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Paris Fashion Week : how Instagram fears the nipple - | 05/03/2014

Anja Rubik’s magazine 25 was kicked off Instagram for posting a photo, which featured the Polish model in Anthony Vaccarello’s transparent Fall’14 final look during Paris fashion week. Rubik thinks the whole thing is ridiculous and blame the social media platform for censoring photographs that celebrate a woman’s nude body. Anthony Vaccarello is an Italian-Belgian designer, now considered to be part of the European fashion avant garde. When Anja met Anthony, she fell in love with his clothes,...

André Rieu, Lindsey : an encounter with violin virtuoses - Jérémy Bichon, translated by Lucie Perrier | 05/03/2014

Upon André Rieu’s upcoming new tour and Lindsey Stirling’s latest album release, Le Journal International has chosen to spotlight these two virtuosi. Discover the most famous violonist, Dutchman André Rieu, and the youngest of all, Lindsey Stirling.

Anton Kusters, in the shadow of Japanese Yakuza - | 04/03/2014

How did it come to you to immersed yourself in the Yakuza circle ? The reason why I started is – as it always seems to be for me – a very personal one. I live in Belgium, and my brother lives in Japan, and I was looking for a way to do a project together... so I would have an excuse and the possibility to go to Japan more often to visit him and his family. He's a marketing expert and I'm a photographer, so we believed it must be possible. One night in Kabukicho, Tokyo we were having a beer...

JFK, the President had been shot ! - | 01/03/2014

Fifty years ago, the President John Fitzgerald Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas. The motive of the crime, the killer's identity, the potential for conspiracy: the circumstances of the murder are still unclear today. There is only one certainty: the Kennedy assassination propelled him into the legend. A lot of books has been published to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of Kennedy's assassination. Among them stands the testimony of one of the only two French journalists present at Dallas...

I was in Kiev on February 18th, 2014 - Louis Blanchard, in Kiev, translated by Rodolphe Leclerc | 25/02/2014

Place Maidan, the theatre of the anti-government manifestations in Kiev, had known a relative calm these last weeks. On Sunday February 16th, the protesters evacuated the city hall, before the government freed 234 demonstrators as a gesture of appeasement. Two days later, the assault of the anti-riot policemen, the Berkut, caused 25 deaths. Story of an escalation into chaos.

India : 15th Lok Sabha comes to a close - | 25/02/2014

The 15th Lok Sabha came to an end on February 21st. The Lok Sabha, meaning House of the People, is the lower house of the bi-cameral Indian Parliament. With the closure of this Lok Sabha the electoral mood in India has become even more pronounced.

Spanish Aid and the rise of Latin America - | 24/02/2014

Following our cycle of diplomatic conferences, we met with Rafael Soriano, the Deputy Head of Mission of the Spanish Embassy in Ireland. Between aid, trade and diplomacy, flashback on a diplomatic experience at the head of the Spanish aid agency in Latin America.

Catalonia’s referendum is putting pressure on Madrid - | 10/02/2014

On December 12th, 2013, after long weeks of discussion, the Catalan government finally decided on the particularities of the referendum on independence, which is set to take place on the 9th of November 2014.

Signs of an Arab Spring for Southeast Asia ? - Amaury Hauchard, in Kuala Lumpur, translated by Louise Gretschel and Kayla Denardi | 02/02/2014

Shaken by multiple, somewhat violent manifestations, the people of Southeast Asia are urging for democracy. It is therefore not hard to fathom a popular uprising. Here is an analysis of the situation at-hand.

Ukraine : a new beginning ? - Sergey Panashchuk, in Odessa | 01/02/2014

It looks like protest and violence are the only languages Ukrainian officials are able to understand. Parliament has eventually heard the protesters’ demands. Prime Minister Nikolay Azarov has resigned therefore triggering the resignation of all members of the Cabinet. A package of controversial laws passed by the Parliament on January 16th was cancelled by the same Parliament 12 days after. The voting showed a remarkable result with 361 out of the 450 members of Parliament who voted in favour...
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