Entrepreneurs say ‘Basta’ to stop the ordinances they say risk paralyzing the economy.
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Welcome to Friday, where the Biden Administration launches its first military air strike, Israel says it has vaccinated half its population and an Italian politician makes an epic literary error. We also check in around the world for social media alternatives to the mega Silicon Valley platforms. Islam became a “problem” in France when Muslims […]
Egypt’s longest-serving president, ruling from 1981 until 2011, has died at the age of 91. From humble beginnings to iron-clad rule of the largest Middle East nation.
The debate about Angela Merkel’s successor shows that her CDU party is lacking in powerful women to take the party forward. As strange as it seems, her party still has a long way to go to achieve gender equality.
A new Vienna-Brussels line has just opened, while in France only two night lines still exist, compared to a dozen ten years ago.
Welcome to Tuesday, where the global COVID death toll nears 2.5 million, El Chapo’s wife is arrested and Facebook and Australia are friends again. Le Monde also explores the impact of Lebanon’s diaspora in Africa on a small village near Beirut. • COVID-19 latest: After two separate studies find that COVID vaccines significantly reduce the […]
Welcome to Monday, where we have very good news on vaccine effectiveness, Myanmar protesters won’t back down after police open fire and Edvard Munch turns out to be a different kind of scream. We also find out how AI is helping to preserve dying languages. • COVID-19 latest: The U.S. death toll is approaching the […]
Allowing Beijing to have a hand in the new, faster mobile network would entail significant risks. But in Germany, debate about 5G is also a question of who you like more: China or the U.S.
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The Marketing Power Of Stereotypes
Italians are hot-headed. Brits can’t cook … Sure they’re offensive. But as marketing experts are aware, stereotypes can also help forge a group’s shared identity.
Welcome to Thursday, where a new UK study will deliberately infect young people with COVID, Texas continues to battle a snowstorm and New Zealand vows to provide all schools with free menstruation products. America Economia also asks why Mexico has done so poorly in fighting the pandemic. • COVID-19 latest: Thailand has announced that its […]
Welcome to Wednesday, where a “vaccinegate” scandal shakes Peru, videos emerge of Dubai princess in “villa prison” and North Korea’s first lady reappears after one year. Le Monde goes back in time to understand the proposal of an “immunity passport” for the vaccinated to be free to travel. • COVID-19 latest: New research from Oxford […]
Nine years after the Jan. 25 popular revolution that overthrew President Hosni Mubarak, so much of the hopes failed to materialize. But not everything.
Welcome to Friday, where Brazil’s health minister has good and bad news about the local COVID variant, China bans the BBC and another boomer bungles his zoom filters. We also have a closer look at how the pandemic is altering the meaning of freelancing in the world of work around the world. • COVID-19 latest: […]
Mediation may well be what Venezuela needs to climb out of its deep political crisis, but it can’t come from Cuba.
Welcome to Tuesday, where Myanmar’s junta hints at new elections, Trump’s impeachment trial (part II) gets started, and Motown loses a star. Meanwhile Bogota-based daily El Espectador explains how Pablo Escobar’s hippos have sparked an ecological debate in Colombia. • COVID-19 latest: Iran begins using Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine as part of the vaccination campaign, […]
MOSCOW — Nowadays, if you want to hear the Russian language spoken properly in Moscow, you have to go to an upscale restaurant. Anything less posh is occupied by people coming from Central Asia, any one of the ‘stan republics lying between the titans: Russia and China. But beyond the Ural Mountains, they say, it […]
Cash use is declining, but don’t expect it to disappear. Still, there is another popular payment method that could in fact go the way of the dodo, a Deutsche Bank strategist argues.
Welcome to Friday, where Myanmar trouble deepens, Navalny’s doctor dies and $60 million in Bitcoin is lost behind a password. We also look at one country trying to figure out where it fits in with the global rush to do business with China. • COVID-19 latest: AstraZeneca applies for approval of its COVID-19 vaccine in […]
The epidemic unnerving the world originated in the Wuhan shellfish market, where other local delicacies are sold. But does that matter?
Welcome to Thursday, where the UK has begun a trial of mixing vaccines, Facebook is blocked in Myanmar and German singles try to find love in the local supermarket. We also hear from a Belgian bioengineer working against the tech consensus of “smart cities.” • COVID-19 latest: Germany flies in doctors, ventilators, and beds to […]
There’s a case to be made that at least some of what the country owes is ‘odious’ and therefore illegitimate.
Welcome to Friday, where lockdown protests spread in Lebanon, UK offers new HK visa and an Italian grandma has COVID-19 quarantine to thank for finding a treasure. We also check in with German psychiatrists on the mental health toll of our leaders’ see-sawing pandemic policy choices. The empty hype of India’s “vaccine diplomacy” In a […]
Welcome to Wednesday, where global COVID cases exceed 100 million, Biden rings Putin, and space tourism gets ready for launch. We also look at the magnitude (and limitations) of Iran’s presence on the African continent, courtesy of Jeune Afrique. Aristotle to Anti-Vaxxers, internet culture and the decline of reason The virtues that laid the groundwork […]
Fariba Adelkhah, a French-Iranian expert on Shia society, has critics on all sides. Since June, she’s been jailed in Tehran’s notorious Evin prison. She and her companion have been on a hunger strike since last month.
Its shared border with the U.S. could be more of a blessing than a curse if only Mexico would clean up its act.
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Iran: How Weak Is The Regime?
After the U.S. assassination of General Soleimani and Tehran’s accidental shooting down of a Ukrainian passenger jet, rising economic and political pressures have put Islamic rule in its most fragile state in memory.
A group of good Samaritans gathers regularly in Trieste, near the border with the Balkans, to receive weary migrants and tend their wounds.
With a socialist government in Argentina and Brazil’s arch-conservative president cold-shouldering each other, private initiatives could restore some cordiality to a relationship that is strategic for all of Latin America.
India’s cutting digital access for political reasons also costs livelihood for small businesses, women’s safety, access to transport, food, education and almost every other aspect of a modern life.
Welcome to Wednesday, where Biden will be inaugurated as the 46th U.S. president, Italy’s prime minister hangs on, and the Tokyo Olympics may be cancelled again. We also visit six iconic businesses around the world, which have survived wars and depressions, but are now at risk of closing down due to the pandemic. Joe Biden […]
Big data can provide firms with real-time information on consumer and social trends, but only if combined with the human factor.
A sudden rash of constitutional changes, and the government’s subsequent resignation, looks to be a maneuver for Putin to hold on to power indefinitely.
Welcome to Friday, where Joe Biden announces a huge COVID relief package, North Korea boasts “the world’s most powerful weapon” and Wikipedia turns 20. Les Echos also explains how the pandemic response is quietly helping us prepare for the next big bad thing. SPOTLIGHT: TRUMP DIDN’T INVENT THE SPREADING PLAGUE OF NARCISSISM When I was […]
Is this a movement of women from India’s liberal campuses against a new citizenship law targeting the country’s Muslim minority? Or does it run much deeper?
Authoritarianism seems to be gaining ground in many parts of the planet. But from Hong Kong to Chile — and many places in between — people are also pushing back.
An 18-year-old prisoner recounts his departure from Roubaix, his life in a country at war, and his detention with no way out.
Welcome to Monday, where impeachment looms for Trump, a new COVID strain is identified in Japan, and cases spike in China to the highest level in five months. Also, find out what made sharks’ ancestors even scarier … SPOTLIGHT: SWEDEN REVISITED, FROM NORDIC MODEL TO PANDEMIC PARIAH On one of the final Fridays of 2020, […]
PARIS — In diplomacy, there’s always room for talk, even when the window for negotiation seems all but shut. Such is the scenario that Emmanuel Macron faces in wake of the assassination by the United States of Ghassem Soleimani, an act that has kicked up a whirlwind in the Middle East, with consequences that remain […]
Hundreds of air-raid shelters are still standing in Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein, witnesses to a bygone era. The last ones are now being sold off.
LES ECHOS France’s Yellow Vests And The Problem With Post-Truth Economics Opinion shapers have a habit these days of disregarding facts, be they scientific or economic. Opinions matter, of course, but shouldn’t supersede well-founded knowledge. SUDDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG RoboJudge: When Laws Are Transformed Into Computer Code Laws take time to catch up with reality. Could we […]