(Jerusalem) – Israeli security forces are abusing Palestinian children detained in the West Bank. The number of Palestinian children arrested by Israeli forces has more than doubled since October 2015. EXPAND Israeli border police arresting Ahmad Abu Sbitan, 11, in front of his school in East Jerusalem. The police accused him of throwing a stone at them. © Majd Gaith Interviews with children who have been detained, video footage, and reports from lawyers reveal that Israeli security forces are using unnecessary force in arresting and detaining children, in some cases beating them, and holding them in unsafe and abusive conditions. “Palestinian children are treated…

Homme d'État chinois (Shaoshan, Hunan, 1893-Pékin 1976 Mao participe à la fondation du parti communiste chinois en 1921. C’est pendant la Longue Marche conduite pour échapper au Guomindang qu’il devient chef du parti en 1935. Après avoir conduit la guerre contre le Japon, puis le Guomindang, il fonde en 1949 la République populaire de Chine qu’il dirige jusqu’à sa mort, l’emportant sur ses rivaux au prix d’initiatives aventureuses comme le Grand Bond en avant…

The U.S. president talks through his hardest decisions about America’s role in the world. riday, august 30, 2013, the day the feckless Barack Obama brought to a premature end America’s reign as the world’s sole indispensable superpower—or, alternatively, the day the sagacious Barack Obama peered into the Middle Eastern abyss and stepped back from the consuming void—began with a thundering speech given on Obama’s behalf by his secretary of state, John Kerry, in Washington, D.C. The subject of Kerry’s uncharacteristically Churchillian remarks, delivered in the Treaty Room at the State Department, was the gassing of civilians by the president of Syria,…

One-and-a-half kilograms of new potatoes for just €1.29 ($1.47), lettuce on special this week for just €1.49: The bargains from the weekend grocery shopping pile up on the kitchen table. Strawberries, at €3.99 per kilo, are still pretty expensive, but the season hasn't really started yet. So how are these prices arrived at, and do they reflect the products' true value?The prices of bananas, beef, bread and other foodstuffs are determined primarily by supply and demand -- and sometimes by subsidies, quotas and price speculation. But the prices do not include contributions made by nature. These contributions include such things…

With a nod to Dickens, are these the best of times or the worst of times in the battle to prevent climate chaos? There’s plenty of evidence both ways, starting with the potential game changer that humanity’s greenhouse-gas emissions may have peaked, at least in the all-important energy sector. And who can doubt that revolutionary changes are afoot when even Saudi Arabia declares that it will wean its economy from oil over the next 20 years? The kingdom is establishing a $2 trillion sovereign-investment fund, much of which seems destined to finance solar energy. Meanwhile, however, global temperatures are increasing…