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À Saint-Gervasy, plusieurs habitants signalent des rats dans leurs maisons, jardins et puits. La municipalité rappelle les responsabilités publiques et privées pour lutter contre ces nuisibles, tandis que le grand...

Où sont les quatre jeunes disparus depuis le 15 janvier dernier. Ce mercredi 21 janvier, le procureur de la République de Laon, dans l’Aisne, a livré quelques détails sur l’enquête afin de les retrouver. Il semblerait...

The author had to move home after living abroad.Courtesy of Siobhan ColganI grew up in Ireland, but for the past decade, I've lived abroad in Berlin and Madrid.I decided to move home to Ireland because my father needed a caregiver.The move home was a great decision for my daughter and me, as it gave us more time with my dad.After 12 years living abroad in Berlin and then Madrid, I never imagined returning home to Ireland. However, a breakup, becoming a single parent to a young teen, and growing concerns about my father's health made moving back home something I had to consider.The decision wasn't easy. I worried about uprooting my daughter from the life we'd built in Madrid and returning to a country I'd once been so desperate to leave. Growing up in Dublin in the 1980s, a time marked by unemployment, diminishing women's rights, and a deeply conservative church and state, greatly prompted my desire to live elsewhere. The following decades of living on and off in London, France, Germany, and Spain only reinforced that there was a greater world outside my home country.Sure, there was no denying that Ireland had changed a lot since the '80s. But there were still elements of the small-town mindset I despised. Would my daughter resent me later for taking her away from a life in a more progressive and larger European city?Moving back home was a difficult decision to makeLike many Western countries, Ireland's housing crisis was at its peak. Moving back would likely mean temporarily living in my childhood home with my older parents — and that certainly felt like a step backward.Still, in other ways, it felt right. My daughter, an only child, saw her extended family only a few times a year, and I believed being closer to them would help her through her parents' breakup and those often-difficult teenage years.The author loved living abroad.Courtesy of Siobhan ColganPlus, my father, now in his late 80s, had spent much of the year in and out of the hospital. After months of flying back and forth from Madrid to support him and my mother, staying abroad no longer felt realistic.So I made the decision I never thought I'd make, and we moved back.The move home surprisingly benefited all of usWithin a month of our return, my father was discharged from the nursing home he had been sent to after a six-month hospital stay. Being there to deal with doctors and carers, support my mother, and share the load with nearby relatives made me feel really grateful. I had always been close to my dad, but now that I was physically around, our bond deepened even more.My daughter, too, began to thrive. She began building real relationships with aunts, uncles, cousins, and her grandparents. After becoming withdrawn during our final year in Madrid, I now saw her going out shopping with my mom or sitting laughing with my dad; she was slowly opening up again.Then, four months after coming back, my father died suddenly after a short infection. It was devastating for everyone. But among the grief and tough emotions, I couldn't deny feeling so thankful that my daughter and I spent those last few months with him.Additionally, for all my misgivings about "small-town Ireland," I got to see another side of living in a small community: friends, neighbours, and even locals who just knew them in passing rallied round my mother.It was the best decision I never wanted to makeIt's still hard to accept my dad is gone, but, of course, life has continued. We now have our own home, a short walk from my mom, and my daughter loves her local school and the friends she's made.I still miss parts of our life abroad — my friends, the relaxing outdoor café culture, and reliable public transport. However, I'm building a stable life for my daughter, with deeper ties to family and community.I will say that when it comes to big life choices, such as moving abroad or moving home, you can only make the decision that…

Ken Griffin, CEO of Citadel.Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP via Getty ImagesKen Griffin, CEO of Citadel, gave his two cents on Trump's key economic policies.Tariffs have led to higher inflation and disrupted trade relations, said Griffin.The big problem is that business leaders can't trust when tariff policies will end, he said.Hours before President Donald Trump's highly anticipated speech at the World Economic Forum, Ken Griffin, the outspoken billionaire CEO of Citadel, gave his rundown of the US leader's key economic policies.Trump's tariffs have been "a negative" and have left the US economy in a "pretty unfortunate position," said Griffin at the World Economic Forum on Wednesday.The president's policy to raise tariffs on imports to the US has "disrupted long-standing trading relationships" and led to "higher inflation," said Griffin."We've obviously increased the amount of cronyism in America as corporate CEOs have lined up in Washington trying to argue why their business should be exempted from tariffs, and many have prevailed," he added.Central to Trump's tariff agenda is the promise that manufacturing will return to America, reducing US dependency on foreign nations for critical items."We have yet to bring manufacturing jobs back to the United States," said Griffin.The Citadel CEO highlighted that Trump is clearly following through on the platform he was elected on and said that tariffs have had some of their intended effects, though he did not specify what these were.But one of the main problems with US tariffs is that business leaders are uncertain about how long the policy will stay in place."I think people have a very hard time believing that the current tariff regime's going to persist," said Griffin. "Before you spend hundreds of millions of dollars or billions of dollars to build a manufacturing plan, you really want to believe that the policy that is the anchor of that decision will be permanent in nature."Griffin also gave his two cents on Trump's immigration and geopolitical policies.No country's borders should be open to mass immigration, but closing down the Southern border has meant losing a large supply of labor, said Griffin."These are people who did a lot of very, very difficult work, very modest wages, which helped to reduce the level of inflation in the United States," he said, adding that he expected housing and food prices to rise in the coming years as a result.The bigger problem that Trump's immigration policy has caused for the US is that "we're potentially losing access to the best and brightest minds from around the world," said Griffin."The majority of Silicon Valley is either run by immigrants or children of immigrants," he said, and their companies have created "a tremendous number of jobs in the United States."Speaking ahead of Trump's speech at Davos on Wednesday, Griffin said he was uncertain about what the US president was hoping to achieve by clashing with Europe over ownership of Greenland: "What I can't understand is why are we fighting over a piece of rock covered by ice?""We have frayed our relationship with our European allies in ways that I don't understand or appreciate, but there is a push here to get Europe to step up," said Griffin.During his speech, Trump ruled out using force to acquire Greenland, but said that he wants "right, title, and ownership" of the nation.Read the original article on Business Insider