« L'utopie n'est que le nom donné aux réformes lorsqu'il faut attendre des révolutions pour les entreprendre » Jacques Attali
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Steven P. Jobs, the visionary co-founder of Apple who helped usher in the era of personal computers and then led a cultural transformation in the way music, movies and mobile communications were experienced in the digital age, died Wednesday. He was 56. The death was announced by Apple, the company Mr. […]
IN DARK days, people naturally seek glimmers of hope. So it was that financial markets, long battered by the ever-worsening euro crisis, rallied early this week amid speculation that Europe’s leaders had been bullied by the rest of the world into at last putting together a “big plan” to save the single […]
Transparency International (TI) calls on finance ministers from the Group of 20 leading economies (G20), meeting Friday, 23 September, around the IMF/World Bank Annual meetings, to make good their anti-corruption commitments as part of their efforts to encourage economic recovery. TI stressed that the […]
African Union officials have recognized the new Libyan government, marking another setback for ousted leader Moammar Gadhafi. The body, made up of 54 nations, pledged to support the National Transitional Council as it works toward establishing an inclusive government. "The African Union stands ready to […]
It may be unthinkable that the chocolate we enjoy could come from the hands of children working as slaves. In Ivory Coast and other cocoa-producing countries, there are an estimated 100,000 children working the fields, many against their will, to create the chocolate delicacies enjoyed by Western […]
THERE are almost 4m “missing women” in the world—that is, women who have died because the rate of female mortality is disproportionately high compared with men’s or because fetuses were aborted before birth simply because they were female. The figure is higher than had been previously thought. It comes […]
L'aide financière promise aux pays en développement à la conférence internationale sur le climat de Copenhague, en 2009, n'est pas au rendez-vous, et la mince partie disponible ne cible ni les besoins les plus pressants ni les priorités des pays aux prises avec «l'injustice climatique», comme les petites […]
With nearly 800 million people unable to read or write, the United Nations today marked International Literacy Day with a warning that illiteracy undermines efforts to eliminate a host of social ills such as poverty and sickness and threatens the very stability of nations. “The costs are enormous,” […]
Le nombre d'attaques dirigées contre des hôpitaux et le personnel de santé dans les zones de conflit est en hausse et met en danger la vie et la santé de millions de personnes, soutient le Comité international de la Croix-Rouge (CICR) dans un rapport paru mercredi. Ce rapport porte sur l'examen de 655 […]
L'Italie appelle l'OTAN à lancer une enquête sur sa responsabilité dans l'échec du sauvetage d'un navire de migrants libyens qui a fait des dizaines de morts, a annoncé vendredi le ministère italien des Affaires étrangères. Les garde-côtes italiens ont porté secours jeudi à un bateau de 20 mètres de long […]
IT IS the trial many Egyptians thought they would never see. The appearance of Egypt's former president, Hosni Mubarak, in court charged with ordering the killing of protesters during Egypt's uprising in January along with a host of corruption charges, has provoked much comment in the Arab press. Leading […]
Le Conseil de sécurité de l'ONU a «condamné» mercredi la répression meurtrière des manifestations d'opposition par les autorités syriennes, qui ont déployé des centaines de chars autour de plusieurs villes, bastions de la contestation. De son côté, Washington a haussé le ton affirmant chercher de […]
A global deal on a pact to succeed the U.N.'s main climate agreement is still within reach but will not be struck this year, with the pace of talks still far too slow, New Zealand's top climate negotiator said on Wednesday. Inevitably, there would be a gap after the Kyoto Protocol's first period expires […]
Selon un extrait – distribué à la presse – de la déclaration finale du groupe de contact sur la Libye réuni vendredi 15 juillet en Turquie à Istanbul, les membres du groupe reconnaissent désormais le Conseil national de transition, organe politique des rebelles, comme "l'autorité gouvernementale […]
Global food prices rose sharply in June, according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), after a steep increase in the price of sugar. The price of sugar rose by 14% last month, as a result of high demand and lower production in Brazil. The FAO's food price index reached 234 points in June, […]
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