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READ MORE US lawmakers have submitted a breeze fortitude job for an finish to US infantry support for a Saudi-led bloc in Yemen’s war. The breeze resolution, denounced on Wednesday, is being pushed brazen by Senators Bernie Sanders, Mike Lee and Chris Murphy. The check intends to feat a absolute though frequency activated sustenance in a 1973 law – a War Powers Act – that gives Congress a management to over-rule a boss and repel infantry if a former believes a dispute is not authorised. “We trust that, as Congress has not announced fight or certified infantry force in this conflict, a US impasse in Yemen is unconstitutional and unapproved and US infantry support of a Saudi bloc contingency end,” Sanders pronounced during a news discussion on Wednesday. Sanders stressed that underneath a US Constitution, Congress is a usually management that can announce war, alluding to groups in a US supervision between congressional energy and a president’s purpose ...

READ MORE Malgré un léger manteau neigeux tombé dans la nuit de mercredi à jeudi sur l’Ile-de-France, les transports franciliens étaient peu perturbés jeudi matin, à l’exception des train dans les départements du Val-de-Marne et des Hauts-de-Seine. Le métro, le RER ou le tramway fonctionnent normalement, a indiqué la RATP dans un communiqué jeudi matin. Mais “le trafic des train est fortement perturbé notamment dans les départements du 94 et 92” en raison des intempéries, a annoncé l’organisme de transport. “La duty des train se fait au cas standard cas en fonction de l’accessibilité de la voirie afin de garantir la sécurité de nos voyageurs”, explique la RATP. Le Orlybus et le Roissybus, qui permettent de relier la capitale avec les deux aéroports, ne fonctionnaient pas non plus. Sur les routes, la conditions semblait normale selon le site offic...

READ MORE Le constructeur vehicle PSA a publié jeudi un bénéfice net “record” à 1,9 milliard d’euros flow 2017, en hausse de 11,5%, malgré le rachat d’Opel l’été dernier qui a pesé sur la rentabilité du groupe. La filiale allemande Opel (avec Vauxhall) a aidé le premier groupe vehicle français (Peugeot, Citroën, DS) à atteindre un chiffre d’affaires record à 65,2 milliards d’euros, en hausse de 20,7%. Hors Opel, les ventes augmentent de 12,9%, à taux de change et périmètre constant. Cependant, la marque allemande, déficitaire depuis des années et reprise à General Motors l’an dernier, a pesé sur la rentabilité. Elle a en effet enregistré une perte opérationnelle courante de 179 millions d’euros, depuis son intégration dans les comptes du groupe au 1er août. Sans Opel, la marge opérationnelle courante ...

READ MORE US President Donald Trump’s announcement on Dec 6 final year of his decision to recognize Jerusalem as a collateral of  Israel  was a genuine startle not usually for Palestinians yet also for a general village as a whole. For many people, this preference was a final spike in a coffin for a two-state solution. But even b efore Trump’s argumentative announcement, some western politicians were arguing that a two-state resolution to a Israeli-Palestinian dispute is no longer feasible  due to Israel’s expansionist policies in a West Bank . Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas reacted to Trump’s Jerusalem preference with ire and went so distant to contend that  the Palestinians would  no longer accept a United States as a go-between in a assent process. Abbas also refused to meet with US Vice President Mike Pence when he visited a region. The general village assimilated Abbas in condemning Trump’s decision, with a...

READ MORE A spate of bills in state legislatures opposite a United States have been decried by polite rights groups as Islamophobic.  Most recently, a Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a Washington, DC-based Muslim polite rights group, has called on Idaho’s Senate to opinion opposite a check recently upheld by a state’s House of Representatives that seeks to anathema a doing of “foreign law” in a state. According to CAIR, a bill, famous as HB-419,  targets Muslims and fits into a prolonged settlement of “unconstitutional” bills that demonise Muslims by exclusive Sharia, or Islamic law. HB-419 was upheld by Idaho’s House of Representatives during a time when identical bills are being deliberate in several US states, including Montana, Oregon and Wisconsin.  In an open minute to Idaho State Senator Jeff C Siddoway, Chairman of a Senate State Affairs Committee, CAIR’s Government Affairs Director, Robert McCaw, desc...

READ MORE L’offre de 31 milliards de dollars du câblo-opérateur Comcast flow le fragrance de télévision britannique Sky traduit la guerre des titans entre les géants américains des médias et des télécoms flow résister à Netflix et Amazon. En l’espace d’un an, les grandes manoeuvres se sont accélérées dans ce secteur en pleine mutation sous la poussée de la Silicon Valley et sa technologie du “streaming” qui permet de visionner des programmes en continu directement sur internet. Le nerf de la guerre ce sont les contenus, ces programmes proposés aux téléspectateurs flow les fidéliser mais dont l’acquisition revient cher. Si Netflix et Amazon ont les poches pleines et des actionnaires bienveillants, ce n’est pas le cas des acteurs traditionnels du secteur auxquels Wall Street demande de répliquer au and vite face au succès de leurs “jeunes...

READ MORE Meghan Markle pronounced Wednesday that she hopes to “hit a belligerent running” as a member of a British stately family and use her position to prominence a empowerment of women. Markle, who is due to marry Prince Harry in May, attended an eventuality in London alongside Harry, Prince William and his mother Kate. ‘I’ve never seen anything utterly like this’: Canadian designers basking in Meghan Markle effect Here’s who could get an embossed stately invitation to Harry and Meghan’s wedding The initial corner rendezvous by a dual couples distinguished a work of a Royal Foundation, that supports charities including a Heads Together mental health debate and a Invictus Games for harmed troops. Markle pronounced during a question-and-answer event that she was still new to her purpose though “it’s unequivocally critical to wish to strike a belligerent running.” The 36-year-old American singer pronounced that with a Me Too a...

READ MORE White House Communications Director  Hope Hicks has acknowledged to a House intelligence panel that she has occasionally told “white lies” for President Donald Trump , according to those present for Hicks’ closed-door testimony. Hicks was interviewed for nine hours on Tuesday by the panel investigating Russia interference in the 2016 election and contact between Trump’s campaign and Russia. In response to a question on whether she had ever lied for her boss, Hicks acknowledged to have told “white lies” for Trump on occasion, according to a person familiar with the testimony. The person, who declined to be named because the committee’s interviews are not public, said Hicks told the panel she had not lied about anything substantive. Russian investigation Republican Rep. Tom Rooney of Florida, a member of the intelligence panel who was in the interview, said Hicks’ answer was completely unrelated to the Russia investigation. ...

READ MORE “All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.” That is from the first article of the UN’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights that was signed in 1948. Since then, the document has been used as a standard for ensuring fundamental rights and the protection of minorities around the world. The UN’s Human Rights Council began its annual conference in Geneva this week. It comes at a time when Amnesty International says world leaders are “undermining” the rights of millions. So, what does it take to protect those rights, and are governments living up to their commitments? Presenter: Hashem Ahelbarra Guests: John Fisher – Geneva advocacy director at Human Rights Watch Koffi De Lome – founder of African Lives Matter organisation Rosa Freedman – professor at the University of Reading Source:   Al Jazeera News Article source: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/kidney-foundation-presumed-consent-1.387...

READ MORE Lémuriens et autres espèces menacées se sont invités mercredi dans le vestiaire de Lacoste, à côté de l’emblématique crocodile, tandis que Dries Van Noten s’inspirait du paon pour sa collection automne-hiver 2018-2019. Pour son deuxième défilé chez Lanvin, Olivier Lapidus a fait contraster le noir avec des couleurs vives. Quelques points forts des défilés parisiens. – Lacoste: pas que le croco – Sur dix polos de la marque, le crocodile cède sa place à des espèces en voie de disparition (des lémuriens aux tigres de Sumatra en passant par des singes gibbons). Un clin d’oeil pour alerter sur le sort de ces animaux, a expliqué le directeur artistique Felipe Oliveira Baptista à l’AFP. “Mais je l’utilise avec respect. Je n’en mets pas partout”, dit celui qui a dessiné une collection inspirée des tenues de la haute soci...

READ MORE Déjà un concert annulé pour Bertrand Cantat, et les autres dates de sa tournée, si elles sont maintenues, donnent déjà lieu à des polémiques. L’ancien chanteur de Noir Désir débute en effet sa tournée Amor Fati  (du nom de son premier album solo) jeudi 1er mars à La Rochelle. Mais alors que les agressions sexuelles et les violences faites aux femmes font particulièrement débat depuis plusieurs mois, la venue de l’artiste pose problème dans plusieurs villes. Voir: Bertrand Cantat: le festival Les Escales l’enlève de la programmation Car le chanteur est devenu depuis la mort de Marie Trintignan au moins autant un symbole des violences conjugales qu’il est une icône du rock français. A ce drame qui lui a valu quatre ans de prison il faut ajouter de récents témoignages évoquant un comportement habituel envers ses compagnes et le dépot d’...

READ MORE About 50 uniformed police officers marched into Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., early Wednesday as classes resumed for the first time since 17 students and teachers were killed by an expelled classmate with an AR-15, thrusting them into the centre of the nation’s gun debate. The heavily armed police presence, designed to make the community feel secure, is also disturbing in itself, some students said. Dick’s Sporting Goods will no longer sell assault weapons Students of Parkland, Fla., step up and speak out in wake of school shooting “This is a picture of education in fear in this country. The NRA [National Rifle Association] wants more people just like this, with that exact firearm to scare more people and sell more guns,” said David Hogg, who has become a leading voice in the students’ movement to control assault weapons. “I know one of those bullets could be shredding through me if I was misidentified as a scho...

READ MORE A social studies teacher barricaded himself inside a classroom at a Georgia high school on Wednesday and fired a handgun, sending students running outside or hunkering down in darkened gym locker rooms, authorities said. No Dalton High School students were in the classroom when the teacher fired the weapon, and despite the chaotic lockdown and evacuation, the only injury was a student who hurt her ankle running away. It wasn’t immediately clear why the teacher, 53-year-old Jesse Randal Davidson, had the gun. Under questioning by detectives, he refused to discuss what led to the shooting. Dick’s Sporting Goods will no longer sell assault weapons Trump weighs in on gun laws as Florida students return to school after shooting The gunfire erupted with a nation on edge two weeks after a Florida school shooting left 17 students and faculty dead and ignited a new debate over gun control in America. Within minutes of the Dalton shooting, students there took to social me...

READ MORE A B.C. family’s hobby of hunting for fossils has led to the discovery of a rare set of ancient human footprints on the south coast of South Africa. The existence of the tracks, estimated to be approximately 90,000 years old, was revealed in an article published in the open-access journal  Scientific Reports , maintained by the editors of the UK publication  Nature .  The lead author of the report is Charles Helm, a former family physician in Tumbler Ridge, B.C., who is originally from South Africa. Helm’s interest in paleontology began in 2001 when his son and a friend found dinosaur tracks while tubing in Flatbed Creek near Tumbler Ridge, in northeastern B.C. A dinosaur footprint is shown near Williston Lake, B.C., in this handout photo. (Rich McCrea/Canadian Press) That discovery led to the creation of the Peace Region Palaeontology Research Centre, which has been responsible for the discovery of hundreds of ancient fossils and...

READ MORE A Calgary radio personality shared what she’s calling her #MeToo moment involving Hedley singer Jacob Hoggard live on-air Wednesday — prompting the station to stop playing the Canadian band’s tunes. Katie Summers says Hoggard made comments of a sexual nature toward her and grabbed her backside after an interview. “It happened so quickly, but I remember it so clearly,” Summers, one half of AMP Mornings With Katie Ed on 90.3 AMP, said over the airwaves about the incident seven years ago. She was 23 at the time and it was her first major market radio job after college.  “I had been a Hedley fan since they had first come out. I watched Jacob Hoggard on Canadian Idol way back in the day. I saw them perform at SAIT. It was a big deal to me. I was very star-struck,” she said. “This was my first opportunity as a jock to be in the same room with somebody who I ad...

READ MORE Canadian band Hedley said on Wednesday its members will be taking “an indefinite hiatus” after the conclusion of their current tour. In a statement on Twitter , the B.C. pop-rock band said its members unanimously decided on the hiatus in order to “work on our personal relationships and who we are as individuals.” CBC EXCLUSIVE |  ‘I said stop’: Ottawa woman accuses Hedley singer Jacob Hoggard of rape ‘I’m the voice that they don’t have’: Woman behind Twitter crusade against Hedley breaks silence The band’s next show in their Cageless tour is scheduled for March 1 in Brampton, Ont. A March 11 performance scheduled in Windsor, Ont., was cancelled by the venue on Tuesday. The last show on the band’s tour is scheduled for March 23 in Kelowna, B.C. Hedley has been under fire since sexual misconduct allegations against singer Jacob Hoggard began surfacing online two weeks ago, sug...

READ MORE The German government has confirmed that it is investigating a cyberattack against government computer networks, according to local media reports.  The country’s interior ministry said on Wednesdy that the incident was “isolated and [had been] brought under control within the federal administration”. Earlier on Wednesday, German news agency DPA reported that hackers had used malware to target Germany’s foreign and defence ministries and steal data, according to security sources. The hacking appeared to have originated from the APT28 group, also known as Fancy Bear, which many experts think has ties with the Russian government, DPA reported. The news agency said the attack had been detected by German authorities in December and possibly lasted more than a year. The interior ministry did not respond to the allegations that APT28 was behind the attack. A spokesperson said appropriate measures had been taken to investigate the breach and protect data....

READ MORE Three female Nobel peace laureates have accused Myanmar’s de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi  and the military of the “genocide” of Rohingya. Shirin Ebadi of Iran, Mairead Maguire of Northern Ireland and Tawakkol Karman of Yemen made the accusation during a press conference on Wednesday in Dhaka shortly after  visiting Rohingya refugee camps  in the southern Bangladeshi district of Cox’s Bazar.  The mission of the Nobel Women’s Initiative was launched so that the three Nobel laureates could witness the plight of Rohingya women in the squalid refugee camps. They urged Myanmar’s defacto leader Aung San Suu Kyi to condemn the violence against Rohingya refugees or possibly face prosecution for genocide. Aung San Suu Kyi “is directly responsible for the crimes perpetrated against the Rohingya Muslims,” said Ebadi, who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2003. The three called on Aung San Suu Kyi, the 1991 Nobel Pe...

READ MORE Dans la Ghouta orientale, Abou Mohamed observe des secouristes syriens retirer des décombres un corps, puis un deuxième, craignant de reconnaître sa fille parmi les victimes. Les frappes du régime sur l’enclave rebelle ont baissé en intensité, mais chaque jour de nouveaux cadavres sont retrouvés. “Elle était avec son mari dans le sous-sol. Jusqu’à maintenant, on n’a pas retrouvé ma fille”, raconte le sexagénaire, observant les secouristes perchés sur les ruines d’un immeuble de la petite localité de Hazeh située dans l’enclave contrôlée par les rebelles dans la vaste région de la Ghouta orientale. Dans ce fief proche de Damas, le régime a lancé le 18 février une campagne aérienne d’une rare intensité dans laquelle plus de 600 civils ont été tués, dont 147 enfants, selon l’Observatoire syrien des droit...