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The head of US diplomacy, Marco Rubio, travels to Iceland on Monday to continue the US Arctic offensive after the Greenland agreement. Iceland does not have an army and its security is based on NATO and a bilateral defence agreement with the United States in 1951.
All the American bombers that had been deployed on the British base at Fairford were withdrawn, announced the Pentagon on Sunday, a few days after the incident near that base in southwestern England. Six people were arrested and then released under judicial supervision in this case, and the British Prime Minister said he suspected Iran's involvement.
The president of the U.S. university Cornell announced Saturday that an independent external investigation would examine the management of a student's alleged rape in 2024. This case is currently causing a wave of outrage in the United States.
Suspended for rape in the United States, the influencer Clavicular became one of the figures of the "looksmaxxing", this quest for the perfect physical appearance of masculinists. The mediatization of this new phenomenon has contributed to the normalization and transfer of codes from the radical incel milieu into mainstream culture.
The president of the U.S. university Cornell announced Saturday that an independent external investigation would examine the management of a student's alleged rape in 2024, which sparked a wave of outrage in the United States.
Back to the Christa Pike controversy in the United States. Christa Pike, by the name of this woman whose attempted execution in Tennessee has revived the debate on the death penalty in the United States. Two missed shots for a hospital stay, she's in critical condition. To talk about it, our guest: Sandrine Ageorges-Skinner, spokesperson for Ensemble against the Death Penalty.
North Korea claims to have tested a mid-range strategic missile with artificial intelligence on Saturday. Pyongyang ensures that the projectile can alter its trajectory at low altitude.
Meeting at the top. On September 23rd, US President Donald Trump received his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping in Washington. This was his first visit to the White House in ten years, but his third meeting with the American president in a year. Behind the appearance, few results. Our guests come back to this meeting between superpowers.
At the end of the G20 Milwaukee Trade on Thursday, the United States failed to reach out to other countries on the issue of "industrial overcapacity", a barely veiled attack on Chinese competition and forced labour, a contentious issue since the introduction of US surcharges against some 60 partners.
On the eve of an EU meeting, the US is calling for additional diesel volumes to be placed on the market, according to the press, under threat of banning its exports. Gas oil prices reach record prices on both sides of the Atlantic, penalised by the Ukrainian strikes on Russian refineries and Iran's blocking of the Ormuz Strait.
A report published by the African whistleblower protection platform reveals that it has identified nearly 300 properties in the United States linked to Nigerian politicians. Most properties acquired in cash with public money, while these personalities held official positions.
The United States is planning to withdraw its last troops from Iraq by 30 September, thus ending a military presence that had begun with the invasion led by the United States in 2003, which had overthrown Saddam Hussein.
Pending a decision on the merits of the case, the United States Supreme Court suspended on Tuesday a court decision that required safeguards against torture or persecution before any expulsion of illegal immigrants to a third country.
The departure from Iraq of the last US-led anti-Islamic coalition troops, scheduled this Wednesday, puts an end to a presence that began in 2014. This withdrawal revives the issue of the disarmament of the pro-Iranian factions, several of which still refuse to return arms.
Tehran hopes to obtain on Tuesday an official response from Washington regarding its proposals on the reopening of the Strait of Ormuz. Iran requires, inter alia, a seven-day ceasefire throughout the Middle East, the thawing of its assets held abroad and the lifting of sanctions against its oil sector.
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On Monday, New York State justice reopened the investigation into alleged mass rape committed in 2024 at Cornell University, where a 20-year-old student claims to have been drugged and raped by seven members of a fraternity. A recent civil complaint re-launched the case, which had not initially led to any prosecution.
A rare storm for the season hit the north-east of the United States on Sunday, showered by heavy rains and swept by powerful winds, which killed tens of thousands of users and deprived them of electricity according to the American media.
Russia's head of diplomacy, Sergey Lavrov, accused Europe of systematically opposing peace projects in Ukraine, according to him, from the position of the United States.
Heavy precipitation and strong winds fell in the northeastern United States on Saturday, after a storm with unusual power for the season intensified, resulting in the death of at least one person, according to the American media.
