Groenland: la France et le Danemark appellent «au réveil stratégique » de l'Europe
Ali Akbar, 73, honoured by Emmanuel Macron with National Order of Merit for dedication he pours into work
For more than five decades he’s pounded the pavements of Paris, becoming part of the city’s cultural fabric as he strikes up conversations, greets longtime friends and offers parodies of daily news headlines.
On Wednesday, the efforts of the man believed to be France’s last newspaper hawker were recognised, as Ali Akbar, a 73-year-old originally from Pakistan, received one of France’s most prestigious honours.
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Prosecutors in Frankfurt stated the probe targets ‘unknown employees’ and prior business relationships with foreign entities

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Judgment in The Hague orders Netherlands to do more to protect Caribbean people in its territory from impacts of climate crisis
The Dutch government discriminated against people in one of its most vulnerable territories by not helping them adapt to climate change, a court has found.
The judgment, announced on Wednesday in The Hague, chastises the Netherlands for treating people on the island of Bonaire, in the Caribbean, differently to inhabitants of the European part of the country and for not doing its fair share to cut national emissions.
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Pacifism is core to modern European culture, but a ‘no arms’ attitude risks leaving artists and film-makers short of answers when facing military aggression and political threats
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One reason why art – painting, literature, film, theatre, all of it – is so important to society is that it creates spaces that can tolerate difficult answers to difficult questions. This makes art the opposite of politics, where politicians are under constant pressure to give easy answers to difficult questions.
I was thinking about this distinction this month while watching the European film awards, this continent’s answer to the Oscars, which has moved its annual ceremony to January this year as it seeks to position itself as a major tastemaker for grownup cinema.
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Depuis l’entrée en vigueur du Digital Markets Act (DMA), les grandes plateformes numériques savent que leur marge de manoeuvre en Europe s’est nettement réduite. Après avoir longtemps concentré ses actions sur Apple et Meta, la Commission européenne s’attaque désormais frontalement à Google, avec en ligne de mire Android, et l’usage stratégique de l’intelligence artificielle, notamment […] 

OQ Technology is preparing to deploy a small satellite to test using C-band to connect smartphones from LEO, joining SpaceX in a push to repurpose part of the spectrum for direct-to-device services.
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Depuis l’entrée en vigueur du Digital Markets Act (DMA), les grandes plateformes numériques savent que leur marge de manoeuvre en Europe s’est nettement réduite. Après avoir longtemps concentré ses actions sur Apple et Meta, la Commission européenne s’attaque désormais frontalement à Google, avec en ligne de mire Android, et l’usage stratégique de l’intelligence artificielle, notamment […]
L’Union européenne continue de déployer son arsenal réglementaire face aux géants du numérique, et avec le Digital Services Act (DSA), Bruxelles entend encadrer plus strictement les plateformes. Cette fois-ci, c’est WhatsApp qui se retrouve sous les projecteurs, dans une décision qui marque une nouvelle étape pour Meta… WhatsApp classée « très grande plateforme en ligne » Dans […]