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Fondateur du journal russe Novaïa Gazeta, anticonformiste, indépendant, qui dénonce sans complaisance les failles de la société russe, Dmitri Mouratov a reçu le prix Nobel de la paix ce vendredi 8 octobre avec la Philippine Maria Ressa. Le comité loue “ses efforts  visant à défendre la liberté d’expression”.

Adraconian police and crime bill is making its way through parliament, and on Tuesday the home secretary, Priti Patel, told her party’s conference that she planned to remove even more rights from political protesters. New offences of disrupting motorways and national infrastructure will be added to legislation that already dramatically expands police powers.

Jusqu’au XVIIIe siècle, le mot « parti » désigne un clan. Lorsque les organisations politiques apparaissent, au XIXe siècle, elles ont plus de mal à s’implanter en France que dans les autres pays européens.

Senior military officials in the United States have linked the collapse of the Afghan government and its security forces in August to former President Donald Trump’s deal with the Taliban in 2020 promising a complete withdrawal of US troops.

Des militants pour le climat manifestent pour demander une "justice climatique maintenant" dans plusieurs villes suisses vendredi après-midi. Ils répondent ainsi à un appel international lancé par l'initiative "Fridays for Future", suivi dans plusieurs dizaines de pays dans le monde.

Against the backdrop of the 9.0-magnitude man-made earthquake that was the disastrous US pullout from Afghanistan, two Christian leaders, Pastor Johnnie Moore and Juliana Taimoorazy, convened a news conference last week under the auspices of the Simon Wiesenthal Center.

Morocco’s moderate Islamist party suffered major losses in parliamentary elections on Wednesday, a stinging setback in one of the last countries where Islamists had risen to power after the Arab Spring protests.

Pour qu’une vraie démocratie fonctionne, encore faut-il que tout le monde se déplace pour voter. Rendre le vote obligatoire est une idée qui pourrait renforcer la démocratie. Or, nous savons que l’ennemi du système démocratique, c’est l’abstention, le silence, l’indifférence, le «jemenfoutisme».

The Taliban took over Afghanistan with great ease that few expected. Now that all foreign troops have withdrawn, the group faces the more difficult task of governing the country. Will it be able to cope?

Pashtana Durrani knows that she is on the Taliban’s radar. The 23-year-old teacher has been fiercely advocating for girls’ education since the group started making advances in Afghanistan after the U.S. announced it would withdraw troops from the country by Aug. 31. But despite being told that she is not safe, Durrani is staying put.