In response to President Donald Trump’s announcement this week that he plans to hold an awards ceremony for dishonest media outlets, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) said Friday it was organizing its own event to honor anti-press world leaders. CPJ documents threats to press freedom including cases of journalists being killed, injured and imprisoned…
Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey’s president, has sparked a diplomatic confrontation with Australia and New Zealand over the Christchurch massacre by threatening that anti-Muslim Westerners would be sent home “in coffins” like those killed the Battle of Gallipoli. The Turkish leader has made the killings in New Zealand a centre-piece of his political campaign ahead of…
A new report from the Obama administration comparing two future scenarios—one with significant global action on climate change, and the other without—finds that the U.S. could save “tens of thousands of American lives, and hundreds of billions of dollars” annually by reducing global greenhouse gas emissions. The analysis released Tuesday by the Environmental Protection Agency…
The half-distance triathlon will take place on 23 July in the stunning ‘Bay of Whales’ and the athletes will swim 1.9km in an untouched crystal clear glacial lake left by the glacial melt of the Ice Age 10,000 years ago. Advertisement The one loop 90km bike race with rolling hills and short climbs in the…
Galway 3-22 Cork 2-17 GALWAY’S PROMOTION PROSPECTS received another major boost as Shane Walsh put on a scoring masterclass in their successful trip to Cork this evening. Padraic Joyce’s side, who had last week’s game postponed against Offaly, claimed their third win on the bounce in Division 2 of the football league, with Walsh shooting…
#AlertePollutionRivières ou sols contaminés, déchets industriels abandonnés… Vous vivez à proximité d’un site pollué ?Cliquez ici pour nous alerter !Ils sont au cœur du quartier européen à Bruxelles : les lobbyistes se sont installés au fil du temps dans les rues autour du Parlement, de la Commission et du Conseil européen. Bayer, Google, Philip Morris, Microsoft……
Au Mali, les rapports se succèdent, mais la situation sécuritaire ne change guère malgré la présence d’importantes forces militaires internationales, que ce soit les Français de Barkhane, la Minusma (Mission multidimensionnelle intégrée des Nations unies pour la stabilisation au Mali) ou l’embryon d’armée africaine du G5-Sahel.”Au total, 48 attaques à l’engin explosif improvisé ont été enregistrées…
Lewis Hamilton has described Jenson Button as “an extraordinary British champion” after the news his former McLaren team-mate will not race in 2017. Button announced on Saturday that he has signed a two-year deal with McLaren to become an ambassador for the team next season, with Stoffel Vandoorne taking over his race seat. Button will…
Dwayne Johnson has released the first full-length official trailer for his upcoming film, Fighting With My Family, based on the true story of WWE Superstar Paige (aka Saraya Bevis). The film is directed by The Office visionary Stephen Merchant, produced as a collaboration between WWE Studios, Film4 and Johnson’s own Seven Bucks Productions, and is set to hit…
La console Wii permet de simuler, par réalité virtuelle, des gestes de la vie courante, d’activités physiques ou sportives, voire de combats. Une étude américaine vient de démontrer que la pratique de deux jeux était plus efficace sur la récupération des fonctions motrices des personnes victimes d’une attaque cérébrale que d’autres mesures récréatives de rééducation….