Biden: pas de levée de sanctions tant que l’Iran ne respecte pas ses engagements
Le président des Etats-Unis Joe Biden a déclaré qu’il ne lèverait pas les sanctions contre l’Iran tant que ce dernier ne respectera pas ses engagements en matière nucléaire, dans un entretien diffusé dimanche. Interrogé par la chaîne CBS sur la possibilité de lever
Birmanie: répression sanglante des manifestations pour la démocratie
La répression des manifestations pour la démocratie en Birmanie a fait près de 90 morts samedi, la journée la plus sanglante depuis le coup d’Etat du 1er février au cours de laquelle la junte militaire a fait défiler blindés et soldats dans une
Etats-Unis: retrait de toutes les troupes américaines d’Afghanistan d’ici le 11 septembre
Le gouvernement de Joe Biden a annoncé mardi que toutes les troupes américaines quitteraient l’Afghanistan “sans conditions” d’ici le 11 septembre, jour du 20e anniversaire des attentats de 2001 aux Etats-Unis, malgré les craintes d’un retour en force des talibans. Le président américain
La Chine a posé Zhurong, le premier rover non-américain sur Mars
En 1971, l’ex-URSS avait tenté de poser son propre robot mais il n’avait fonctionné sur la planète rouge que pendant 90 secondes. Avec son robot téléguidé Zhurong, le dieu du feu dans la mythologie chinoise, la Chine est donc devenue ce samedi 15
China relaxes its birth rate policy and allows families to have up to three children
This announcement comes as China is experiencing a sharp slowdown in its population growth. In 2016, the country had already relaxed its rules, allowing families to have a second child. Fewer and fewer children and more and more elderly people. China decided on
China confirms the launch of astronauts to its space station on Thursday
China confirmed the launch on Thursday at 09:22 (01:22 UTC) of three astronauts to its space station under construction, for an initial three-month mission. The three astronauts, all male, will launch from the Jiuquan spaceport in the Gobi Desert (northwest), the China Manned
Afghanistan: headscarves are mandatory for women, but not the burqa
Wearing the burqa, a full-face veil, will not be mandatory for women because “there are different types of veils,” a spokesman for the Taliban, who seized power in Afghanistan, announced on Tuesday. When the Taliban ruled the country between 1996 and 2001, girls’
Japan: The unpopular prime minister is going to throw in the towel
Struggling in the polls, Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga announced on Friday that he would not stand for re-election as head of his party in an internal election at the end of September, thus giving up his bid to remain in power. “I
Abdul Qadeer Khan, the “father” of Pakistan’s atomic bomb, has died
The Pakistani nuclear scientist, admired for making the country the first Islamic nuclear power, was accused of illegally disseminating technologies to Iran, North Korea and Libya. Abdul Qadeer Khan, the “father” of Pakistan’s nuclear bomb and a national hero to his admirers, died
China has tested a hypersonic missile capable of launching another projectile.
China tested a hypersonic missile this summer capable of launching a projectile in turn, a technology neither the United States nor Russia currently possesses, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday. Confirming information published Sunday by the Financial Times, the American daily reported that
