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Never forget: Vladimir Putin marching in the Victory Day ‘Immortals Parade’ with a picture of his father, May 2022. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov

Ukraine war: Russia scales back May 9 Victory Day celebrations amid fear of popular protests

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Russians celebrate the end of the “great patriotic war” on May 9 each year. Victory Day, which commemorates the defeat of Nazism in Europe is the most...

28 Abril 2023
Publicado en Babel
Escrito por Dina Fainberg

Manifestation sur les Champs-Élysées à Paris contre la hausse du coût de la vie, le 15 décembre 2018. Valery Hache / AFP

Gendarmerie : comment les femmes ont-elles gagné leurs galons ?

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Il y a 40 ans, deux décrets autorisaient les femmes à passer les concours pour devenir sous-officières ou officières de gendarmerie. Cet anniversaire...

12 Agosto 2023
Publicado en Babel
Escrito por Luc Demarconnay

A member of the Ku Klux Klan shouts at counterprotesters during a July 2017 rally in Charlottesville, Va., calling for the protection of Southern Confederate monuments. Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images

White power movements in US history have often relied on veterans – and not on lone wolves

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For decades, the white power movement has gained steady momentum in the U.S. Kathleen Belew is an expert on the history of the white power movement an...

14 Mayo 2023
Publicado en Babel
Escrito por Kathleen Belew

The legal battle over mifepristone could have far-reaching effects on reproductive health care. AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite

How will the Supreme Court’s decision on mifepristone affect abortion access? 4 questions answered

(Tiempo de lectura: 4 - 8 minutos)

On April 21, 2023, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the abortion pill mifepristone, which is used in more than half of all abortions in the U.S., cou...

25 Abril 2023
Publicado en Babel
Escrito por Jamie Rowen y Tami S. Rowen

Three women at the front of a protest hold signs saying 'I made your clothes.' Activists in Dhaka demand safe working conditions in 2019, on the anniversary of the Rana Plaza collapse. Mamunur Rashid/NurPhoto via Getty Images

Fast fashion still comes with deadly risks, 10 years after the Rana Plaza disaster – the industry’s many moving pieces make it easy to cut corners

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On April 24, 2013, a multistory garment factory complex in Bangladesh called Rana Plaza collapsed, killing more than 1,000 workers and injuring anothe...

24 Abril 2023
Publicado en Babel
Escrito por Ravi Anupindi

Benny and Mary Ellen Andrews, 1972. © The Estate of Alice Neel, Author provided (no reuse)

The great Alice Neel: ‘I wanted to paint as a woman, but not as the oppressive, power-mad world thought a woman should paint’

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In 1971, the art critic Linda Nochlin transformed the art history debate by asking: “Why have there been no great women artists?”, a question with pro...

14 Octubre 2023
Publicado en Babel
Escrito por Barnaby Haran

Israeli political conflicts could change the giving patterns of U.S. Jews. Matan Golan/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images

US giving to Israeli nonprofits – how much Jews and Christians donate and where the money goes

(Tiempo de lectura: 4 - 8 minutos)

Hundreds of thousands of Israelis have been protesting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s proposed judiciary overhauls and the continued erosion of P...

20 Abril 2023
Publicado en Babel
Escrito por Jamie Levine Daniel

Donald Trump appears in court in New York City, in a courtroom sketch by Jane Rosenberg. Jane Rosenberg/Reuters

Donald Trump and the dying art of the courtroom sketch

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For the first time in its history, The New Yorker featured a courtroom sketch on its cover. The image, which appears on its April 17, 2023, issue, gi...

19 Abril 2023
Publicado en Babel
Escrito por Anita Lam

Russian dIssident Vladimir Kara-Murza has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for ‘treason’ among other charges. The Moscow City Court via AP

‘Stalin-style’ show trials and unexplained deaths of opposition figures show the depth of repression in Putin’s Russia

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Longtime Kremlin critic Vladimir Kara-Murza has been found guilty of treason and sentenced to 25 years in prison after what the journalist and activis...

18 Abril 2023
Publicado en Babel
Escrito por Stephen Hall

Inside the music industry’s battle with the UK government over AI song generators

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Universal Music Group has been asking music streaming services like Spotify to stop developers from scraping its material to train AI bots to make new...

17 Abril 2023
Publicado en Babel
Escrito por La redacción

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A Russian peacekeeper guards the Lachin corridor connecting Nagorno-Karabakh to Armenia. Tofik Babayev/AFP via Getty Images

The long-simmering Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict is boiling over while the West and Russia look elsewhere

(Tiempo de lectura: 3 - 5 minutos)

While the world is watching the destruction in Ukraine, in another corner of the former Soviet Union hostilities smolder. Armenia and Azerbaijan accu...

14 Abril 2023
Publicado en Babel
Escrito por Ronald Suny

Both the U.S. and China have plans to establish bases on the Moon in the near future. Caspar Benson/fStop via Getty Images

Is the US in a space race against China?

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Headlines proclaiming the rise of a new “space race” between the U.S. and China have become common in news coverage following many of the exciting lau...

13 Abril 2023
Publicado en Babel
Escrito por Svetla Ben-Itzhak

À Lille, le 6 avril, durant la 11e journée de mobilisation contre le projet de réforme des retraites. De nombreux incidents et violences ont émaillé les manifestations. François Lo Presti/AFP

La militarisation du maintien de l’ordre en France : vers une dérive autoritaire ?

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Depuis l’utilisation du 49.3 par Élisabeth Borne le 16 mars, les manifestations connaissent un regain de colère qui se traduit par une augmentation de...

12 Abril 2023
Publicado en Babel
Escrito por Bryan Muller

A woman raises her fist during a 2020 Black Lives Matter protest in Queens, New York. Ira L. Black/Corbis via Getty Images

For Black social workers, anxiety and depression are on the rise

(Tiempo de lectura: 2 - 4 minutos)

When George Floyd was brutally murdered in the summer of 2020, a wave of activism spread throughout the country.

11 Abril 2023
Publicado en Babel
Escrito por Carmen Reese Foster

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Ukraine war: Russia scales back May 9 Victory Day celebrations amid fear of popular protests

Gendarmerie : comment les femmes ont-elles gagné leurs galons ?

White power movements in US history have often relied on veterans – and not on lone wolves

How will the Supreme Court’s decision on mifepristone affect abortion access? 4 questions answered

Fast fashion still comes with deadly risks, 10 years after the Rana Plaza disaster – the industry’s many moving pieces make it easy to cut corners

The great Alice Neel: ‘I wanted to paint as a woman, but not as the oppressive, power-mad world thought a woman should paint’

US giving to Israeli nonprofits – how much Jews and Christians donate and where the money goes

Donald Trump and the dying art of the courtroom sketch

‘Stalin-style’ show trials and unexplained deaths of opposition figures show the depth of repression in Putin’s Russia

Inside the music industry’s battle with the UK government over AI song generators

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The long-simmering Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict is boiling over while the West and Russia look elsewhere

Is the US in a space race against China?

La militarisation du maintien de l’ordre en France : vers une dérive autoritaire ?

For Black social workers, anxiety and depression are on the rise

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