Six African countries have been chosen to host their own production of messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccines, the WHO announced on Friday, designating the first beneficiaries of a global program to manufacture these vaccines. South Africa, Egypt, Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal and Tunisia have been chosen by the World Health Organization to allow the African continent, which … Read more
The American central bank is preparing to raise its key rates, to fight against inflation, but two camps clash within the institution: those who want to act quickly and plead for a sharp increase, against supporters of a more moderate first increase. “Personally, I don’t see any compelling case for going strong in the beginning,” … Read more
Argentina is set to strike another dysfunctional stand-by arrangement with the International Monetary Fund – its 22nd SBA since joining the IMF in 1956. Although the details have yet to be worked out, we already know that it will be dysfunctional, as there will be no initial restructuring of the country’s public debt. Argentina’s public … Read more
“El buen patron”, a grating tragicomedy about capitalism by Fernando Leon de Aranoa, won the Goya prize for best Spanish film on Saturday. Great favorite of the Goyas, considered the Oscars of Spanish cinema, “El buen patron” (“The good boss”) won a total of six awards including those for best director, best actor (Javier Bardem) … Read more
They called themselves Dutch and Razzlekhan, but the internet chose to rebrand them as “the Bonnies and Clydes” of the 2020s after their arrest linked to a spectacular cryptocurrency theft. Lichtenstein, 34, and his wife Heather Morgan, 31, were arrested Tuesday morning in New York and a judge ordered their continued detention overnight until a … Read more
The international system Covax, which provides anti-Covid vaccines to poor countries, said on Wednesday it needed 5.2 billion dollars within three months to finance serum doses for 2022. Covax celebrated the delivery of its billionth dose last weekend, after nearly a year of operations and a marked boost in November and December 2021. “In 2022, … Read more
Alekos Fassianos, presented as the Greek Picasso or the Matisse of modern times, for his works which “breathe Greece”, flew away like the emblematic birds which adorn many of his paintings. He was to be buried on Tuesday in the Athens district of Papagou where he lived. Died Sunday in Athens at the age of … Read more
Detention centers that take on the appearance of prisons, poorly supervised deprivations of liberty: defenders of migrants denounce the French “obsession” with the confinement of foreigners, victims according to them of a “hardening” which frees itself from the right. In four years, France has doubled its reception capacity in administrative detention centers (CRA), where illegal … Read more