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Month: July 2013
PARIS – He first visited libraries as a researcher, before crossing on to “the other side of the mirror.” That’s how Philippe Galanopolous describes his life as a curator for the Inter-University Science Library of Paris (BIUS), one of the world’s best collection of science texts and documents. BIUS was created after the merger between […]
Whole families are forced to leave Rwanda’s struggling north. Boys look for work at an early age; the girls, instead, all too often are pushed to get married across the border in Uganda.
Here are the songs topping the charts from some music hot spots around the world. But first, let’s warm up with the Worldcrunch pick of the week: Belgian singer-songwriter Stromae“s latest single Papaoutai…
Berlin-based Die Welt is not taking lightly a recent EU directive that backed French bans on imports of new models of German-built Mercedes.
DETROIT NEWS, NYT (USA), LE MONDE (France), O GLOBO (Brazil) Worldcrunch DETROIT – From Kalamazoo, Michigan to Paris, France, news of Detroit’s bankruptcy — the largest municipal financial default filing in American history — was making headlines far and wide and close to home on Friday. “Detroit, the cradle of America’s automobile industry and once […]
BOSTON MAGAZINE, ROLLING STONE Worldcrunch BOSTON – In an angry response to this week’s controversial Rolling Stone cover of alleged Boston bomber Dzokhar Tsarnaev, a police photographer has given pictures of the dramatic capture to Boston Magazine to publish on its website. Massachusetts State Police Seargent Sean Murphy leaked the photos he took of the […]
CNN, KOMMERSANT (Russia), RIA NOVOSTI (Russia) Worldcrunch KIROV – Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was released from detention on bail Friday, one day after being sentenced to five years for theft and embezzlement. The Kirov regional court, east of Moscow, ruled that keeping him in custody would deprive him of his right to stand in […]
BUENOS AIRES – A wooden dance floor, that familiar tempo of the music, a gesture of invitation. And the dance begins, counter-clockwise… It does not matter whether it is the El Fulgor de Villa Crespo club or the Sunderland de Villa Urquiza or a dance hall in Moscow or Beijing. The tango has the same […]
That is one bold idea floated to prevent older voters from paralyzing the democracy and blocking necessary reforms for the future.
Take a tour of what the world has been saying this week…
–OpEd– SANTIAGO – After four long years in court, the 10 Chilean pharmaceutical executives prosecuted for colluding to raise the prices of 222 medicines can breathe easy. These business leaders from the companies Salco-Brand, Ahumada and Cruz Verde were in fact convicted, but the sentence amounted to a meager fine — the equivalent of $445,000 […]
BERLIN – It’s an animal story with a happy ending, five years in the making. A Berlin woman who’d lost her tabby cat “Pauley” in 2008 had an almost unthinkable surprise waiting for her at the capital’s Tierheim animal shelter. “When I got the letter a few days ago from the shelter saying my cat […]
Friday, July 18, 2014 RUSSIA, UKRAINE TRADE BLAME OVER MH17 DISASTER Moscow and Kiev are accusing each other of being responsible for the crash of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 yesterday in eastern Ukraine, with 298 people on board, most of them Dutch. All sides agree on the fact that the aircraft was hit by a […]
KOMMERSANT (Russia), BBC, CNN Worldcrunch KIROV – Russian protest leader Alexei Navalny was sentenced to five years in jail for theft and embezzlement on Thursday. The Kirov City Court found the anti-corruption campaigner guilty of defrauding about $500,000 worth of lumber from a state-run company, reports Russia’s Kommersant. The tough sentence did not come as […]
MAIL & GUARDIAN (South Africa), SKY NEWS (UK) Worldcrunch JOHANNESBURG – The world is celebrating a very special Mandela Day on Thursday, as the ailing Apartheid icon spends his 95th birthday in a Pretoria hospital, slowly recovering from a recurring lung infection. “Madiba Nelson Mandela’s nickname remains in hospital in Pretoria but his doctors have […]
SAGONE – Ecstatic strawberry; erotic nougat; the forgotten flavours of violets, helichrysums, and Persian black limes… Can ice-cream contain a touch of genius? If it’s Pierre Geronimi making it, absolutely! An artisanal ice-cream maker from the little village of Sagone, north of Ajaccio, this Corsican grew up surrounded by the sorbets that his father, a […]
BBC (UK), AFP Worldcrunch LOGAR– At least 8 Afghan workers were kidnapped and shot dead on their way to jobs at a U.S. military base in Logar province, south of Kabul. No group has taken responsibility for the attack, however, local officials blame the Taliban terrorist group, BBC reports. The workers, aged from 15 to […]
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The Chinese Pursuit Of The American Dream
–Essay– Whether a place can continue to attract immigrants relies fundamentally on institutional competition. Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson concluded in their book Why Nations Fail that countries with “inclusive institutions” will attract a diverse citizenry and adequate resources, and that this is advantageous for sustained economic progress. Instead, they argued, countries with more isolated, […]
HALDEN – “Hello everybody! How are you today!?” On stage, behind his keyboard, the musician takes in the applause and boisterous chattering, as he presents the members of his band. They kick into a cover of a reggae version of a Jackson Brothers’ song, the lights blink, as the singers move confidently from English to […]
Plans include a modern art museum double the size of London’s Tate Modern, the world’s most visited museum.
They were sentenced to six-and-a-half and five-and-a-half years in prison in Germany, respectively. But their lawyer says that Andreas and Heidrun Anschlag are counting on a swift departure for Russia, as part of a spy exchange. The trial of this couple ultimagely convicted of spying for Moscow started last January, and included a total of […]
Thursday, July 17, 2014 GAZA’S SHORT-LIVED CEASEFIRE A temporary ceasefire that was planned to last at least five hours was broken less than three hours after it started, with the southern Israeli town of Eshkol targeted by what the Israeli military says were three mortars. The Guardian says there are conflicting reports about the attack […]
CNN Worldcrunch Al Qaeda’s No. 2 man in Yemen, Said al-Shihri, once emerged from the aftermath of drone strikes in the past to lambast the CIA for trying to kill him. Now, it has been confirmed, US forces have finally struck their target. A message on jihadi websites announced al-Shihri’s death Tuesday. It was purportedly […]
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Bangladesh Islamist Leader To Be Hanged
BDNEWS24 (Bangladesh), AFP Worldcrunch DHAKA – A Bangladeshi war crime tribunal Wednesday sentenced to death a senior leader of the Jamaat-e-Islami, the country’s largest Islamist party. Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed, 65, who was accused of mass killing and torture during the 1971 Liberation War against Pakistan, was found guilty of five charges including abduction and […]
BBC, TIMES OF INDIA, INDIAN EXPRESS Worldcrunch DHARMASATI GANDAMAND – At least 22 children have died from food poisoning after eating a school lunch in this village in eastern India. The meal was served at a government primary school on Tuesday in Dharmasati Gandamand in the state of of Bihar. The Times of India reports […]
Domestic workers from the Philippines have faced sexual abuse by their employers in places like Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Jordan. Now they also accuse Manila’s own embassy employees.
AMMAN – The southern Syrian province of Daraa borders both Israel and Jordan — it is also considered the gateway to Damascus. With the strategic stakes so high, the area has seen fierce battles between regime and rebel forces since the early months of the conflict. As recently as April, the rebel offensive in Daraa […]
Shiva was not like the other detainees in the Argentina prison. For one thing, this convicted kidnapper was studying to be a lawyer — which turned out to be the ticket for his daring escape.
Over the past five years, the global weapons trade has grown at a rate of 30%, with total sales of arms and military hardware rising from $56.6 billion to $73.4 billion. A study released last month by IHS Jane’s details the evolution since 2008 in the arms trade across the world. Take a global tour […]
SAINT-DENIS – Those going through the Legion d’Honneur Square, not far from the Cathedral Basilica of Saint Denis, in the northern Seine-Saint-Denis suburb of Paris, will perhaps wonder about the presence of a globe-shaped monument in the middle of a flower bed. As they come closer, they will see that names, surnames and numbers have […]
Wednesday, July 16, 2014 ISRAEL TARGETS HAMAS LEADERS IN FRESH STRIKES The Israeli air force is continuing to strike Gaza, targeting the residences of four Hamas leaders hours after warning 100,000 Gazans to flee their homes, AP reports. This comes after Hamas rejected an Egypt-brokered ceasefire yesterday. Blogger Richard Silverstein writes that a well-placed Israeli […]
-Analysis- ROME – Countless attempts have been made to separate Silvio Berlusconi’s fate from that of the Italian government and economy. Above all, how can one man’s personal destiny be disentangled from the properly functioning relationships between the powers of the State. In the end, it seems, all attempts at such a separation have been […]
REUTERS Worldcrunch CAIRO – Seven people were killed and more than 260 wounded when supporters of Mohammed Morsi clashed with the deposed president’s opponents and security forces through the night as violence returned to Egypt“s streets. Two people were killed at a bridge in central Cairo where police and anti-Morsi locals clashed with some of […]
After becoming the first person in Poland born from in vitro fertilization, Agnieszka Ziolkowska, 26, decided it was time to act after Catholic leaders compared IVF to “plant breeding.”
ZOO ATLANTA, THE ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION (USA), AP Worldcrunch ATLANTA – The world’s second most closely watched pregnancy has reached an end: Lun Lun, Zoo Atlanta’s giant panda gave birth to two little cubs on Monday night — the first twin pandas born in the U.S. since 1987. Both cubs appeared healthy, Zoo Atlanta deputy director […]
BLOOMBERG, REUTERS Worldcrunch BEIJING – China’s top search engine Baidu is planning to buy the app store 91 Wireless for $1.9 billion in order to gain a bigger share in the very competitive mobile sector, Reuters reports. After the acquisition, Baidu will hold 57.4% of the shares of one of China’s earliest app stores, taking […]
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Mexico Captures Zeta Cartel Leader
SDP NOTICIAS (Mexico), DALLAS MORNING NEWS (USA) Worldcrunch MEXICO – Mexican Marines have captured Miguel Ángel Treviño Morales, leader of the Zetas, one of the most brutal and feared cartel of the country. Late Monday, the Mexican government confirmed the arrest earlier in the day of the man knows as “El Z-40.” Treviño Morales was […]
–OpEd– BEIJING – In the past month, China’s State Council, Central Bank and Banking Regulatory Commission have all encouraged restructuring and reforming the nation’s financial institutions with private capital so that banks can take their own risks. Though the aspiration to establish private banks isn’t new, the fact that a number of top Chinese institutions […]
LE PARISIEN (France) Worldcrunch PARIS – Et voila…there she is: Elysee (Twitter) The Marianne is France’s national emblem, present on various official logos of public institutions, including official stamps of the French postal service. The stamps of the female figure have been redesigned every few years since 1967, based on famous women. According to Olivier […]