A Le Monde journalist attempts to keep up with French baking superstar Pierre Hermé, one of the world’s best pâtissiers. It does not go well.
Month: April 2019
A group in East Amman gives men from Syria and other conflict zones an opportunity to open up and talk through the many ways they struggle.
In Algeria, the Bouteflika clan was driven out of power. In Turkey, Erdogan’s AKP has “only” lost ground in the big cities. In both cases, the government’s legitimacy is being deeply questioned, in a context of economic recession and democratic demands.
A growing number of Indians — including some lawmakers — have taken to social media to incite violence, particularly against Muslims.
Inflation and recession are doing little to bridge the South American nation’s deep political divide.
PHOENIX — The sound of drums, singing and prayers marked the opening of a powwow in Phoenix on a Saturday afternoon this month. Marchers carried the flags of the United States and some of Arizona’s tribal nations onto the grass field, but the procession also included rainbow flags, and the pink and blue transgender flag. […]
In the Majengo district of the southern port city, a mentoring program is trying to stop al-Shabaab from recruiting young people.
Turkey’s politics has been shaken up after President Erdogan’s ruling AKP lost major cities in nationwide municipal elections. Results in the biggest city hang in the balance.
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The Dashing Priests Of Vilnius
The many beautiful Roman Catholic churches in Lithuania’s capital are a sight to be seen … as are the glorious beards of certain priests strolling the city’s streets.
Caught between a host country trying to hinder their integration and a home country holding back their return, Rohingya children find themselves in linguistic limbo.
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A Century Ago, Birth Of The Bauhaus
The Bauhaus movement came to life in Germany after the end of World War I. And it lives on today in many ways.
PARIS — The so-called millennium bug, or Y2K, was the first time many began to understand the full potential of malfunctioning software to do harm. Of course, the predicted December 31, 1999 disruption of the internet, electricity, banking systems, and transportation didn’t come to pass in the end. Still, the threat of bugs (and not […]
The increasingly unpopular president is collaborating with dozens of current or retired soldiers as he tries to push through a controversial policy agenda.
French was once the international language of diplomacy. In Europe, at least, it may have to resume that role now that English risks losing its status as an official EU language.
From Afghanistan to Argentina, women soccer players are pushing against the grain to earn equal treatment and respect in a growing, global sport.
Local investors and entrepreneurs should learn from past mistakes to harvest the best results from the country’s decision to authorize marijuana production.
Zuzana Čaputová becomes the country’s first female head of state, and brings hope to Slovaks looking to end to corruption and to others for a response to populism across Europe.
French companies in need of workers are focusing on integration through employment.
…and the beginning of Francisco Franco’s decades of military dictatorship.
-Analysis- Venezuela has arrived at a dead end. It is mired in misrule, socio-economic chaos, unchecked crime and a spiraling humanitarian catastrophe that is leading to steady exodus of its population. The immediate causes of these were shortages in food, water, electricity and medicine, as well as hyperinflation (3 million percent per year) in an […]