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Category Archive: L’actualité internationale
MAY 20, 2015 TOKYO — During a press conference in March, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga expressed concern […]
MAY 20, 2015 UNITED NATIONS — A ship is stranded at sea. The faces of passengers stare out […]
May 20, 2015T PUTRAJAYA, Malaysia—Indonesia and Malaysia agreed Wednesday to provide temporary shelter to thousands of migrants stranded […]
May 19, 2015 BRUSSELS–The European Union announced a plan to write more sensible regulations, in an effort to […]
May 20, 2015 Japan’s economy grew at an annualised pace of 2.4 per cent in the first quarter […]
MAY 19, 2015 During those tense days in early March when Vladimir Putin disappeared from public view, the […]
DUBLIN — If there was any doubt about the pace at which acceptance of gay rights is taking […]
BETWEEN 1346 and 1353 the Black Death killed over a third of Europe’s population. It took 150 years […]
May 19, 2015 2:36 a.m. ET 2 COMMENTS SHANGHAI—On old British Admiralty sailing charts, the Spratly Islands were […]
BRUSSELS — European foreign and defense ministers agreed on Monday to use naval forces to intercept and disrupt […]
Les conducteurs de trains allemands sont entrés en grève pour la septième fois en dix mois. Mais cette […]
DEBT is the « vital air of modern commerce ». Those words were spoken by Daniel Webster, an American senator, […]
By Christopher Mims May 17, 2015 8:07 p.m. ET Last year, millennials gave birth to 85% of the […]
India is on track to overtake China’s growth with annual expansion of more than 8 per cent, says […]
PARIS — Right after Islamist militants attacked Charlie Hebdo and a kosher grocery in January, leaving 17 […]
C’est devenu une habitude. Depuis l’arrivée de François Hollande à l’Elysée, on nous rabâche que cette fois-ci, ça y […]
THE monumental neoclassical headquarters of Languedoc-Roussillon is a model of statement architecture. With defiant, muscular authority, it stands […]
The decision is subject to Shell securing remaining approvals covering the potential effects on whales, seals, walruses and […]
SOCHI, Russia—Secretary of State John Kerry on Tuesday arrived in Russia on the first top-level U.S. visit to […]
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — Persian Gulf leaders, led by King Salman of Saudi Arabia, are sending increasingly public […]
THE celebrations in Moscow on May 9th to commemorate the capitulation of Nazi Germany 70 years ago will […]
I have experienced the future of remote work, and it feels a lot like teleportation. Whether I was […]
Eastern Europe is warning David Cameron against meddling with “sacrosanct” migrant worker rights, as the newly re-elected prime […]
Greek leaders have fought fiercely in recent months with politicians from other European countries over relief on Greece’s […]
May 2nd 2015 | From the print edition IN 2014 oil prices crashed. Americans jumped for joy. Small […]
Markets unnerved by Janet Yellen’s suggestion that prices may have been driven too high ByJosie Cox May 7, […]
Taking her seat for her first meeting of the global strategy council of PwC last July, the arrival […]
Climate change could drive to extinction as many as one in six animal and plant species, according to […]
LONDON — THOUSANDS of people drown trying to reach Europe — an estimated 1,250 did so in April […]
The Greek parliament has approved a law proposed by the leftwing Syriza-led government overturning civil service reforms by […]
BRUSSELS—The European Union unveiled a signature plan to unite the region’s fragmented online markets and crack down on […]
BOSTON — Officials at Boston Logan International Airport have announced a broad multimillion-dollar plan to make the airport, […]
WASHINGTON — New carbon emissions standards that were proposed last year for coal-fired power plants in the United […]
A shrinking labour force from rural areas is driving huge economic change When Deng Xiaoping left his rural […]
Jobs freed up by retiring baby boomers could prove solution to record unemployment Président François Hollande, unemployment has […]
Location matters – enormously. If you’re poor and live in the New York area, it’s better to be in […]
IN THE 19th century, inventors were heroes. The likes of Stephenson, Morse and Goodyear were the shock […]
President says anti-globalization sentiments from left and right ‘a big mistake’ President Obama, in an interview with WSJ’s […]
AT THE time, the events in Indochina of April and May 1975 seemed to mark in the […]
DEMONSTRATIONS in Japan are generally ultra-polite affairs, and those in the southern island prefecture of Okinawa contain […]
Vladimir Putin has accused the US of directly supporting separatist militants in Russia’s North Caucasus region against […]
TOKYO — It was an unexpected act of protest that shook Japan’s carefully managed media world: Shigeaki Koga, […]
UK headquarters HSBC has ordered an immediate review of whether it should continue to be headquartered in the […]
President Xi Jinping of China showed up in Pakistan this week with one of his government’s most powerful […]
Après la découverte d’un défaut de fabrication dans la cuve du réacteur de la nouvelle centrale en construction […]
Un drone contenant une faible charge radioactive a atterri sur le toit du Premier ministre japonais Shinzo Abe. […]
Tony Hayward, the former BP chief executive who runs Iraqi Kurdistan-focused Genel Energy, on Wednesday said oil prices […]
TOKYO — Last week, 57 nations became founding members of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, the China-led regional […]
How different is Greece really from France, Italy and Spain? Greece’s new leader and his ministers are behaving […]