Robin Vanbiesen’s documentary uses the killing of Mawda Shawri in Belgium as the starting point to explore the dehumanising machinery of border policy
Here is an insightful but perhaps over oblique Belgian documentary that sets itself an ambitious goal: to expose the hidden infrastructure of state coercion that supports European migration policy, even down to the point of using reductive language such as “immigrant”. It arrives at these abstractions via the horrific story of the 2018 killing of Mawda Shawri, a two-year-old German-born Iraqi Kurd shot during a bungled border control raid on the van she was travelling in with her parents.
Director Robin Vanbiesen reveals this tragedy through documents and testimony read out for the audience of activists seen here. The infant’s body is dumped in a bin bag by the presiding officers, and her parents, Phrast and Shamden, refused access; the lies of the police, who played to the myth of immigrant barbarity by claiming Mawda had been thrown on to the highway by her fellow passengers; the justice system closing ranks by putting the onus of responsibility on the van driver for dangerous conduct that supposedly forced the police officer to fire.
Avec quelques mois de retard, l'usine européenne de BYD a entamé sa production pilote de voitures électriques. Située en Hongrie, elle devrait être opérationnelle d'ici juin 2026.
Avec quelques mois de retard, l'usine européenne de BYD a entamé sa production pilote de voitures électriques. Située en Hongrie, elle devrait être opérationnelle d'ici juin 2026.
The countries have come closer to agreeing on some issues, according to Russia, but there are some complex differences
Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the country’s energy system remained “seriously” challenged by the impact of recent Russian strikes.
More than 200 buildings are still without heating in Kyiv, as temperatures plummeted to -17 Celsius, with “crews from many regions of Ukraine … deployed for the repair work.”
“Europe absolutely can defend yourself.Please stop whining. Why is this so much whingeing about [on], you know, if the US leave, what are we going to do? Come on.
… Europe … why are we so scared: ‘please, don’t leave the US leave…’ Please stand up to my president. Hold us accountable. Make us live up to our talking points.”
With some of Ukraine’s most valuable biodiversity sites and science facilities under occupation, experts at Sofiyivka Park in Uman are struggling to preserve the country’s natural history
In the basement laboratory of the National Dendrological Park Sofiyivka, Larisa Kolder tends to dozens of specimens of Moehringia hypanicabetween power outages. Just months earlier, she and her team at this microclonal plant propagation laboratory in Uman, Ukraine, received 23 seeds of the rare flower.
Listed as threatened in Ukraine’s Red Book of endangered species, Moehringia grows nowhere else in the wild but the Mykolaiv region of Ukraine. Of those 23 seeds, only two grew into plants that Kolder and her colleagues could clone in their laboratory, but now her lab is home to a small grove of Moehringia seedlings, including 80 that have put down roots in a small but vital win for biodiversity conservation amid Russia’s war with Ukraine.
Une nouvelle attaque de drone russe sur un bus transportant les employés d'une mine dans la région de Dnipropetrovsk a au moins fait quinze morts, et ce, quelques heures après que le président ukrainien Volodymyr Zelensky a annoncé qu'un deuxième cycle de pourparlers trilatéraux entre l'Ukraine et la Russie sous l'égide des États-Unis aurait lieu les 4 et 5 février.
Exclusive: Vitaliy Kim, who was handpicked by Zelensky to be governor of the Mykolaiv Oblast region in Ukraine, has signalled a shift towards compromise in an interview with The Independent
Le pape Léon XIV reçoit, le lundi 2 février au Vatican, David Ryan, victime de crimes sexuels commis par des prêtres en Irlande. C'est une rencontre très attendue par d’autres survivants, alors que les scandales d’abus sexuels sur mineurs dans l’Église continuent d'éclater. L’Irlande, l’un des pays les plus catholiques d’Europe, ne fait pas exception. Désormais âgé de 61 ans, David Ryan souhaite demander des comptes au clergé.
Le pape Léon XIV reçoit, le lundi 2 février au Vatican, David Ryan, victime de crimes sexuels commis par des prêtres en Irlande. C'est une rencontre très attendue par d’autres survivants, alors que les scandales d’abus sexuels sur mineurs dans l’Église continuent d'éclater. L’Irlande, l’un des pays les plus catholiques d’Europe, ne fait pas exception. Désormais âgé de 61 ans, David Ryan souhaite demander des comptes au clergé.
After being intubated while she was in a coma, Stefania Pedretti – one half of cult noise duo OvO – woke to find she could no longer speak let alone sing. But doctors recommended an unusual treatment for her
When Stefania “Alos” Pedretti woke from a two-week coma on 9 January 2022, her doctor presented her with bad news. She was suffering from severe encephalitis, an inflammation of the brain possibly caused by her body’s autoimmune response to the breast cancer she had been diagnosed with a few months earlier.
For the guitarist and singer Pedretti, however, what came next was even worse. After being intubated in her comatose state, her vocal cords were unable to close and produce sound, meaning that for months she was unable to speak.
Report covering 23 conflicts over last 18 months concludes more than 100,000 civilians have been killed as war crimes rage out of control
An authoritative survey of 23 armed conflicts over the last 18 months has concluded that international law seeking to limit the effects of war is at breaking point, with more than 100,000 civilians killed, while torture and rape are committed with near impunity.
The extensive study by the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights describes the deaths of 18,592 children in Gaza, growing civilian casualties in Ukraine and an “epidemic” of sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
PM says Europe must ‘step up’ and signals he wants to work more closely with other states to build military capability
The UK should consider re-entering talks for a defence pact with the EU, Keir Starmer has said, arguing that Europe needs to “step up and do more” to defend itself in uncertain times.
The prime minister signalled that he wanted to work more collaboratively with other European countries to increase defence spending and build up military capability, and doing so through the EU’s scheme is one option available.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India, center, met with Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Commission, and António Costa, the president of the European Council, in New Delhi in January.
Alors que 160 000 foyers étaient toujours privés d’électricité dans le centre du Portugal, dimanche 1er février, à la suite du passage de la tempête Kristin en milieu de semaine dernière, Lisbonne a annoncé le déblocage d'une enveloppe de 2,5 milliards d'euros pour aider les sinistrés à reconstruire leur maison. En raison de nouvelles pluies attendues sur le pays, les autorités ont également décidé de prolongé l'état de calamité.
Des dizaines de milliers de Tchèques se sont rassemblés dimanche 1er février à Prague pour soutenir le président pro-ukrainien Petr Pavel face au nouveau gouvernement dirigé par le milliardaire Andrej Babis. Le chef de l’État, dont les pouvoirs sont limités par la Constitution, est désormais engagé dans un conflit ouvert avec le ministre des Affaires étrangères, dirigeant d’une formation eurosceptique appelée les Automobilistes, dont les méthodes sont déjà vivement contestées.
Alors que 160 000 foyers étaient toujours privés d’électricité dans le centre du Portugal, dimanche 1er février, à la suite du passage de la tempête Kristin en milieu de semaine dernière, Lisbonne a annoncé le déblocage d'une enveloppe de 2,5 milliards d'euros pour aider les sinistrés à reconstruire leur maison. En raison de nouvelles pluies attendues sur le pays, les autorités ont également décidé de prolongé l'état de calamité.
Des dizaines de milliers de Tchèques se sont rassemblés, dimanche 1er février, à Prague pour soutenir le président pro-ukrainien Petr Pavel face au nouveau gouvernement dirigé par le milliardaire Andrej Babis. Le chef de l’État, dont les pouvoirs sont limités par la Constitution, est désormais engagé dans un conflit ouvert avec le ministre des Affaires étrangères, dirigeant d’une formation eurosceptique appelée Les Automobilistes (Motoristé sobě), dont les méthodes sont déjà vivement contestées.
Seen by rivals as a dangerous rightwinger, others hope the controversial culture minister can snatch Paris from the left
She was the first woman of north African and Muslim heritage to hold a major French government post and she redefined political celebrity in France. Now Rachida Dati wants to become mayor of Paris and take the city from the left, which has been in power for 25 years.
“I want to bring back authority,” Dati, France’s culture minister, told Le Figaro last month, promising a law and order drive to arm municipal police with guns. Her opponents call her a dangerous rightwinger who would turn the French capital into a “Trumpist laboratory”.
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