For the second consecutive day, Ukrainians are on the streets — in Kyiv, Lviv, Rivne, Odesa, Dnipro, Poltava, Mykolaïv, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ternopil, Zaporizhzhia, Kropyvnytskyi, Cherkasy, and in the diaspora. On 14 July, Ukraine's parliament voted to dismiss the entire government of Prime Minister Yuliia Svyrydenko. Among those who went with it was Mykhailo Fedorov — until January 2026 Ukraine's Minister of Digital Transformation, then its Defence Minister, and in both roles the principal (…)

Le limogeage du ministre de la Défense Mykhaïlo Fedorov a déclenché le 16 juillet 2026 des manifestations en carton dans plusieurs villes ukrainiennes — reprenant la forme symbolique des protestations anticorruption de juillet 2025. Ces protestations s'appuyaient elles-mêmes sur une résistance plus ancienne : depuis 2022, le Parlement a adopté une série de réformes du droit du travail suspendant les conventions collectives, introduisant des contrats zéro heure et affaiblissant les droits (…)

The dismissal of Defence Minister Mykhailo Fedorov triggered cardboard-sign protests across several Ukrainian cities on 16 July 2026 — reviving the symbolic form of the July 2025 anti-corruption mobilisations. Those protests themselves built on longer-running resistance: from 2022, parliament passed a series of labour reforms that suspended collective agreements, introduced zero-hours contracts, weakened trade union rights and allowed employers to modify employment terms unilaterally — all (…)

As Europe experiences its second [now the third] unprecedented heatwave of the year, breaking temperature records, many are asking the same questions : Is this the new normal ? Has Europe's climate changed radically ? Asia's oceans are also breaking heat records : What does this mean for extreme weather events ? Scientists who spoke to Nature say that a European heatwave lasting four or five days, with London approaching 40°C, is an anomaly. « It's simply phenomenal, » says Sarah (…)

Instituteur, militant du PCF, résistant, déporté ; membre d'un réseau de soutien au FLN à Rouen ; militant du PCI ; écrivain (« de Lénine au panzer-communisme »,1971) Fils d'un employé de commerce, Pierre Mania, pupille de la Nation, devint instituteur. Adhérent au Parti communiste, membre influent de la section communiste de Dieppe, selon la police, candidat en 1937 aux élections au Conseil général dans le canton rural de Bacqueville-en-Caux, il recueillit 416 voix. Cette progression (…)

Bangladesh's new government has sought greater Chinese investments and partnership to revive a stuttering economy, even as it attempts to re-balance ties with neighbouring India. Bangladesh Prime Minister Tarique Rahman held talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping during his recent trip to Beijing. ANI Bangladeshi Prime Minister Tarique Rahman went to Malaysia and China in his first overseas official visit last month, signalling the direction of Dhaka's foreign policy. Analysts say (…)