It is not the federal government that will hold Donald Trump’s future in its hands. It will be 12 jury members in his eventual trial.
The drag shows will go on. At least for now.
Nigeria’s new president, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has promised to make security a top priority of his administration. In his inaugural speech he promised, among other things, to provide security personnel with better training, equipment, pay and firepower.
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is no stranger to controversy.
In 1991, during his confirmation hearings in the Senate, Thomas faced accusations of sexual harassment from a former colleague and law school professor, Anita Hill.
Talking with a friend about the debt ceiling negotiations, I mentioned that there were incentives for centrists in Congress to cobble together a deal. My friend said, incredulously, “Do we actually have centrists in Congress?”
Personality is not everything in politics, but it can go a long way. The UK’s next general election, set to take place in 2024, is already shaping up to be a “battle of the dull”.
When Tina Turner, often dubbed the “Queen of Rock ‘N’ Roll,” died at her home in Küsnacht, Switzerland, on May 24, 2023, at the age of 83, media headlines praised both her dynamism as a performer and her many career achievements. What many did not know is that for the past 50 years Turner had practiced Soka Gakkai International Nichiren Buddhism.
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is a man currently very much in demand in international circles.
In April, the leftist leader was being courted by China during a high-profile visit to Beijing. That was followed a month later with an invite to the G7 summit in Japan, where Lula rubbed shoulders with leaders of the largest economies of the so-called Global North. In recent weeks Brazil’s president has also been busy restoring regional ties in Latin America and pushing a proposed path to peace in Ukraine.
South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa is set to lead an initiative of six African heads of state to explore an end to the year-long Russia-Ukraine war. The announcement followed his phone calls with both Russian president Vladimir Putin and Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky. The mission is expected to take place in June.
Questions about who mediates in a conflict – and when – are crucial. Mediation is about trust, an awareness of regional realities and insights into complex politics. It should happen before conflict reaches a mutually damaging stalemate. This spares lives and political disintegration of the kind seen in Libya and Somalia.
Au Pakistan, l’arrestation, le 9 mai dernier, de l’ancien premier ministre Imran Khan (août 2018-avril 2022), pour des faits supposés de corruption, a mis le feu aux poudres.
« Lorsqu’ils sont mis en cause, les hommes politiques tombent des nues et vivent l’accusation comme un véritable outrage. Qu’il s’agisse de Nicolas Sarkozy, de Jérôme Cahuzac, de François Fillon ou de Carlos Ghosn, la première technique de défense qu’ils déploient, immédiate et évidente, consiste à nier les faits, rejeter toute accusation, ne reconnaître aucune faute ni responsabilité, au moins dans un premier temps ». Alors que l'ancien président Sarkozy vient d'être condamné à trois ans de prison, dont un an ferme à exécuter sous bracelet électronique, pour corruption et trafic d'influence dans l'affaire des écoutes, The Conversation France republie des extraits de l’ouvrage « Tous pourris ? Les politiques face à la justice », issu de l’essai de Mahaut Fanchini (éditions de l’Aube) qui revient sur « les différentes stratégies rhétoriques mobilisées, en montrant la récurrence des techniques d’un cas à l’autre, quel que soit l’homme politique accusé, et la nature de la fraude en question. »
Donald Trump has had some bad days recently, objectively speaking. A jury in New York found found him liable for sexual abuse and defamation in a civil case brought by the writer E. Jean Carroll. This came on top of criminal charges related to a hush money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels, and allegations of mishandling of classified documents. The shame of it all.
Le contexte de la guerre en Ukraine a révélé l’importance de la stratégie du « hedging », une notion venue de l’univers de la finance et qui désigne une approche consistant, pour un État, à assurer sa sécurité et à préserver ses intérêts en multipliant les partenariats.
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