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L’Équateur a annoncé, de son côté, de nouveaux droits de douane sur le pétrole colombien transporté par l’un de ses oléoducs, dans un contexte de guerre commerciale entre les deux pays.

For a decade, the autonomous territory in Syria has been a bastion of gender equality. It holds important lessons for the fight against authoritarianismA year ago, I was in north-east Syria, in the Kurdish-dominated area known as Rojava, listening to some of the most determined women that I have ever met. On my first day there, I went to a huge conference where one after another, women in Kurdish, Arab and Assyrian dress roused the audience to chants of “Jin! Jiyan! Azadi!” (Woman! Life! Freedom)!.When I visited, this region of Syria had for more than a decade been governed not by Bashar al-Assad’s regime, but by an autonomous administration (the Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, or Daanes). Its commitment to equal rights has been remarkable – every institution it set up relied on power-sharing between men and women. No wonder many of the women I met there sounded optimistic about their future. “This will be a century of women’s freedom,” one said to me. “We are in solidarity with women in resistance throughout the world.”Natasha Walter is the author of Before the Light Fades and Living Dolls: the Return of Sexism Continue reading...

While at Davos the French president wore a pair of shades made by Maison Henry Jullien to cover up a burst blood vessel in one eyeThe world leaders and company executives meeting in Davos this week were meant to be discussing the most complex and alarming geopolitical crisis most could ever remember.Instead, all eyes were on Emmanuel Macron. Continue reading...

L'Antwerp va frapper fort et s'offrir un titulaire indiscutable de Saint-Trond, sensation de cette saison en Pro League.