« It was terrifying. We were overwhelmed and we are still digesting what happened. On the American channel CBS, Monday morning January 17, Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker speaks in a slow and measured voice when recounting the hostage-taking of which he was the victim in his synagogue in Colleyville (Texas), in the night from Saturday to … Read more
The indicator on which all governments have their eyes fixed at the start of the year is inflation. Consumer prices in France rose by 2.8% over the whole of 2021, according to the final index published on Friday 14 January by INSEE. For the euro zone as a whole, the figure is 5%, well above … Read more
At least 19 people, including nine children, died Sunday January 9 and around 60 were injured in a terrible accidental fire in a building in the Bronx in New York, “One of the worst” of the recent history of the megalopolis. Victims have been found “On each floor” of this brick building which has 19, … Read more
It is a case that shook the United States and aroused racial tensions. Friday, January 7, the three white Americans who had pursued and then killed a young black jogger, claiming to have taken him for a burglar, were sentenced to life in prison. The murder of Ahmaud Arbery in February 2020 Travis McMichael, 35 … Read more
Eric Adams, African-American, former police officer and anti-racist trade unionist, takes this Saturday 1is January the reins of the economic and cultural capital of the eastern United States. Winner in November of a competitor of the Republican Party, Curtis Sliwa, he became, at the age of 61, the second black mayor in the history of … Read more