleep with him by the sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. The prince has repeatedly denied .
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