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Brazil: Over 250,000 COVID-19 deaths in one year Critics say Brazilian President Bolsonaro played down the coronavirus for too long. A lack of central coordination to fight the pandemic has led to a huge number of deaths, which experts say were unnecessary. Some 250,000 people have died of coronavirus in Brazil Brazil recorded its first case of COVID-19 on February 26, 2020, in a 61-year-old man from Sao Paolo who had been infected on a trip to Italy. The first death, of a 57-year-old domestic ...

The Latest: U.S. Strikes Syria, Israel & Chile Vaccine Speed, Animal Friday Penguins of the Lasta-Rica circus, which had to cancel all its events during the COVID-19 pandemic, pay a visit to the Bryansk Regional Art Museum, in Russia - Vyacheslav Prokofyev/TASS via ZUMA Press       2020-02-26 Welcome to Friday, where the Biden Administration launches its first military air strike, Israel says it has vaccinated half its population...

Islam Became A Problem In France When Muslims Became French For decades, France did well in accommodating the religious needs of Muslims — on the condition they went back to their country of origin. Now, demands to express ones faith are often labeled: separatism. — Analysis — PARIS — There is a new bill before the French National Assembly that calls for "reinforcing the respect of the principles of the Republic," and fight against Islamist "separatism." We already know that amon...

Explaining her reasons for turning to the roman noir when in her fifties, after decades of teaching history at a university in Paris, Dominique Manotti points to François Mitterrand. His presidency, she has said, sounded the death knell for hopes of a radical transformation of French society. Fiction, though, offered her an alternative form of resistance – if only as a stubborn refusal to let things lie. Now aged 78, Manotti has written a dozen novels on subjects ranging from football corru...

Thursday 18/02/2021 A 2018 file picture shows Robert “Rob” Malley, in his office in Washington. (AFP) “The Call from Algeria: Third Worldism, Revolution and the Turn to Islam” was published in 1996. Robert Malley’s book remains one of the best ever written on modern Algeria, but also essential reading to anyone following Middle East and North Africa politics and the extrapolation of the old “North-South” struggle into the “New World Disorder.” As an interpretation of Algeria�...

French president had vowed to close elite ENA school, but now will set aside six places for poorer students<br>

Macron announces diversity plan for France's elite ENA training school

Will the U.S. Dollar Lose Its Place as the Worlds No. 1 Reserve Currency? On 2/5/21 at 2:38 PM EST Some fear stimulus spending to offset the worst of the economic shutdown during the COVID-19 pandemic and the Federal Reserves injection of billions into the economy threaten the U.S. dollars standing as the worlds reserve currency. Some investors have moved out of dollars and into gold. While its hardly a stampede, it could be seen as further evidence of the dollars increasing weakness. Others se...

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Colombian defense minister dies of Covid-19 complications Author: AFP|Update: 26.01.2021 17:15 Colombian Defense Minister Carlos Holmes Trujillo died of complications stemming from Covid-19 / © AFP/File Colombian Defense Minister Carlos Holmes Trujillo died Tuesday of coronavirus complications, the countrys president announced. He was 69. Trujillo is one of about a dozen sitting cabinet ministers worldw...