Moldavie : le parti pro-européen largement en tête d'un scrutin marqué par des accusations d'ingérence russe

'NATO Warships Protecting Gaza Convoy Against Israel Attack', Newsweek, 26 September 2025 www.newsweek.com/nato-warship...

Our article with Ömer Özkızılcık for Atlantic Council about economic engagement between Syria & Turkey. Turkey–Syria trade hits $2B in 2025, with $14B pledged for reconstruction and new pipelines powering ties. www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/menaso...

Today's good news. "The 43-year-old blogger and pro-democracy activist is one of Egypt's best known political prisoners." www.bbc.com/news/article...

Blessés des bipeurs piégés du Hezbollah : la faille dans la peau, photos par Matthieu Karam www.lorientlejour.com/article/1477...

President Trump has just announced that Princeton University PhD student Elizabeth Tsurkov who was kidnapped in Baghdad in March 2023 and held by Kata'ib Hezbollah has been released and is now at the American Embassy in Iraq.

This is what we are talking about when we say Erdogan is blocking the roads so people can’t go to oppo party HQ. This is one of the major arteries in central Istanbul, a city of 18 million.

BREAKING: ICE is sending Russian dissidents back to Russia. When the dissidents arrived in Russia, the Russian authorities were given documents relating to their asylum applications in the US which under US law are confidential. This seems to be part of a secret agreement between Trump and Putin.

Police surround CHP İstanbul HQ as party resists court-appointed leadership bianet.org/haber/police...

"The UN Headquarters Agreement, signed in 1947, obligates the host country to host country to grant visas to representatives of all member states “irrespective of the relations existing between the governments.”" www.juancole.com/2025/08/hypo...

"The UN Headquarters Agreement, signed in 1947, obligates the host country to host country to grant visas to representatives of all member states “irrespective of the relations existing between the governments.”" www.juancole.com/2025/08/hypo...

MOVE THE UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY TO GENEVA It was moved in 1988 when US denied a visa to Yasser Arafat Today, little SecRubio did the bidding of his Israeli bosses & denied visas to the Palestinian Authority to attend the UNGA Why? Western countries plan to recognize Palestine

Secretary of State Marco Rubio has revoked the visas of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and 80 other officials ahead of next month’s annual high-level meeting of the U.N. General Assembly, a step the Palestinian Authority decried as against international law. https://to.pbs.org/4naCsqj

There’s a persistent myth that new solar farms don’t really help tackle climate change because panels are “made with coal” and “never pay back” their carbon debt. This is simply false. - UN: solar ~8x cleaner than gas, ~19x than coal per kWh - panels repay CO2 in 4 months; save 57x over life

If I had said, in 2005, that 20 years later the Republican Party would be even *more* systematically opposed, not only to domestic action on climate change, but to action on climate change anywhere in the world, I would have been dismissed as a hysterical partisan.

Deforestation kills more than trees.

A lire. Il reste 90 000 "biens culturels" africains et 24 000 restes humains (dont une moitié kanak) à restituer ....

I have outlined Syria's temporary electoral system as laid out in a recent Presidential Decree. In short ~6,200 individuals appointed via a chain of committees leading up to al-Sharaa will elect ~120 MPs, with candidates taken from the same 6.2K pool. akmckeever.substack.com/p/the-upcomi...

Suite à l’arrestation du maire de Beyoglu, le district reste dans le giron du CHP. Grâce à une très grande mobilisation lancée, la semaine dernière, par le president du CHP d’Istanbul, Özgür Çelik, l’élection au conseil municipal a préservé la mairie d’un basculement vers l’AKP.

Nowhere near enough is being made of Google taking a clear, intentional and planned step into the techno-fascist position on energy and climate It literally came with its own PDF white paper. This is clear and intentional and thought-through. www.desmog.com/2025/08/19/g...

Assault on Sudan’s Zamzam refugee camp may have killed more than 1,500 civilians

"Israel knows how much food is needed. It has been calibrating hunger in Gaza for decades, initially calculating shipments to exert pressure while avoiding starvation" www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

One was beaten unconscious. Others were covered in bruises, struggling to walk or vomiting blood. Another said he’d been sexually assaulted. These are the stories of 16 former detainees who were deported to El Salvador’s mega prison.

Over 100 French lawyers have submitted a request to the prosecutor of the ICC for an investigation into the role of French officials, including Emmanuel Macron for facilitating Israeli crimes against Palestinians www.middleeasteye.net/news/over-10...

When Omer Bartov, Prof of Holocaust and Genocide Studies, heard what the journalist saw and heard in Sderot, he said it reminded him “of what the Germans called in World War II ‘execution tourism’, ie touring and photographing (as souvenirs) one’s own atrocities”. www.irishtimes.com/world/middle...

Is it a genocide ? Yes, according to Israel’s leading human rights NGOs. Israeli human rights NGOs urge world leaders "to use every means available under international law to stop Israel’s #genocide against the Palestinians" www.btselem.org/publications... #Gaza #Israel

L’Autonomy Institute tire la sonnette d’alarme sur la climateflation : les augmentations de prix induites par le climat pour les produits alimentaires courants risquent de faire basculer près d'1million de personnes dans la pauvreté au Royaume Uni www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Georges Abdallah is set to arrive today in Beirut, Lebanon, after 41 years in prison. He was one of France's longest-held prisoners. His requests for release were repeatedly denied under pressure from US and Israeli governments. A ceremony is planned tomorrow in the Lebaneee capital. 1/4

More than 100 people die of hunger in Gaza, including 80 children, say Palestinian officials news.sky.com/story/more-t...

Cet appel de la société des journalistes de l’AFP sur la situation de Gaza… « Depuis que l’AFP a été fondée, nous avons perdu des journalistes dans des conflits, nous avons eu des blessés et des prisonniers (…), mais aucun de nous n’a le souvenir d’avoir vu un collaborateur mourir de faim ».

1) Lots on social media re sexual assault stats in Europe. Natl attitudes play big role in willingness to report. 2024 Eurobarometer study presents disturbing figures on attitudes to e.g. sexual violence, consent, rape in EU27. Clear differences between men and women & across countries.

L’annonce par Israël de l’établissement de «zones de transit humanitaire» à #Gaza rappelle les «camps de regroupement» français en Algérie : 2 stratégies coloniales fondées sur la conviction d'une responsabilité collective et sur le contrôle fantasmé des corps colonisés. Par @campvolant.bsky.social

🔴 Le missilier MBDA complice de crimes de guerre à Gaza Le groupe européen, basé en France, équipe des bombes larguées sur les civils palestiniens, révèle @disclosengo.bsky.social avec @theguardian.com et @ftm.eu MBDA est impliqué dans au moins 24 frappes meurtrières disclose.ngo/fr/article/g...

La cour d’appel de Paris se prononcera ce jeudi 17 juillet sur la demande de libération Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, qui est libérable depuis 1999. Relire cet entretien avec son avocat Jean-Louis Chalanset (novembre 2024) 🔽 orientxxi.info/magazine/geo...

IDF soldiers have now themselves admitted they have been ordered to murder aid-seekers in Gaza. Truly an atrocity built on atrocity. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Chilling article. Pregnant persons and medical staff in the US face charges not only through abortion laws, but also child neglect or endangerment. In additon, "more than 90 percent of cases involved statutes that don’t require authorities to prove that any harm was done to a fetus or baby."

"Every fraction of warming we can avoid will result in less harm and suffering, particularly for poor and vulnerable populations, and in less challenges to living the lives we desire.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

At least 45 Palestinians killed in Gaza waiting for food trucks, says health ministry

Israel launches major strikes on Iran, Tehran vows 'bitter' revenge. Israel struck 100 targets, including Tehran's nuclear and military sites, and killing the armed forces' chief of staff, the head of Iran's Revolutionary Guards and top nuclear scientists For the latest: u.afp.com/SNc3

Il faut dire les faits : le 9 juin 2025, dans les eaux internationales, Israël a attaqué et kidnappé 12 civil•es (e.g. humanitaires, politiques) à bord d'un voilier transportant de l'aide humanitaire vers un territoire occupé, sous siège où les populations civiles sont génocidées.

SOS! the volunteers on 'Madleen' have been kidnapped by Israeli forces. Rima Hassan is a French citizen. Pressure the foreign ministries and help us keep them safe! E: [email protected] & [email protected] X : @FranceDiplo_EN & @francediplo & @jnbarot ...2/

President of California’s largest union arrested while observing ICE raids in LA www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Madleen & Freedom Flotilla rescued 4 migrants being intercepted by Libyan Coast Guard. EU-funded Libyan Coast Guard is one of the most violent agencies & EU's deadly gatekeepers, deporting 21,000+ ppl last year alone. Struggles for Palestinian liberation are illuminating social order of our world.

Les dockers de Fos-sur-Mer annoncent qu'ils refusent de charger les armes à destination de l'armée israélienne ! Le peuple français refuse d'être complice du génocide à Gaza. Solidarité internationale !

“I am sick to my stomach as I write this because I've spent 20 years developing a pedagogy that's about wrestling with big ideas through writing and discussion, and that whole project has been evaporated by for-profit corporations who built their systems on stolen work. It's demoralizing.” Yep.

The most widespread plundering of our culture in history is happening right now, all in the open. Entire careers decimated by an industry built on theft. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

En Israël le député communiste Ofer Cassif fait face à Netanyahu et dénonce les "bombardements d'enfants" au parlement. Le président de la Knesset lui impose alors de retirer ces mots, "le bombardement d'enfants n'est pas quelque chose qui se dit ici". Le député refuse, il est sorti de la tribune.

Can't quite believe I'm writing this, but a 2C year is now possible this decade* New @wmo-global.bsky.social report is clear: world is warming at an alarming rate & we are in for near record temperatures for the rest of the decade www.newscientist.com/article/2481... *Albeit still very unlikely

Israël avait un plan pour distribuer une aide humanitaire en remplaçant l’ONU et les grandes ONG internationales. Déjà mal parti avec la fermeture de la principale organisation de substitution, censée prendre en charge l’aide, il s’est transformé mardi en véritable débâcle. Par Gwenaelle Lenoir