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Politicians know that they have a problem when they have to deny it. On Monday, Vladimir Putin insisted that an extravagant palace on the Black Sea coast did not belong to him, following a video exposé released by the opposition leader, Alexei Navalny, and so far watched by around 90 million people. Footage of him swimming in a giant pool was fake.

Des faits marquants en eux-mêmes, mais surtout des symptômes d’un engrenage sociétal qui vient de loin, surgit brutalement et en est arrivé à un point de basculement possible.

Joe Biden’s presidential bid has often invited comparisons to President Warren G Harding, whose 1920 campaign slogan promised a “return to normalcy” after a chaotic preceding decade.

La chancelière allemande, qui vient d’assurer la présidence tournante de l’Union européenne et dont la succession se joue samedi 16 janvier au congrès de la CDU, a su, face à la pandémie, remiser sa rigidité pour éviter le pire.

On January 6, as the two chambers of Congress convened to count Electoral College votes and officially certify Joe Biden as the president-elect of the United States, a violent mob stormed the US Capitol in support of President Donald Trump and his false allegation that the presidential contest was “stolen” through voter fraud.

C'est une bonne année 2021 qui commence! L’espoir que fait naître le vaccin contre le Covid-19 est à lui seul motif d’optimisme. Après une folle année faucheuse et un train ininterrompu de mauvaises surprises, tous aspirent à rompre avec ce cycle infernal du mal ravageur, de confinements en série, de pertes d’emplois et de revenus.

If there was any doubt at all, let’s end it today. Words have meaning. When a president tells his followers that the fate of the nation is at stake in a presidential election, millions will believe him.

Exclu de l'accord entre Bruxelles et Londres, le rocher a fait l'objet d'une négociation tendue entre Madrid et Londres pour éviter un Brexit sans accord.

It is one of the curiosities of this inside-out age that Donald Trump is loved by conspiracists, even though he is a leader – at last! – who embodies of all their worst fears. He really does hate them, he really is plotting against them, and he really is lying to them, in multiple and increasingly wicked and baroque ways.