En Algérie, les députés doivent voter ce mercedi 24 décembre un projet de loi qui pourraient accentuer des tensions déjà vives avec l'État français. En effet, ce texte vise à criminaliser la colonisation française, periode qui s'est étendue de 1830 à 1962. Cette volonté politique n'est pas nouvelle en Algérie, c'est la troisième fois qu'un tel projet est présenté. Pour les députés à l'origine du document, ce projet de loi est un « acte de souveraineté et de fidélité à l’histoire nationale ».

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Austrian artist Arnulf Rainer, famed for his groundbreaking overpaintings, has died at 96.

Artist confirms image in Bayswater is by him, but gives no indication about another outside Centre Point tower A new Banksy mural that shows two children lying down and looking at the sky has appeared in west London. The artist revealed he was behind the artwork above a row of garages on Queen’s Mews in Bayswater by posting a photo of it to his Instagram account on Monday afternoon. Continue reading...

Move comes as union representing US diplomats said it was ‘deeply concerned’ by the process, which could ‘politicise’ foreign service The Trump administration has quietly recalled nearly 30 ambassadors and other senior overseas diplomats as the Trump administration plans to promote appointees loyal to the new administration to higher levels of the state department, according to diplomatic sources. The recall of the ambassadors or heads of mission, which were confirmed by several current and former senior diplomats, was unusual for targeting career foreign service officers heading embassies overseas who are generally left in place after a change in administration because they strive to be apolitical. Continue reading...

Sudán, el mundo no puede ignorar, la espantosa violencia sexual, escenario de horror, abusos, crisis humanitaria, RSF, ACNUDH

A Russian missile attack late on Friday on port infrastructure around Ukraine's Black Sea port of Odesa killed seven people and injured 15, Ukrainian officials said.

Un metge de la Casa Blanca fa sonar l'alarma sobre la condició del mandatari de 79 anys

More people, more protests, more lawsuits, more civil disobedience, and a major election

Behind closed doors in Washington, top advisers made a series of decisions that had devastating repercussions for the poorest country on earth. We went to South Sudan and found people who died as a re...

Safi, une ville portuaire sur la côte atlantique du Maroc, a été frappée dimanche par des crues soudaines, conséquentes à de fortes précipitations orageuses. Selon le dernier bilan des autorités locales, les inondations ont fait au moins 21 morts. 

Pierre-Joseph Redouté made his name by painting flowers, an achievement impossible without a meticulousness that exceeds all bounds of normality.