Reposted by Christophe Pons
Ultra-fashionable young couple in 1634, casually holding hands to be painted by Pieter Codde of Amsterdam, born OTD 1599. One of first full-length couples in art since the Arnolfini's!
December 11, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Ultra-fashionable young couple in 1634, casually holding hands to be painted by Pieter Codde of Amsterdam, born OTD 1599. One of first full-length couples in art since the Arnolfini's!
Reposted by Christophe Pons
M23 consolidates control over Congo town in blow to peace talks reut.rs/44ToVfS
M23 consolidates control over Congo town in blow to peace talks
The M23 rebel group consolidated control over the strategic town of Uvira in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on Thursday, residents said, as Kinshasa warned that the Rwanda-backed advance could derail U.S. President Donald Trump's efforts to broker peace in the region.
reut.rs
December 11, 2025 at 9:15 PM
M23 consolidates control over Congo town in blow to peace talks reut.rs/44ToVfS
Reposted by Christophe Pons
Fake peace prize, but real criminal conviction, representing real corruption, the DOJ now moves to dismiss. Hard to say whether it’s more predictable or more repugnant.
Days after FIFA awarded Trump a fake peace prize, DOJ moves to drop charges in FIFA corruption case www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/n...
U.S. Moves to Drop Charges in International Soccer Corruption Case
www.nytimes.com
December 11, 2025 at 4:22 AM
Fake peace prize, but real criminal conviction, representing real corruption, the DOJ now moves to dismiss. Hard to say whether it’s more predictable or more repugnant.
Reposted by Christophe Pons
Mort de Martin Parr : God save the kitsch. C'est la une de Libération lundi.
Connu dans le monde entier pour son regard ironique et coloré sur la société anglaise, le photographe est mort à 73 ans.
Connu dans le monde entier pour son regard ironique et coloré sur la société anglaise, le photographe est mort à 73 ans.
December 7, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Mort de Martin Parr : God save the kitsch. C'est la une de Libération lundi.
Connu dans le monde entier pour son regard ironique et coloré sur la société anglaise, le photographe est mort à 73 ans.
Connu dans le monde entier pour son regard ironique et coloré sur la société anglaise, le photographe est mort à 73 ans.
Reposted by Christophe Pons
🔊 Benin's military says it has foiled a coup attempt after a group of soldiers appeared on state television claiming to have seized power. Hear more on Reuters World News podcast reut.rs/4pRQOgp
December 7, 2025 at 8:51 PM
🔊 Benin's military says it has foiled a coup attempt after a group of soldiers appeared on state television claiming to have seized power. Hear more on Reuters World News podcast reut.rs/4pRQOgp
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/u...
“Unlike Trump’s first security strategy, China is not identified by name as a country that poses a military threat, which may be the loudest omission in the entire document.” (Peter D Feaver)
“Unlike Trump’s first security strategy, China is not identified by name as a country that poses a military threat, which may be the loudest omission in the entire document.” (Peter D Feaver)
Superpower Competition: The Missing Chapter in Trump’s Security Strategy
www.nytimes.com
December 7, 2025 at 1:35 PM
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/u...
“Unlike Trump’s first security strategy, China is not identified by name as a country that poses a military threat, which may be the loudest omission in the entire document.” (Peter D Feaver)
“Unlike Trump’s first security strategy, China is not identified by name as a country that poses a military threat, which may be the loudest omission in the entire document.” (Peter D Feaver)
Reposted by Christophe Pons
Inspired by natural polymers like DNA, chemists have devised a way to engineer plastic so it breaks down when it is no longer needed, rather than polluting the environment
Plastic can be programmed to have a lifespan of days, months or years
Inspired by natural polymers like DNA, chemists have devised a way to engineer plastic so it breaks down when it is no longer needed, rather than polluting the environment
www.newscientist.com
December 7, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Inspired by natural polymers like DNA, chemists have devised a way to engineer plastic so it breaks down when it is no longer needed, rather than polluting the environment
Reposted by Christophe Pons
Dakar Fashion Week transforme l'océan en podium
Vidéo. La Fashion Week de Dakar organise un défilé sur des bateaux de pêche
Vidéo. Dakar Fashion Week a transformé des bateaux de pêche en podium ; les nouvelles créations ont été présentées au large des côtes sénégalaises.
fr.euronews.com
December 7, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Dakar Fashion Week transforme l'océan en podium
Military coups : the new normal in West Africa.
Benin, Guinea Bissau following Mali, Niger, Burkina, Guinea.
Benin, Guinea Bissau following Mali, Niger, Burkina, Guinea.
🇧🇯 Des militaires ont annoncé dimanche à la télévision du Bénin avoir "démis de ses fonctions" le président Patrice Talon. Le président devait passer la main à la tête de ce pays côtier d’Afrique de l’Ouest en avril prochain lors d’un scrutin présidentiel.
➡️ u.afp.com/S75j
➡️ u.afp.com/S75j
December 7, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Military coups : the new normal in West Africa.
Benin, Guinea Bissau following Mali, Niger, Burkina, Guinea.
Benin, Guinea Bissau following Mali, Niger, Burkina, Guinea.
Reposted by Christophe Pons
🇧🇯 Des militaires ont annoncé dimanche à la télévision du Bénin avoir "démis de ses fonctions" le président Patrice Talon. Le président devait passer la main à la tête de ce pays côtier d’Afrique de l’Ouest en avril prochain lors d’un scrutin présidentiel.
➡️ u.afp.com/S75j
➡️ u.afp.com/S75j
December 7, 2025 at 10:30 AM
🇧🇯 Des militaires ont annoncé dimanche à la télévision du Bénin avoir "démis de ses fonctions" le président Patrice Talon. Le président devait passer la main à la tête de ce pays côtier d’Afrique de l’Ouest en avril prochain lors d’un scrutin présidentiel.
➡️ u.afp.com/S75j
➡️ u.afp.com/S75j
Tech elites are starting their own for-profit cities - www.ft.com/content/b127... via @FT
Tech elites are starting their own for-profit cities
They want to escape from regulation and ‘failing’ democracy — but are they more opportunistic than libertarian?
www.ft.com
December 7, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Tech elites are starting their own for-profit cities - www.ft.com/content/b127... via @FT
Reposted by Christophe Pons
Attack comes amid renewed scrutiny of Trump administration campaign against alleged drug smugglers.
US military kills four in latest strike on boat in the Caribbean
Attack comes amid renewed scrutiny of Trump administration campaign against alleged drug smugglers.
bit.ly
December 5, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Attack comes amid renewed scrutiny of Trump administration campaign against alleged drug smugglers.
Reposted by Christophe Pons
Impressively fierce unicorn that apparently inhabits a part of Africa where people live in A+ tree houses. As imagined in the 1570s by Maerten de Vos, whose day has been today.
December 5, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Impressively fierce unicorn that apparently inhabits a part of Africa where people live in A+ tree houses. As imagined in the 1570s by Maerten de Vos, whose day has been today.
Reposted by Christophe Pons
Russia sends stolen Ukrainian children to North Korea to become militarized.
December 4, 2025 at 6:55 AM
Russia sends stolen Ukrainian children to North Korea to become militarized.
Reposted by Christophe Pons
4 December 1926 | Polish Jewish girl, Golda Bretmel, was born in Żelechów. She emigrated to France.
She was deported to #Auschwitz from Angers on 20 July 1942. She did not survive.
---
Children at Auschwitz
Lesson: https://lekcja.auschwitz.org/dzieci_EN/
Podcast: https://youtu.be/aYKx_zpLSqA
She was deported to #Auschwitz from Angers on 20 July 1942. She did not survive.
---
Children at Auschwitz
Lesson: https://lekcja.auschwitz.org/dzieci_EN/
Podcast: https://youtu.be/aYKx_zpLSqA
December 4, 2025 at 6:00 AM
4 December 1926 | Polish Jewish girl, Golda Bretmel, was born in Żelechów. She emigrated to France.
She was deported to #Auschwitz from Angers on 20 July 1942. She did not survive.
---
Children at Auschwitz
Lesson: https://lekcja.auschwitz.org/dzieci_EN/
Podcast: https://youtu.be/aYKx_zpLSqA
She was deported to #Auschwitz from Angers on 20 July 1942. She did not survive.
---
Children at Auschwitz
Lesson: https://lekcja.auschwitz.org/dzieci_EN/
Podcast: https://youtu.be/aYKx_zpLSqA
Reposted by Christophe Pons
Reform UK gets £9mn donation from Christopher Harborne on.ft.com/4rCFCWE
Reform UK gets £9mn donation from Christopher Harborne
Money gives Nigel Farage’s party a big financial boost as it tries to capitalise on its lead in opinion polls
on.ft.com
December 4, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Reform UK gets £9mn donation from Christopher Harborne on.ft.com/4rCFCWE
Reposted by Christophe Pons
Kenya to sell 15% Safaricom stake to Vodacom in $1.6 billion deal reut.rs/4pIUctV
Kenya to sell 15% Safaricom stake to Vodacom in $1.6 billion deal
Safaricom said late Wednesday that Kenya is selling a 15% stake in the telecom operator to South Africa's Vodacom in a deal worth about $1.6 billion, as the government seeks to raise cash by offloading some state assets.
reut.rs
December 4, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Kenya to sell 15% Safaricom stake to Vodacom in $1.6 billion deal reut.rs/4pIUctV
Reposted by Christophe Pons
Macron accueilli en Chine pour des entretiens avec Xi sur le commerce et la guerre en Ukraine
Vidéo. Macron accueilli en Chine pour des entretiens avec Xi sur le commerce et la guerre en Ukraine
Vidéo. Le président français Emmanuel Macron a été reçu à Pékin par le président chinois Xi Jinping pour des échanges sur les relations commerciales et la guerre en Ukraine.
fr.euronews.com
December 4, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Macron accueilli en Chine pour des entretiens avec Xi sur le commerce et la guerre en Ukraine
Reposted by Christophe Pons
When EU politicians failed to agree on tapping frozen Russian funds, reality set in: modest Belgium — a country of 12 million — was not going to let the so-called reparations loan proceed.
How Belgium became Russia’s most valuable asset
Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever is unmoved in his opposition to a raid on Moscow’s funds held in a Brussels bank to support a loan to Ukraine.
www.politico.eu
December 4, 2025 at 8:15 AM
When EU politicians failed to agree on tapping frozen Russian funds, reality set in: modest Belgium — a country of 12 million — was not going to let the so-called reparations loan proceed.
ExxonMobil to drill off the coast of Corfu.
Greece is one of the countries most affected by climate change, but its PM (who is shunning COP summit) says energy transition is not an end in itself...
www.ft.com/content/a13a... via @FT
Greece is one of the countries most affected by climate change, but its PM (who is shunning COP summit) says energy transition is not an end in itself...
www.ft.com/content/a13a... via @FT
Greece deepens US energy ties with first gas exploration deal in 40 years
ExxonMobil leads drilling agreement targeting reserves in Ionian Sea
www.ft.com
December 4, 2025 at 8:33 AM
ExxonMobil to drill off the coast of Corfu.
Greece is one of the countries most affected by climate change, but its PM (who is shunning COP summit) says energy transition is not an end in itself...
www.ft.com/content/a13a... via @FT
Greece is one of the countries most affected by climate change, but its PM (who is shunning COP summit) says energy transition is not an end in itself...
www.ft.com/content/a13a... via @FT
Robots promise to take the grunt work out of laboratory experiments - www.ft.com/content/684a... via @FT
Robots promise to take the grunt work out of laboratory experiments
Scientists are also looking to use AI to design and make molecules on demand
www.ft.com
December 3, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Robots promise to take the grunt work out of laboratory experiments - www.ft.com/content/684a... via @FT
OpenAI’s lead under pressure as rivals start to close the gap - on.ft.com/44zj27t via @FT
OpenAI’s lead under pressure as rivals start to close the gap
Three years since the debut of ChatGPT, the $500bn start-up is facing significant challenges to its dominance in AI
on.ft.com
December 1, 2025 at 1:07 PM
OpenAI’s lead under pressure as rivals start to close the gap - on.ft.com/44zj27t via @FT