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[youtube https://www.youtube.com/embed/SkCFjpB1RSo expand=1] The United States has been driving news photo agency feeds around the world since last week’s unprecedented scenes of a of pro-Trump mob storming the U.S. Capitol in Washington D.C. This time, photographer Rod Lamkey captures a more peaceful moment: National Guard troops asleep in the central rotunda. Behind this photograph of […]
The lights were dimmed inside the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. So when my wife moved a bit during the shot, it gave her a bit of a surrealistic blur next to this 17th-century Dutch genre painting. See more slides from My Grand-Père’s World here.
Nice Matin, July 13, 2017 This year’s Bastille Day celebrations will have special meaning in Nice, as the southern French city commemorates the first anniversary of the July 14, 2016 attack when a truck driven by a terrorist plowed into a dense crowd gathered to watch the National Day’s fireworks. The city’s largest local daily, […]
PARIS — The hour is nigh. On Sunday, French voters, as well as abstainers, (expected to rise in numbers since the first-round ballot on April 23) will decide who, between Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen, will lead the country for the next five years. One way or another, their choice and its consequences will […]
-Analysis- Today Donald Trump will deliver a speech at the Holocaust Memorial Museum for the National Day of Remembrance. Safe to say, there will be prepared remarks, which neither Trump nor his top spokesman will write. This is no occasion for Trump’s verbal freestyling. Meanwhile, it was Press Secretary Sean Spicer, who two weeks ago […]
El Comercio Venezuela slid closer toward dictatorship after a Supreme Court ruling Wednesday night gutted the powers of the opposition-led legislature. Peruvian newspaper El Comercio reports that Peru and other Latin American countries have condemned Venezuela’s move toward one-man rule as can be seen on this front page. Peru withdrew its ambassador to Venezuela soon […]
MUTWANGA — At the foot of mount Rwenzori, locals erupt in joy when they see their homes lit with electric light bulbs for the first time in their lives. Meanwhile, at the nearby Pic Hotel in Mutwanga, a small village in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), tourists are finally returning. Over the past few […]
India’s Supreme Court made it compulsory to play the national anthem in cinemas. And you better stand up when the music starts.
-Analysis- PARIS — Call it the “glorieuse incertitude du sport” — the glorious uncertainty of sports. During the finals of soccer’s just completed 2016 European Championship, Portugal saw its singular star Ronaldo taken out of the game after an injury, but won anyway against a favored host French team that had overcome its eternal nemesis, […]
The Swiss recently voted for a new national anthem, during the final stage of a public competition organized by the “Société suisse d’utilité publique” (“Swiss Society for the Common Good”) in the northern city of Aarau. Among three final candidates, voters chose a version that kept the melody of the current anthem, the 170-year-old “Swiss […]
PARIS – In 140 characters of hacker jargon, French security company Vupen tweeted on Oct. 30, 2012 that they had discovered a security flaw in Windows 8 and that they were selling it to the highest bidder. Our first 0day for Win8+IE10 with HiASLR/AntiROP/DEP & Prot Mode sandbox bypass (Flash not needed) is ready for […]