Author: George Lanington

Angela Merkel, who reflected on her deep grief over Brexit earlier this week, has asked European Union countries to commit to their competing integration visions, in what was being announced in Brussels as a farewell summit. of the German Chancellor.Merkel's attempt, at her 107th and possibly last EU summit, to defuse a dispute over Poland's rejection of European court rulings, on an olive branch to Warsaw, came when the Dutch prime minister Mark Rutte demanded tough action. and the Hungarian Viktor Orbán joined in defense of the Polish government.The president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, has threatened Poland with sanctions, including a blockade on the dispersion of 36,000 million euros (30,000 million pounds sterling) in grants and loans for the recovery of the ...

Human Rights Watch has uncovered shocking cases of sexual and physical abuse of asylum seekers on the southern border of the United States by federal agents, after a years-long battle to obtain information from the Department of Homeland Security under the freedom of the law laws. information.A stash of redacted documents handed over to the human rights group after six years of legal wrangling uncovers more than 160 cases of misconduct and abuse by major government agencies, notably Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and the US Border Patrol The papers record events between 2016 and 2021 ranging from child sexual assault to forced starvation, threats of rape, and brutal conditions of detention.Some of the incidents involve alleged criminal activity by federal agents.Human Rights Watch ...

S. D. Updated:21/10/2021 19:08h Keep Related newsThe French prosecutor's office asked this Thursday for ten months in prison with suspended sentences and a fine of 75,000 euros ($ 87,000) against Real Madrid star Karim Benzema, for complicity in an attempt to blackmail the former international Mathieu Valbuena. "Benzema is not a good Samaritan who seeks to help. He acted to allow the negotiators to achieve their objective and the blackmailers to obtain the money," defended the prosecutor Ségolène Marés, who underlined his "authority and notoriety."Against the other four defendants, prosecuted in their case for attempted blackmail with a video of a sexual nature, the public prosecutor requested from 18 months in prison with suspended sentences up to four years in prison. T...

Updated Thursday, October 21, 2021 - 17:28Foreign Ministers and representatives of the EU, the US, the UN and the Arab countries in Tripoli demonstrate their support for the Libyan process Dbeibah and Mangush host Albares in Tripoli.Nada HaribEFEAs today ... 10/20/2011 The two legacies of Gaddafi's death Foreign Ministers and representatives of the United States, the UN and other international organizations have expressed their support for the "Libya Stabilization Initiative" and they have insisted on the need for the elections to be held on the scheduled date, during the first high-level meeting organized in the country since the beginning of the civil war.Received by the National Government of Unity (GNU), designated in March by a forum created expressly by the UN after the ceasefire ...

Diane is gone. When someone close passes away, we feel that a part of us has gone along with them. A part of our understanding of the world, a link in our interpersonal network, our previous value judgment and actions in the past have been lost due to the passing of a close friend.This feeling of being lost is sometimes very strong and clear, almost like the lack of a lit candle on the bank of a river or a pile of extinguished coal in cold weather. We can't imagine it before people disappear from our life. When they disappear, we suddenly realize that the light and heat, which faded with their passing, are lost forever. They are irreplaceable and will never come back. Whatever happens in the future, all that is lost is lost forever.Diane Weyermann at Sundance 2004. Photograph: Reb...

Stephen ColbertStephen Colbert opened Wednesday's Late Show with a celebration: The House was expected to vote Thursday to hold Steve Bannon, Donald Trump's former chief strategist, in criminal contempt for refusing to assist in the Congressional investigation into the Trump insurrection. January 6th. "Hell yeah! Criminal contempt makes sense to me because I have so much contempt for that criminal," Colbert said.The expected vote is "a great moment," he added, because while 650 members of the pro-Trump mob have been arrested for storming the Capitol, "this is the first time we've seen an accountability by one of the big shots." . Or, in the case of Bannon, one of those strange gelatinous fish that lives in eternal darkness with pointed teeth and a lantern stain that grows on his face....

TThroughout Prioritize Pleasure, her second album as Self Esteem, Rebecca Taylor looks for a feeling she can trust. Your stomach and your heart rarely align. An insensitive lover makes her doubt herself. An ex's "casual" texts obviously hide ulterior motives. She has to come out emotionally to reach the climax of a zipperless fuck. Marriage and babies don't appeal to her, yet other people still make her insecure. Even the nostalgia induced by a hot summer day can trick you into self-sabotaging.Walking through these quicksand is exhausting. But simply by defining them and recognizing how normal it is for these contradictory states to coexist (especially in women's lives, contorted by diet and dating culture), Taylor establishes a strong sense of common ground, one in which element...

A new Russian film tackles one of the country's great taboos: the role of Russian mercenaries in hot spots around the world and the toll this takes on the families of often-unknown soldiers who die in combat."Mom, I'm Home," produced by Alexander Rodnyansky, who is well known to the critically acclaimed and Oscar-nominated Leviathan and Loveless, tells the story of a mother searching for her son after he was told he was killed. while fighting for a private military company in Syria.The film, based in Nalchik, a city in southern Russia, follows Tonya, a local bus driver who begins a grueling battle with authorities, demanding answers about her son's role in a war that officials say. they don't know anything."A story about a mother's anger, pain and despair over the death of her child is ...