Rugby: European cups open to… South African franchises
For several months, the rumor of an expansion of the Six Nations Tournament came back, incessant. With the idea of seeing South Africa participate in the annual meeting of European rugby, after the 2023...
“In the winds of Ouessant with Yann Tiersen”, on Silence podcast: journey to the...
Sometimes almost nothing is enough. Which, in our hyperconnected and noise-saturated environments, seems (precisely?) out of reach. But then what? What is this "almost nothing" when it is neither Rimbaud's eternity nor Charles Baudelaire's...
Incidents at the Stade de France: Darmanin puts the forms but does not vary...
An audition and a timid beginning of mea culpa. But no substantive change. Wednesday, June 1, before the Senate Law Commission, Gérald Darmanin and Amélie Oudéa-Castéra were invited to make "all transparency" on the...
Vietnam announces it has developed a vaccine against African swine fever
This is a world first. Vietnam announced on Wednesday June 1 that it has developed, in partnership with American researchers, a vaccine to be administered to pigs to combat African swine fever. On Friday,...
South Africa: President Ramaphosa targeted by a complaint for “kidnapping” and “corruption”
South African president allegedly abducted and interrogated burglars who stumbled upon £3.8m 'hidden' at one of his properties, before buying their silence, 'kidnapping' and 'corruption' complaint claims Wednesday June 1 against the Head of...
Philippe Martinez is not seeking a new mandate at the head of the CGT
The General Confederation of Labor (CGT) is once again plunged into uncertainty for reasons of governance. Its secretary general, Philippe Martinez, indicated, Monday, May 30, to the members of the confederal office, that he...
African Union Chairman Macky Sall visits Russia for talks with Vladimir Putin
Senegalese President Macky Sall, current chairman of the African Union (AU), is traveling to Russia on Thursday (June 2) to meet with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, on Friday in Sochi, his services said...
Stade de France fiasco: communication battle over figures between Gérald Darmanin and UEFA
The communication on the figures after the fiasco of the Stade de France turns into a cacophony. At the end of a crisis meeting at the Ministry of Sports, the Minister of the Interior,...
“The Roundup of the Vel d’Hiv. Paris, July 1942″, by Laurent Joly: a masterful...
On July 17, 1942, Heinrich Himmler witnessed the murder of a group of Dutch Jews in the Auschwitz-Birkenau killing center. The gas chambers have been operating since March. The head of the SS came...
“Official Competition”: a satire of cinema served by a trio of stars
As soon as the Cannes Film Festival ends, a caustic fiction on the star system arrives in theaters, the aptly named Official Competition, by Mariano Cohn and Gaston Duprat. From film to film –...
