Who to succeed Antonio Guterres as UN Secretary General?
The UN Security Council met on Friday August 21 for a second “indicative vote” session with a view to appointing the future Secretary General. Under pressure in particular from Donald Trump’s United States, which regularly contests its role and its…
Mark Carney denounces the trade “war” launched by Donald Trump against Canada and worries about “threats against the French language”
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney during a press conference in Ottawa on August 22, 2026. PATRICK DOYLE / PATRICK DOYLE/THE CANADIAN PRESS VIA AP The Canadian Prime Minister, Mark Carney, denounced, Saturday August 22, a ” war “ trade…
Customs duties: the tone rises between Donald Trump and Canada
“That’s enough!” Donald Trump, the American president, castigated Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney on Sunday August 23, at a time when trade tensions between the two countries are intensifying. The United States imposed 50% customs duties on Canadian…
Customs duties: Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney denounces the trade “war” launched by Donald Trump
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney during a press conference in Ottawa on August 22, 2026. PATRICK DOYLE / PATRICK DOYLE/THE CANADIAN PRESS VIA AP The Canadian Prime Minister, Mark Carney, denounced, Saturday August 22, a ” war “ trade…
Visa freeze imposed by Trump on 75 countries invalidated by American judge
New setback for Donald Trump. While the American president took a measure last January aimed at freezing visa procedures allowing permanent residence in the United States for 75 countries, an American federal judge declared, Friday August 21, its…
Israel says US criticism of its Syria strikes is ‘full of inaccuracies’
Satellite image of the Abou Al-Douhour military airport, following Israeli strikes, in Syria, August 19, 2025. PLEIADES NEO VIA REUTERS The Israeli Defense Minister, Israel Katz, criticized the American special envoy to Syria, also ambassador to Turkey,…
Customs duties: Ottawa and Washington at an impasse, Carney promises to respond “to the nearest dollar”
Ottawa fights back. Faced with the new 50% customs duties imposed on Saturday August 22 by the President of the United States on Canadian products such as cement or hockey sticks, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney promised to act by demanding the same…
The independence of an American military newspaper threatened after the dismissal of two editorial managers by the Pentagon
The Pentagon, Washington, July 15, 2026. ALEX BRANDON/AP The Pentagon fired, on Friday August 21, two managers of the military newspaper Stars and Stripesfinanced in part by the Ministry of Defense but renowned for its editorial independence. Erik…
In the American army, women and blacks in Pete Hegseth’s viewfinder
Randy Gorge, Charles Q. Brown, Lisa Franchetti, David Horne, John Phelan, Shoshana Chatfield… The list of generals and admirals fired by Pete Hegseth since his arrival at the Pentagon eighteen months ago is endless. In an article published on July 26,…
Customs duties: Donald Trump announces temporary suspension of taxes on certain beef imports
At a cattle market in Hermosillo (Mexico), August 18, 2026. FERNANDO LLANO/AP PHOTO Donald Trump formalized, on Friday August 21, the suspension of taxes on the importation of some 300,000 tonnes of beef into the United States over the next ninety days.…