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The chance of a binding new climate deal involving the world's biggest greenhouse-gas emitters, China, the US and India, looks increasingly unlikely as the UN climate conference in Durban draws to a close today. In an outcome that would dash the hopes...
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Cinq Casques bleus français ont été blessés vendredi dans l'explosion d'une bombe, placée sur une route dans le sud du Liban, ce qu'Alain Juppé a qualifié de « lâche attentat ». La bombe a explosé à Bourj al-Shamali, près du port de Tyr, endommageant...
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WE JOURNALISTS are probably too bleary-eyed after a sleepless night to understand the full significance of what has just happened in Brussels. What is clear is that after a long, hard and rancorous negotiation, at about 5am this morning the European Union...
Lire la suiteThe UN office for Somalia is moving to Mogadishu from Nairobi, UN head Ban Ki-moon has announced on a rare visit to the Somali capital. The UN secretary general is the highest-ranking foreign official to visit the war-torn city for many years. He was...
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Officiellement, le président bissau-guinéen, Malam Bacaï Sanha, va mieux. Selon les services de la présidence, il serait même sorti de l'unité de soins intensifs de l'hôpital du Val de Grâce à Paris où il est actuellement soigné. Le président avait été...
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International Cris GroupA week after presidential and legislative polls, the Democratic Republic of Congo faces a political crisis that could plunge it back into major violence. Preliminary results, expected today, risk sparking opposition protests that,...
Lire la suiteNegotiators are close to agreeing the shape of a Green Climate Fund, which is designed to help poor nations tackle global warming and nudge them towards a new global effort to fight climate change. Rich countries have pledged up to $100 billion a year...
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Kenya's parliament has approved the integration of government troops in Somalia into the African Union (AU) force fighting militant Islamists. The decision comes after the AU last week asked Kenyan troops to join its 9,000-strong force in Somalia to battle...
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The US has publicly declared it will fight discrimination against gays and lesbians abroad by using foreign aid and diplomacy to encourage reform. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told an audience of diplomats in Geneva: "Gay rights are human rights"....
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Global Witness a annoncé aujourd’hui sa décision de quitter le Processus de Kimberley, dispositif international de certification instauré dans le but d’éliminer le commerce de diamants du sang. En refusant d’évoluer et de se pencher sur les liens inéluctables...
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At least 250 anti-Putin protesters have been arrested in demonstrations Tuesday in Russia's capital, Moscow police told CNN. The arrests came as demonstrators protested against the results of Sunday's parliamentary election. Thousands of protesters had...
Lire la suiteZimbabwe police detained a leading media rights activist on Tuesday in what analysts said was a new crackdown on critics of President Robert Mugabe's ZANU-PF party before a possible general election next year. The Media Monitoring Project of Zimbabwe...
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Scientists have developed a vaccine that protects mice against a deadly form of the Ebola virus. First identified in 1976, Ebola fever kills more than 90% of the people it infects. The researchers say that this is the first Ebola vaccine to remain viable...
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Après les discussions entre experts, les représentants des 194 pays à la conférence des Nations unies sur le climat ont entamé ce lundi 5 décembre les négociations au niveau politique. Seulement une quinzaine de chefs d'Etat ont fait le déplacement en...
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The two primary leaders of the euro zone, Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany and President Nicolas Sarkozy of France, issued their first joint call on Monday for amendments to Europe’s governing treaties to provide better economic governance for the...
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