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"Nous n'avons aucune ambition politique" — Gaïd Salah
Devant le bâtiment, de brèves échauffourées ont éclaté entre étudiants et policiers qui ont fait usage de matraques et gaz lacrymogène. "Pas d'élections, bande de mafieux", "un État civil, pas un État militaire", ont-ils notamment scandé. [Full Article...]
Continetti: Pelosi Has a ‘Pseudo-Impeachment’ Problem
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler (D-NJ) on Tuesday subpoenaed former White House Communications Director Hope Hicks and White House Chief-of-Staff Annie Donaldson to testify before his Committee. "This is becoming a regular event". Nevertheless, Pelosi appears to have quieted the "impeachment now!" mini-revolt that appeared in her caucus over the last couple of weeks. [Full Article...]
US President Donald Trump outlines his `strong pro-life` views on abortion
Weighing in on the state of Alabama's recent passage of a law prohibiting abortion once a fetal heartbeat is detected (at around six weeks ), actor-turned-artist Jim Carrey shared a new creative work depicting - yes - the abortion of GOP Alabama Gov. [Full Article...]
Crowds Gather Outside Ukraine's Parliament as Comedian Sworn in as President
Monday's ceremony was markedly different from past inaugurations in Ukraine and the usual forbidding grandiosity that marks such occasions in former Soviet countries. Zelensky, who won 73 percent of the vote last month in his landslide victory , slammed parliament as a hot-bed of self-enrichment, and promised to stop the war in the east against Russian-backed separatists. [Full Article...]
Brexit : Theresa May parle une dernière fois au mur des députés
Les parlementaires pourront décider d'un second référendum s'ils votent en faveur du nouvel accord de sortie qu'ils auront à examiner dans les prochains jours. Il s'agit d'une solution de dernier recours qui n'entrerait en vigueur qu'après la période de transition si aucune autre solution n'est trouvée d'ici à la mi-2020 entre Londres et Bruxelles. [Full Article...]
La justice ordonne la reprise des traitements
Et le président Emmanuel Macron , à qui ils avaient écrit pour l'implorer d'intervenir, avait répondu dans la journée qu'il ne lui " appartient pas de suspendre " l'arrêt des traitements , décidé, " en conformité avec nos lois ", à quelques jours des élections européennes. [Full Article...]
Russian Bombers, Fighters Intercepted Near Alaska By F-22s: US Military
Russia's Defense Ministry said on Tuesday that its Tu-95MS bombers made an observation flight along the western coast of Alaska and the Aleutian Islands and were shadowed by F-22 fighter jets. "The total flight time exceeded 12 hours". In January, a US E-3 aircraft, two F-22 fighter jets and two Canadian CF-18 fighter jets similarly "positively identified" two Russian Tu-160 Blackjack strategi... [Full Article...]
Theresa May To Ask British Lawmakers To Vote On Second Brexit Referendum
Corbyn has previously said the country should be offered a vote on Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit deal. "And right now, it is slipping away from us", she said. "It would be reasonable to have a public vote to decide on that", Corbyn said on the BBC's "The Andrew Marr Show". "Whatever the outcome of any votes, I will not be simply asking MPs to think again". [Full Article...]
Iran president seeks wartime executive powers following U.S. tensions
The tensions were fueled by the Trump administration's deployment of bombers and an aircraft carrier to the Persian Gulf. One year ago the U.S. unilaterally abrogated the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) reached in 2015 between Iran, the United States, the European powers, Russian Federation and China. [Full Article...]
Apple Announces New MacBook Pro With Improved Keyboard, 8-Core CPU
The 15-inch MacBook starts with a 2.6 GHz (turbo boost to 4.5GHz) six-core 9th-Gen Core i7 CPU, a Radeon Pro 555X with 4GB of GDDR5 memory and a 256GB SSD. That's because nearly nothing else about the MacBook Pro is changing-memory and storage options remain the same, as do most of the other features. These new processors, combined with powerful graphics, the brilliant and colorful Retina displa... [Full Article...]
A Billionaire Pledged To Pay Off Student Loans For An Graduating Class
Speaking during the commencement ceremony for the private, all-male, historically black liberal arts college in Atlanta , Smith made the surprise announcement offering an estimated $40 million to pay off the debt of the almost 400 graduating seniors. [Full Article...]
Microsoft Deal Was A Surprise To Us — Sony PlayStation
In explaining PlayStation's seamless feature, the company used the phrase "Anytime, anywhere, without disconnections". Chiefly, the company is focussed on delivering "immersive" and "seamless" gaming experiences when it comes to the future of PlayStation, with PS5 itself providing the leap "through the employment of further improved computational power and a customized ultra-fast, broadban... [Full Article...]
Sony Employees "Blindsided" by Partnership with Microsoft, According to New Report
While I appreciate the company can't show off any of the games now in development for the PS5, it's still odd to see the capabilities of a console being sold with a game made expressly for its predecessor. Specifically, the agreement (a memorandum of understanding) says that the two will jointly develop future cloud solutions within Microsoft Azure . [Full Article...]
Milkshake thrown at Brexit party leader Farage
Police said a 32-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of assault. Specifically, it was a Five Guys banana and salted caramel milkshake. He said he did not know what was being thrown at him, and called for a message to be sent that "people can't behave like this". [Full Article...]
RDC: Le nom du Premier ministre est trouvé
Une immense clameur s'est élevée dans le ciel de Lubumbashi au moment où son jet privé s'est posé. "Je veux aussi aller sur place pour défendre notre Constitution", s'est-il confié à la RTBF peu avant de prendre son vol. Quel rôle va-t-il jouer? Moïse Katumbi a regagné le Congo en provenance de l' Afrique du Sud. Moïse Katumbi est celui dans l'opposition qui a le plus de députés à l'Assemblée... [Full Article...]
Google bars Huawei from some Android services after Trump order
At a regular news briefing in Beijing, China's Foreign Ministry spokesman Lu Kang earlier Monday said to "wait and see" with regards to what countermeasures the Chinese government and enterprises could take in response to the USA measures against Huawei . [Full Article...]
5th migrant child dies after detention by Border Patrol
In another exchange, dated December 18, 2017, roughly two weeks after the vehicle attack, an unidentified person asked Bowen: "Did you gas hiscorpse (sic) or just use regular peanut oil while tazing??" A teenage illegal immigrant from Guatemala died in Border Patrol custody Monday morning, reigniting debates over the surge of migrants overwhelming border authorities, and Homeland Security's abil... [Full Article...]
There won't be a war; we don't want it: Zarif
The recent deployment of a United States aircraft carrier group has raised tensions in the Gulf region and fanned fears of armed conflict. Earlier this week, the United States pulled non-essential diplomatic staff from its embassy in Baghdad following weekend attacks on four oil tankers in the Straits of Hormuz, the strategic corridor through which one fifth of the world's oil passes. [Full Article...]
La nouvelle définition du kilogramme entre en vigueur
Car jusqu'ici, la masse d'un kilo correspondait à un cylindre composé de platine et d'irridium, dont l'original est conservé depuis 1889 au Bureau international des poids et mesures (BIPM) à Sèvres, comme l'explique France Info . C'est face à ce léger changement de masse que la communauté scientifique mondiale s'est accordée pour décider d'un nouveau mode de calcul du kilogramme , qui entre donc... [Full Article...]
Arrêt des soins de Vincent Lambert: sa femme Rachel sort du silence
Son mari est tétraplégique en état végétatif depuis plus de dix ans après un accident de la route et elle assure que " le voir partir, c'est le voir en homme libre ". " Vincent Lambert n'est pas en fin de vie, nourrissez Vincent Lambert". Les avocats des parents, Mes Paillot et Triomphe, avaient prévu de déposer "trois nouveaux recours dès lundi". [Full Article...]