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Malaka Gharib Twitter Shanghai, China (2012) Courtesy of Martin Roemers Can you capture the energy of a city in just one image? That’s the idea behind Metropolis, a book of photos of the world’s megacities by Dutch photographer Martin Roemers. The images illustrate the rapid […]

Reduced US engagement in NATO will undermine the military alliance and possibly mean its end, the bloc’s former secretary general, Andres Fogh Rasmussen, told Sputnik on Saturday. MUNICH (Sputnik) — The former NATO chief described Washington as the only player within the alliance that had enough military strength […]

U.S. Vice President Mike Pence on Saturday brought a message of support for Europe from Donald Trump, but failed to wholly reassure allies worried about the new president’s stance on Russia and the European Union. In Pence’s first major foreign policy address for the Trump […]

WASHINGTON —  The Trump administration says it cannot confirm that an Iranian general barred from foreign travel by the U.N. Security Council visited Russia this week, despite a prominent U.S. congressman and news outlet saying he had made the trip. In an emailed response to […]

Am 17. Februar nahm Botschafter Martin Huth an der Eröffnungsfeier der Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung für Libanon und Syrien teil.   In seiner Ansprache hieß er den Leiter der Stiftung Dirk Kunze und sein Team herzlich willkommen und wünschte ihnen viel Glück und Erfolg bei ihrer Arbeit. Ebenfalls […]

German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Tuesday pushed Tunisia’s prime minister to speed up the returns of rejected asylum seekers, as Tunis rebuffed criticism that it was blocking repatriations. The German leader has been battling to get Tunis to take back its citizens, with the issue […]

On apprend que l’IREMMO (Institut de recherche et d’études méditerranéennes Moyen-Orient) organise prochainement un colloque intitulé « Le terrorisme en débat ». A priori, c’est une bonne nouvelle. Bonne nouvelle… chaque fois qu’on peut produire un peu de jus de crâne sur ce dossier qui […]

Depuis 2011 se déverse un torrent continu d’informations inexactes, incorrectes et malhonnêtes à propos de ce qui se passe en Syrie. J’ai déjà écrit sur le danger des informations simplistes qui tentent d’expliquer le conflit, un discours qui prévaut depuis ces cinq dernières années et […]

BAGHDAD — The Iraqi air force carried out a strike on a house where Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was thought to be meeting other commanders, the Iraqi military said on Monday, without making clear whether he had been hit. In a statement, it said […]